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Title: Sr Software Engineer, Backend

Level: L3 

Location: Hyderabad, India

Department: Engineering

Company

Talent Systems, LLC is the leading technology solution provider for casting and auditioning to the entertainment industry. Casting directors and agents worldwide use Talent Systems’ portfolio of products to source and manage talent across film, television, commercials, theater and digital projects, powering an unparalleled, global casting software ecosystem. 

We are headquartered in Los Angeles and operate in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and India. Our portfolio brands include Casting Networks, Spotlight, Cast It Systems, Cast It Talent, Casting Frontier, Staff Me Up, Cast It Reach & Tagmin.

Company Core Values

Job Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our backend team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, with a solid understanding of backend development best practices. Experience with the AWS ecosystem and working knowledge of Elasticsearch or similar caching/search technologies is essential. Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and PostgreSQL is also required. Knowledge of React.js is a plus.

• Required:
• 5+ years of experience in backend software development.
• Strong proficiency with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting and implementing microservice architectures.
• Extensive experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar caching/search technologies.
• Proficient with Docker and container orchestration concepts.
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Preferred:
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, including integration testing frameworks and best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Git.
• Familiarity with React.js is a plus but not mandatory.
• Ability to mentor and lead junior developers effectively.

• Soft skills:
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams from different cultures and geolocations. 
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a customer-first mindset.
• Design, and develop scalable and maintainable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Drive the design and implementation of microservice-based architectures to support our platform’s scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, robust software solutions.
• Implement and optimize search and caching solutions using Elasticsearch or similar technologies.
• Build, maintain, and optimize containerized applications using Docker.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Utilize AWS services extensively to deploy, monitor, and scale backend applications.
• Design, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL databases, including schema design and query performance tuning.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote best practices in software engineering and architecture.
• Deliver high-quality features on time by maintaining a balance between speed and precision.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily standups, and code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

About Client:

A dynamic digital marketing agency collaborating with agencies, advertisers, and publishers. Specializing in yield management, inventory optimization, and executing online display campaigns, our client also provides end-to-end digital marketing services for SMEs. Founded by IIM Ahmedabad alumni and ex-Ozone Media team members.

Key Responsibilities:

- Prospect, acquire, and nurture relationships with strategic publishers.

- Manage a team of 2-3 Publisher Development Representatives.

- Contribute to client's publisher development strategies.

- Study clients' existing advertising options, advising on seamless integration with our offerings.

- Articulate our client's value proposition across media solutions and ad technology, through both written and verbal communication.

- Build relationships across publisher organizations (executives, sales teams, ad ops, research).

- Track and manage the publisher acquisition pipeline and account activities.

- Collaborate with internal teams on sales strategy, techniques, and execution.

- Oversee all aspects of the sales process from pre-sale to close, providing ongoing sales consultation.

Requirements and Qualifications:

- Graduate degree in any discipline.

- Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

- 5-7 years of industry experience, including 2 years with US Publishers.

- Previous roles in ad-serving technology, ad networks, or large Ad tech companies preferred.

- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and knowledge of pre and post-sales processes.

- Existing relationships with large premium publishers are preferred.

- High energy, self-motivated, and passionate about a fast-paced startup environment.

- Enthusiastic about the dynamic, fast-growing company and industry.

Other Benefits:

- Insurance: Medical coverage of 3,00,000 for individuals, spouses, and kids, with an option to include parents and higher coverage of 5,00,000.

- Professional Development: Reimbursement for relevant courses to support career growth and knowledge enhancement.

- Food: Enjoy breakfast, lunch, tea, and snacks – all you can eat!

- Work Culture: Embrace a flexible, result-oriented work environment.

- Dress: No dress code – wear anything you're comfortable in.

- Recreation: Engage in foosball, carom, and table tennis with like-minded colleagues.

- TGIF: Wrap up the week with fun activities – work hard, party harder!

 Fresher Most Welcome (Education Background – Marketing only)

 Must have Good Knowledge with Marketing

 Must have Knowledge with Product Sales

 Experience with Product Sales or Marketing (Plus Point)

What you will be doing:

1. Enable growth:

• Create a design that effectively communicates the intent or the purpose of the collateral in interesting

ways.

• Convert creative briefs into compelling design for our target audience to enable growth.

• Comfortably manage multiple projects simultaneously with the best turnaround time.

• Work closely with the Design team and Marketing team to achieve the best results.

Internal

2. Develop Agile Design:

• Adapt to Brand Guidelines and design collaterals in an efficient way.

• Minimize monotony and efficiently work on value-driven design projects.

• Conduct multiple iterations based on the team feedback and Brand Communication.

• Contribute to Internal Communications, Sales, Social, and Brand communication seamlessly.

3. Be Curious & Creative:

• Continuously improve the existing designs with a growth and experimentation mindset.

• Contribute creatively to social media Posts, Interactions, and responses.

• Stay ahead in design thinking by actively learning and researching.

• Develop the brand repository, which is an inspiration for Layout, composition, illustrations, graphics, etc.

What you need to bring:

• 2-4 years of experience in Graphic designing or a similar role.

• One should be highly creative and have an impressive portfolio of design projects.

• Proven experience with Adobe Suite- proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.

• Team spirit: effective communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.

• Must have good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to seamlessly coordinate with

external clients.

• Great at managing time with multi-tasking ability.

• Any graduate or non-graduate with relevant field experience is welcomed into the family.

• Strong programming skills in JavaScript
• Experience with Angular JS
• Experience with frontend frameworks like bootstrap, Jquery
• Object Oriented concepts
• Good knowledge in HTML5, CSS, CSS3
• Experience in working with RESTful APIS
• Experience with HTTP, HTTPS and WebSockets
• Building responsive design
• Knowledge in version control- Git, Subversion
• Good problem-solving skills 

About Us

Welthungerhilfe is an international aid agency headquartered in Germany with its vision for “Zero Hunger by 2030”, the second sustainable development goal set by the UN. It has thousands of programs fighting hunger in more than 30 countries. Welthungerhilfe (https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/">https://www.welthungerhilfe.org)  (https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org/">https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org).

Child Growth Monitor (CGM) is Welthungerhilfe’s digital innovation project leveraging AI to fight child malnutrition. Around 200 million children around the world are suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes to one-third of the deaths of children under the age of five. In the fight against malnutrition, detection is the first important step, but this is not an easy task: Measuring children with traditional methods is still a complex, slow, and expensive task, frequently resulting in poor data and wrong assessments of the child’s health. Early detection of malnutrition becomes the key to initiating treatment, minimizing the risk of complications, and saving lives by reducing the chances of death to a great extent.

Our solution to measure children replaces hardware (bulky measuring boards and physical scales) with off-the-shelf cell phones and AI. CGM uses augmented reality-enabled smartphones to record 3D scans of children. Artificial Intelligence is used to predict their height, weight, and middle upper-arm circumference needed to know the nutritional status of the children.

This role concerns a full-time assignment (Consultant role) working for Welthungerhilfe’s CGM project. This will convert to Full-time employment (payroll) in 1^st quarter of 2023 latest. We are in the process of setting up CGM as a registered social business in India and Germany.

What you would do to help us save millions of children's lives

You, as an Engineering Manager responsible for end-to-end software development and delivery including ownership of the components/features owned by the individual’s teams and required to be an individual contributor too. Responsible for managing and coordinating resources and processes in order to achieve quality & timely milestones of product development, this will result in transforming the lives of children, their families, community at large globally.

Your Responsibilities

• Be a highly technical, hands-on manager for a team of 8 -15 product development teams including QA to execute agile development sprints.
• Interfacing with the frontend/backend/ML/AI/DevOps team to develop end-to-end APIs, systems, and architectures.
• Building, communicating and executing robust development, documentation, and product engineering processes
• Define Strategy and Architecture for the new and existing suites of algorithms and their underlying systems.
• Work closely with data scientists, Data Engineers, Product managers, and analysts to develop analytics and ML-driven services that serve ML predictions, and generate data, Insights, and recommendations based on large amounts of data.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for data analyses, model development, validation, and implementation
• Contribute to and promote good software engineering practices across the team
• Coach, lead, and manage a dynamic team of Software and AI/ML Engineers to meet organizational objectives and grow their professional skills and capabilities.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical audiences equally well
• Actively contribute to and reuse community best practices.

Technical Skills Required:

• Must be a hands-on engineering leader as this role involves rearchitecting and reimplementing systems working alongside the engineers.
• Hands-on development experience using Python (Flask for backend), React, React Native, Nodejs, Vuejs, JavaScript, API Development, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Native Azure cloud development. (You may not need to demonstrate expertise in each of them but have some experience to manage related engineering divisions)
• Ability to coordinate across different products, engineering tasks, and implementing the modules along with scalability, security, and extensibility in mind.
• Well-versed in Flask-Python stack with backend tools such as Kubernetes etc.
• Should possess strong programming skills to write algorithms and understanding of agile development, CI/CD, sprints, code reviews

Eligibility:

• 10+ years of software development experience using an Agile development process with 3+ years of management experience.
• 2-3 years of experience working with a Growth Stage Start-up is desirable.
• Prior experience with creating and maintaining solution architecture
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrated track record in building and recruiting robust high performing teams

Personal Traits

• Smart, quick learner, proactive, comfortable working with unknowns and dynamically evolving requirements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (interpersonal)
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team to success

What You'll Get

• Working with a globally distributed team and partners such as UN agencies, Microsoft, Scientific Research Institutions across the world, etc.
• Flexible work culture & tons of learning curve
• Competitive salary package based on expertise and relevant experience.
• Chance to shape a disruptive AI-driven project to achieve the 'Zero Hunger by 2030' UN goal.

Hiring Process

• You apply
• [30 min] Preliminary discussion with HR
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Domain/Technical round screen with Head of Product / The product team
• [Optional] Scenarios-based recommendation/Culture fit phase- Where you work with us virtually for two days and suggest what's good and improvement areas. Also currently, we gauge our cultural fit with you. [Note- It’s not paid work]
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Final round screen with the Leadership team
• The next day, we evaluate your interview performance, recommendations, and cultural fit.
• Over the next 2-3 days We check references/background and inform you about the hiring decision (Yes or No with feedback)

Diversity at Child Growth Monitor:

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Diversity & Inclusion makes us better.

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• Designing, implementing and improving company quality standards and analyzing data in order to find areas for growth and improvements
• Training, motivating and correcting employees to ensure that standards are met and preparing reports to track the progress
• Formulating strategies to increase productivity
• Testing and sampling products (Raw, Semi Finished and Finished Products), ensuring they meet set standards and specifications
• Conforming all products are properly labeled before output
• Investigating customers' complaints and ensuring safety procedures and processes
• Establishing strategies to improve efficiency and profitability in the organizations and monitoring all operations that affect quality and keeping all record related to quality and food safety, statistical reviews and relevant documents
• Communicating with external vendors and quality officers during onsite inspections

Desired Candidate Profile

• BSc. or MSc. or B. Tech (Chemistry/ DT / FT/ Micro /BT)
• Experience in Food Safety Process, audits, corrective actions
• Good at reporting corrective actions taken at management review meetings
• Knowledge in creating a flow diagram for each product and process covered by Food Safety Management System
• Experience in reviewing all rejections by food inspector/quality officers and in submissions of reports
• Willingness to work 6 days as one rotational off either on Monday or Sunday
• Lead Auditor Training Certificate or work experience as FSTL or Food Safety Team Member

Thingworx Developer/Sr Developer

Required experience range between 3-6 years.

• Thingworx Navigate experience desired
• Languages - Java, JavaScript & CSS
• Experience in Core Java, Java collections & Oops Concept
• Databases – MySQL, MS-SQL
• Having good working knowledge with XML, JSON.
• Design and Application development using Thingworx version - (8.2,8.5,9.X)
• ThingWorx service creation using JavaScript
• Develop ThingWorx extension using Java
• ThingWorx service creation using Java Extension
• ThingWorx mashups design and development
• Data storage in ThingWorx - Stream/Value Stream/Data Tables
• Integration with source/target system using REST API, data Files.
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies (SCRUM)
• Thingworx Integration with 3rd apps preferred and will be added advantage

YARDI Software Developer

The ideal candidate will have an application development background with strong technical skills in MS SQL Server, SSRS, YSR, and experience with Yardi Real Estate Software Modules. The candidate will be an expert multi-tasker with excellent problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude. They tackle tasks head, looking for opportunities to assist teams and create efficiencies. Yardi Technical Developer designs, develops, debugs, tests and implements software enhancements. Responsibilities include correcting defects in existing applications; documenting defect resolutions; planning implementation; solution customizations, configurations and enhancements.

Key Accountabilities & Tasks

§  Designs and develops front-end and back-end web application features

§  Performs maintenance programming for existing versions

§  Analyzes and documents reasons for test failure, and revises/debugs assigned programs and/or procedures as necessary

§  Uses corporate approved sourced control applications to maintain code changes

§  Understands application and uses standards

§  Adheres to department policies, procedures and standards in the development and implementation of software

§  Collaborate with all the key stakeholders to find alternatives and solutions to business challenges. Seek out systems solutions (either internal to client or external 3rd party solutions) that can be leveraged to meet business requirements.

§  Act as primary liaison with Business Solution Manager during the development lifecycle, from needs analysis and bug tracking to UAT and rollout.

§  Develop and manage working relations with Business Solution Manager, and subject matter experts to ensure the business solutions are aligned with their goals and priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.

§  Create and maintain a cohesive, coordinated plan to deliver solutions that meet the stakeholders’ priorities within budgetary and product requirements.

§  Execute on project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups.

§  Analyze and document requirements and use appropriate techniques to refine, review and validate requirements.

§  Provide pro-active consulting in Technology and Operations Business Process design and re-engineering to uplift Nakheel Malls services to the tenants and end consumers.

§  Provide Yardi client support and technical issue resolution via Ticket System/Portal, E-Mail, phone and other electronic medium.

§  Create and enhance management reports utilizing Yardi

§  Oversee source control for report repository.

Qualifications, Experience, & Skills

§  Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or equivalent.

§  Minimum 3 years of YARDI software development experience in the similar role.

§  Ability to understand and communicate complex business requirements in technical terms.

§  Strong project management skills.

§  Experience in organizing, planning, and executing large scale IT projects from vision through implementation, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.

§  Must be able to research, write and edit content for various projects.

§  Excellent interpersonal skills to relate and communicate to all levels of the IT members.

§  Ability to take initiative and an aptitude for creative problem-solving.

§  Displays a positive attitude and works well with others.

§  Planning & Project Management skills.

§  Prioritization, Organizing & Time management skills

§  Team Player

§  Flexible and adaptability skills

§  Source control management systems, multi-threading and concurrency

§  Debugging, performance profiling and optimization

§  Strong knowledge in Voyager database Schema

§  Able to develop Columnar reports, YSR and correspondence reports 

§  Experience in YARDI international, commercial and residential modules 

§  Knowledge in YARDI AR, AP, GL, ABF and FA

§  Experience in YARDI commercial cafe & Rent Cafe

§  Experience in YARDI Voyager, YARDI commercial cafe and YARDI Rent Cafe Implementation process.

§  Technical Knowledge in YARDI Orion BI Report Writing.