Linux Engineer

Job Title: Java Developer

Location: Mumbai

Job Type: Full-Time 

Experience Level: 4- 8 years

Job Overview:

We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our development team. As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust Java applications that meet high standards of performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent problem-solving capabilities, and a deep understanding of Java and its ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable Java applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and scalable code.
• Develop and integrate APIs and web services.
• Conduct software analysis, testing, and debugging.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Java and Java EE (Enterprise Edition).
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
• Experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC) and Hibernate.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design and development.
• Knowledge of SQL and database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Familiarity with build tools like Maven or Gradle.
• Solid understanding of application security, data protection, and performance optimization.

Summary of Role

Innovate to solve the world's most important challenges. We are looking for Advanced User Exp Designer with strong capabilities to design and own the product experience. The designer would be responsible for end to end interaction and visual design.

Responsibilities

• Own the design execution while working closely with key stakeholders in design, engineering and business stakeholders to solve user needs and business goals
• Demonstrate mastery of the end-end UX process, including user research for discovery and product definition, and multiple methods of formal and informal user evaluations
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Prioritize backlog effectively; communicate clear timelines and status updates at all levels
• Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories
• Conduct research and evaluation of designs, as well as emerging technology, industry, and market trends

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Bachelor's degree preferably from tier 1/ tier 2 design school.
• Outstanding user experience design portfolio
• Bachelors degree in human factors, psychology, user experience design or related degree
• Some experience in user experience design, interaction design or human factors
• Proficient user experience design skills, e.g., customer journey map, experience diagramming, task analysis, workflow design, etc.
• Experience with observational research and usability testing
• Graduate degree in user experience design, human factors, interaction design or related discipline.
• Fluent with design sketching and prototyping tools, e.g., Axure, Balsamiq, Visio, etc.
• Experience with design trends, benchmarking, forecasting and concept creation

• Experience with project planning, scoping and execution in a phase-gate and/or agile environment

Required Skills for this Role: 

• Has 5+ years of experience (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual, product, industrial), User Experience, HCI, or a related field
• Must have strong background in interaction/UX design and continue to be hands-on as an interaction designer
• Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
• Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors, product definition.
• Has real-world experience in managing projects & stakeholders

• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe CC, Sketch) and visual communication

About Company

With a rich legacy of 40 years in fostering world-class academic excellence and over 100,000 alumni across the globe, our client is one of the premier institutions of higher learning in India offering Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Diploma, and Ph.D. programmes.

Uniquely positioned as one of the first universities across the world that offer the highest standard of professional education ingrained with the postulates of peace studies, the university enables an inclusive culture of dignity, fairness, and respect amongst its students, grooming them into future-ready, responsible citizens of the world.

About the role

• Provide Strategic Vision for University to define medium- and long-term Human Resource direction and priorities.

• Lead on developing, communicating and successfully delivering the University’s HR strategy, including inspiring continuous performance improvement

• Build a dynamic and forward-looking approach to the University’s HR capability development with strong intellectual leadership, understanding and harnessing the University’s comprehensive subject range, in the context of a best HR practices.

• Ensure operational excellence and sustainability.

Roles & responsibilities

Strategic

• Devise HR strategies aligned to University’s vision and mission

• Establish HR roadmap aligned to HR strategies

• Play key role in facilitating the change across organization

• Advice and guide management on strategic alignment require with the growth of University.

• Establish framework which is sustainable, scalable in all areas of HR function

• Designing and executing all the HR policies and procedures of the University.

• Focus on employee capability building through - Conducting the training need analysis (initially nonteaching and later FDP’s for teaching staff).

Research Development

• Create activities around employee engagement and career progression

• Facilitate going forward leadership development, succession planning, High potential development program etc…

• Develop result oriented Performance Management System (Yearly appraisal and competency mapping at each level).

Financial and Budget

• Propose HR Budget and financial strategies focusing employee engagement

• Ensure the budget is used in the best possible way and is adding value as ROI

• Incorporate in the budget provisions leading to “Employer of Choice”

Collaborations

• Be employee advocate & champion within all the institutions under the umbrella of University

• Represent University on professional bodies of repute helpful in further branding university

Operational

• Create activities around employee engagement and career progression

• Conducting HR Audit of all HR processes periodically.

• Create HR dashboard showcasing HR performance to management on monthly basis

• Develop the training calendar and execute the training programs as per the TNA.

• Develop the employee welfare schemes.

• Design employee engagement activities.

• Design HR manual and employee handbook.

• Develop through induction and ensure each new joinee is gone through the induction process.

• Develop result oriented Performance Management System (Yearly appraisal and competency mapping at each level).

• Develop various incentive schemes for the employees.

• Participate and take responsibility during social initiative programs

• Compensation & Benefit Management

• Statutory & Regulatory Compliances Management

• Employee Grievances handling and satisfactory resolution

External Representation

• Represent Institute in various professional bodies, conferences and seminars in order to increase project the image of best employer and the institute’s visibility at the regional and international levels

• Remain abreast of the best practices in the field of Human Resources

Requirements

Minimum Qualification & Experience

• MBA from ISB/institute of repute

• 15 to 20 years of experience in Human Resource, preferable from education sector (Female candidates preferred)

Substantial leadership and management experience

• The personal characteristics to have a substantial experience and a successful record of senior leadership at corporate level in a large and complex organisation.

• Evidence of developing, communicating and executing a vision and strategy in a complex organisation, Proven Transformation Leadership in a sizeable organisation

• Demonstrated personal leadership of creating new benchmark of performance and have proven record of performance improvement and change at an organisational level;

• Financial acumen and experience, and commercial awareness, which demonstrate the ability to strategically manage, optimise and be accountable for the management of resources

• A proven track record of developing leaders and leadership teams, and the ability to work effectively with those teams;

• A commitment to the highest standards of governance, experience of working effectively with governing bodies or boards and external members, and the ability to operate confidently and effectively in an externally regulated environment

Intellectual credibility

• A high level of intellectual credibility, with a strong academic or other intellectual profile, in order to lead, engage with, and gain the respect of staff, demonstrating curiosity and interest in the broad range of HR disciplines.

Personal attributes and style

• A strong commitment to university and its vision, ambitions, and values

• The ability and confidence to lead and work effectively with an experienced and capable senior leadership team, empowering leaders at all levels to deliver the Division’s ambitions;

• The ability to relate to and communicate effectively with staff at all levels in the Division, engaging them with the University’s vision and plans; n

• A personal commitment to and record in effective and respectful partnership working across all staff groups;

• Sound judgement and the ability and courage to make difficult but informed decisions, including on challenging issues;

• Exceptional personal and public communication and relations

About Us

We help teachers do better what they do best - teach!

We do this by creating intuitive technology tools that empower teachers across all stages of teaching and learning. We're reimagining how education is delivered in the classroom and we're building a world-class, product-first organisation as we scale. Our mission is to amplify teaching for 60 million K-12 educators globally and support them in delivering meaningful and personalised learning experiences.

Our first product is a collaboration platform for IB PYP teachers. Be it curriculum planning or parent communication, student portfolios or reports creation, we make working together simple and fun. Currently, is being used by 1,000+ progressive schools and 25,000+ teachers across the world. All our growth has been 100% organic and fuelled by positive word of mouth. Over the next 3 years, our goal is to become the preferred teaching partner of more than 50% K-12 teachers across the world.

We are a diverse group of people (educators, engineers, designers) who have been fortunate to study at some of the best colleges - Stanford, Harvard, Brown, IITs. We have experience of working in companies like McKinsey, Unilever, Sprinklr, Zomato, Bridge International Academies,and, Teach for India. We also own and operate a network of progressive schools (www.todden.com); this gives us the opportunity to work in a tight loop with teachers and incorporate their feedback into the products and services we build. We are backed by leading VCs and Angel Investors.

"Good design is as little design as Possible" - Dieter Rams

Design is one of our core competencies and as a Visual Designer on the team, you'll lead the way. Our designers are makers and storytellers. They envision how people experience our brand and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical.

• Has an interest in designing for education
• Is a design expert with deep understanding spanning digital, print, and experiential design
• Is obsessed with breaking new creative ground through crafting the best ideas in design
• Is optimistic and open to new ideas and ways of working
• Has a diverse portfolio that shows good aesthetic judgment and attention to detail

• 2+ years' of experience in designing for brands, digital products and services
• Formal design training with an incredible eye for detail and obsessive appreciation for typography, design and layout
• Demonstrated mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite
• Excellent organisational, collaboration, and communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Work on a day-to-day basis to deliver software to solve real world problems.
• Participate in the design of new features.
• Work with Product Managers to come up with technical solutions.
• Improvise and analyse current code base to come up with improvements.

Requirements:

• 3+ Years of Frontend Development Experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on ReactJS experience.
• Strong skills in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
• Experience working in fast paced environments cutting across diverse tech-stacks.
• Passionate about Web Development.
• Experience in modern web app development.

• Experience mentoring junior developers.
• Worked with data intensive UI.
• Have worked with early stage startups.
• Have experience with GraphQL.

When you join us, you’ll lead the full-cycle development of the hardware focusing on robust and cost-effective solutions for hardware design, layout design and the fabrication of PCBs. You’ll be responsible for the successful production of the hardware coordinating directly with the production team. Your role will be crucial to Quixote’s success.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Design multi-layer printed circuit board layouts incorporating the latest fabrication and assembly standards. 
• Design the schematics for the PCB and gather their inputs to ensure the electrical characteristics of the PCB are within specification.
• Collaborate with mechanical, fabrication, manufacturing and test engineers for a functional, cost-effective layout.
• Develop, check and release full documentation packages as required per work instructions and project requirements.
• Analysis and evaluation of company requirements, initial BoM creation and component selection accordingly with consideration of costs, schedule, platform, quality etc. 
• Development of complex modules & components of the latest technology to implement them into other projects and future automotive systems 
• Develop modules & components’ system design, schematic design/integration, layout design following design rules, design verification 
• Evaluation of relevant technology, functions regarding requirements, market trends and feasibility together with other engineering core teams & procurement to ensure the best design & best cost 
• Observation and analysis of latest technology trends, the definition of next-generation key components together with other technical division and key component suppliers 
• Preparation of technical supplier decisions for the business units and automotive executive management according to the development process, evaluate risks and opportunities 
• Close cooperation with different functional teams such as Controlling, Legal, Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Customer Business Units

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE 

• Understand how to develop PCB layouts for digital, analog, and power supply circuits on multilayer PCBs.
• Excellent knowledge of fine-pitch designs with multiple BGAs, blind and buried VIAs, and high part densities.
• Expert with industry standard commercial PCB layout CAD software, such as Mentor Graphics, OrCAD, Cadence, Zuken, or similar but should be flexible to switch to any of them.
• Knowledge of PCB manufacturing tools such as Valor, SAP, and GerbTool software
• Good knowledge of hardware function blocks, memory designs & high speed interfaces
• Basic understanding of electrical schematic symbols and functions.
• Ability to create dimensioned drawings for release.
• Possess functional knowledge of IPC guidelines.
• Excellent technical understanding of electrical designs inside automotive field is a plus
• Should be passionate, diligent, thorough, and detail oriented