Language Engineer

About Vijay Sales

Vijay Sales is a leading eCommerce and retail brand delivering exceptional experiences to customers across India. Leveraging technology to enhance shopping experiences, we are on a mission to create seamless omnichannel platforms and innovative solutions for our customers. Join our dynamic team to shape the future of retail technology.

Role Overview

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will drive the development and optimization of robust backend systems for our products built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack. You'll lead a talented team of developers, design scalable architectures, and ensure the seamless integration of backend functionalities with our frontend systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of backend systems for Vijay Sales' products.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs and microservices.
• Mentor and guide a team of backend developers, ensuring best practices in coding, architecture, and DevOps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, DevOps, and product managers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Optimize database structures and queries for performance and scalability.
• Implement and oversee CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks, security issues, and other technical challenges.
• Stay updated on industry trends, tools, and technologies to continuously improve our stack.

Skills and Qualifications

Must-Have:

• Proven experience as a backend engineer with expertise in the MERN stack (Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB).
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Proficiency in database design, indexing, and optimization (MongoDB is preferred).
• Hands-on experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of authentication/authorization frameworks (JWT, OAuth2).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude toward innovation.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in building scalable eCommerce platforms or omni-channel systems.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies (React.js) for seamless backend integration.
• Familiarity with message brokers.
• Serverless and Micro Architectures
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven applications for personalization and recommendation engines.

Xoxoday is looking for an AVP of Empuls product. Empuls is an employee engagement SaaS platform focussed on USA & EMEA markets. The Empuls product is going through a 10X to 100X growth journey and we are looking for a seasoned product professional who has experience of taking products from 10X to 100X growth journeys. This role ll report to the CTO of the Empuls product. 

As an AVP Product you will be responsible for the product roadmap, product metrics, feature details, designs and GTM, . This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, driving this through development teams, and getting the go-to-market for various product features.

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• Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, RICE metrics and go to market. 
• Solve customer problems and build functional, technical, and design specifications for the solution.
• Map the user journey for various customer profiles - simplify and bring more structure and clarity to problem statements which translate into product solutions. 
• Have strong systems thinking - understanding the impact of process/technology decisions and trade-offs in order to achieve the best possible outcomes to solve the problem.
• Holistic approach covering all aspects including edge cases and future possibilities.
• Abreast with the latest Innovations happening in the Employee Experience, Employee Benefits & Workplace culture domain. Experience in the HR Tech industry will be important in this role. 
• Help define the value proposition of the product for the sales team and work closely with the sales-marketing team for GTM and SaaS revenues.

• An enthusiastic individual with 8+ years of product management function in a product or SaaS company.
• Have experience in leading product management of fast-growing products (or) major modules of fast large products (or) been an entrepreneur in the past.
• Strong desire to disrupt, re-invent, and optimize existing processes to build next-generation Enterprise solutions.
• We'll look forward to the technical skills required for a product role along with the soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholder roles.
• Candidates should have strong experience in problem solving, UI/UX, analytics, team management, customer success & sales enablement. 
• Candidates from HR Tech, rewards, and employee benefits experience will be preferred.
• Candidates from IIM, IIT, NIT, BITS, NSIT, and other premier engineering colleges will be preferred.
• Experience in managing onboarding, customer success, and support functions preferred.

Challenging opportunity, tough problems, and a very good growth path. An excellent opportunity to work with a team of highly talented young professionals. We also offer a competitive salary and a whole load of benefits to make your stay enjoyable with Xoxoday.

You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You will report to the CTO of Empuls. You will provide constant updates to the stakeholders of the product.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 3500 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 400+ strong team with four global offices in Bangalore, San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, Dubai.

We look forward to connecting with you. Once we review your resume, the next step will be a discovery call followed by detailed interview rounds. There will be three rounds of interviews. We will prefer candidates who are located in Bangalore and ready to work in hybrid work arrangements (partly in office, partly WFH). 

WHO WILL LOVE THIS JOB?

• Attracted to creativity, innovation, and eagerness to learn

• Alignment to a fast-paced organization and its short-term and long-term goals

• An engaging, open, genuine personality that naturally encourages interaction with individuals at all levels

• Strong value system and sense of ethics • Absolute dedication to premium quality

• Want to build strong core product team capable of developing solutions for complex, industry-first problems.

• Build balance of experience, knowledge, and new learnings

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Driving the success of the software engineering team at Datamotive.

• Collaborating with senior and peer engineers to prioritize and deliver features on the roadmap.

• Build strong development team with focus on building optimized & usable solutions.

• Research, Design & Develop distributed solution to handle workload mobility across multi & hybrid cloudsr

• Assist in Identifying, Researching & Designing newer features and cloud platform support in areas of disaster recovery, data protection, workload migration etc.

• Assist in building product roadmap.

• Conduct pilot tests to assess the functionality of newly developed programs.

• Front facing customers for product introduction, knowledge transfer, solutioning, bugs triaging etc.

• Assist customers by giving product demos, conducting POCs, trainings etc.

• Manage Datamotive infrastructure, bring innovative automation for optimizing infrastructure usage through monitoring and scripting. • Design test environments to simulate customer behaviours and use cases in VMware vSphere, AWS, GCP, Azure clouds. • Help write technical documentation, generate marketing content like blogs, webinars, seminars etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS?

• Experience in software development with relevant domain understanding of Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Ransomware Recovery.

• A strong understanding and demonstrable experience with at least one of the major public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure or VMware)

• A strong understanding and experience of designing and developing architecture of complex, distributed systems.

• Insights into development of client-server SaaS applications with good breadth across networking, storage, micro-services, and other web technologies.

• Experience of building and leading strong development teams with systems product development background

• Programming knowledge in either of GO Lang, C, C++, Python or Shell script.

• Should be a computer science graduate with strong fundamentals & problem-solving abilities.

• Good understanding of virtualization, storage and cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Kubernetes will be preferable

·        Maximum 5 years of Information Technology/Technology Operations/Information Security experience required.

·        Minimum 3 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Identity & Access Management, Role Based Access Control, and Identity Governance is mandatory.

·        Knowledge on User Life Cycle Management, Access provisioning, Access administration is must.

·        Experience with technologies such as Role-Based Active Control (RBAC) and Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) is required.

·        Experience in User Access Re-certification activities is mandatory.

·        Working knowledge on Active Directory is must.

·        Working experience on any IAM tool (SailPoint/Okta/OneIdentity/Varonis/MIM) would be added advantage.

·        Knowledge on Identity and Access Management role/processes/tools is must.

·        Prior experience in processing IAM requests (Add/Modify/Delete) is must.

·        Experienced in Incident management & Change Management processes.

·        Knowledge of and the ability to adhere to SAS and SOX audit requirements pertaining to Identity & Access Management job requirements.

·        Experience with work-flow management tools such as ServiceNow.

·        Leveraging creative thinking and problem solving skills, individual initiative, and utilizing MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint).

·        Understanding personal and team roles; contributing to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; proactively seeking guidance, clarification and feedback.

·        Identifying and addressing business needs: building relationships with Stake Holders; developing an awareness of Firm services; communicating with the business/stake holders in an organized and knowledgeable manner; delivering clear requests for information; demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks; and communicating potential conflicts to a supervisor

·        Experience performing user administration tasks for various in-house and third-party applications.

·        Analyzing, prioritizing, and resolving faults to resolution. Resolve tickets according to SLAs and escalation procedures.

·        Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills. Be proactive, dynamic, and flexible.

·        Good Communication skills, able to articulate well with business and stakeholders.

·        Education Qualification : Any graduate/post graduate with Computer Science background.

Requirement:-
1. Strong PHP Core programming expertise
2. MySQL DB Model Design and Programming expertise
3. Strong skills in either Joomla or WordPress - at least one is needed.
4. Working know how of HTML 5/ CSS 3
5. Knowledge of SVN or any other version control tools
6. Must have solid REST/API implementation and integration concepts.

Preferred addons :-
1. Good to have Frontend Skills in - Javascript/JQuery/Bootstrap/Angular
2. Experience in common third-party social APIs (google, Facebook, eBay etc)
3. Experience with Payment Gateway integration with APIs like (paypal, payza, authorise.net, Firstdata, Ipayout, Stripe etc)
4. Any experience in Ionic / PhoneGap is a plus

Benefits
1. 6 months of probation period.
2. Working Days: Monday-Friday (As per International Standards).
3. Working Timings: 9 hours per day including break of 1 hour
4. Opportunities to learn and grow.

• Minimum 7 years of Manual and automation experience.
• Experience of testing Application hosted over Cloud for various platform and OS.
• Web and Mobile testing expertise
• Experience on Agile and Scrum methodology

• To be responsible for effectively converting US into manual/Automation test cases for WEB and Mobile apps as per the coding standards.
• Expert in Database
• Help other team members on writing and reviewing test cases and provide sufficient help for any blocker.
• Certified as ready for release to Production follow all necessary test phases and meet the pre-agreed quality standards.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements
• Work closely with Automation team members to understand automation progress and take ownership of analyzing any failures are there
• Provides regular quality reports on test progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with project testing