Principal Engineer

About the company:

YouShd is a venture-backed (two global mega VC funds) social commerce enabler that is helping DTC brands succeed by harnessing the power of consumer networks. Our mission is to decentralize marketing away from low-trust channels such as FB, Google, and large influencers toward the high-trust social networks of everyday consumers.

Founding Engineer:

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and launching our product to customers. Specifically,

• Since our team is lean and we plan to keep it that way - you’ll be one of the first five engineers in leading the zero-to-one journey of a product our customers are hungry for
• Lead technical design and implementation of the frontend and backend of the product with coaching and mentorship from world-class technical architects
• Have knowledge of (or learn) how to work with Shopify’s CLI
• Iterate quickly to create delightful user experiences, working closely with customers/ design partners
• Help us hire a world-class engineering team in the months ahead
• Our team is currently fully remote (with offices to be opened in Bangalore and Mumbai over next few months) and cross-border across San Francisco, Boston, and India - help us cultivate a remote-first, inclusive, diverse, and friendly culture
• Work directly with the founders with an ownership mindset

Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel)
• Experience with service service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Mysql, Redis, Kafka)
• Prior experience working with frontend tech stacks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Prior experience working with frontend UI frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

Candidate should have hands-on experience in developing scalable solutions using Java sprint boot/Spring MVC. Candidate should have good knowledge in Micro service architectural methodologies. Should have good communication skills. Experience in leading a team of 4-5 developers + QA : Review of Code, Test cases etc. Demonstrated experience in Requirement Gathering Experience in authoring requirement documents BRD, FRD etc.

Position: Software Engineer/ Senior Software Engineer

Position Summary
Position will be responsible to design, develop and install software solutions. This role requires building high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with coding standards and technical design Software.

Required Skills
Prerequisites:
 HTML 5
 CSS
 Bootstrap, Angular Material
 JavaScript/JQuery
 Typescript
 angular 2, 4, 5,6 ,7 (any)
 Able to integrate existing API
 Rx JS and Stores concept
 ES5 and ES6
 karma and jasmine
 Exp. on REST/SOAP based web services, JSON/XML

Requirements for development:
 VS Code editor
 Node.js
 NPM
 Angular CLI
 Git/GitHub
Essential Functional & Responsibilities
 Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC),
 Write well-designed, testable code Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
 Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
 Integrate software components into a fully functional software system,
 Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures Document and maintain software functionality,
 Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
 Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback
 Comply with project plans and industry standards
 Ensure software is updated with latest features
 Assists in coding, unit testing, and debugging new software or making enhancements to existing product.

Education and Experience
BE/B Tech/MCA/Equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related technical field from an accredited university or college with 4 – 7 years of demonstrated experience and successful track record.

Summary role description:

 

Hiring for Technical Lead - Full Stack for a global InsurTech SaaS product company

 

Company description:

 

Our client is a global digital SaaS platform InsureTech company headquartered in Silicon Valley providing omnichannel customer acquisition platform, Analytics powered customer engagement, services, and self-service portals and apps for agents as well as policyholders.

 

Role details:

 

• Title / Designation: Technical Lead – Full Stack
• Reporting Manager: Director of Product Engineering
• Location: Hyderabad/Hybrid

 

Role & Responsibilities:

 

• Develop, deploy, support, and implement web application projects
• Build scalable architecture, reusable patterns, and libraries for future use
• Conduct performance testing, review results, identify bottlenecks and report code
• Proactively identify and resolve potential problems/issues including authoring technical specifications
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and developments
• Motivate team members to learn the required skills and stay up to date on the execution
• Mentor, lead, and guide a team of Software Engineers

 

Candidate requirements:

• Overall, 6+ years of experience as Full stack developer, with a minimum 1-year experience in product development
• Experience in leading a team of 3+ members
• Experience in one or more of
  • Frontend – AngularJS/Angular/ReactJS/VueJS
  • Backend – PHP/Java/Python/NodeJS/Golang
  • DB – Any relational Database (like MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres)
• Should have experience in restful JSON web services
• Should be competent in CI /CD tooling
• Experience working with 3rd party software integrations like REST APIs, SOAP APIs, XML, JSON

 

Selection process:

 

• Code pair
• 2 Technical interviews
• Final round

 

The Technical Lead Full Stack will be part of the IT Innovation team that will be responsible for solving business problems leveraging new and innovative technology.   In this role, you will be responsible for working in a cross-functional team to understand the business problem and iterate through the problem until you have a working proof of concept that can be piloted

 

What you will do:

• Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers, and scrum masters) to define and clarify requirements.
• Provide technical and work direction to the other global developers (be their conduit to the local team)
• Hands-on development of defined architecture and design of both front-end and back-end programming.
• Ability to keep informed of industry trends and technologies.
• Ability to break down complex requirements into specific work items.
• Implement and carry out unit testing.
• Leverage the DevOps team to ensure the product can be automatically built, deployed, and tested using CI/CD pipelines across all of the release cycles from dev to production.
• Strong grasp of modern security principles and how to apply them to applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven ability to develop resilient code that performs, and scales based on application usage.
• 6+ years of experience in developing using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Angular and React
• 6+ years of experience building applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web, JSON/XAML-based REST API.
• 3+ years of experience building RESTful web services using NodeJS
• Experience with Unit Testing Frameworks like UnitJS, Mocha
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git or Visual Studio Team Services
• Experience with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a distributed and global environment
• Understanding of building applications deployed in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging PaaS and IaaS Services
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse group of people

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Strong problem-solving orientation
• Can manage multiple competing tasks/projects at the same time
• Strong team and customer service focus

 

• Fluent English Required, and able to provide well-articulated and reasoned explanations for when and why to apply software design patterns.

• Experience of 3 to 5 years developing using MEAN Stack

• Strong development experience using Node.JS, Express, Angularjs and Mongodb

• Experience in UX, CSS, LESS/SASS, Git, Gulp

• Agile development background is required

• Test Driven Development experience

• Cloud deployment experience is preferred, working with Google, AWS, Jenkins, Docker

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Work closely with other development and testing teams in an agile environment • Work closely with Product Managers and Designers in scoping, defining, and sizing user stories • Ensure smooth product releases and support • Work closely with senior developers to design and architect robust front-end solutions • Write clean, documented, and performant code • Continuous learning EXPERIENCE: • 4+ years of working experience in UI/UX software development is required • In-depth knowledge and experience in ReactJS, TypeScript, CSS, JavaScript, conceptually and practically • Understanding of Object Oriented Programming and Prototypical Inheritance. • Experience working in agile software development environment • Experience and knowledge of Git • Experience in jQuery, charting libraries, building reusable UI components and/or jQuery plugins • Experience with .NET Core a big plus • Experience in consuming REST APIs • Experience in multi-tenant web based application is a big plus

Role Description:

 

• Lister is actively engaged with client across digital transformation and engineering
• As a part of this engagement, you will be working with our clients on solution design and architecture, technology decisions, while co-ordinating technical efforts for the team
• As a Technical Lead:, You will need to collaborate with Solution Architects define technology
• roadmap, evaluate/recommend technologies, architect and design solutions, Work
• with other developers to oversee the development and implementation
• You will translate functional requirements from business stakeholders to the technical
• team for implementation
• You will need to troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks
• You will have to be hands-on with code reviews and evaluate implementation for performance and scale
• Manage communication between our clients and internal teams in India and USA
• Coordinate with the offshore team to deliver projects across work streams, Identify risks, issues and blockers to progress and mitigate them for the team
• Rapidly gain an understanding of project requirements and drive execution
• Work with delivery team to ensure the highest quality of materials are being produced and all client needs are met.

 

Skills Required:

 

• Excellent understanding of backend and frontend components in the following stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, Javascript, ReactJS, multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB Experience of working on AWS services (Lambda, Step functions, SQS, S3 SNS)
• Microservice design pattern is a must
• Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and CI/CD pipelines is preferable
• Experience in software development tools like Prettier, CodeCov, Snyk, etc..
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; client facing and interpersonal skills; must be a listener, a presenter, and a people-person
• Experience in Designing scalable architecture systems for Node-based applications
• Ability to grasp complex implementations; Proven results of delivering client solutions
• Should have experience of working with offshore team
• Experience in working on large scale technology transformation projects for product companies is preferable
• Technology contributions to open source projects will be an added advantage
• Should have completed Certifications or training on AWS (AWS Solutions Architect), NodeJS, front-end frameworks.

Expertise in JavaScript/Node with Express or another Web framework Experience with Restful API Experience building data-driven web applications Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Knowledge of MongoDB - Expertise of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Expertise with one front end framework like Angular JS/Angular or React Proficient understanding of Git and related services like GitHub, Git lab, etc