Investigation Specialist

We are looking for a "Business Development Associate" who will play a key role in driving revenue and growth by identifying, pursuing, and closing new business opportunities. This role is ideal for someone who is enthusiastic about education, has a flair for communication, and thrives in a fast-paced startup environ

• Performing market research.
• Gathering and processing research data.
• Assisting with inventory control.
• Organizing staff meetings and updating calendars.
• Processing company receipts, invoices, and bills.
• Assisting and supporting management.
• Review data for deficiencies or errors, correct any incompatibilities if possible and check output
• Research and obtain further information for incomplete documents
• Apply data program techniques and procedures
• Generate reports, store completed work in designated locations and perform backup operations
• Scan documents and print files, when needed
• Keep information confidential

Futuristic Labs is exactly what it sounds like - a place to 'dream' & 'build' futuristic products. A research and product development studio with an enthusiastic team working towards building innovative consumer products to create a future with superior and healthier lifestyle.

http://futuristiclabs.io/

At the moment we are set out to solve home cooking. To achieve this, we have RIKU, our flagship product, which is a fully automatic, AI assisted rice and curry maker. Other products in this ecosystem are : Semi - A smart induction cook top, A digital kitchen app and a Recipe platform; The perfect blend of hardware and software.

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So if you love good home cooked food and are excited to build an automated solution for the entire cooking process, then this is the place for you!

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We are looking for a product designer who has a good understanding of the entire design cycle right from user research, problem discovery, sketching and wire-framing, building flows and interactions, to creating pixel-perfect screens, testing prototypes and working with developers. And most importantly - repeating the cycle all over again to see what more can be done.

We are a fast-paced team focused on complex design challenges. This position works closely with many other teams and will be an advocate for user experience. By constantly focusing on the user, you’ll create products that are not only amazing to look at, but also intuitive and useful to thousands of people worldwide. We are a lean startup and expect you to wear many hats when needed and you are not afraid of getting your hands dirty.

As a Product Designer you will:

• As the first ever Product Designer, you'll be the core owner of our mobile app from start to finish. You’ll help us better understand our users’ needs & pain points, and will have the skills to turn your learnings into beautifully designed visuals and interactions. You'll report to our CTO and collaborate with the engineering team.
• You are an active collaborator/contributor for our other web applications.
• Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams including Product, Engineering, Marketing and various Business teams to deliver delightful customer experiences
• Work closely with the engineering team to assure design quality by auditing implementation during development.
• Define the product briefs together with stakeholders, get buy-in of your design.
• Attend product meetings and have a granular understanding of the company’s goals.
• Facilitate product vision by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences as well as developing system information architecture.
• Drive user research, create detailed user journeys and take appropriate design decisions backed by user-behavior and data.
• Effectively work with a team of designers, help them in raising the bar, resolving road-blocks, prioritizing and breaking down complex projects into simpler tasks
• Use basic analytics tools to gather customer data (funnel), iterate on product based on data & feedback to drive improvements in overall product experience.
• Ensure that we have the right product velocity by working with business, growth, and core product teams.
• Measure and iterate on your developed product once it’s live based on product OKRs
• Help team members with other aspects of running a sprint, such as stakeholder interviews, research, user testing and design documentation.
• Mentor junior designers to help other designers work efficiently and participate actively in the hiring process.
• Establish design systems to maintain design consistency and coherence across the brand.
• Develop & document internal tools & processes to translate product requirements into unique designs for desired experiences.

What do we think you need to succeed in this role:

• Experience: You have 3+ yrs experience in a Product Design or related role (Visual Design, UI/UX/CX Design) in designing preferably consumer facing digital products.
• Empathy: You have deep empathy and interest in keeping your customers point of view in the forefront, as well as constantly validating your design either through quantitative or qualitative research.
• Expertise: You have a deep understanding of UX, prototyping, visual design, typography, components usage, wire-framing, information architecture and visual hierarchy along with relentless execution powers. You are well versed with one of the design tools: Photoshop, XD or Figma and its underlying best practices
• Execute: You can create pixel-perfect visual designs with a good sense of aesthetics, with great attention to detail.
• Ownership: You can work independently and have high ownership of getting things done. You take the lead in discovering problems and execution.
• Leadership: You have the ability to lead and manage several complex projects simultaneously
• Growth Mindset: You welcome challenges, product feedback and ambiguity as a path to unlock your maximum potential.
• First Principle’s Thinker: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems via first principles. You can understand business, design and engineering goals along with constraints.
• Planner: You are good at project management and comfortable breaking down complex projects into simpler tasks.
• Timeline focused: You take pride in balancing fast shipping with quality shipping, with the ability to deliver solid work on a tight schedule.
• Curiosity: You love exploring new products in the market for coming up with new ways to make the product more complete and robust.
• Learner: You have the ability to learn quickly, teach yourself new skills, and thrive within a complex, fast-paced environment
• Effective Communicator: You are comfortable and confident articulating ideas and presenting your work/thoughts in verbal or written form.

Benefits

Curious what it's like to work at Futuristic Labs?

Being in an early start-up, you will be working closely and along with the leadership team and can potentially learn and grow exponentially.(other roles)

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Futuristic Labs. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our people. We train and reward talent and are looking to develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each othe

• Work with product and business stakeholders to prepare test cases and plan
• Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks for scalability, stability, and performance
• Write new automated tests for existing and new features
• Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test case documentation
• Create logs to document testing phases and defects
• Report bugs and drive them to closure by collaborating with development teams
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle

What Makes You A Great Fit

• Experience with test frameworks, regression testing, and QA methodology
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Desire to be a perfectionist

• Proven 4+ years of Java Experience and preferably on Android App Development
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android
• Added advantage if one has exposure to Android MDM APIs
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
• requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.