Graphic Designer

Job Description

The primary role of this position will be to develop rich Mobile applications for a highly accessed and commercial digital content platform based on a high-performance CE device. We are looking for resources with Android and iOS technology skills for user facing application development using TypeScript and JavaScript FW competency. Your primary focus will be on developing application components and implementing them following well-known mobile development workflows.

Responsibilities:

• As an individual contributor understand the requirements, perform detailed design and coding, debugging, testing and release of the given modules.
• Development of new user-facing features using Mobile technologies, re-usable components and front-end libraries.
• Rapid development ability to build and demonstrate quick Mobile driven solutions.
• Work closely within a small team of experienced engineers to produce high-quality software products on a daring schedule.
• Demonstrate professional engineering practices including alignment to coding standards, producing design documentation, and supporting integration.
• Translating design and wireframes into high quality code, with an eye for performance on specific target devices.
• Write unit test and perform functional verification for the responsible modules
• Perform code reviews and sanity checks for the code developed.

Skills:

• Experience with React JS, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of any of React Native and its core principles for developing and maintaining Android or iOS applications.
• Good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Agile Scrum based Development
• Ability to communicate effectively and make effective Presentations
• Solid understanding of MVC and stateless APIs & building RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field, and Minimum of 3 years of experience in commercial software development.
• Expertise in object-oriented design methodologies
• Experience working with medium to large scale code bases in small to large groups
• A passion for front end application development

Desirable:

• Timely and committed: Being able to work in a time constrained and demanding environment
• One who likes to push beyond own goals and makes way through challenges!
• Quality-driven, quick learner who is also a team player, can work independently without supervision

You will:

• Be passionate about building great software products 
• Be passionate about building and leading a great software development team
• Thrive in leading innovation as well as day to day execution and problem solving in a fast paced cutting edge technology environment. 
• Be responsible for ensuring the on time, on budget and high quality delivery of digital entertainment products and cloud systems that are used by millions of consumers
• Partner with cross functional and cross cultural  teams including designers, architects, project managers, QA engineers, third party systems providers and customers to meet company business objectives
• Retain and spread organisational knowledge through documentation, best practices and training
• At all times consider how to engineer software solutions the right way for high performance and for future maintainability instead of taking shortcuts 
• Contribute to product roadmap and improvement of development methodologies 
• Be proactive and be alert for potential organisational, process and technical issues before they arise.

You have:

• Experience in recruiting, motivating, managing and retaining a high performing software engineering team that evolves and improves its knowledge over time
• Understanding of quality processes required to ensure delivery of best possible software products every release
• Hands-on development experience and ability to lead your team at a code / architecture level 
• Experience with react , Kotlin and optionally swift.
• A solid grasp of Agile software development and deployment lifecycle on multiple consumer devices, cloud services and physical servers in data centers
• Experience with Git based source code management, Continuous Integration and JIRA configuration / task management 
• Good understanding of latest internet technology stacks on both client and server side
• Good understanding of tools / best practices for integration, security, scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, logging and error handling
• Good understanding of digital media domain systems including one or more of the following: video workflow, video delivery, DRM, content management, ecommerce,  payments, data analytics and consumer device platforms
• 3 or more years of experience of managing software engineering teams
• 6 or more years of hands on enterprise / service provider grade development experience 
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time and your team’s time to get the job done at the high international quality levels that we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry

• Identify & document the Scope of Work (SOW), objectives and any assumptions.
• Prepare cost estimates for manpower + materials, and ensure we are charging accurately for our projects.
• Develop a detailed project plan, and monitor progress using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects.

• Ensure availability of all the tools and resources before initiating a project.
• Prepare and maintain timelines for the effective tracking and completion of the project.
• Delegate to internal resources and vendors effectively, and track progress ensuring the project runs on schedule.
• Coordinate with all the internal and external stakeholders for information, approvals, resolving issues, status updates, answering queries etc. While maintaining transparent communication.

• Maintain timesheet logs for all the resources.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports.
• Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests.
• Analyze and Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues ensuring the project stays on time and on budget.

• YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- 5+ Years of relevant experience managing Digital / IT Projects.
• EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS** - We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelors/ Masters degree/ diploma/ certification in Business, Digital Marketing, Computer Science or other relevant fields is a plus. Additional Project Management certifications like PMP/ PMI / PRINCE2 are highly desired.
• SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS- Tech-savvy with good knowledge of MS Office, and strong experience with project management software like Jira, MS Projects, Click Up, Asana, Wrike, Basecamp etc.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Quick thinking, problem solving skills
• Detail-oriented
• Budget management
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated.

Skills/Experience

Experience with complete flows involving timing closure of high speed digital design using scripting languages and design automation.

Has deep knowledge of Xilinx FPGA implementation and tools.

Experience in state of the art tools and flows.

Working knowledge in Verilog and System Verilog.

 Job Requirements

Bachelors in Electronics Engineering.

Strong knowledge of ASIC and/or FPGA design methodology and should be well versed in front-end design, simulation, and verification CAD tools.

Relevant FPGA/ASIC engineering design and verification experience is entertained.

Excellent verbal, written and communication skills are required.

Excellent follow-through, motivation, and persistence

Strong technical judgment and decision making abilities.

Knowledge of digital board design and signal integrity principles is a plus.