Full Stack Developer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Division/ Department: Technology

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Work Location: Noida

Desired Work Experience: 4+ years

Weekly Off: Saturday & Sunday

About Aakash Technology Innovation Lab

Are you passionate about transforming the field of education as we know it?

The way education is imparted has been disrupted massively due to forces such as ed-tech digital revolution, the advancement in artificial intelligence technology and the pandemic. Given the rapid pace of transformation, the vision of the Technology Innovation Lab at Aakash is to make the education of the future a reality. The Technology Innovation Lab aims to leverage state-of-the-art technologies to develop industry-defining bleeding-edge solutions for a student-first world-class hybrid learning experience. This involves -

• Reimagining and conceptualizing how education will be imparted in the future in the omni-channel and immersive learning environment
• Building data platforms such as Power BI dashboards to facilitate students, parents, teachers and the business 
• Creating applications to support the futuristic tech-enabled smart classrooms
• Conceptualizing and developing mobile and web applications for seamless customer experience
• Developing Internet of Things (IoT) driven integrations into applications to build futuristic learning experience
• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to identity interventions to boost student performance

If this excites you, we might have the perfect opportunity for you in the world’s most valued ed-tech company!

About Aakash - AESL

Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), commonly known as Aakash, is one of the most leading educational services institution providing comprehensive test preparatory services for students preparing for medical and engineering entrance examinations, school/board exams and competitive and scholarship exams such as NTSE, KVPY, and Olympiads. 

AESL also partnered with Blackstone, a global investment management firm. 

With more than 32 years of operational experience in the test preparatory coaching industry, the company has a pan India network of 220+ Aakash centres with an annual student base 2,50,000+ students and an employee count of more than 4700.

Purpose of the Role

Develop software solutions that enable the students, parents and teachers to have superior learning and teaching experiences, both inside and outside the classroom.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop state-of-the-art high performance and low latency software applications for mission critical systems
• Contribute in all the phases of the software development lifecycle
• Craft a well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Perform object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Effectively and seamlessly manage communication with all stakeholders.
• Manage and provide live support to the developed applications

Qualification/ Experience

Must-Have Preferred

Education B.E / B.Tech Information Technology / Computer Science/ Information Science

• Experience 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot Frameworks
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with relational databases (MySql, Oracle, Postgres) or NoSql Databases (Cassandra, MongoDb, CouchDb) .
• Agile programming (Sprint, Scrum) experience
• Skills Understands version control branching strategies
• Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented /functional /reactive)
• Understanding and some experience in programming with AWS SDK
• Knowledge of Kafka and Redis

Competencies

Behavioral Competencies Level Functional Competencies Level

1 Team Player Written and Verbal Communication

2

What We Offer

As a technology professional in Aakash Technology Innovation Lab we offer you an opportunity to - 

• Become a pioneer of the education of the future by reimagining and building innovative solutions for the ed-tech industry leading hybrid learning experience
• Be a force of technological disruption as a part of a passionate and high growth team on an exciting endeavor to transform the education industry
• Belong to an upbeat, flexible and relaxed work culture with a specific focus on collaboration
• Craft an excellent career at Aakash through a broad realm of career tracks and opportunities
• Excel in your chosen stream and become a renowned technologist in the ed-tech industry with heavy investment from the business into your learning, exposure and growth
• Have a highly competitive compensation and benefits package 

Required Experience

3 - 8 Years

Skills

Java/J2EE,

Spring,

microservices

+ 1 more

• Develop unit, integration, and functional tests within Grails/Java and contribute to new architectures design for multi-tier Java EE-based products in a SOA environment.
• Interact with Business Analysts to understand software build configuration and testing processes, documenting application functionality and programming accordingly.
• Collaborate with a talented software team to work on various types of applications, ensuring the building of backend APIs using Java-based technologies.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies, conducting POCs on new technical stacks to support and maintain a portfolio of applications.
• Utilize core Java skills to define, design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot applications and tools written in Java and other related languages.
• Provide technical expertise in Java development, including Spring, Hibernate, and building scalable solutions for large web application deployments.
• Participate in the full SDLC, from requirements and design to development, testing, and deployment, ensuring the implementation of best practices and industry-standard procedures.
• Possess hands-on experience with Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, microservices, and web services, while also demonstrating proficiency in writing enterprise-strength code and developing backend APIs.
• Work in an agile environment, supporting users by developing documentation and offering assistance with tools, while promoting established development standards and change control procedures.

Back End Developer

Job Description:
Location: Pune (Initially Remote due to COVID 19)

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join the team in India and be instrumental in taking our products to the next level. In this role, you will be working in close collaboration with a team of highly empowered, experienced developers who are building a high-performance, highly scaled global platform.

About the Organisation:

- It provides a dynamic, fun workplace filled with passionate individuals. We are at the cutting edge of advertising technology and there is never a dull moment at work.

- We have a truly global footprint, with our headquarters in Singapore and offices in Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and India.

- You will gain work experience in a global environment. We speak over 20 different languages, from more than 16 different nationalities and over 42% of our staff are multilingual.

You will:

• conceive, build, and operate highly distributed systems deployed around the planet

• employ cutting-edge technologies and techniques in a rapidly evolving domain

• thrive in a progressive, environment which relies on communication and initiative rather than process to deliver at a high velocity

• have a "Product Owner" rather than a "Task Implementer" attitude

 Candidate's Profile:

• Experience building systems involving messaging or event-driven architectures

• Deep technical understanding of Java or Go, and willing to work with both

• Strong handle on concurrency challenges and design solutions

• Strong buyer of Agile / Lean values

• Heavy emphasis on code testing and designing for test-ability

• Maturity and aptitude to operate in a high-freedom/high-responsibility environment

• Strong troubleshooting skills

• Experience with supporting and troubleshooting large systems

• Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible

• Exposure to IAAS platforms such as AWS EC2, GCP, etc…

• Experience with Cassandra, Aerospike, or other NoSQL databases

Job Location: New Delhi

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to all phases of the Software development lifecycle

• Write well-designed testable, efficient code and complex code with Data Structure & Algorithms.

• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications on Java and RestAPI.

• Prepare and produce releases of software component

• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• A Developer whose job includes writing complex code, testing, and fixing bugs.

• Maintain, design the database and organize collected information.

• A specialized programmer who focuses on multiple types of development.

What you’ll bring:

• 2 year to 5 years of proven hands-on Software Development experience.

• Strong experience in Java programming

• Expertise Knowledge of Data structures and Algorithms

• Proven working experience in a product-based organization (preferred)

• Understanding with Java frameworks Spring boot, Microservices and ORM frameworks.

• Must have the experience to design and build scalable REST APIs.

• Object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

• Build an algorithm for artist to detect if their music was violating copy right infringement laws

• Successfully won Techcrunch Disrupt

• Optimized an algorithm that holds the current world record for Weisman Scores

• Exp- 3+ yrs
• Must be very good in Java- 2.5+ yrs
• At least 1 yr of working experience in any one DB of Neo4j, Cassandra, Elastic Search
• Should have good devops working knowledge - Knowledge of AWS, Ansibleetc is a necessity
• Experience in TDD/BDD is required
• Minimum 1 yr working experience in Samza& Kafka.
• Knowledge of Azure is added advantage
• Understanding of AKKA and Play framework

• IMMEDIATE JOINEE.
• Work with other engineers to develop and test tools and applications used by team on daily basis
• Play a significant role in the ongoing evolution and refinement of current tools and applications
• Triage, troubleshoot, escalate and provide resolution to production issues.
• Reproduce, document and escalate product defects to the Engineering Team.
• Provide well-thought out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help customers.
• Take ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution or escalation.
• Identify and escalate priority issues that need immediate attention.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams which requires strong presentation skills and attention to details
  
  
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. MS degree is preferred.
• 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
• High experience in Java 8 Required.
• 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
• Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
• Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
• Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
• Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernate is must.
• Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
• Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
• Experience working with version control like GIT.