Manager Operations

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend & frontend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using the latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.

We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
• Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
• Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
• Provide technical mentoring to team members

You

• You have experience with web application development, on both, backend and frontend.
• You have a solid understanding of software design principles and best practices.
• You have hands-on experience in,
• Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
• Code review, responsible for production deployments.
• Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
• Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt).
• Defining and following best practices for frontend and backend systems.
• You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
• You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions. 
• You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
• You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
• You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.

Non-negotiables

Must have

• Expertise in Backend development (Python & Django experience preferred)
• Expertise in Frontend development (AngularJS / ReactJS / VueJS experience preferred)
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Experience building multiple significant features for web applications

Good to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (or any cloud platform)
• Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
• Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases
• Experience with Web performance optimization, SEO, Gatsby and FE Analytics
• Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
• Mentoring skills

Expectations

• Able to work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
• Able to communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements for small to medium tasks and own end to end delivery
• Able to communicate estimations, plan deviations and blockers in an efficient and timely manner to all project stakeholders

Responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate must have experience as an end-to-end for both IT and Non-IT.

• Should have good technical knowledge.

• Responsible for end-to-end hiring: Sourcing, interviewing, salary negotiation, and closing

• Candidates for assigned requisitions.

• Must have good experience in hiring Candidates.

• Should have experience in using job portals (Naukri, LinkedIn, Monster, etc) and other

• open-source platforms and have a good pipeline of passive candidates.

• Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to communicate effectively with candidates and hiring managers.

• Maintaining an internal database of candidates as per their skill sets.

• Excellent sourcing skills.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as an HR recruiter.

• Proficiency in English.

• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases.

• Experience with sourcing techniques.

• Self-motivated with a results-driven approach.

Programming skills in PHP  Yii / CakePHP / Zend PHP / Codeigniter / Laravel along MySQL
• Strong Knowledge in Responsive Web Design
• Excellent knowledge on HTML5, CSS3 bootstrap, JavaScript , CSS, AJAX, HTML4/5 & JQUERY

Location : Mumbai
Work from office.

GrowVation is hiring Full Stack Developer

GrowVation is hiring for a full-cycle enterprise software development company that provides Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portals, and Mobile Solutions.

We are actively seeking a talented Full-Stack Web Developer with a background in Javascript frameworks, like React.js, React Native, Node.js.

Required Background:

• At least 5 years of web server development experience and/or experience building client-side web applications
• Knowledge of, or practical experience with, React/Angular, Backbone.js, or comparable MVC Javascript framework
• Practical experience with Node/Express or similar backend stack
• Knowledge of relational database dialects (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL) or No-SQL database like MongoDB or similar DB management systems
• Experience with cloud deployment services (Heroku, AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid understanding of UI implementation, with emphasis on mobile-first responsive design
• Experience with standard front-end web technologies HTML, CSS, jQuery, JSON, AJAX.
• Knowledge of, or experience with API design and deep understanding of REST principles, with emphasis on engineering scalable, simple server-side applications
• Experience working in Linux server environments
• Experience with Sass/LESS CSS preprocessor
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git, SVN, etc.)
• Experience working in teams and reviewing/managing code using GitHub
• Knowledge of, or experience working as part of an agile team using Kanban, Scrum, etc.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic environment
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills; detail-oriented
• Excellent proactive communications and planning skills

Role and responsibilities:

• Design the overall architecture of the web application.
• Reviewing/creating code, designs, specs, documentation, and test plans
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Document your work. Represent your code graphically for strategy meetings.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection

Must have skills: React.js, Angular, Node.js, MongoDB, Verbal and Written Communication

No. of vacancies: 1

Location: Noida

Work from Home (till): January 2022

Experience: 4 - 6 years

CTC Range: 8 - 15 LPA

Vidyakul is looking for a Senior Android Developer to take our product to the next level for Pan India State Board students (A 60mn user opportunity!). We are willing to offer the right pay, and more importantly the right ESOPs for the right candidate! 

* Knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android
* Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services

* Should have hands-on knowledge of Kotlin
* Should have the understanding of working on Firebase & Firebase real-time database
* Experience with third-party libraries like Retrofit2 and APIs
* Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

• Experience in integrating with various SDKs like Swift
• Significant experience working with react native along with tools like Flux, Flow, Redux, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, functional programming, and front-end languages
• Strong knowledge of React fundamentals such as Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, and component state
• A complete understanding of the full mobile app development lifecycle right from prototyping
• Knowledge of type checking, unit testing, typescript, prop types, and code debugging
• Experience working with REST APIs, document request models, offline storage, and third-party libraries
• Strong understanding of web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Knowledge of user interface design and responsive designs
• Well-versed in a variety of React Native software and technologies such as Jest, Enzyme, ESLint, and so on
• Understanding of React Native best principles and design aesthetics
• A positive mindset and continuous-learning attitude
• A collaborative approach to building apps and solving complex problems
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Client-focused approach to create user-centric designs
• Good interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Ability to write clean, well-documented code that follows good coding practices
• Good in Agile development process.
• Excellent English verbal and communication skills.
• Should be able to handle the customer individually as needed
• Support the customer as and when required

• Advise and discuss with the team on the architecture and requirements.
• Bring your experience for mobile User Experience.
• Set up actions to ensure high level of quality and satisfaction
• Build and maintain efficient and reliable code.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics Engineering or similar
• Minimum of 4+ years work experience in similar roles
• Strong knowledge in Front-end frameworks (React Native)
• Strong knowledge in the mobile language (swift, objective-c, java, kotlin)
• Experience in unit testing and TDD.
• Advance knowledge in using testing frameworks ( Karma, Jest, Appium, Cypress ).
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in CI/CD
• Having a coaching profile, good communication skills is crucial to ensure good exchange and sharing of information within and outside of the train
• Being able to provide based on the audience synthetic or detailed information is mandatory
• Being curious to continuously learn and being a leader in your domain of expertise
• Immediate or very low availability
• Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

•   Minimum of 12 years of Experience with Informatica ETL, Database technologies.
•   Experience with  Azure database technologies including Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Lake Exposure to Change data capture technology Lead and guide development of an Informatica based ETL architecture.
•      Develop solution in highly demanding environment and provide hands on guidance to other team members. 
•      Head complex ETL requirements and design. 
•      Implement an Informatica based ETL solution fulfilling stringent performance requirements. 
•      Collaborate with product development teams and senior designers to develop architectural requirements for the requirements.
•      Assess requirements for completeness and accuracy. 
•      Determine if requirements are actionable for ETL team. 
•      Conduct impact assessment and determine size of effort based on requirements.
•      Develop full SDLC project plans to implement ETL solution and identify resource requirements.
•      Perform as active, leading role in shaping and enhancing overall ETL Informatica architecture and Identify, recommend and implement ETL process and architecture improvements.
•      Assist and verify design of solution and production of all design phase deliverables. 
•      Manage build phase and quality assure code to ensure fulfilling requirements and adhering to ETL architecture