Engineering Lead | Hyderabad, India

DocNexus is revolutionizing the global medical affairs & commercial ecosystem with search. We provide a next-generation data platform that simplifies searching through millions of insights, publications, clinical trials, payments, and social media data within seconds to identify healthcare professionals (HCPs), products, manufacturers, and healthcare systems. Leveraging AI-powered Knowledge Graphs, DocNexus assists life science organizations in finding the right key opinion leaders (KOL/DOLs) who play a crucial role in developing and bringing life-saving pharmaceutical products and medical devices to market. Backed by industry leaders such as Techstars, JP Morgan, Mass Challenge, and recognized as one of the Top 200 Most Innovative Startups by TechCrunch Disrupt, we are committed to transforming healthcare insights. We are seeking a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to the efficient development, deployment, and maintenance of our platform.

We are looking for a visionary Sr. Full Stack Engineering Lead who is passionate about building and leading our technology department. The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background and experience in leading a team to drive innovation and growth. As Engineering Lead, you will oversee the development and dissemination of technology for external customers, vendors, and other clients to help improve and increase business.

Leadership and Strategy:

• Lead the engineering team and make strategic decisions regarding the technology stack, project management, and resource allocation.
• Establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of technological development.

Development:

• Develop and maintain the front-end and back-end of web applications.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features.

Maintenance and Optimization:

• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Continually work on optimizing the performance of different applications.

Security: Ensure the security of the web applications by integrating security best practices.

• Regularly update the system to protect against vulnerabilities.

Innovation:

• Research and implement new technologies and frameworks that can improve the performance and user experience of the platform.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies and trends that can potentially impact the company's products and services.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with other departments to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners, management, investors, and employees.

Project Management:

• Oversee and support project planning, deadlines, and progress.
• Ensure that the technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.

Mentoring and Team Building:

• Foster a culture of innovation and excellence within the technology team.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members.

Front-End Development:

• HTML/CSS: For structuring and styling the web pages.
• JavaScript/TypeScript: Core scripting language, along with frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue.js for dynamic and responsive user interfaces.

Back-End Development:

• Python: Using frameworks like Django or Flask for server-side logic.
• Node.js: JavaScript runtime environment for building scalable network applications.
• Ruby on Rails: A server-side web application framework written in Ruby.

Database Management:

• SQL Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL for structured data storage.
• NoSQL Databases: MongoDB, Cassandra for unstructured data or specific use cases.

Server Management:

• Nginx or Apache: For server and reverse proxy functionalities.
• Docker: For containerizing applications and ensuring consistency across multiple development and release cycles.
• Kubernetes: For automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers.

DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

• Git: For version control.
• Jenkins, Travis CI, or CircleCI: For continuous integration and deployment.
• Ansible, Chef, or Puppet: For configuration management.

Cloud Services:

• AWS: For various cloud services like computing, database storage, content delivery, etc.
• Serverless Frameworks: Such as AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions for running code without provisioning or managing servers.

Security:

• OAuth, JWT: For secure authentication mechanisms.
• SSL/TLS: For secure data transmission.
• Various Encryption Techniques: To safeguard sensitive data.

Performance Monitoring and Testing:

• Selenium, Jest, or Mocha: For automated testing.
• New Relic or Datadog: For performance monitoring.

Data Science and Analytics:

• Python Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, or SciPy for data manipulation and analysis.
• Machine Learning Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch for implementing machine learning models.

Other Technologies:

• GraphQL: For querying and manipulating data efficiently.
• WebSockets: For real-time bi-directional communication between web clients and servers.

SOFTWAY

Department: Product Development

Vision for the Product Development Team

The Product Development Team is dedicated to shaping the future by turning ideas into products that will significantly impact customer lives and propel the organization forward. With a vision to launch a variety of products poised to become major revenue drivers, we are committed to crafting solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. Every product we undertake is a step towards redefining what's possible, ensuring our journey is one of progress, impact, and success.

Overall Purpose of the Position:

As a RoR Developer, you'll hold a pivotal position, driving the development and expansion of the portfolio.You will have a strong background in Ruby on Rails development and a proven track record of delivering high-quality web applications. You will work closely with our team of developers, designers, and project managers to build and maintain scalable, robust, and user-friendly software solutions for our clients.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Software Development and Implementation: You will be deeply involved in coding and building product features. Following best practices in software development, you will write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, contributing to the product's core functionalities and user experience.

• Technical Architecture and Design: You will support the creation of technical architecture and design under the guidance of fellow engineers. Your role will include contributing to discussions on technical decisions, learning from the choices made, and understanding their impact on the product's scalability and performance.

• Quality Assurance and Testing: You will ensure that the work you produce meets quality standards and delivers outcomes. This entails writing clean, efficient code, conducting unit tests to validate individual components, and collaborating with fellow engineers to integrate and test new features. You should also actively participate in code reviews, identify/fix potential bugs or issues, and assist in debugging and troubleshooting to maintain product quality and reliability.

• Data Management and Analysis: You will support data management and analysis efforts by assisting in the integration of data collection mechanisms into our products. Learning how to analyze product usage data, you will contribute insights that can inform future product improvements and features.

• Security and Compliance: You will help ensure that our products meet the highest standards of security and compliance. This will involve participating in security reviews, implementing best practices in coding, and staying informed about relevant regulations affecting our products.

• Scalability and Performance Optimization: You will assist in efforts to ensure our product can scale and perform optimally. This will involve supporting performance testing and contributing to optimizations that enhance the user experience under varying loads.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You will collaborate with teams across the organization, including marketing, sales, and customer support, providing technical assistance and ensuring that product development aligns with broader company objectives.

• Product Strategy Development: You will contribute to the development of product strategy by providing technical feedback on the feasibility of proposed features and innovations. Engaging in discussions about product strategy will ensure that technical considerations are incorporated into the product vision from the early stages.

• Innovation, Experimentation & Improvement: You'll have opportunities to contribute to innovation within your team by proposing new ideas or solutions to technical challenges. You'll participate in brainstorming sessions and hackathons, where you can explore creative approaches to problem-solving. You'll actively seek feedback from others to refine your ideas and learn from their experiences. Your curiosity and willingness to explore new technologies and methodologies will contribute to the culture of innovation within the team.

• Mentorship & Development: You'll benefit from mentorship provided by more experienced Engineers who will guide you in your professional development journey. You'll receive feedback on your Software Engineering work and your mentors will share their engineering knowledge and experiences with you, helping you navigate challenges and accelerate your growth as a Software Engineer. Your openness to feedback and willingness to learn from others will contribute to a successful mentorship experience.

• Culture & Strategic Initiatives: Within your team and the wider Softway organization, you'll support and foster Softway’s culture by living out Softway’s values, principles, and behaviors.
• Leveraging AI Tools: Embracing and leveraging AI tools stands as a pivotal expectation. You are anticipated to proficiently utilize these technologies to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and foster innovation within our projects.

Behavioral Expectations Based on the Six Pillars of Love:

Inclusion: Cultivate an inclusive environment across all geographic locations, valuing and integrating diverse ideas and perspectives, especially from the India team.

Empathy: Show understanding and consideration for the unique challenges and perspectives of the India team and consulting clients. Build empathetic relationships to support their needs.

Forgiveness: Promote a culture of learning from mistakes and understanding in cross-cultural contexts. Encourage open discussions about failures and lessons learned.

Trust: Build trust through consistent, honest interactions, and reliable leadership, especially when managing remote and international teams.

Empowerment: Empower team members in all locations by providing autonomy, resources, and support for innovative and context-specific solutions.

Vulnerability: Demonstrate vulnerability in leadership, especially in international contexts. Be open about challenges and encourage the team to share their experiences and ideas.

Growth Mindsets: Embrace and foster growth mindsets within the team. Encourage unlearning old ways and re-learning new approaches to work. Challenge and dismantle any belief systems that impede embracing new ways of working or delivering work.

Skills and Qualifications:

Skills:

• Technical Proficiency: Understanding of programming languages, software development methodologies, and coding best practices.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to analyze problems, think critically, and propose technical solutions.
• Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy in coding, testing, and documenting software developments.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical processes.
• Adaptability: Willingness and ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing product requirements and technologies.
• Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work effectively in team settings, contributing positively to team dynamics and outcomes.
• Time Management: Proficiency in managing multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3-5 years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails development
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and software design patterns
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as React or Angular
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure is a plus

Job Description :

- Strong understanding of the Ruby programming language and Rails framework

- Proficiency in Javascript including experience with React, Angular or Vue

- Database understanding (Postgres/MySQL)

- Previous experience maintaining production applications

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

Skills Required :

- Navigating and understanding a large codebase

- Experience with Git continuous integration and regular deployments

- Understanding and appreciation for UX and usability

- Excellent communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews,

- Writing tests using Rspec and Capybara.

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced software engineer to join our team at Mumbai. In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to take ownership of developing user facing applications and features in an agile manner. You will design and implement scalable and performant front-end solutions from scratch, while also taking a hard look at the existing ones.

What you will do at QI?

• Design, develop and deliver new user-facing apps and feature and improve existing ones
• Take ownership of product(s), and contribute to dev cycles and sprints planning
• Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX design, share inputs with other teams including product, design and QA
• Optimize applications for performance, user experience and SEO
• Build reusable code and libraries. Contribute to open source projects.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies with an eye of constantly adapting and improving our systems and methods.

Basic Job requirements

• 2 years + work experience in a similar role
• Strong experience in HTML5, CSS, DOM and front-end tooling ecosystem (Gulp,Grunt, Webpack)
• Excellent concepts and command over JavaScript
• Strong concepts and commercial experience in Vue.js
• Solid foundation in software development ( algorithm design, data structure, SDLC)
• Good concepts of unit testing and automation testing for UI components
• Good understanding of web app performance including Google Core Web Vitals metrics.

Location - Remote 

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of REST API and relational databases
• Basic understanding of browser internals
• Familiarity with web components and shadow DOM
• Exposure to progressive web app design.

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• understanding of the front-end and back-end processes;
• ability to work with HTML / CSS;
• ability to work with databases;
• understanding of programming templates and architecture design guidelines;
• profiling and optimizing applications.