Lead Developer

The Role

This role is anything but conventional- It is an opportunity to define and execute our plans and make an impact on the development of millions of children.

As our tech lead, you will work closely with the founders to crystallize and own the product roadmap and then, to bring the product vision to life through simple, elegant design & code that delights users.

You will be the key architect of the product and will help the engineering team build and maintain the product across mobile and web. 

You will own development and delivery of the code- including analysis, optimization and debugging.

Key Skills

3-6 years of experience with backend and frontend web-based application development

2+ years of experience with React / Redux + HTML/CSS

2+ years of experience with Python

Have some experience with databases (SQL, MongoDB)

Have created meaningful APIs and models that are flexible and scalable

About You

You will thrive in this role at KinderPass if you:

• Have a passion for our mission to re-imagine child health and development
• Have the drive to be part of building something new - to learn, to work hard, to be your best self and to adapt to the constant change and evolution of a start-up.
• Enjoy autonomy and flexibility but can work well in a team
• Count Ownership and Reliability as your key strengths
• Can communicate effectively

DevDarshan is a devotional platform launched by IIT graduates to promote the teachings of Indian culture and the Hindu way of life in India around the world. In the 21st century, where everything around is digitized then why not temples. That’s the idea behind DevDarshan.We’ve built a community of devotees from multiple Countries, through our Mobile Application that connects Temples and Devotees, have successfully raised seed investment and also started to generate revenue for the temples and Priests associated with us.Right now we are looking to grow our team and build new exciting features for devotees all around the world.

This is where you come in.

We are looking for a passionate and self-motivated individual to help our Web frontend too.

Requirements:

• Strong Design and User Experience. Have worked on building High Quality Web experiences and extremely focussed on coding for the best User Experience
• Experience in any frontend framework like ReactJS, VueJs
• Good understanding and experience of NoSQL and SQL Databases, which to be used when.
• Experience with CI/CD Systems like Jenkins, Github Actions.
• Some Experience with Realtime Databases/Systems or Socket based applications would be preferred.
• Some Experience with building Algorithms, Social Apps is preferred.
• Any experience with Handling Video Delivery like ffmpeg/HLS/WebRTC is preferred but not mandatory.

The Role

• You will be involved at all stages of the product development process, from design to development and deployment.
• You possess a passion for improving techniques, processes, tracking, and continuously improve our engineering practices and would work on a daily basis towards that

• Angular.JS experience
• MongoDB query and aggregation experience (not a database administrator)
• GraphQL experience
• Node.JS and Typescript experience
• CSS and SCSS experience
• CI/CD experience with GitHub actions

• Software development experience, one of Python (preferred) or Node.JS/Typescript)
• Experience with Messaging architectures - RabbitMQ (preference) or Kafka
• Experience with docker-containers 
• Experience with Apache NiFi (valued but not necessary)
• Experience with designing or implementing horizontally scalable solutions
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• CI/CD experience with GitHub actions
• Experience with Azure cloud

Who we are looking for 

• Total work experience of minimum 5+years in developing web-based solutions and services
• Gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Designing/developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POCs)
• Apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, QA/QE, different product
• lines, or business units to drive forward results
• Contribute to the design and architecture of the project
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both
• technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Should have knowledge of frameworks such as VueJS, Node JS, Express JS, Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman,
• AngularJS, Backbone JS, React JS, Bootstrap (or alternatives)
• Should have expertise in efficient, minimal JavaScript on both mobile and web.

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford.

The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen.

At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

• You will get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup.
• You get to define the future of telecom infrastructure ownership and operations.
• We’re a tight-knit team where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
• Opportunity to build for the next billion users.

• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science
• Experience architecting, developing, and testing full-stack code end-to-end
• Experience working with relational & NoSQL databases
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience working with MERN Stack, performing unit/feature testing, and managing REST APIs.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of any one frontend framework/libraries like Angular/VueJs/ReactJS.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT, SVN.
• Experience in building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites with any frontend css frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind CSS.
• Build backend APIs and services that power new products that interact with Solana (or other) blockchains
• Build front-end Web3 interfaces that interact with your backend code
• Participate in design discussions with business users, web producers and engineering teams.
• Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements.
• Write clean, concise, and sustainable code.
• Team player who enjoys collaborative effort.

• Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that)
• You’re passionate about crypto, Web3
• Customer-centric and passionate about working in a small & focused team
• Previous experience building/working in telecom software or infrastructure
• Previous experience building web3 project - DeFi / Blockchain infrastructure
• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

Technical Skills

Front-end:

Mandatory Technical Skills: ReactJS, ES6, Context API, GraphQL, Redux, Payment Gateway
Not Mandatory skills: Redux saga, Gatsby, Git Pipeline, Deployment on Cloud AWS/Azure/Google

Back-end:

Mandatory Technical Skills: NodeJS, ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment Gateway,
Exception Management, Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security, PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB
Not Mandatory: Docker Deployment, Git Pipeline, Auto Deployment, AWS/Azure/Google, NestJS

Job roles and responsibilities

• Design and implement key components of our technical infrastructure, including services supporting payments, lottery results, user management, and game mechanics
• Design and implement user-facing features for Web, iOS, and Android applications
• Take ownership of mission-critical functionality that is consumed by our mobile, web, and internal applications
• Work as a team with your peers, collaborating on architecture, mentoring teammates, and pushing our entire stack forward
• Stay up to date on the latest innovations in our industry and in our tech stack
• Integrating with and managing third-party APIs as well as designing and developing APIs for partners and peers
• Work with the product team to keep the roadmap realistic, on track, and groomed
• Capable of writing technical specs and documenting work
• Management of Jira, Git, AWS, Heroku, and other platform systems

Competencies and Skills Required

1. Requires excellent analytical, problem-solving, and good communications skills
2. Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders
3. Able to understand requirements and implement complete business solutions for our industry
4. Must possess strong customer service skills
5. Excellent written and verbal communication
6. Must have excellent interpersonal skills

Skills and Qualification: 

1. Experience in working MEAN stack / Full Stack platform
2. Front-end developer with knowledge of coding into NODE/EXPRESS, JavaScript, Jquery & its plugins.
3. js/Redux/React-native.
4. Knowledge of different NPM packages (Session, Async etc.).
5. Knowledge of Mongo dB/Mongoose/Nosql.
6. Knowledge of Any one framework (Mean.io/Ionic/Meteor).
7. Experience in Backbone.js or Angular.js is a must.
8. Knowledge of responsive design creation.
   CSS3 / HTML / HTML5.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Proficient in SQL, NoSQL, relational database design and methods for efficiently retrieving data 
• Experience building complex and non-interactive systems batch, distributed, etc.
• Be responsible for the technical design and experience in guiding/mentoring others.
• Strong OOPS knowledge, including experience with design patterns
• Experience with relational databases like MySQL/Oracle
• Experience with enterprise application servers like Tomcat/Weblogic/Websphere.
• Exposure to Web Services SOAP and RESTFUL
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum, TDD, and Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo etc.
• Excellent analytical aptitude and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skill

Do you want to develop products and experiences that mean the world to your clients and their users? Do you want to work on transformative projects as opposed to minor tweaks to a product? Do you want to be exposed to work ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to global non-profits?

We are Finiteloop, a growing design and technology studio in Bangalore. We work hard to build grounded and exhilarating experiences for our customers and their users. Our design work dives deep into Design Thinking, Experience design, and Service design. On the technology side, we work on Solution architecture of large enterprise applications and, cutting-edge explorations on new technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain.

We strive for client success and push our clients into thinking and doing more for their customer's experiences. All of us are self-driven individuals passionate about building products that deliver great experiences at scale. Our team is currently working on a wide variety of projects: communication design for safety culture on board cargo ships, mobile app for seafarer community, transforming how public radio can integrate with the digital world and, simplifying the user experience of oil and gas explorers.

We are looking for a person with excellent visual sensibilities with an ability to code jaw-dropping designs that make people feel like a part of the future. We want to look towards you as our Usability champion, especially when designing for accessibility. You will have to be self-driven, understand your brief and think more on it before executing it as per schedule. You will juggle couple of projects at the same time and we will create a space you follow your creative processes within these project constraints.

We have an extremely open culture that promotes questioning, honest critique and, quirky thinking. Over and above everything, we only can work with people who will do anything to follow the highest ethics of business and teamwork and a dedication to their craft.

Applications we want to work with you on:

• Digital applications and media (web or Mobile)
• Detailed component-level reusable UI libraries
• Applying micro interactions and creating components for the same.
• Developing user friendly, interactive, responsive web and mobile apps.

Things we would love to surprise us with:

• Independently design & develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability on front-end side
• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders
• Ensures latest technology standards, guidelines are utilized for development
• Assess & analyse web performance, come with resolution & causes and guide the team in implementation
• Guide and mentor team members
• Image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Enable and use automation tools to fast track development

Technologies & Tools we would want you to work on:

• ReactJS
• Angular
• HTML, CSS, CSS Pre-Processors
• NodeJS
• SEO, Accessibility
• Automated Unit & End-End tests
• React Native, Flutter

Some of our projects which you will get to work on: COVID-19 response | Service design exercise for reorganizing a $200mil company | Creating UX experience for products using Blockchain technology | Speculative design exercises for imagining the future | Creating an award-winning marketing website | Reimagining public radio digital experience

Write to us with any samples of work and a small note on why you would be interested to work with us.

What you need to have: