
About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building an online global performing arts academy. For our students, we offer live classes conducted by experienced & expert artists. For our artists, we offer a bouquet of opportunities to monetize their skills including being an instructor at Kafqa. Our mission is to serve artists in their journey from their first steps in the art to success on the largest stages in the world.
Founder
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business.
Role
The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the core team at KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:
- Understand the needs of employees across different segments across their lifecycle (discovery of Kafqa opportunities, application experience, interview experience, decision experience, onboarding, settling down, scaling with the organization, attrition & separation) & design best in class experiences always thinking technology first
- Understand the needs of instructors separately and design best in class experiences for them in partnership with head of departments and other teams.
- Meet compliances mandated by central & state governments.
The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.
Experience, Qualifications & Person Type
The ideal candidate is someone who –
- Has 5+ years of experience preferably in a HR role
- Thinks first principle to re-imagine experiences for employees & challenge status quo
- Thinks technology first
- Is comfortable prioritizing
- Is creative and can innovate
- Interested in the performing arts & preferably is a performer themselves
- Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
- Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

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4-12 years of experience in Java Development.
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Excellent verbal and written English communication is a must. You may have to interact with clients directly.
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Technology agnostic approach is a must. Ready to adopt new technology and a faster learning curve.
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Writing scalable, maintainable and reusable code.
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Keen interest in SAAS based products and mobile applications.
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Experience working with Distributed Systems
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Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, API Design Experience with Event-Driven Architecture, Multithreading
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Kafka iOS Experience with Event Sourcing Reactive and Functional
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Programming Strong understanding of best practices for creating/working with Microservices
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Experience implementing Message Brokers and Messaging subsystems(experience working with Kafka a strong plus)
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Be open-minded, creative, and self-critical; be collaborative and communicative
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Have experience with and curiosity about agile and lean philosophies
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Experience working with small teams to ship products to market
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Have experience developing full-service consumer, employee and business applications
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Language agnostic and experienced polyglot Passion for Working Software and SOLID principles
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Experience with designing and refactoring complex systems
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Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) Interest in working in a pair-programming environment Deep understanding of design patterns and applying them in production environments
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Passion for enabling team members
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Java 8 or Java 11. Both are LTS. The project will be on Java11
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Spring Boot
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Git
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SQL
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AWS and AWS Aurora
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Microservices
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Multithreading
Perks
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4 - 8 years of relevant experience in database management in Postgresql and at least 1 year of working experience in an AWS environment.
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Hands on experience in database development working with PostgreSQL including stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
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Experience working with Windows and Linux systems in a production setting.
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Working knowledge of handling batch bulk data loads.
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Proactively adopt new cloud infrastructure and technology.
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Knowledge of JSON and PostgreSQL support for JSON.
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Knowledge of database design principles,queryoptimization,index management,integrity checks, statistics and isolation levels
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Experience with DB migration projects added advantage
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