NodeJS Lead

Founded by a Harvard Business School and IIT Kharagpur alumna, is revolutionizing what and how students learn in the 21st century. With 1000+ subjects outside the school on which structured thinking and effective communication are developed.

The academy provides children with curated, Harvard-like content that inspires them every day, and exposes them to a wide range of topics, careers, and leaders. Here the student will enhance both the knowledge as well as skills of the 21st century.

Job Details: Full Stack Engineer - FSE - 1

Role Scope:

We are looking for a MEAN/MERN Stack developer to join our Technology team.

As a full-stack developer, you will work closely with our Technical Architectural members to develop microservices that focus on the educational needs of Parents and Students globally.

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications from scratch, we would like to meet you. Working at Early Steps Academy is one of the best opportunities to get first-hand experience in an early-stage startup, explore different domains, and achieve your career goals.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Strong programming skills in Javascript/Typescript with Object-oriented design

Hands-on expertise in building reusable components and independently publishable packages

Strong experience in HTML, Angular(2+)/React, ExpressJS, MongoDB, NodeJS and CSS frameworks

Practitioner of IaC (AWS), CI/CD, Containerization(Docker), Accessibility, Server Side Rendering, Pre-rendering, Serverless and Agile Ability to adapt quickly to a new direction.

Location - Bangalore

Who are we?

Kriyadocs is a leading document workflow platform focused on the publishing industry. At Kriyadocs®, we have partnered with prestigious publishing houses across the world for over 18 years and delivered world-class, publication-ready digital & print content by applying cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, and extensive domain expertise. Technology is at the core of our evolution – we’ve consciously striven to always stay ahead of the curve in its adoption in order to provide best-in-class capabilities for our clients and our employees. This ethos is reflected in our vision and mission.

Our Vision: To make publishing all content as simple as clicking a button and become the partner of choice for individuals and organizations looking to share knowledge.

Our Mission: Provide a fantastic experience to authors, content publishers, and our own employees through technology and innovation, by publishing high-quality content seamlessly and quickly. We deliver Happy Authors and Happy Employees.

What is it really like to work here?

At Kriyadocs, every Kriyator is driven by our culture at the core to

• Deliver Excellence - Deliver Delight
• Stay Curious - Stay Driven
• Dream Big - Rise Together

You could also be a Kriyator, if you are

• Fearless in taking on challenges
• Focused in learning, demonstrating new skills and working towards successful outcomes
• Fanatical in taking pride and responsibility in all your work 

Job Description

We are looking for a Software engineer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. We want someone who is comfortable asking “why?” The ideal candidate is a divergent thinker who understands industry best practices and has experience with multiple coding languages. They are a team player possessing strong analytical as well as technical skills, and are able to communicate the logic behind technical decisions to non-tech stakeholders. They must be comfortable working in an agile environment and have the ability to “take the wheel” when necessary. They will work with multiple technologies and develop a keen sense of evaluating and using the appropriate technology to derive the best solution.

What you will do?

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write and test code to ensure compatibility and stability: refine and rewrite as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Follow the spec and its requirement and develop the features/project
• Providing written knowledge transfer material as documents

Requirements

Must have

• 1+ years experience coding in nodejs programming language 
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, Collections, good design principles like SOLID 
• Problem solving & analytical aptitude 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience in source code control with GIT/SVN
• Should be flexible to work on a variety of programming languages like NodeJS, React, etc. and on XML technologies like XSLT, XML Pipelines, etc

Good to have

• Experience working in the Node JS stack 
• Unit testing and automation frameworks 
• Experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Working with distributed microservice architectures 
• Agile product development life cycle

Eligibility Criteria 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer science or related fields from a reputed institution
• Any internship experience is a plus
• Experience : 1-4 years 
• Location : Chennai. Work from office (Mon to Fri)

What can you expect?

You will be part of the founding team at LDU and will be responsible for the end-to-end technology of the company including:

- Work with the founders on cutting edge technologies, including AI/ML, blockchain, computer vision, etc. across the tech-stack.

- Formulate long-term technology & product strategy along with implementation roadmap, while envisioning the tech-stack

required to scale the business 100X

- Architecting and engineering solutions across the entire technology stack including front-end, back-end, infrastructure,

architecture, server-side engineering, UI, etc. in line with the company's strategy.

- Work on the D2C website and enhance the user experience while increasing the company's online presence.

- Provide help to everyone in the team and greatly reduce the time and technical costs of team communication, technology

docking.

- Plan and collaborate with the other teams including marketing/ growth, customer success/ sales, design, operations, etc. to

implement new product features, growth hacks/ initiatives identified through user interviews/ insights, etc in a timely manner.

- Will be involved in a horizontal technical requirement, so should be able to make a prototype design for a product very rapidly

while executing the same with a wide range of techniques.

- Build processes/mechanisms to track the KPIs across product/ technology and ensure religious execution of the targets

- Build and lead the technology team including the engineering team, product team, Quality Assurance, etc.

- Awesome work-culture (flexible work timings; no need to wear formals; awesome snacks to name a few)

What are we looking for?

We are looking to onboard a Full Stack Software Engineer, who has a founder's mindset including the following traits:

- Experience of full stack development across web & mobile based technologies and should have scaled a business

- Ability to work across stacks like MEAN, MERN, LAMP, etc. seamlessly

- Ability to build scalable products/ platforms, fully redundant fault tolerant infrastructure while working on modern technologies.

- Versatile Developer/Engineer that can help on both ends of the website development and better the same by enhancing user

experience.

- Ability to Code in both frontend and backend of the site

- Stronghold in both front-end & back-end development/ algorithms with experience of building agile, highly scalable, data-driven

platforms from scratch

- Ability to be hands-on with coding across big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, DevOps, business intelligent solutions, etc.

apart from strategically guiding/ mentoring the team

- Stronghold in executing stuff on the ground and hustle around to Get things done

- Ability to think and see the big picture while focusing on short term goals and deliverables

- Leadership qualities to hire and build a kick-ass technology/ product team going forward

- Experience as a founder/ being part of founding team is huge plus but not mandatory

- Experience in the Fashion/ Apparel industry is a plus but not mandatory

Skills:-

Asp.Net, .Net Core, Web API,ASP.NET MVC, ReactJS,Jquery,Javascript,HTML

Desired profile

• Good verbal & written communication
• Proactive
• Flexible to working hours
• Good in team work as well as individual contributor
• Must be able to contribute to productivity in short time

Role: Senior Full Stack Developer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid

Notice Period: Immediate to15 days

Duties and Responsibilities

• Execute full website development life cycle
• Work with a team to design and develop websites
• Produce clean code based on specifications
• 3rd party API integrations
• Website and landing page SEO optimization
• Site speed optimization
• Troubleshooting and debugging as well as technical and analytical problem-solving skills Database management
• Web/AWS hosting management
• Ability to customize WordPress themes and plugins
• Hands on development on MODX platform and multilingual site
• Proper documentation of the development
• Working in a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or high-level of combination of education and experience
• Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred
• Minimum 5 year work experience as Web Developer, both front-end and back-end
• Proven experience working with WordPress, MODX, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP/Laravel and SAAS
• Good Knowledge of MySQL/RDS
• Familiarity with any of the modern JavaScript frameworks (JQuery, Angular)
• Version control (GIT) and JIRA usage experience
• Experience developing responsive websites
• Fluency in English, both oral and written
• Strong decision making skills, ability to work under pressure and manage the team
• It will be considered an advantage to have knowledge experience with: Ubuntu/Linux, SSH/Shell Scripting, reverse proxy usage and NGINX/Apache configuration.

Benefits

• Cool office space
• Flexible working hours
• Health Insurance
•  International Retreat
•  Monthly Extra Miler awards
•  Yearly awards
•  Vacation fund

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.