Platform and Operations Architect

mavQ is seeking a motivated Lead FullStack Developer to join our team. You will be an integral member of the Professional Services team dedicated to work on the recently acquired mavQ’s Electronic Research Administration products built on a REST based Java platform running in Tomcat. The work is about 70% implementation and new development and 30% maintenance.

Skills Required:

• At least 7 years of experience with Frontend and Backend Technologies.
• Experience in Java, Spring, API Integration, Angular, Frontend Development.
• Ability to work with caching systems such as Redis.
• Good understanding of cloud computing & Distributed systems.
• Experience in people management.
• Capability of working within a budget of hours and completing projects by a deadline to appropriate quality standards
• Communicate clearly and ask clarification questions, dig deeper.
• Ability to work from visual and functional specifications
• Work with a positive attitude even when circumstances may be unfavorable
• Understand RESTful APIs, MVC concepts, and how to effectively use SVC systems
• Ability to work effectively in a team of developers and representatives of other functional groups, such as design
• ​​Good Experience in CI/CD, Kubernetes, Test suits, Docker.
• Good Understanding of the Command line.
• Good with client Interaction.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Effective Problem Solving Skills. Assist the team with debugging & guidance when needed.
• Responsible for managing a team of 8-10 developers.
• Lead the product’s technical domain with full authority.
• Assist the product & project management teams with setting timelines & priorities for feature development.
• Drive good coding standards & development practices in the team. 
• Own the code review process for the team & ensure high quality work.
• Assist with system & architecture design & research into new technologies.
• Be involved with client communications when needed from a product sales perspective. 

What we offer:

• Group Medical Insurance (Family Floater Plan - Self + Spouse + 2 Dependent Children)
• Sum Insured: INR 5,00,000/- 
• Maternity cover upto two children
• Inclusive of COVID-19 Coverage
• Cashless & Reimbursement facility
• Access to free online doctor consultation

• Personal Accident Policy (Disability Insurance) -

• Sum Insured: INR. 25,00,000/- Per Employee
• Accidental Death and Permanent Total Disability is covered up to 100% of Sum Insured
• Permanent Partial Disability is covered as per the scale of benefits decided by the Insurer
• Temporary Total Disability is covered

• An option of Paytm Food Wallet (up to Rs. 2500) as a tax saver  benefit
• Monthly Internet Reimbursement of upto Rs. 1,000 
• Opportunity to pursue Executive Programs/ courses at top universities globally
• Professional Development opportunities through various MTX sponsored certifications on multiple technology stacks including Salesforce, Google Cloud, Amazon & others

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About the Role

A DevOps Engineer in Snappymob configures, monitors, and manages the Cloud Management service. You should be able to identify the most optimal cloud-based solutions for our clients and maintain cloud infrastructures in accordance with the best practices and company security policies. 

Responsibilities

• Configures the AWS cloud management service and uses tools to monitor and manage their services carefully.
• Manages the full AWS Lifecycle, Provisioning, Automation, and Security.
• Works with customers, solution architects, and product teams to drive migrations.
• Assists in the execution of migration discovery workshops with large enterprise customers.
• Maintains Data Integrity, Data Recovery, and access control while you use the AWS application platform.

Requirements

• More than 2 years of working experience in DevOps and cloud management.
• Strong proficiency in AWS services and migrations.
• Ability to think critically, analyze and break down problems into manageable components.
• Ability to communicate and work well with others.

Advantages

• Experience with AWS cloud migrations.
• Possesses AWS certifications in solution architecting or DevOps.
• Experience with managing CI/CD and deployment of services to the cloud.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration solutions (eg: Docker and Kubernetes)

As one of Malaysia's top app development companies, Snappymob helps top brands in Malaysia and around the world turn their ideas into reality by creating impactful digital products. Our clients span from startups to multinationals across many industries including finance, media, healthcare, energy, and education.

By pairing awesome user experience design and solid software engineering, we strive to help our clients achieve success – while providing them with honest, no-nonsense advice.

Visit us at snappymob.com to find out more about what we do.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Stack Developer to join our dynamic team. As a Full Stack Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions across the entire application stack. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other developers, to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software products.

Responsibilities :

1) Design and develop robust, scalable, and efficient software applications, APIs, and web services using modern technologies.

2) Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to understand project requirements, user stories, and technical specifications.

3) Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards.

4) Perform thorough testing and debugging to ensure software quality and reliability.

5) Optimize application performance and implement security measures.

6) Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, and continuously improve technical skills.

7) Participate in code reviews to provide and receive constructive feedback.

8) Collaborate with team members to identify and resolve technical issues and bugs.

9) Work in an agile development environment, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

10) Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and tools.

Requirements :

1) Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

2) Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role, with a strong portfolio of completed projects.

3) Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.

4) Strong knowledge of back-end technologies such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Java.

5) Experience with databases and ORM frameworks (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLAlchemy, Hibernate).

6) Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and serverless architecture.

7) Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Trello).

8) Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.

9) Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and resolve complex technical issues.

10) Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications :

1) Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

2) Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

3) Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Hiring Software developers to build the next-gen Wealth Management Platform.

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who is passionate about the development and implementation of distributed cloud-based SaaS Platforms on B2C and B2B2C models.

You must be self-motivated and ready to achieve the goals assigned working with everyone. ● Knowledge in the successful development and implementation of large cloud-based SaaS platforms on B2C and B2B2C models.

● Hands-on with Modern cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.

● Strong aptitude for Serverless Technologies on the cloud such as Lambdas, Streaming based architectures.

● Solid understanding of Open REST APIs-based architectures, web-based platforms strategy, working with product, UI, back-end engineering teams.

● Endorsestest-driven development, best deployment practices, continuous integration, and continuous build, handling git repositories.

● Hands-on Python, Java, Multi database platforms such as Relational and NoSQL

● Knack for microservices-based architectures.

● Must have an architectural sense of building highly scalable platforms on the cloud

● Experience with building asynchronous, message-driven platforms would be a plus.

● Interest and Experience in Capital Marketsis a plus.

Relevant work experience in ASP.net, C#

At least 2 years of experience with WCF Services

Very strong C# fundamentals
Has experience in building applications in C#

Experience and proficiency in client-side scripting languages, in particular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Experience and proficiency in cloud environment, in particular AWS

Additional skills-

- experience of handling Photon Engine

- knowledge of Scripting language like Python, Shell

- Knowledge of apache web server and php application deployment

- Performance monitoring- apps and cloud infra

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!

Ideal skills:

1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience

2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels

4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance

5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills

6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)

7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases

8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks

9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime

10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures

11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks

12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times

13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr

14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment

15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces

16) Experience with NoSQL queries

17) Experience with AWS

18) Experience with Android Development

19) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams

In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.

Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.