Fullstack Developer

Role & Responsibilities

• work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;
• coach and mentor team members;
• cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;
• preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;
• “see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;
• work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and
• own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

Ideal Candidate

• exceptional communication and organizational skills;
• experience recruiting for and building software engineering teams;
• the ability to inspire and motivate team members;
• a strong technical background in software engineering and architecture, and experience with modern programming languages and frameworks;
• 6+ years of software development experience; and
• 4+ years of experience managing software teams (as a Team Lead or a Manager) or similar experience as an individual contributor.

Job Description:

• Good understanding of PHP and Object-oriented programming paradigm.
• Able to understand project requirement and handle projects independently.
• Strong learning capability.
• Having a good knowledge of JQuery.
• Framework experience would be beneficial.
• Should be comfortable to work with the team.
• Should be comfortable with work on any MVC-based framework.

Skills required:

• Sound knowledge of PHP,MySQL, Jquery, etc.
• Able to understand project requirement and handle projects independently.
• Strong learning capability.
• Contribute in all phases of the development.
• Knowledge of PHP/Codeigniter will be preferred.
• Basic Knowledge of JavaScript, Web Services.

Skills: Java, spring, hibernate, AWS(mandatory), microservices architecture, redis(good to have)

Team Size: Current team size of tech team is 65+

Interview Process: 4 rounds( 1st round - Problem Solving/Data Structures, 2nd Round- Coding, 3rd Round- Technical Discussion and Final round with the HR).

Target Companies:- B2C fintech companies, app based product companies, edtech companies

Location: Bangalore(Currently WFH but later on will be following a hybrid model)

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

· Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns

· Strong problem solving and analytical skills

· Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack

· Ability to manage small teams (4-6 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

· Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems

· In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline batching.

· In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.

· In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.

· In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

What Can We Offer You:

We offer a great working environment - Very collaborative. You will get plenty of learning opportunities and challenging problems to work on. You’ll go to sleep everyday knowing that you’ve made a difference in people’s lives. Your work will be reaching out to millions of users.

• 4 to 7 years of experience (or equivalent understanding of software engineering)
• Strong in Javascript & Typescript + frameworks like React, Next.js, Angular, etc.
• Strong experience in architecting complex, distributed systems in public or private cloud
• Willingness and interest in learning new tech/processes (Python, Airflow, Postgres, etc.)
• Willingness to travel to offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Hyderabad

Year of experience- 2+ years

Skills

• Experience with designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining secure and scalable web-based applications.
• Experience using JavaScript based frameworks- ReactJS/AngularJS, HTML/CSS, Java Script, XML, jQuery, NodeJS, Express and other related technologies.-Good understanding of data structures and algorithm-Familiarity with databases.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment.-Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.

• Experience with Scrum or other Agile development methodologies.-Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary, self-organized teams.-Good at written and verbal communication skills.

• Design and develop high-quality software used by millions of customers, in an agile and iterative development culture.
• Support and maintain existing applications and develop new modules as and when required for feature enhancements.
• Adopt best practices in web development, design, testing, code review, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and provide improvement recommendations.
• Working closely with product lead, delivery lead, and other agile team members, and ensures that the desired result for our projects are achieved.

About Us

We have grown over 1400% in revenues in the last year.

Interface.ai provides an Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) to FIs to automate calls and customer inquiries across multiple channels and engage their customers with financial insights and upsell/cross-sell.

Our IVA is transforming financial institutions’ call centers from a cost to a revenue center.

Our core technology is built 100% in-house with several breakthroughs in Natural Language Understanding. Our parser is built based on zero-shot learning that helps us to launch industry-specific IVA that can achieve over 90% accuracy on Day-1. 

We are 45 people strong with employees spread across India and US locations. Many of them come from ML teams at Apple, Microsoft, and Salesforce in the US along with enterprise architects with over 20+ years of experience building large-scale systems. Our India team consists of people from ISB, IIMs, and many who have been previously part of early-stage startups. 

We are a fully remote team.

Founders come from Banking and Enterprise Technology backgrounds with previous experience scaling companies from scratch to $50M+ in revenues.

As a SDE III, you will be :

1. Designing and implementing FullStack applications of interface.ai’s conversational AI platform and playing a significant role in evolving them.
2. Working with a team of driven and passionate engineers working on cutting edge technology, who take pride in solving complex problems.
3. Engaging in cross-functional team discussions on Product, design, QA, deployment and maintenance,  in a fast-moving collaborative set up.
4. Building reusable code and libraries for future use
5. Analyzing high level requirements, breaking it down into workable/demoable tasks, estimating them and delivering with high quality.
6. Contributing to improve our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

1. Are extremely self motivated
2. Have ability to learn quickly
3. Have a growth Mindset (read this if you don't know what it means - https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322" target="_blank">link)
4. Have Emotional Maturity (read this if you don't know what it means - https://medium.com/@krisgage/15-signs-of-emotional-maturity-38b1a2ab9766" target="_blank">link)
5. Are Passionate about the possibilities at the intersection of AI + Banking
6. Have worked in a startup of 5 to 30 employees
7. Have outstanding problem-solving abilities
8. Have proactive outlook for ways to make the solution better
9. Have 5+ years of experience in delivering scalable complex technical products
10. Have Good knowledge of distributed technologies, low latency, and highly scalable systems. 
11. Have Expertise in JavaScript and Node.js
12. Have Hands-on experience in Node.JS / Express.JS / Hapi.js / Koa.js (or any other Web Framework), and Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
13. Have Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
14. Have Hands-on experience in Mocha or other Javascript testing frameworks
15. Have experience working with react, python (Nice to have)
16. Have hands-on experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes
17. Have a strong understanding of systems using real-time interactions (web sockets, long-polling, server-sent events)
18. Have hands-on experience in the Implementation of security and data protection
19. Are eager to learn new technologies
20. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
21. Are passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers

• You will be part of a collaborative project team
• Will leverage several proprietary and standard tools to implement technical solutions.
• Responsible for understanding business requirements, providing estimation, developing solution, writing unit test scenarios and fixing defects for assigned applications.