Engineering Head

Technical Lead 

Summary 

Bitkraft Technologies LLP is looking for Technical Leads to join our software engineering team. You will be working across the stack on cutting edge web development projects for our custom services business. 

As a Technical Lead, you should be comfortable with full stack technologies, frameworks, popular third party libraries, cloud systems and management tools. It is very crucial that you are able to manage a small to medium sized development team to manage, execute, review, deploy web and mobile projects. It is essential that you are passionate about technology and making sure projects get delivered on committed timelines with highest quality. 

If you love solving problems, are a team player and want to work in a fast paced environment with core technical and business challenges, we would like to meet you. 

Essential Skills 

Frontend - Experience working with at least two of the below at an intermediate to expert level 

• Mandatory: JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS 
• Angular 
• Vuejs 
• React 

Backend - Experience working with at least two of the below at an intermediate to expert level 

• NodeJs 
• Python (Django/Flask/Jupyter Notebook) 
• PHP (Yii2/Wordpress/Magento) 

Databases - Experience working with at least two of the below at an intermediate to expert level 

• MySQL 
• Postgresql 
• MongoDB 
• Graph Databases 
• Oracle 

Cloud Infrastructure - Experience working with at least one of the below at an intermediate to expert level 

• AWS 
• Azure 
• Google Cloud / Firebase 

Other Essential Skills / Requirements 

• Great attention to detail 
• Should be able to dictate, manage, track progress of the team 
• Conduct code reviews 
• Ability to work with the project management team for essential project management 
• Experience in working in Agile projects - with familiarity with tools such Jira 
• Ready to work on technologies, platforms and frameworks as required on future projects 
• Strong work ethic and commitment to meet deadlines and support team members meet goals 
• Be flexible with working across time zones with overseas customers if required  

Desirable Skills 

Mobile Technologies - Knowledge of at least one of the following 

• Native Android 
• Native iOS  
• Hybrid Mobile App Development – Ionic/Flutter/React Native  

Key Responsibilities 

• Gathering & understanding client requirements and providing technical solutions to business needs 
• Ability to resolve business problems through technology 
• Deliver work within timelines and quality specifications 
• Strive to develop reusable code 
• Respond to technical queries from clients, management and team members 
• Evaluating existing technical architecture and recommended improvements 
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions 
• Design client-side and server-side architecture 
• Perform unit testing and scenario based testing to build robust systems 
• Troubleshoot, debug and update existing applications 
• Create security and data protection mechanisms to ensure application security 
• Create technical documentation, flow diagrams, use-case diagrams, charts as required 
• Communicate with team members and clients for efficient project functioning 
• Staying abreast of latest developments in web technologies and related programming languages/frameworks 

Compensation 

12 Lpa - 30 Lpa 

Experience 

5 - 12 years 

Job Location 

Fort, Mumbai 

Why join Bitkraft? 

• Your inputs and opinions are valued 
• Exposure to latest technologies 
• Working directly with client teams 
• International project experience 
• You get to see the big picture on the project 
• Fast paced environment with quick project completions 
• Manage your own time for efficient working 
• A friendly and easy going work environment  

About Bitkraft Technologies LLP 

Bitkraft Technologies LLP is an award winning Software Engineering Consultancy focused on Enterprise Software Solutions, Mobile Apps Development, ML/AI Solution Engineering, Extended Reality, Managed Cloud Services and Technology Skill-sourcing, with an extraordinary track record. 

We are driven by technology and push the limits of what can be done to realise the business needs of our customers. 

Our team is committed towards delivering products of the highest standards and we take pride in creating robust user-driven solutions that meet business needs. 

Bitkraft boasts of clients across over 10+ countries including US, UK, UAE, Oman, Australia and India to name a few. 

To know more about Bitkraft visit our website bitkraft.co.in  

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CEDCOSS is more about experiencing than talking. It was founded and is still standing on the principle of putting employees first. Discover, create, learn, explore, and be amazed daily. As a team of like-minded individuals with different beliefs, our company is dynamic.

Established in 2010, we have implemented hundreds of eCommerce sites across a variety of platforms. A particular focus is on eCommerce startups and mid-market companies. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses.

Are you ready to create connections that become lasting relationships?

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You should have

● 5 - 8 years of professional experience in Node.js

● Strong Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks - Express.js

● Hands-on experience in creating, designing and using RESTful API

● Experience in the development of large-scale SaaS and cloud-native applications

● 5 years of professional experience building Node.js backend applications

● Proficient in any databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.

● Hands-on Experience in Test Drive Development (TDD)

● Strong knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS

● Understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in sprints

● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

● Knowledge of E–Commerce Integration is Good to have.

● Experience in AWS, CI/CD tools, SVN, Git and Bitbucket is good to have.

What you will Do

● Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.

● Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.

● Troubleshooting and resolution of technical problems and issues, on web applications in a production environment.

● Ensuring that best practices are followed in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of software.

● Developing and maintaining eCommerce platforms/web applications and existing online selling channels and affiliates.

● Previous Experience or relevant exposure in the E-commerce industry and understanding of e-commerce business model.

● Overall Understanding of web development lifecycle including frontend and backend using modern frameworks.

● Strong understanding of data structures, DB schemas, troubleshooting and DB optimization.

● You will have to collaborate with Product Management and Implementation teams and build a commercially successful product

Here's what we believe in

● Empathy, addressing the ability to be humane.

● Humility brings us, future leaders.

● Organizational Ethics demonstrates expertise on subject matters with on-job experience.

● Quality of Work ensuring to deploy and deliver of exceptional outcomes

● Attention to details

● Multitasking capabilities to meet set deadlines and schedules

What benefits can we offer?

● Bi-Yearly performance audits and appraisals

● The flexibility of working days/hours

● Recognition and Appreciation

● A plethora of industry exposure and self-growth opportunities

Become part of a team that thrives on challenging, rewarding, safe, and safe work environments

We are looking for a blockchain developer who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting a distributed blockchain-based network. Your primary responsibility will be analyzing requirements, designing blockchain technology around a certain business model, and building and launching a blockchain network.

Also, the Position requires maintenance & further development of the existing platform

• Research, design, develop, and test blockchain technologies
• Document new solutions as well as maintain of existing ones
• Be involved in the global blockchain community—work on implementing and integrating the latest improvement proposals

1. Requirements

• Hands-on experience in Ethereum, Solidity, Golang, Nodejs, Javascript, NFT, ERC Tokens, DeFi, DAPPS
• Strong software development background, Expertise in Rest API design and development.
• Experience working in NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Strong knowledge of common algorithms and data structures
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, and familiar with concepts of Cloud-based microservices.

Must have worked with Blockchain products and played a vital role to build that application as a developer

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!

• Demonstrated skills in development of apps where you have performed some role in UI – APIs - DB 
• You have experience with coding in more than one programming language, preferably Java
• Experience with Angular (4 & above), ReactJS, Vue, MongoDB, APIs/Microservices. 
• Experience on building APIs
• You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals
• Passion for developing robust software and writing maintainable code. 
• Keen interest in new technologies and their timely adoption. 
• Willingness to work extended hours as required to deliver projects. 
• Ability to work well in a team to deliver on team goals. 
• Flexibility under changing conditions and ability to multi-task between projects. 
• Fluent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge/Experience of Python based stack will be an added advantage