Engineering Lead for one of the Fortune 500 firms | Hyderabad

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 2+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

Job Description:

We are looking for a talented UI/UX Designer to join our team. As a UI/UX Designer, you will be responsible for creating intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces and experiences for our digital products. You will work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand user needs, translate requirements into wireframes and prototypes, and design user-friendly interfaces that enhance user satisfaction and engagement. The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio showcasing their design skills, creativity, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, business objectives, and technical constraints.
2. Conduct user research, usability testing, and analysis to gain insights into user behaviors, preferences, and pain points.
3. Create wireframes, user flows, and prototypes to visualize and communicate design concepts and interaction patterns.
4. Design user interfaces and experiences that are intuitive, responsive, and aesthetically pleasing across various devices and platforms.
5. Develop high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes using design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, or InVision.
6. Iterate on designs based on feedback from stakeholders, usability testing, and data analysis to continuously improve the user experience.
7. Collaborate with developers to ensure the feasibility and implementation of design solutions while maintaining design integrity.
8. Create and maintain design systems, style guides, and UI components to ensure consistency and scalability across products.
9. Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UI/UX design.
10. Advocate for user-centered design principles and contribute to a culture of design excellence within the organization.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, HCI, or related field.
2. Proven experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role, with a strong portfolio showcasing design projects and process.
3. Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, or InVision.
4. Solid understanding of user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and design thinking methodologies.
5. Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and analysis to inform design decisions.
6. Strong visual design skills, with an eye for typography, color, layout, and iconography.
7. Knowledge of responsive design principles and mobile-first design approach.
8. Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
9. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
10. Familiarity with front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus but not required.

About us:
Equal parts creative agency, engineering firm, and consultancy, Grappus has a reputation of doing things differently. We work with brands big and small, far and wide, helping them understand, prototype and deploy a broad range of custom tech. We value design and we cringe at bad UX. Each project is a clean slate, we don’t have frameworks, or any pre-made formulas. We’re not here to just grow big, make money and win awards. We’re here to crack the process of building truly innovative products from scratch. Products that make people say ‘damn’.

People at Grappus usually experience a highly accelerated career growth well beyond the narrow constraints of their ‘job description’. Here, the growth ladder is tailored to you. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. We think it's a waste when smart people are unable to make an impact. Our aim is to unleash your potential by giving you massive challenges and the freedom to solve them.

We’re in a fluid world, where we don’t know what technologies we’ll use next, or the projects we’ll work on. We’re actively searching for ways to shine a light on our blind spots, whether it is in the products we want to build, the problems we like to solve, or the company culture we try to create. That’s what makes life at Grappus so exciting. Grappus is an ongoing experiment and you are a part of it. We'll be a different company a few years from now because you are going to change it for the better. We can’t wait to see where you take us.

About the role:
We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who has a knack for coming up with creative solutions to unique problems, planning development cycles and writing technical documentation while leading a team of developers. You should have experience with different design pattern implementation and be quick in making architectural decisions. You can get in where needed to write clean, reusable, and performant code, with creative sensibilities to push projects towards perfection. You should have good time management skills and be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with a cross-discipline team of product managers, strategists, UX designers, art directors, and developers.

What we’d like to see:
● Ability to write elegant and readable code
● Excellent problem solving skills and love technical challenges
● Comfortable working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
● Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
● Stays plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and applies them proactively
● Taking leads on projects as needed
● Knowledge of software best practices, like test driven development and continuous integration
● Directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications

Must have:
● BE/ BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
● 4+ years of professional backend development experience
● Experience coaching and mentoring junior developers
● Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills and client handling      skills
● Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
● Experience working with Python/Django or NodeJS
● Knowledge of DRF, Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
● Implemented CI/CD in any of the projects done
● Strong understanding of the full web technology stack (i.e. HTTP, caching, headers, cookies, etc)
● Proficiency in working with API’s and third party integrations
● Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies
● Experience with multi-tenant architectures (SaaS)
● Experience with Test Driven Development
● Excellent project and time management skills

Nice to have:
● Familiarity and experience using a variety of architectural Design Patterns
● Knowledge of Kubernetes/Docker and Devops
● Personal projects or contributions to the open source community
● Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines
● Team player (those great personality types that people love to work with)
● Great communication skills

Why you’ll love it here:
(Besides working with our team with infinite charm)

● We have no fixed work timings or leave policy, you can take unlimited leaves and start your day whenever you want. (Just make sure others in your team don’t suffer)
● We don’t track these hours you put in or ask you to fill time sheets. We don’t believe in
micromanaging, if you’re struggling, ask for help. If someone else is, offer some support.
● We never mind if people make mistakes or screw up in any way, and offer full encouragement to help people learn fast by failing fast.
● We always encourage people to be completely candid, raise alarms, or log complaints
anonymously in our feedback tool, no matter how harsh.
● We are a ‘Work from Anywhere’ company, since passionate, driven people can work from
anywhere they want; their homes, or cafes, or mountains, or beaches, anywhere.
● We have a 15-day notice period. We want to build a place where people work willingly and passionately.

• Track record of delivering various features in large-scale applications or core systems with at least 5 years of experience. If you've written code in big data applications handling multitudes of data or real-time events, you're in.
• Experience writing multi-component systems or micro-services, with architectures requiring efficient inter-application communication. If you know what Kafka is, and think it's the bee's knees, we will think the same of you.
• Experience writing in a high-level language such as Go, C, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc.. If you're already writing Go, or spent a weekend debugging the worse memory leak ever, that's a big plus.
• Experience writing APIs (either RESTful or not) and RPCs. If you've broken backwards compatibility for your customers once, and dealt with the fallout, we want you (to deal with the fallout again).
• Experience with RDBMS systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase). If you've written queries with more than two joins, or have a strong opinion of why an integer is better as a primary key (or maybe a UUID), we'd like to hear from you.
• Experience with container platforms and orchestrators such as Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift is a plus. If you can name one way in which a container is different than a regular process, you're golden.
• Are you a free software/open source nerd? Do you maintain open source projects? Are you a Hacker News reader? Do you remember the days when you had to compile your own Linux kernel? Do you believe it should be called GNU/Linux? Have you ever been in a fight with an Emacs user? Are you an Emacs user? Well, we have the job for you!

We are looking for a Java Full Stack Senior web developer, having 5+ years of experience in Java Full Stack enterprise level web application development.

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java Full stack enterprise level web application development
• Comprehensive knowledge of Web design patterns and UI frameworks like AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and MVC framework like spring and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience in Java based front-end and back-end technologies
• Working experience in developing web services using HTTP REST and SOAP
• Experience in any one of the industry leading databases; Preferably Microsoft SQL Server.
• Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth/OAuth2 is a must.
• Unit and integration testing using Junit 5 and Mockito.
• Hands on experience with source code management and continuous integration/delivery processes and tools such as GitHub, Jenkin Maven and Azure DevOps.
• Specialist expertise in one cloud platform and preferably with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong work ethic, communication skills & good time management with ability to collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills
  • ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
  • skilled in interfacing with internal and external technical resources
  • good in debugging problems and mentoring teams on technical front

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to platform requirements/story development.
• Involve in Platform Sprint activities.
• Development of assigned stories in appropriate languages defined for each module.

Process Skills:

• Agile – Scrum and Test-Driven Development

Behavioral Skills:

• Result oriented team player
• Good in communication
• Interpersonal skills

Qualification:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Computer background preferred)