Founding Full-Stack Developer

Urgently required Head - Products/Solutions Officer Mumbai for India’s largest micro retail solutions provider.

Mandatory:

BE/BTech with MBA from institutes of repute/ Tier 1 school/Tier 2 School

BE OR B.tech is compulsory

experience in web/ mobile apps

exp in payment gateway

iot and it infrastructure

Agile/Scrum Software Development methodologies.

Experience: 10-15 yrs

Location: Mumbai( WFO)

Responsibilities:

▪ Will be the Chief of Staff to the CEO - managing products & solutions, overseeing Buying & Merchandising (products and categories) & Marketing departments.
▪ Will be the products/solutions custodian of the organization with the CEO. Ability to contribute/align/build on the CEO’s solution(s) vision. Understands interplay between products, service, solution, business case and operationalization for Hardware and software both.
▪ Lives and breathes solutions: existing and potential, identifies both unserved and underserved needs. Constantly tracks markets and internal clients and consumers to make best in class solutions available ahead of time
▪ Regular stakeholder interactions: Head strategic initiatives for Micro Retail and business case, Buying & Merchandising for range and partners. Digital, Sales and Operations for dip sticks, business potential and operationalization
▪ Solution development and Solution management: Experience within project management, software & hardware development lifecycle, process and solutions design
▪ Builds Go-To-Market with Sales, Operations and Marketing
▪ Co owns P&L with Sales and Operations. Tracks products/solutions performance regularly to ensure plans/tweaks in time
▪ Work with cross functional teams for development of products, solutions and project management
▪ Govern and continuously improve the products/solutions based on implementation road map
▪ Problem solving, consumer centricity, spotting opportunities, solving problems, reducing friction
▪ Steer the technical direction for product and solution security mechanisms Requirements
Qualification

Must-Have:

• Web development frameworks and tools, such as AngularJS, and React JS • Knows frameworks and programming languages such as .NET, C#, JavaScript, and NodeJS. • Must have an idea about hybrid cloud platforms like Azure or AWS • Knowledge about build Tools like Webpack and Grunt • Should know basic design principles and coding practices, such as linters and types • Secure coding practices and protocols such as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) • Basic knowledge of CMS tools and their workings, CMS like Sitecore • Having experience in API and service-based architectures using REST APIs, microservices, and utilizing JSON for web or mobile applications

Good to Have:

• Testing frameworks and tools like Jest, Codecept, Tosca, Jenkins • SQL, PL/SQL, and NoSQL database management. • Knowledge of various web tools and software like Miro, Figma, Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm, Jira, Confluence, and DevOps portals • Could have knowledge of payment gateways and their implementations on e-commerce management tools like Hybris • Having knowledge of product life cycle management

Development of Web based Applications using latest technologies like, AngularJS, Node.js, SQL Developer, MongoDb. Designing and developing user interfaces using AngularJS best practices. Adapting interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies, Writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, Developing product analysis tasks.

If you are an analytical problem solver with strong Web Development knowledge and a passion for teamwork and innovation, we have the perfect job for you!

We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our award-winning, talented team, building global software products for automation of drones for various commercial applications.

A thorough understanding of all of the components of FlytBase platform and infrastructure is required. You will need to take ownership of your projects, which involves detailing requirements after discussion with the Product Owner, building user interfaces, developing and maintaining web apps with a focus on user experience. 

We offer an excellent team environment, flexible working hours, and various opportunities to advance your career. We are looking for a long-term relationship and committed individuals to join our team. This position is based out of our development centre in Pune, India.

Skills/Experience

• 3-6 yr experience as a MEAN Stack developer
• Strong expertise with Angular2+, NodeJS, ExpressJS, HTML5, CSS, JSON, jQuery, Bootstrap, Socket.io, Git, CI/CD integration and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Knowledge of unit testing (Jasmine/Mocha), integration testing frameworks
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a secured, scalable, production ready application development and deployment

Roles/Responsibilities

• Work as part of an agile team developing applications, design sprints and lead the team ensuring deliveries are met.
• Ensure best practices in Web application development
• Bring in passion, dedication, and lead-from-the-front quality to build global products
• Participate in the complete software development lifecycle and write code that is maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Bring in technical and architectural leadership, and mentor team members enabling them to achieve their goals.
• Ability to balance strategic and tactical solutions.
• Manage application deployment practices in AWS, considering security, scalability and reliability
• Manage/evolve automated testing setup for backend and frontend for faster bug reporting and fixing
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem

Good to Have

• Knowledge of other python-based server-side frameworks such as Flask or Django.

We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals sharing our passion for autonomous drones.

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!

We are an IT Services and Product Development company, headquartered in Bangalore, that develops ERPs, Mobile Apps, and Web-Apps for our clients and customers globally.

Our Engineering team is looking for a Sr. Full-Stack Engineer to join our base in Bangalore, KA. Your key role will be to lead architectural level discussions, define performance upgrades, undertake new initiatives to groom our engineering team and provide valuable insights on all levels. If you are a problem solver with a unique way of thinking from a technology POV, and a great team player, we have the right role for you.

A high level overview of what this role looks like:

Engineering – 50% of time: As a leader, you will be undertaking engineering tasks which are complex in nature and also work on big modules and define the architectural layouts, both on Application, API and Database level.

Problem Solver - 30% of time: Be a Problem Solver, help our Engineering team to come up with a new solution that makes our applications - scalable, high in performance, reliable, and secure. This includes having ability to drive engagement on Engineering and also from DevOps Point of View.

Training & Improvements – 20% of time: Groom our Engineering Team, provide training, valuable insights and knowledge transfers (KT)  based on your years of experience building apps, products and delivering projects and working with different clients and teams.

What you bring to the table:

• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Implementation, Design and Development of IT Projects and Products (Apps and Web-Apps)
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch
• Experience in Training team and grooming them, undertaking managerial tasks such as Quarterly Skills Meeting, and Profile Evaluation, GAP Analysis
• Experience in Providing inputs to Project Budgeting, Efforts Estimations (EE), Technology Decks,
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment Cycle (Automation Testing)
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Interacting with the Technical/Engineering team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management
• Experience working with US Clients is a Must
• Experience and Exposure working with different projects and business models will be an advantage
• Understanding of Blockchain, Healthcare, HIPAA Compliances, RPA, Payments Services, DevOps will be an asset

Must have skills:

• Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
• Excellent Presentation Skills
• Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients and ability to provide inputs to improving ODCs (Off-shore development centres)
• Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
• Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
• Experience in handling Conflict and Resolution Management

Qualifications:

• 8 -12 years of overall experience
• Experience of working on Mobile & Web Applications (across Android & iOS)
• Strong understanding of Java & MERN/ MEAN stack - Angular/Node/React/ Vue
• Ability to create APIs in REST, and GraphQL understanding of JSON, XML, Websockets, SOAP, COBRA
• Good to have experience of Office 365 - SharePoint and ASP.Net
• Understanding of Database: MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, PostGres
• Understanding of Project Management: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall both is fine
• Previous experience of working in FinTech, eCommerce, Enterprise Projects, C2C, B2C, B2B Apps will be an added advantage