Development Manager / Technical Lead - Java

Who are we

Davis Index is a leading market intelligence platform and publication that specializes in providing accurate and up-to-date price benchmarks for ferrous and non-ferrous scrap, as well as primary metals. Our dedicated team of reporters, analysts, and data specialists publishes and processes over 1,400 proprietary price indexes, metals futures prices, and other reference data. In addition, we offer market intelligence, news, and analysis through an industry-leading technology platform. With a global presence across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa, our team of over 50 professionals works tirelessly to deliver essential market insights to our valued clients.

What you will do

We are currently seeking experienced and talented reporters for our ferrous scrap, non-ferrous scrap, and steel markets to join our growing editorial team. The ideal candidates should have a minimum of 2-3 years of professional experience in a direct or transferable area of expertise. As a Reporter/Editor, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining our commitment to delivering accurate and comprehensive market intelligence to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Writing and Reporting: Generate insightful and engaging content by reporting on the ferrous and non-ferrous markets, providing in-depth analysis, market reports, and commentary as assigned.
• Price Sourcing and Indexing: Contribute to the creation of proprietary price indexes, ensuring accurate and up-to-date pricing information. Write weekly or daily commentaries on pricing trends.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct in-depth research into market trends and dynamics, delivering market reports that provide valuable insights to our readers.
• Adherence to Best Practices: Follow the Davis Index style guide and adhere to industry best practices in reporting and price sourcing.
• Industry Involvement: Attend industry conferences and events, enhancing your understanding of market dynamics for more informed reporting. 

Qualifications:

Must-Haves:

• A Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Fluent understanding of market economics and proficiency in business reporting style.
• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience as a reporter or writer in a print or online publication, or a demonstrated ability to transfer professional knowledge and experience.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and deadline-oriented work environment.
• Proficiency in English and, ideally, additional languages relevant to the regions we serve.
• A deep curiosity about the metals markets.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.
• Initiative, commitment to excellence, and a desire to grow professionally.

Good to Have: 

• Knowledge of the metals market.
• Experience writing financial and business reports.

What You Get:

• This position offers a great opportunity for independent, achievement-minded individuals looking to join a leading industry company. Davis Index provides competitive compensation, paid vacation days, and significant growth opportunities.

Main Responsibilities:

The Service Delivery Coordinator will be responsible for delivering orders and ensuring services are delivered on time and to the specified quality. Validating and submitting orders to various telecom vendors across the globe. The role will require matrix managing third party resources (internal & contracted).

Main Duties:

Responsible for all deliveries assigned to him/her

Manage third party resource (internal & contracted), ensuring that the customers’ orders are delivered on time and to the specified quality and customer requirements

Communicate regularly with the Project managers, customers by providing them with clear and regular updates during the whole of the delivery life-cycle

Escalate to his/her Line Manager as well as the Delivery Management team when needed (delivery at risk, customer complaint, etc.)

Ordering and tracking of specific delivery requirements

Communicate with multiple vendors to provision and activate services.

I

deal Candidate Profile:

2+ years experience in Telecommunications with a knowledge of the European/USA telecom markets.

2+ years of experience as Service Delivery Coordinator

Technical qualification in an IT or Engineering discipline an advantage.

Job Description:

•    Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
•    Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
•    Perform validation and verification testing and debug code.
•    Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
•    Experience working in an agile environment
•    Experience in implementing Object-Oriented Python, Django.
•    Good understanding on Django ORM.
•    Experienced in interfacing with *third party API’s using REST
•    Worked with varieties of Relational Databases (RDBMS) like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
•    Experience in Version Control with Git and Bit bucket.
•    Experience with JIRA the development progress and tracking deadlines of the project
•    Experience with web applications using technologies like HTML5,CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Angularjs, Reactjs and Bootstrap, XML.
•    Knowledge in Pandas, Numpy will be addons

What Responsibilities?

• Development based on PHP7 (OOP'S), MySQL, and Javascript
• Identification and evaluation of new technologies
• Combination of innovative technologies with existing applications

What do you need?

• At Least 4+ years of professional experience in development
• In-depth knowledge of PHP or a comparable object-oriented language
• MySQL knowledge
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and should have worked at least 5 to 6 major projects using OOPs and LAMP technologies in a high traffic website. (LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL & PHP)
• You will be working closely with the highly motivated development team in order to build different applications under the guidance of your team leader.
• You will handle tickets on a daily basis, specifically assigned to him.
• Full stack developers should be given preference for our requirements.
• Added advantage if you have worked on various PHP Frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, CakePHP, Yii or Zend Framework
• The candidate should have good analytical & debugging skills

What personal characteristics should I have?

• You must enjoy working to time-driven targets with a flexible, positive attitude where clocks are only for decorative purposes.
• Be highly organised with great attention to detail.
• Be ambitious, energetic, action-oriented and driven by money.
• Enjoy building strong relationships, taking ownership and making decisions.
• You must have strong adaptive skills and common sense where thinking on your feet is second nature.

We are looking for an RPA Developer to join our team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Proven experience (4 years) as an RPA Developer.

Strong experience with RPA tool such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Blue Prism.

Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Python, Java, or VBScript.

Familiarity with process analysis, design, and improvement.

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams.

Knowledge of software development best practices and methodologies.

Good understanding of .Net technology stack and Excel Macros.

Experience in Design, Development, Test and Support in line with client needs and architectural requirements.

Hands-on experience in Automating Web interfaces, desktop application interfaces, Citrix interfaces, API, Building Custom codes and Mainframes.

Understanding client requirements and preparing required documents (PDD, SDD, BRD...)

Roles and Responsibilities

Collaborate with business analysts, process owners, and project managers to gather requirements and understand business processes for automation.

Design, develop, test, and deploy RPA solutions using industry-standard RPA tools such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Blue Prism.

Analyze, optimize, and document existing business processes for automation feasibility and improvement opportunities.

Develop automation workflows, scripts, and routines that are efficient, reliable, and maintainable.

Implement error handling and exception handling mechanisms to ensure the robustness of automation solutions.

Collaborate with QA teams to ensure the quality of the developed automation solutions.

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for deployed automation solutions.

Java Developer

As a senior technical member of the team, you will be expected to lead the team in the design, architecture, and implementation of high-quality, well-architected software products with a specific focus on cloud, distributed systems, scalability, elasticity and SLA rollups into each component. In this role, you are expected to interact with Senior Architects, Product Managers, Solution Architects and occasionally, with Partners and customers to discuss and collaborate on strategies for enhancing features and coming up with next-generation products. Critical thinking and strong leadership skills are a must as the candidate will be involved in leading a team and making crucial road map decisions.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Java-based development projects using RESTful APIs, SpringBoot, horizontal scalability, microservices, high availability principles
• You master the entire life-cycle including research, design, application and deployment architecture, development, testing (dev owns quality), continuous deployment and continuous delivery up until to production.
• You will develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software.
• Solid background in OOP, object and data modelling using SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience using containers, Kubernetes and developing services on AWS
• Monitor resource allocation, consumption, and performance.
• Engage in service software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Challenge yourself to walk in a different path and to deliver quickly while maintaining a high quality
• Experience with automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Excellent communication skills essential

What you need to have:

We are looking for an experienced top-notch Software Engineer to grow with our development team. As a Node.js engineer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and impactful.

What you will do: 

1. Work on existing software solutions or new systems on the specified programming language.
2. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code. 
3. Ensure the best possible performance, quality of the solution you are working on. 
4. Working closely with business analysts, software engineers, product managers, designers and other stakeholders. 
5. Write well-designed and efficient code by adhering to the specified coding standards. 
6. Mentor and support other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience in process and technical leadership.
7. Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.

1. Minimum 2 years of work experience as a Software Engineer(Node.js).
2. Good knowledge of SQL and related databases.
3. Proficient in Node.js, Javascript, AJAX, jQuery, JSON, CSS and HTML.
4. Knowledge of object-oriented programming.
5. Knowledge of the Front-end and Back-end processes.
6. Knowledge of web development, continuous integration, and cloud technologies
7. Proficiency with RESTful APIs to connect applications to back-end services.
8. Flexibility to switch to a new programming language as and when required. 
9. Ability to own a product and deliver exceptional quality. 
10. Analytical capabilities and logical approach to problem-solving. 
11. Familiarity with software development lifecycle and agile methodology.
12. Good at writing understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability 
13. Proficiency in software engineering tools. 
14. Have system-level thinking and the ability to develop a system as a whole. 
15. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or any other relevant course. 
16. Good communication skills - including the ability to convey information to non-technical team members in a concise and clear way. 
17. Ability to understand the end-user. 

• Impactful Projects: At Synoriq, you get to work on exciting projects that create a huge impact in the lives of common people. You get exposure to the various domains we work in - be it the financial sector or the government sector. With projects of such scale, we work on the latest and most popular technologies in the market. 
• Great Nucleus of Minds: You get to work with the smartest people and learn together. Our team is a bunch of talented designers, engineers, singers, storytellers, and dancers.  
• Fun: We understand that theres a life outside the office too. We offer flexibility in the work schedule and work from home so that you give your best every day.  
• Leadership Initiatives: We promote the overall development of an individual and help you realize your professional goals. There are ample learning opportunities providing exposure in different domains and working in cutting-edge technology.