Full Stack Engineer

Join the Team! Full Stack Developer | 3-4 yrs experience | Remote

Do you want first-hand experience in building a startup with a small and growing team? Do you think data and tech can be a game changer?

Welcome to Co.labx: Co.labx is a tech-enabled, leadership consulting firm. At Co.labx, we are challenging the status quo & helping organisations become a force for good. We are a gender-neutral company, work remotely, partner on challenging projects with our clients, and strive to create a balance between people, planet, & profit. We now wish to enhance the role that technology plays in our work. And we have identified some exciting problem statements to push our boundaries in the next 1 year.

About the Role: At Co.labx, we’re proud to build products that accelerate the growth of organisations. To this end, we are looking to onboard a full-stack developer with previous experience working with early-stage startups. We’re looking for a candidate with 3-4 years of experience building, testing, and deploying web or mobile based applications. This individual would possess a strong product mindset, be user-centric, and be willing to experiment and build tools that enable teams to thrive.

Competencies

3-4 years of experience in the software development sector (service / product)

Experience with backend development using Ruby on Rails, Python Django, Java Spring or any other server side framework

Experience with Javascript, CSS and HTML and some frontend frameworks like React.js, Angular.js or equivalent

Experience working with relational databases (eg. MySQL or PostgreSQL)

Familiarity with RES APIs and developing endpoints in a RESTful manner

Experience writing industry-grade, well-tested code for a web-based product or service

Ability to work with uncertainty and rapidly adapting to changes

Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to see a product to completion

Excellent communication skills

Expectations

Help plan and develop new software products for the organisation

Write clean, maintainable and scalable code that is production ready and well-tested

Gather requirements and understand need of new products from various teams

Use basic analytics tools and techniques to understand user behaviour and suggest changes to existing products (or enable other team members to do so)

Our pay scale for this role is between 12-15 lacs

Still here? Great, these are the next steps & an overview of the selection process:

Reach out: We love talking about our work, so drop us an email if you want to know more. And if this opportunity excites you, apply with your resume.

Showcase your work: We will share 2 short pre-works with you. We love original, well thought out work. Insider Tip - Work speaks louder than words!

Interview & Selection

If interested, reach out right away and we’re excited to get to know you!

For this hire, we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is independently able to architect and build an entire on-demand service platform from scratch. This would require knowledge of and proven experience in Backend (Golang, Python, C/C++, Java, Ruby), Web Frontend (React, Angular, Next, Vue), APIs (nodeJS), Cloud (AWS, GCP) and Database (RDBMS like Postgres and NoSQL)

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Prior experience of having built or been involved in building an on-demand service platform from scratch (think Uber, Ola, Swiggy, Dunzo, etc.)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Guide complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
• Write high-quality code (i.e., reliable, readable, efficient, testable), provides quality code reviews, and creates comprehensive tests and quality documentation using software engineering principles. This includes knowledge of data structures, algorithms, programming and associated programming languages and frameworks, and major phases/activities of the software research and development life cycle (e.g., requirements, design, build, experiment, test, debug, deploy, monitor). 
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to other developers
• Participate in architectural and design discussions, and contribute to the development of software engineering practices and standards
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, and identify opportunities to apply them in our products

Requirements:

• Experience with front-end frameworks such as React.js, Vue.js, Next.js or Angular, and back-end frameworks such as Golang, Java, Javascript, Python Node.js, Ruby
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with agile development methodologies, continuous integration and delivery, and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC, etc.)
• Experience creating and implementing well-tested, scalable, performant micro-services and other distributed systems
• Passion for building high-quality software that solves real-world problems
• Ability to learn quickly on the go. We’re looking for software engineers who thrive while learning new technologies and don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to easily adapt to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment

If You've Got These Skills, Even Better - 

• Experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization juggling multiple dynamic projects

We need multiple MERN stack developers. As a full stack developer, you will be producing scalable software solutions and will be involved in the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. You should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. This isn't just another CRUD application. Your challenge will be to deliver a highly-available service on top of a dynamic collection of third-party data sources . Explore the limits of your own resourcefulness by designing human and automated systems that deliver true reliability in an otherwise unpredictable environment.

Tech-Stack: React, Node.js, Javascript, and MongoDB

How You Will Contribute

• Work with the development team to ideate software solutions
• Working through the application development lifecycle to launch
• Conceptualizing, creating and building applications alongside taking designer wireframes and magically turning them into effective code
• Designing user-based interactions through effective front-end architecture
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and back end applications
• Write effective and scalable APIs
• Leading and developing best practices for Full Stack Developer team
• Developing and designing RESTful services and APIs
• Determining application responsiveness for consumers
• Ensuring company mandate is effectively addressed in technical and developmental aspects
• Create security and data protection settings
• Write technical documentation
• Keeping current with industry trends and developments that can be applied to company needs

Technical Expertise That We Believe Will Make You Successful In This Role

• Min 1 year of experience as a MERN Stack Developer
• Fluency in CSS, JavaScript and HTML
• Understanding of CSS preprocessors including Sass
• Strong knowledge of building effective APIs in Node.js (Express)
• Proficiency in writing effective React components.
• Experience working with MongoDB, Redis and AWS
• Good knowledge of data structures, system design and algorithms
• Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science
• Soft-Skills That Will Come Handy
• Having a knack for visual design and utility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Head for problem-solving
• Having a flexible working style
• Being a team player
• Comfortable with working unsupervised

What We Need

- Solid industry experience

- Web Development using MERN Technologies (Mongo, React / React JS, Express JS or similar, Node)

- Server-side scripting skills with Node.JS

- Good understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.

- Databases - MongoDB, PostGreSQL, Cassandra

Good to Have

- Open Source Contributors (esp. Javascript to be evident from GitHub)

- Notice period to be less than 30 days

Khoros, formerly known as Lithium + Spredfast, is the leading customer engagement platform providing Social Media Marketing, Care and Monitoring Solutions. Khoros Customer Engagement Platform is built to turn siloed knowledge into enterprise value, and customers into contributors. By connecting consumer insights across all departments, Khoros gives companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs and accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation. With 2,000+ customers, including 52 of the Interbrand 100. Khoros has ten offices globally and powers approximately 500 million digital interactions every day. From social media to online communities and messaging to digital customer care, Khoros helps companies authentically connect with customers throughout their journey.

We’re looking to add a Software Engineer II to an already awesome engineering team for Community. You will be responsible for building and maintaining multiple SaaS applications in the social media space. You will work in small, cross-functional teams and love delivering value to our customers through shipping code. We deploy as often as we can and would love you to deploy to production beginning day one.

• Develop high-quality code to implement features that help analytics 
• Write unit tests for all new code 
• Improve code quality by applying solid design principles 
• Perform code reviews 
• Exhibit end-to-end ownership of a feature/task/bug 
• Work closely with Engineering Manager and Lead Engineer to suggest and implement architectural / design changes 
• Work closely with Product manager, Product Design team to ideate and build feature enhancements

• A Graduate in Computer Science or equivalent degree
• Experienced in building enterprise grade products for minimum of 2 years, that are highly scalable
• Experienced with building Frontend Applications and well versed with Javascript/ReactJS Design patterns, Object Oriented JS, including DOM Manipulation
• Familiarity with Rest API frameworks and patterns 
• Well versed with one or more of these technologies: 
• Frontend: Frameworks - ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, Apollo 
• CSS, TypeScript, Bootstrap, ESLint 
• Unit Testing Frameworks - Jest
• Programming Languages: Java
• Backend: DropWizard, Spring Boot etc
• Storage: MySQL
• Someone who understands git, pull requests and good software development practices 

• Knowledge of one or more of the following:
• GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL
• Familiarity with Build Systems like Jenkins, AWS Services (EC2, CloudFormation) 
• An engineer who writes testable and modular code
• Someone who understands git, pull requests and good software development practices
• Basic understanding of social media domain

• Programming is not just about writing code, it is about solving user’s problems
• Engineering is about creating meaningful user experience
• Autonomy is awesome and technology will shape the future

Awesome Culture

• Performance Driven
• Flexible Working hours

Great Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision insurance
• Gym Allowance
• Well stocked Pantry
• Commute and leave allowance
• Generous leave policy

Competitive Compensation

• Among the best in industry
• Annual bonus

Equal employment opportunity

• Our employment practises