Fullstack Developer

1. Responsibilities 

   • • Collaborate with the core team building a state-of-the-art blockchain based SaaS. 
   • • Building front-end web applications using latest technologies. 
   • • Suggest and ideate high- and low-level design and architecture requirements for implementation of features. 
   • • Apply comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects. 
   • • Backend RESTful API Design and server-side development for web and mobile apps. 
   • • Develop and design database schemas on MongoDB. 
   • • Perform code reviews and unit tests to ensure code consistency and maintainability. 
   • • Setup alerts, monitoring & metrics, provision and manage resources on AWS Cloud. 

    

   Minimum Qualifications 

   • • Passion to solve complex problems of agriculture in a dynamic start-up environment 
   • • Flexible, curious, exploratory, and can-do attitude 
   • • Great sense of ownership and ability to work with very limited supervision 
   • • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 
   • • 2-5 years of hands-on coding expertise in software engineering. 
   • • Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS. 
   • • Ability to speak English fluently. 

    

   Preferred Qualifications 

   • • Strong programming experience of 2+ years with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB and Angular stack. 
   • • Strong problem solving/troubleshooting skills. 
   • • Experience with software design and architecture for building highly efficient and scalable systems. 
   • • Experience with MongoDB Atlas for database hosting and storage. 
   • • Experience with SDLC in an Agile work environment using tools like Jira and GitHub. 
   • • Experience with AWS Services like ECS, EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Load Balancing, Route 53, API Gateway along with Infrastructure provisioning and optimization. 
   • • Knowledge and experience of NoSQL Databases is a must. 
   • • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc. 
   • • Experience with containerization environments like Docker & Kubernetes. 
   • • Experience with Material Design is an advantage. 
   • • Experience with TDD is an advantage. 
   • • Experience or familiarity of blockchain protocols like Hyperledger Fabric a big advantage. 

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

About the role

Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for a full stack engineer to help us scale Plum.

You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides.

• Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
• Run test-harness to guarantee the structure, integrity, and design of the application.
• Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
• Optimize JavaScript implementations to ensure that code remains performant.
• Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
• Push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with Nodejs, React.
• Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• Understand complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced software engineer to join our team at Mumbai. In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to take ownership of developing user facing applications and features in an agile manner. You will design and implement scalable and performant front-end solutions from scratch, while also taking a hard look at the existing ones.

What you will do at QI?

• Design, develop and deliver new user-facing apps and feature and improve existing ones
• Take ownership of product(s), and contribute to dev cycles and sprints planning
• Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX design, share inputs with other teams including product, design and QA
• Optimize applications for performance, user experience and SEO
• Build reusable code and libraries. Contribute to open source projects.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies with an eye of constantly adapting and improving our systems and methods.

Basic Job requirements

• 2 years + work experience in a similar role
• Strong experience in HTML5, CSS, DOM and front-end tooling ecosystem (Gulp,Grunt, Webpack)
• Excellent concepts and command over JavaScript
• Strong concepts and commercial experience in Vue.js
• Solid foundation in software development ( algorithm design, data structure, SDLC)
• Good concepts of unit testing and automation testing for UI components
• Good understanding of web app performance including Google Core Web Vitals metrics.

Location - Remote 

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of REST API and relational databases
• Basic understanding of browser internals
• Familiarity with web components and shadow DOM
• Exposure to progressive web app design.

About QuantInsti®

QuantInsti® was started in 2010, by the founders from iRage – a leading quant and algo trading firm in India.  From its early days focused on bridging the industry knowledge gap in the field of high-frequency trading, we have come a long way in the last decade. Today, we have a user base from 180+ countries with a growth rate much over 50% year-on-year.

At QuantInsti®, we swear by our goal of revolutionizing the way people approach the financial markets by empowering individuals and institutions with bleeding edge education and technologies. We offer high quality https://www.quantinsti.com/epat">learning experience and best-in-class https://quantra.quantinsti.com/">courses geared towards a global audience in quantitative trading and investing. Our in-house developed technology aims to bring institutional grade tools and https://quantra-blueshift.quantinsti.com/">platforms to democratize systematic and quantitative trading.

We achieve this by putting technology at the core of our business. We have a complex ecosystem of microservices and applications deployed over a fully cloud-based infrastructure. Our tech stack includes Node.js, Vue.js, Python and Docker. The team is driven by user experience, with strong focus on delivering scalable software solutions to complex and evolving business goals.

Why you should join us?

At QuantInsti, we work at the cutting edge of FinTech and EdTech offerings. We work with the newest technologies with a goal of delivering best experience to our users in a scalable manner, with high-performance and availability. If you love to be challenged intellectually, rest assured we have plenty of them for you. We follow an open and free work culture, where you are encouraged to ask questions, learn and teach. We offer a fast-paced environment where you take ownership of what you design and deliver. If you are looking for a move where you will find a reason to wake up every morning and rush to work, come join us.

Responsibilities:

• Build a high-quality web application from scratch.
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code to ensure the applications' best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Work as part of a team developing web applications and services using Agile development methods.
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
• Code, test and operate Laravel based services.
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Developing JSON, REST, and SOAP APIs/web services.

Skills Requirements

• Strong expertise in PHP programming on Laravel with deep understanding on Laravel features and libraries
• Restful API development expertise is a must
• Must be proficient in Web development technologies like HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript, Node-JS
• Knowledge of jQuery and HTML
• Knowledge of MySQL and Query Optimization
• Knowledge of GIT
• Good written communication skills.
• You must be humble and a team player.
• Experience in handling a team and Project Management.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Hands on experience with any E-commerce website.

Responsibilities

• Developing user-focused website applications.
• Seeing a project from conception to finished product.
• Working alongside designers and mobile developer.
• Meeting both technical and end-user needs.

Must Haves

• Proficiency in fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS (Including SASS), and JavaScript (Also comfortable with the JS library: jQuery, React or Angular)
• Proficiency in server-side language PHP.
• Comfortable with Database systems (MySQL, SQL), NOSQL (i.e. Mongo dB)
• Strong understanding of how a server works
• VCS (Version control system): Git
• Ensuring the developing application(website) has met the security standards: Front end Back end
• Testing: Experience with unit testing and tools
• WordPress development
• Working with API (REST)
• Evaluating code to ensure it meets industry standards, is valid, is properly structured, and is compatible with browsers, devices (Mobile).
• Experience in Cloud Computing (i.e. AWS, Google Cloud Platform) is a plus.
• Attention to detail
• Creative vision
• Good organizational skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Patience, a big one
• Identifying problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting
• Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them

Good to Have

• Comfortable with MVC frameworks (Zend, Laravel)

Design

·       Design a Service Platform that will serve a large scale of users 

·       Prepare design based on requirements and direction provided by product manager

·       Research and consult with SMEs to ensure the design is most suitable to meet the requirements

·       Present and explain design decisions and gain consensus within in the team

·       Propose UI/UX design decisions that align with requirements and expectations

·       Create any support documentation required for future design updates and validation

Develop

·       Document development plan to implement requirements (Senior)

·       Manage development project tasks and schedule (Senior)

·       Establish development lifecycle model to suit the needs of the project (Senior)

·       Build & configure the base platform based on Open Source solution

·       Manage sprint cycle releases and track development progress 

Quality

·       Perform Quality Assurance before releasing new features

·       Conduct Integration testing to ensure platform is stable

·       Track any issues and ensure that defects are resolved in the next release

·       Demonstrate new features at the end of the sprint

·       Report the development progress weekly including any issues identified

Standards

·       Use the following standards, methods and techniques

o   SDLC including Waterfall, Agile & DevOps

o   Project Management & Requirements Management

o   Coding standards, Code review process & Code management

o   Build, Test & Release Processes

o   CI/CD Frameworks

Technology

·       Use the following frameworks, technology & tools

o    Java, PYTHON, Jquery, React, , 

o   API, REST, DJango

o   Docker, 

o   Git, Jenkins

o   Linux

o   MySQL,