Lead Senior Software Engineer

Position Summary

Designing, developing, and debugging new and existing software using Microsoft .Net tools and database platforms. Work in every level of our technology department, providing solutions to meet the needs of our end-users. A Software Engineer will also document solutions and designs, test code modifications and provide mentoring to programmers and junior developers.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with senior engineers to develop high-quality software solutions
• Collaborate with team members to analyze user requirements and design software solutions
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Develop and maintain unit tests to ensure code quality
• Contribute to the design and architecture of microservices-based applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize software applications

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of experience in software development
• Proficiency in C#, .NET, Microservices architecture, SQL, and Azure services
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to ask questions and seek guidance when needed

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with other programming languages and technologies is a plus

Job Description:-

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, ensuring scalability and reliability of cloud resources.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Establish and enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes, facilitating faster and more reliable releases.

Configuration Management: Manage and automate server configurations using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, ensuring consistency and compliance across environments.

Monitoring and Logging: Set up and maintain monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack) to proactively identify and troubleshoot issues within the AWS infrastructure.

Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices and compliance standards (e.g., AWS IAM, Security Groups) to protect data and resources. Conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments.

The Successful Applicant

AWS Proficiency: Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is a plus.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

CI/CD Tools: Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, or AWS CodePipeline. Ability to configure and optimize automated build and deployment pipelines.

Containerization: Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes in AWS.

Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automating tasks and managing infrastructure.

Monitoring and Logging Tools: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.

Security and Compliance: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).

Networking: Knowledge of AWS networking concepts, VPC, and routing. Experience with VPNs, Direct Connect, and other networking technologies is a plus.

Database Administration: Basic knowledge of database administration on AWS, including RDS, DynamoDB, or Aurora.

Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey technical information effectively.

About

Blend-ed, the brainchild of a team of educationalists and technologists who believe in science-backed learning, is an innovative and technology-rich platform that steps early into the futuristic blended learning system, envisioning a fundamental change in the prevailing conventional teaching and learning cultures. Working with us will be your contribution towards rewriting the history of education and to building the future of learning.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to build scalable software solutions in the Ed-tech SaaS domain. In this role, you’ll have the sole responsibility for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end stack, development frameworks and third-party libraries.

Requirement : Technical Lead - Senior Full Stack Engineer.

Location : Bangalore, India.

Work Model : Hybrid

Experience : Preferably 3+ years in a similar role.

Joining Date : Immediate

 Salary : Rs 12,00,000 LPA - Rs 20,00,000 LPA (negotiable) 

Role Expectations & Responsibilities

• Work with product manager/s to ideate software solutions.
• lead the project from conception through implementation.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications.
• Write effective APIs.
• Test, Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.
• Create security and data protection settings.
• Write technical documentation.
• Strong organizational and mentoring skills.

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
• Experience developing web and mobile applications.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, React etc.)
• Knowledge of back-end languages (e.g. Python/ NodeJS etc.).
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache, Nginx)

Desirable Experience & Skills

• Experience with Python web frameworks, specifically Django.
• Experience with React is a plus.
• AWS skills with knowledge of EC2, VPC, S3 etc.
• Experience in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Why Join Us:

At Blend-ed, we are committed to create a diverse work environment with a range of opportunities for professional and personal development of all our employees. We make learning easier, more efficient, more user-friendly and far more accessible, for all sorts of people, all across the world. As a member of team Blend-ed, you will work on most innovative projects that will revolutionise the learning ecosystem and make a real difference in millions of people’s learning experience.

Work Culture: With a task-driven office culture, we believe that optimal productivity is rooted in each individual's pace and strength, rather than rigid timelines. We follow a flexible work culture along with mutual understanding and support.

Growth at a personal level: Each member of our team gets the best nourishment in terms of opportunities, mental and moral support and a stage for their existing and enhancing skills, ensuring your personal growth alongside the company.

Creativity and Innovation: We root for creativity and innovation at work and this is a fixed formula to keep things interesting. You are welcome to lay your craziest ideas on the table or board for us to have conversations and coffee over.

Work Environment: Situated at Calicut, a bustling commercial centre in Kerala, which is emerged as one of the best cities to live in India in terms of education, health, entertainment, and the environment, our workspace in HiLite Business Park, flanked by the mall and residential areas, offers an environment of networking, convenience and class, which promotes an undeniably better life quality & experience.

Our Values For All Times:

Innovate, Always: We are committed to creativity and novelty because anything remarkable ever was born out of those.

Science-driven: We base the technological developments on theories and findings in cognitive science, making learning a richer experience.

Love it? Learn it! At Blend- Ed, learning is limited only by the amount of inquisitiveness and passion for exploring. We believe in unlimited exploration and pride in seeking knowledge at any cost.

Taller, Together: Growth is a teamwork at Blend- Ed. We work towards growing together, packing in the personal growth of each team member into the company's growth, mutual respect, motivation and inspiration ingrained into our conduct.

Better Tomorrows: Along with our dreams and goals of transforming the education system, we envision a better tomorrow for the world. The very idea of a better future is rooted in hope and we nurture it.

Ethics Uncompromised: Our work culture is founded in a code of ethics that preserves smooth relationships within the company and outside it, in order to meet our goals and other values.

• B-Tech / B.E. from a reputed college / university

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good knowledge of Core Java, JSP and Servlet
• Fluency in programming constructs
• Good expertise in working with databases and Query language.
• Mature, thoughtful, and a natural fit for a collaborative, team-oriented culture
• Hard-working and eager to learn in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• Spring Boot & Microservices architecture
• Strong foundation and expert knowledge in the area of Core Java and J2EE standards.
• Sprint IOC & Spring MVC

• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
• Experience in using build tools like Maven
• Knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for continuous integration environments.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on experience in ReactJS 6.x+, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Node js
• 1+ years of experience in cross-browser compatible responsive web application development using React.
• Good knowledge about Reactive programming using RxJS and Redux.
• Knowledge and use of Restful web services, Gulp / Grunt.
• Experience working with debugging/testing tools like Firebug Lite, Chrome or Safari web inspectors.
• Version Control – GIT
• Servers / Application frameworks – Apache / Nginx / ExpressJS
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Responsibilities:

• Ability to translate Wireframes and PSD to high quality designs and functional web apps using HTML5, ReactJS, Node.js, and Mongo
• Develop interactive, user-friendly applications using the ReactJS
• Binding of UI elements to JavaScript object models
• Creating RESTful services with Node.js
• Architect scalable web architectures
• Developing for Back-end Web Applications using NodeJS and Express
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• API design, creation and integrations
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications, app development and programming languages
• Effective communication with different stakeholders.

Role Value: By developing highly performant, robust and scalable web services and back-ends, you will have an impact on the latency and accuracy. You will add value to our organization by mentoring and guiding engineers. By spotting opportunities in new technologies and identifying areas where they could be leveraged, you will have a deep impact on our tech stack and the way it benefits the business.

Role: You will work with stakeholders to identify the business problem, and then develop layered architectures that can be delivered in an incremental fashion. You will demonstrate a combination of technical leadership and business acumen by making appropriate trade-offs of technical integrity, complexity, time to market and cost. You are a stellar engineer and will write production quality code 70-80% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features spanning across systems in a manner that satisfies requirements of performance, scale, security and robustness
• Contribute to improvement of technology and execution processes in the company
• Collaborate in setting technology standards with technology leaders across the company
• Serve as a knowledge centre on current and emerging technologies, and help train others when required
• Foster a strong technical culture by mentoring other engineers
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies, evaluate new tools
• Should open to work on Golang.

Relevant Experience and Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in system-level design of large scale distributed systems on OOPs, and experience with web services and service oriented architectures
• Have 7 - 13 years of professional experience in software development.
• Extensive experience with modern open source systems including relational / non relational data stores.
• Experience with AWS stack, at least the common datastores and services
• Experience with containerization technologies and concepts including Docker
• Basic knowledge about security concepts and secure coding
• Excellent analytical, conceptual and communication skills in spoken and written English.

Progression

• At Devtron Labs you have the opportunity to work in a collaborative and trusting environment allowing you to turn your ideas into reality
• be part of a strong team, where everyone’s opinion matters
• have flexible working hours, and learning & development opportunities
• We trust on you because we are having fully remote work culture
• work in a meritocracy, where you grow professionally by excelling at work

Equal Opportunities: Devtron Labs is, and always will be, committed to diversity and inclusion. We seek Devtronians from all backgrounds to join our teams and encourage everyone to bring their authentic, original and best selves to work.