FullStack Developer

Who are we?

Kriyadocs is a leading document workflow platform focused on the publishing industry. At Kriyadocs®, we have partnered with prestigious publishing houses across the world for over 18 years and delivered world-class, publication-ready digital & print content by applying cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, and extensive domain expertise. Technology is at the core of our evolution – we’ve consciously striven to always stay ahead of the curve in its adoption in order to provide best-in-class capabilities for our clients and our employees. This ethos is reflected in our vision and mission.

Our Vision: To make publishing all content as simple as clicking a button and become the partner of choice for individuals and organizations looking to share knowledge.

Our Mission: Provide a fantastic experience to authors, content publishers, and our own employees through technology and innovation, by publishing high-quality content seamlessly and quickly. We deliver Happy Authors and Happy Employees.

What is it really like to work here?

At Kriyadocs, every Kriyator is driven by our culture at the core to

• Deliver Excellence - Deliver Delight
• Stay Curious - Stay Driven
• Dream Big - Rise Together

You could also be a Kriyator, if you are

• Fearless in taking on challenges
• Focused in learning, demonstrating new skills and working towards successful outcomes
• Fanatical in taking pride and responsibility in all your work 

Job Description

We are looking for a Software engineer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. We want someone who is comfortable asking “why?” The ideal candidate is a divergent thinker who understands industry best practices and has experience with multiple coding languages. They are a team player possessing strong analytical as well as technical skills, and are able to communicate the logic behind technical decisions to non-tech stakeholders. They must be comfortable working in an agile environment and have the ability to “take the wheel” when necessary. They will work with multiple technologies and develop a keen sense of evaluating and using the appropriate technology to derive the best solution.

What you will do?

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write and test code to ensure compatibility and stability: refine and rewrite as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Follow the spec and its requirement and develop the features/project
• Providing written knowledge transfer material as documents

Requirements

Must have

• 1+ years experience coding in nodejs programming language 
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, Collections, good design principles like SOLID 
• Problem solving & analytical aptitude 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience in source code control with GIT/SVN
• Should be flexible to work on a variety of programming languages like NodeJS, React, etc. and on XML technologies like XSLT, XML Pipelines, etc

Good to have

• Experience working in the Node JS stack 
• Unit testing and automation frameworks 
• Experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Working with distributed microservice architectures 
• Agile product development life cycle

Eligibility Criteria 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer science or related fields from a reputed institution
• Any internship experience is a plus
• Experience : 1-4 years 
• Location : Chennai. Work from office (Mon to Fri)

Requirements:

1. 3 to 10 years of experience in full stack development.

2. Strong proficiency in Node.js and React.js, with a deep understanding of their ecosystems.

3. Solid understanding of web development principles, including RESTful APIs and responsive design.

• Must have knowledge of at least two PHP frameworks out of Laravel, Cakephp, CodeIgniter and YII.
• Must have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Knowledge of CMS architectures like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal etc. will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of eCommerce frameworks like WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart etc will be an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Concepts & a strong passion for Software Development.
• Strong Interaction and Design Sense
• Familiarity with LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin)
• Comfortable with SQL and/or Script Programming.
• Experience in Designing & Developing Database in MySQL is a MUST.

Key Tasks & Accountability:

• Collaborate with development teams and product managers to create innovative software solutions.
• Able to develop entire architecture, responsive design, user interaction, and user experience.
• The ability to use databases, proxies, APIs, version control systems, and third-party applications.
• Keep track of new development-related tools, frameworks, methods, and architectures.
• The developer is in charge of creating APIs depending on the architecture of the production application.
• Keeping up with the latest advancements in programming languages and server apps.

Skills:

• Comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries.
• Knowledge of React, Redux and API Integration.
• Experience with backend technology like NodeJs, Microservices, MVC Framework and Data Base connection.
• Knowledge on SQL/NoSQL such as MySql, mongoDB.
• Knowledge of cloud such as AWS.
• Team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

Job description

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Responsibilities:

• Developing all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database(s), and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end & Back-end.
• Addressing architectural problems like scalability, availability, etc., and providing solutions for them.
• Developing Database models, APIs, and processes.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Implement user interface components for JavaScript-based web and mobile applications using the React.js open-source library ecosystem.
• Code debugging and performance testing.
• Dealing with clients associated with different projects.
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance and responsiveness across all devices and browsers.
• Dealing with clients associated with different projects.
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js & Node.js.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Implement user interface components for JavaScript-based web and mobile applications using the React.js & Node.js open source library ecosystem.
• Code debugging and performance testing.

Required Skills:

• Good Experience with Node.js backend development platforms & MongoDB
• Good Experience with JavaScript frameworks and tools such as React.js, Redux, Amber, Web pack, Enzyme, and Flux.
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance.
• Handling of Asynchronous tasks in frontend and backend both.
• Good to have experience in creating and using Image APIs.
• Prior experience with deployment on AWS and Heroku servers.
• Have good knowledge of Version Control Tools.
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Bootstrap, HTML & CSS is a must to know.
• Having an understanding of React.js and its core principles is an added advantage.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) is an added advantage
• Experience with handling data structures.
• Experience with React.js frontend development platforms.

What we offer:

• A dynamic and collaborative team.
• Tech start-up environment to develop and shape an ambitious business
• Competitive success-oriented remuneration package

• Track record of delivering various features in large-scale applications or core systems with at least 5 years of experience. If you've written code in big data applications handling multitudes of data or real-time events, you're in.
• Experience writing multi-component systems or micro-services, with architectures requiring efficient inter-application communication. If you know what Kafka is, and think it's the bee's knees, we will think the same of you.
• Experience writing in a high-level language such as Go, C, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc.. If you're already writing Go, or spent a weekend debugging the worse memory leak ever, that's a big plus.
• Experience writing APIs (either RESTful or not) and RPCs. If you've broken backwards compatibility for your customers once, and dealt with the fallout, we want you (to deal with the fallout again).
• Experience with RDBMS systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase). If you've written queries with more than two joins, or have a strong opinion of why an integer is better as a primary key (or maybe a UUID), we'd like to hear from you.
• Experience with container platforms and orchestrators such as Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift is a plus. If you can name one way in which a container is different than a regular process, you're golden.
• Are you a free software/open source nerd? Do you maintain open source projects? Are you a Hacker News reader? Do you remember the days when you had to compile your own Linux kernel? Do you believe it should be called GNU/Linux? Have you ever been in a fight with an Emacs user? Are you an Emacs user? Well, we have the job for you!

We indulge in all things that would excite you!!

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala, MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS) and the likes

• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting services, so you'll be flexible about travel

• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title

• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

What we look for in you?

• 3 + years Hands-on in development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes

• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess

• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)

• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems.