Engineering Manager

About the Role

We are looking for enthusiastic Backend Developer Interns to join our team remotely for a 3-month internship. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in backend development, work on real projects, and expand your technical skills. While this is an unpaid internship, interns who successfully complete the program will receive a Completion Certificate and a Letter of Recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining backend services and APIs.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) for data storage and retrieval.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize backend performance.
• Participate in code reviews and team discussions.
• Document technical processes and contributions.

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of at least one backend language/framework (Node.js, Python/Django/Flask, Java/Spring Boot, or similar).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Knowledge of Git/GitHub for version control.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Good communication skills and eagerness to learn.

What You’ll Gain

• Real-world experience in backend development.
• Mentorship and exposure to industry practices.
• Completion Certificate at the end of the internship.
• Letter of Recommendation based on performance.
• Opportunity to strengthen your portfolio with live projects.

Internship Details

• Duration: 3 months
• Location: Remote (Work from Home)
• Stipend: Unpaid
• Perks: Completion Certificate + Letter of Recommendation

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Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

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   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

• Finding creative solutions to product, technical, organisational and resource challenges. 
• Partnering with fellow leaders to build a collaborative design, engineering and product culture. 
• Help lead multiple projects on the International Experience team, defining scope, identifying resourcing needs, and handling stakeholder management. 
• Work cross-functionally to identify workflow issues and integrate procedural improvements. 
• Track and communicate progress across your projects, ensuring the teams are on track - facilitating decision-making, resolving blockers, and surfacing challenges. 
• Enable continuous improvement during projects, ensuring insights are captured, shared, and integrated. 
• Become an evangelist, advocate, and educator on behalf of Design, elevating the team's presence within the organization. 
• Always be acutely aware of the team's needs and provide feedback to our design leads in order to ensure all designers experience an enjoyable and balanced work environment. 
• Help develop process improvements for Design Operations as a whole. 
• Think conceptually – applying a user-centered approach to requirements and interdependencies – to develop engaging interfaces. 
• Think visually – using techniques like storyboards and sketching – to communicate interaction design concepts. 
• Make design decisions based on good judgement, experience, research, and data. 
• Make a real impact at scale through new product launches and interface improvements that effect billions of our customers everyday 
• Be part of a fun, humble team, always learning, collaborating with other designers to deliver a cohesive customer centered experience. 

What You'll Need 

A strong product design portfolio that demonstrates how you design to solve customer needs. 

• Excellent people management Skills 
• Leadership Skills 
• Excellent grasp of the design thinking and prototyping process, including product/interaction/visual, with the know-how to move from pencil on paper to layout to pixel-perfect handoff using tools such as Sketch, Invision, and Zeplin. 
• Stellar interaction & visual skills (track record of deploying user interface standards and conventions, functional communication flows, dynamic engaging interfaces, attention to detail, stay on brand, build new patterns). 
• Deep understanding of design principals and industry trends. 
• Expert communication and presentation skills with ability to clearly present your work; you are articulate and can advocate design rationale. 
• Readily give and receive constructive feedback. 
• Expert partnering with cross functional teams in launching new products and improvements to existing features. 

Added Points 

• Experience working in and navigating a corporate environment independently. 
• Delivered successful design for responsive web, iOS and Android. 
• Experience building efficient scalable systems or in eCommerce. 
• Bachelor’s in Design, User Experience (UX), Human Computer Interaction, Mass Communications or related field. 

Skillset  

• Mock ups : Sketch, Axure, Figma 
• Usability test : Morae, WebEx Remote UTs 
• Image editing & illustration : Photoshop, Expression Design, CorelDraw, Adobe illustrator.