upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for
working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.
- upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19.
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- upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
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About the Role
A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.
Role and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
- Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
- Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
- Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
- Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
- Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
- Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
- Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
- Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
- Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
- Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.
Skills/Experience
- A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
- Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
- Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
- Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
- Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
- Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
- Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
- Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
- Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.
Qualification
B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)
About upGrad
upGrad is an online higher education platform. Founded by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Ravijot Chugh and Phalgun Kompalli in March’ 2015, upGrad provides rigorous industry-relevant programs designed and delivered in collaboration with world-class faculty and industry. Merging the latest technology, pedagogy, and services, upGrad is creating an immersive learning experience – anytime and anywhere.
Through exclusive partnerships with some of the most prominent universities like IIIT-Bangalore, MICA, BITS Pilani, ISB, Cambridge Judge Business School- our aim to impart university education, online.
Learning online can be tough, especially when you have to do it all by yourself. Reasons why you should upskill with UpGrad:
- We provide an engaging experience via our suite of learning applications right from the university applications till you get a job and transition
- We provide structured online courses in collaboration with some of the prominent universities and industry experts
- We co-create a rigorous curriculum in collaboration with these universities to provide the learners with a holistic learning experience
- All our courses are comprehensive, structured and rigorous - delivered online, providing you the flexibility and opportunity of continuous learning
- We conduct regular live lectures with the industry experts and the professors
- Each of our learners is allocated with a dedicated student mentor who helps them chart a career path and motivates them to push themselves
- We provide in-depth feedback on all the assignments, case studies, and projects
- We have delivered 400+ successful career transitions and we’re committed to building careers of tomorrow
- You get access to an alumni network of 3,000+ students across the globe
- We also conduct periodic offline events like Hackathons, Bootcamps, Alumni Nights and connect you not only to the professors and industry experts but the peers in your batch too
- Last but not the last, we provide career assistance and help all the learners with interview preparations, mentorship calls, and job placements even after the completion of the program
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What You Will Need:
- 8+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems.
- BE / B.Tech / M.Tech - preferably in Computer Science
- Strong background in building backend technologies over distributed systems.
- Hands on experience in building platforms, technologies, and systems for products they have worked on.
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- Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.
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- Lead a diverse team of high performing engineers - who set new standards everyday.
- Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team.
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Proficiency in Backend skills with coding expertise in Java.
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Good Team Managegement Exp
Agile Methodology
BullSpree– India’s First Financial Market Fantasy Gaming Platform- is disrupting the way India understands Stock market and empowering wealth creation opportunities for millions of users.
Responsibilities: Bull spree is looking for a rockstar VP Engineering, who has hands-on experience architecting and designing e-commerce, scalable web & mobile platforms from ground up. The candidate will be the top technical leader who would work closely with founders on technical requirements, design & development based on agile methodologies, supervises software development projects with contracting vendors and hires and develops in-house team for long-term roadmap execution.
In this role, you will design and develop scalable fantasy game mobile application platforms using the latest technologies. You will own product quality and overall customer experience. You will also propose technical solutions to product/service problems while refining, designing and implementing software components in line with technical requirements.
Desired Skills include:
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in computer engineering or equivalent form Top Tier Institute
- 4 – 8 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on Cloud
- Proficiency developing ReSTful APIs, mobile libraries, Android OS, App Development language (PHP/Kotlin/Java/ JavaScript or equivalent)
- Knowledge of Cloud Services, Containers, databases and Message queues (Kafka / RabbitMQ) highly preferable
- Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Spinnaker, SonarQube) and best practices
- Good understanding of database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra etc.
- Sound debugging skills with ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts
Good to Have:
- Strong experience working with multi cloud (AWS/GCP/AZURE), Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform
- Good understanding of observatory tools and logging
- Enthusiasm for open-source contribution
- Previous experience working in an environment with microservices
- Experience in distributed and big data technologies
Founded in 2020 by Harsh Dhanawat and Dharmil Bavishi, BullSpree is always working on its mission to
‘Make India empower while investing’. The fantasy gaming ecosystem in India is accelerating at 12.5% CAGR and is currently valued at 20,000 crores. Having secured recent funding, we are looking to expand our core engineering team and foster the vision
Responsibilities:
- Investigate technologies and solutions which help the team achieve deliverables and results.
- Working with business process analysts and technical leads to derive conceptual designs and solutions.
- Assisting project managers with sizing estimates and work-breakdown structures.
- Develop and unit test software within teams of varied sizes and geographical distributions.
- Benchmarking and load testing developed modules and integrated applications.
- Assisting quality assurance team in the conduct of solution testing.
- Documenting software specifications and requirements.
- Working with infrastructure teams to define and establish application environments and implementation of software applications.
- Provide post-implementation support for developed software applications and solutions.
Measures of Success:
- The delivery of software solutions that meets requirements and are within budget and project timeline.
- Achieves good quality development metrics and standards that are aligned with industry best practices.
Skill Requirements:- Knowledge of General Open System / Distributed systems platforms
- Knowledge of cloud service like AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience in developing and implementing Restful APIs
- Good understanding of Network ports/Transfer protocols.
- Ability to process/analyze large amounts of data and logs.
- UI and Backend Development experience (Full stack).
- 6+ years of experience in software development within Linux environment; with a strong focus on development using JAVA, Javascript, C and BASH shell & Python scripting.
- Experienced in structured and agile development methodologies.
- Experienced in load testing and benchmarking tools such as JMeter, Loadrunner, etc.
- Experienced in Linux-based database technology and versed with stored procedures.
- Experienced in web services developments using XML, SOAP, JSON.
- Knowledge of application security setup using common security standards like SSL, TLS, secured ciphers, etc.
- Experienced with software versioning control using GIT.
Soft Skills:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a desire to design and develop top quality software products.
Basic Qualifications for Consideration:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related
- Minimum 4 years of experience
Responsibilities:
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Acting as an entrepreneur - taking ownership the problem statement end-to-end.
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Delivering direct value to the customer - and not just stop with internal delivery.
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Lead a diverse team of High performing Engineers - who set new standards everyday.
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Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team.
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Estimate, plan, divide and conquer customer problem statements - through sturdily developed & performant technical solutions.
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Handle multiple competing priorities and ambiguity - all in a fast-paced, high growth environment.
Requirements:
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7+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems.
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1-4 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams.
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BE / B. Tech /M. Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science.
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Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.
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The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders.
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Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our FinTech products.
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Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced programmer to join our engineering team. You will play a vital role to create an impact on our product platforms, introduce innovation and execute technical strategy as and when required. This approach should allow continuous and consistent improvement to our existing products. Ability to multitask, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, solution driven approach towards work is highly desired. Overall, you’re required to demonstrate an excellent mix of technology exposure, team management, collaborative work style, leadership skills and values.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work with cross-functional teams, leaders across the organization to lead our frontend, backend and infrastructure engineering layers.
2. Understand, analyze, design and develop scalable software ecosystem, technical specifications artifacts and documentation.
3. Execute and perform detailed analysis of technology problems and technical environment and use it in designing solutions
4. Optimize existing coding guidelines and introduce unit testing principles as per market standards.
5. Keep a track of development and execution plans and report on execution (if any)
6. Act as a mentor and guide engineering team (formally / informally) in designing and implementing technical solutions
7. Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
Desired Skills:
1. Minimum 8+ years of experience in software engineering and development
2. Strong understanding of nanoservices architectures and frameworks development
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4. Experience with developing on cloud environment (especially AWS)
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9. Ability to work independently or with a group.
10. Willingness to sit for extended hours (If required).
Nice to have:
1. GitHub and StackOverflow profile showcasing your contributions
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3. An entrepreneurial mindset
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1. Atmosphere of growth and opportunity
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- Exceptional team managing skills; experience in building large scale distributed systems
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- Deep understanding of Messaging systems - kafka
- Good experience on cloud infrastructure - AWS preferably
- Good to have: Data pipelines, ES
- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise and depth-wise while designing and implementing services
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