




Job Description
The Opportunity
The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend & frontend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using the latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.
We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
- Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
- Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
- Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
- Provide technical mentoring to team members
You
- You have experience with web application development, on both, backend and frontend.
- You have a solid understanding of software design principles and best practices.
- You have hands-on experience in,
- Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
- Code review, responsible for production deployments.
- Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
- Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt).
- Defining and following best practices for frontend and backend systems.
- You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
- You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions.
- You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
- You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
- You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
- You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.
Non-negotiables
Must have
- Expertise in Backend development (Python & Django experience preferred)
- Expertise in Frontend development (AngularJS / ReactJS / VueJS experience preferred)
- Experience working with SQL databases
- Experience building multiple significant features for web applications
Good to have
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (or any cloud platform)
- Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
- Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
- Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
- Experience working with NoSQL databases
- Experience with Web performance optimization, SEO, Gatsby and FE Analytics
- Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
- Mentoring skills
Expectations
- Able to work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
- Able to communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements for small to medium tasks and own end to end delivery
- Able to communicate estimations, plan deviations and blockers in an efficient and timely manner to all project stakeholders

About Springboard
About
Springboard is on a mission to transform one million lives through education by 2030.
Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most in-demand careers with comprehensive, mentor-led online programs in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, UI/UX design, and more.
We act as a support system, coach, and cheerleader for working professionals who are ready to level-up or make a major career shift. Our one-size-fits-one approach combines a bleeding-edge curriculum with expert mentors, career coaches, and student advisors, who provide an individualized and personalized learning experience. We give our students everything they need to fuel their progress, and hold them accountable for their dreams.
Since our founding in 2013, we’ve doubled our team size each year, with offices in Bengaluru and San Francisco. Today, the Springboard community includes tens of thousands of students and alumni, more than a thousand expert mentors, dozens of career coaches, and hundreds of employer partners. Together, we’re building a network that’s bridging the world’s skills gap.
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1+ years of experience. • Good understanding of website integration and software creation. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Able to follow clear instructions according to client demands. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Creative ability to produce effective solutions to client problems. • Good team player that is enthusiastic about delivering results. • Hands on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C++, JAVA and other relevant web design coding languages. • Create and test applications for websites. • Collaborate with team members. • Troubleshoot website problems. • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools. • Familiarity with development aiding tools. • Knowledge of React JS & Angular JS is a plus point.



Responsibilities
- Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
- Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
- Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
- Identify and fix software bugs.
- Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of the software.
- Manage the security of the platform.
- Write detailed documentation around the code.
- Knowledge of front end languages.
- Create and maintain the application's architecture
- Write code that is reusable, testable, and efficient
- Create and implement applications that are low-latency, high-availability, and performant
- Integration of front-end developer-created user-facing components with server-side logic
- Security and data protection implementation
- Data storage solution integration
Skills
- Able to use Postman, JIRA or similar tools
- Python expert with an understanding of at least one Python web framework, such as Django, Flask, or others
- Working knowledge of several ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
- Capable of combining many data sources and databases into a single system
- Knowledge of Python's threading constraints and multi-process architecture
- Solid knowledge of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc.
- Fundamental knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Knowledge of accessibility and security regulations
- Managing and maintaining AWS
- Able to create RESTful APIs
- Able to integrate third-party APIs
- Familiarity with user authentication
- Authorisation across numerous systems, servers, and settings
- Knowledge of the core design ideas underlying a scalable application
- Experience with Python event-driven programming
- Understanding the distinctions between various delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimising output to meet the individual platform
- Capable of developing database schemas to represent and support business operations
- Excellent unit testing and debugging abilities
- Thorough knowledge of code versioning systems such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN
- Able to deploy the app on client cloud as well.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/Master in computer science
- 3-5 years of work experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Able to work in a fast, unstructured environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Must have access to FTTH internet connection

Job description
The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
- Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
- Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
- Support test and deployment of new products and features
- Participate in code reviews
- Technical Lead experience exploring other open source frameworks and technologies and integrating with project
Qualifications
- 5+ years of development experience at least two or more of the following languages (Python, Ruby, javascript and Java)
- Expertise in object oriented design and design patterns
- Experience releasing highly scalable enterprise products full lifecycle
- Experience mentoring and training others on complex technical issues
- Experience with implementing algorithms to solve complex real world problems
- Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code reviews
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- A proven ability to learn and adapt to new, complex development environments with deep dive analytical skills
- Strong object-oriented programming skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
- Experience in algorithm design and problem solving
- Experience leading small teams of engineers
- Experience with technologies like MongoDB, DynamoDB is highly desirable
- Experience developing full stack web applications using Perl, Java, Python or PHP
- Experience in any of the top JavaScript MVC frameworks, like Backbone, Angular, Ember, Spine or Knockout
- Passion for creating efficient, scalable, highly usable web interfaces
- Candidates from Product Start-up companies would be highly preferred.

Key Requirements:
Strategic business acumen and understanding of organization strategy and ability to design
information systems to deliver that strategy.
Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical
audiences. Some experience working with board level stakeholders.
Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery
of solutions.
Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating out-of-box problem solving skills.
Working knowledge of infrastructure including servers, storage, firewalls, load balancers,
routers, etc
Deep technical knowledge and experience in Web Application Development on Microsoft slack.
Strong experience in Object Oriented Design and Analysis. Experience working with different
architectural patterns.
Data modeling skills with experience in building at least one large scale project from scratch.
Analytical capabilities and hands on experience in preparing Design documents.
Exposure to Agile development process with ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
Must have 8 to 10 years of experience in the software industry.
Must have worked as an Architect / Tech Lead / Team Lead or Project Lead with a team size of 6
or more developers for at least 2 - 3 years.
Responsibilities
Partner with the organization to understand organization and departmental strategy and agree
information systems solutions to meet needs.
Investigate information systems that might benefit Naico.
Lead in designing, specifying and selecting information system solutions, considering
functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance.
Develop and maintain a model of Naico’s current and future Application Architecture.
Develop and maintain a model of Naico’s current and future web architecture and design a
structure that is stable and robust.
Lead the organization in exploiting technology and use knowledge of IT solutions to drive
organizational change and support business process design.
Understand and support to software architecture design and support development team in
developing solutions.
Estimate cost, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses,
development and support.
Work with the Project Managers and Business Analysts to develop high level project schedule
resource plans for implementation projects.
Supervise Business Analyst in the capture and analysis of requirements.
Educational qualification: Bachelors Degree / Masters in relevant stream.
Experience: 8 - 15 years.


Skills: Node.js, React.js, MongoDB, Express JS, HTML, CSS, .
Requirements:
- Should have experience on Node.js and frameworks available for it, such as Express or StrongLoop. Preferably Express.
- Should have experience in building Rich UI components with React.js.
- Should have hands on experience on MongoDB.
- Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks and workarounds.
- Knowledge of ES6, ES7 and Object-oriented and functional programming.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Should have experience in working on Linux (Ubuntu) Environment and basic linux commands.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Good to have knowledge on Redis DB.
- Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
- Good to have exposure working in an agile development environment



About the Job
We are looking for a MERN Stack Developer who has minimum 1 year experience in front end & back end Development. Thorough knowledge in software development, best practices, build appropriate unit tests, build process including design patterns, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous integration and delivery. Responsible from coding to deployment of scripts to maintenance of system.
Disciplined approach to software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, quality assurance.
Experience with scaling high performance web applications. Should apply business logic/ common sense to solve day-to- day problems.
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Design and implementation of scalable applications by using asynchronous programming with low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications between multiple systems, servers, and environments. -Integration of data storage solutions by creating database schemas that represent and support business processes and also Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Explore technical innovation and propose new solutions as and when required.
- Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every month.
Our ideal candidate should have:-
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in a Tech Startup
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Information Technologies/Computer Science)
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and knowledge of Node.js and frameworks.
- Strong hands on MongoDB and ability to write aggregation queries.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
- Hands-on on code versioning tools, such as Git, Redis, AWS, Sockets

Role & Responsibilities
- A Proven work experience as a Ruby on Rails developer with good understanding of Java script, jQuery, HTML, CSS. The individual will need to be hands on with development, performance optimisation, secure development process, usability, and coding standards of the product.
- Strong ROR development experience and follows best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring, and code standards).
- Should have a mix of excellent reasoning ability to document, develop and test software with the commitment to excellence and defect free product before being deployed.
- Should be able to work closely with all stakeholders to investigate, fix, optimise, test, and deploy high quality solutions.
- Should have hands on understanding of technical design, implementation, and maintenance of technical initiatives towards improving and scaling of products.
- Self-motivated and should rapidly incorporate new requirements and deliver successfully by self.
- Effectively communicates with peers and stakeholders, gathers and clarify requirements from technical & functional aspect.
- Follows software development process; consistently innovates processes to improve individual and team productivity and quality.
- Strong Analytical, Problem Solving Skills and participates in all activities with urgency, should be result oriented and with strong work ethic.
- Experience with Agile development lifecycle with excellent understanding of feature estimation and ability to communicate issues and risks that may impact timelines or resources.
Desired Candidate Profile
- 4+ years of IT experience.
- At least 4 years commercial web development experience.
- At least 3 years of Ruby on Rails commercial development experience.
- Familiarity with Relational and Non Relation Databases ( Postgres, Mysql, MongoDb)
- REST API development.
- Familiarity with In Memory Database ( Redis, Memcache )
- Web development - HTML, HTML5 JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, jQuery, http, REST.
- AGILE/SCRUM development Experience.
- Development practices - Rails test framework / TDD / BDD, Domain Driven Design, SOLID, refactoring, OOP design patterns
- Expertise in version control system ( GIT )
- Candidate need to be comfortable dabbling with some basic infrastructure management on AWS.
- Familiarity with ( React, Vue ) is a plus.




