Product Designer

About Kanerika 

Who we are:

Kanerika Inc. is a premier global software products and services firm that specializes in providing innovative solutions and services for data-driven enterprises. Our focus is to empower businesses to achieve their digital transformation goals and maximize their business impact through the effective use of data and AI. We leverage cutting-edge technologies in data analytics, data governance, AI-ML, GenAI/ LLM and industry best practices to deliver custom solutions that help organizations optimize their operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive growth.

Awards and Recognitions

Kanerika has won several awards over the years, including:

1. Best Place to Work 2023 by Great Place to Work®
2. Top 10 Most Recommended RPA Start-Ups in 2022 by RPA Today
3. NASSCOM Emerge 50 Award in 2014
4. Frost & Sullivan India 2021 Technology Innovation Award for its Kompass composable solution architecture
5. Kanerika has also been recognized for its commitment to customer privacy and data security, having achieved ISO 27701, SOC2, and GDPR compliances.

Working for us

Kanerika is rated 4.6/5 on Glassdoor, for many good reasons. We truly value our employees' growth, well-being, and diversity, and people’s experiences bear this out. At Kanerika, we offer a host of enticing benefits that create an environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally. From our inclusive hiring practices and mandatory training on creating a safe work environment to our flexible working hours and generous parental leave, we prioritize the well-being and success of our employees. Our commitment to professional development is evident through our mentorship programs, job training initiatives, and support for professional certifications. Additionally, our company-sponsored outings and various time-off benefits ensure a healthy work-life balance. Join us at Kanerika and become part of a vibrant and diverse community where your talents are recognized, your growth is nurtured, and your contributions make a real impact. See the benefits section below for the perks you’ll get while working for Kanerika.

Locations

We are located in Austin (USA), Singapore, Hyderabad, Indore and Ahmedabad (India). 

Job Location: Hyderabad, Indore and Ahmedabad.

Role:

We are looking for an experienced AEM Backend Developer to join our digital platforms team. The ideal candidate will have strong backend development skills in Java (primary) and/or Python, along with proven experience in designing and building scalable, maintainable Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions. This role will focus on implementing backend logic, custom workflows, integrations, and supporting content management features.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain AEM-based backend solutions, components, and templates.
• Develop custom AEM Sling models, servlets, services, and OSGi components.
• Build and integrate RESTful services and APIs to support frontend and third-party systems.
• Work closely with frontend developers and AEM content authors to support dynamic content delivery.
• Develop automation scripts using Java/Python for data handling, deployment, and reporting needs.
• Implement AEM workflows, user permissions, and version control for content.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in AEM environments.
• Optimize AEM performance, scalability, and security configurations.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience delivering high-quality web applications.

Mandatory Skills

• 3+ years of experience in AEM backend development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, OSGi, Sling, and JCR.
• Experience with Python for backend scripting, automation, or integration tasks.
• Knowledge of AEM architecture including dispatcher, replication agents, and workflows.
• Experience working with AEM APIs, servlets, event handlers, schedulers, and custom components.
• Understanding of REST APIs, JSON/XML data handling.
• Familiarity with Maven, Git, Jenkins, and Agile development practices

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

• Exposure to Adobe Experience Cloud tools like Adobe Target, Analytics, Campaign.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based AEM (Adobe as a Cloud Service) is a plus.
• Basic familiarity with frontend technologies (React/Angular/HTL) is beneficial.

Why join us? 

• Work with a passionate and innovative team in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
• Gain hands-on experience in content marketing with exposure to real-world projects.
• Opportunity to learn from experienced professionals and enhance your marketing skills.
• Contribute to exciting initiatives and make an impact from day one. 
• Competitive stipend and potential for growth within the company.

Employee Benefits

1. Culture:

1. Open Door Policy: Encourages open communication and accessibility to management.
2. Open Office Floor Plan: Fosters a collaborative and interactive work environment.
3. Flexible Working Hours: Allows employees to have flexibility in their work schedules.
4. Employee Referral Bonus: Rewards employees for referring qualified candidates.
5. Appraisal Process Twice a Year: Provides regular performance evaluations and feedback.

2. Inclusivity and Diversity:

1. Hiring practices that promote diversity: Ensures a diverse and inclusive workforce.
2. Mandatory POSH training: Promotes a safe and respectful work environment.

3. Health Insurance and Wellness Benefits:

1. GMC and Term Insurance: Offers medical coverage and financial protection.
2. Health Insurance: Provides coverage for medical expenses.
3. Disability Insurance: Offers financial support in case of disability.

4. Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits:

1. Company-sponsored family events: Creates opportunities for employees and their        families to bond.
2. Generous Parental Leave: Allows parents to take time off after the birth or adoption of a child.
3. Family Medical Leave: Offers leave for employees to take care of family members' medical needs.

5. Perks and Time-Off Benefits:

1. Company-sponsored outings: Organizes recreational activities for employees.
2. Gratuity: Provides a monetary benefit as a token of appreciation.
3. Provident Fund: Helps employees save for retirement.
4. Generous PTO: Offers more than the industry standard for paid time off.
5. Paid sick days: Allows employees to take paid time off when they are unwell.
6. Paid holidays: Gives employees paid time off for designated holidays.
7. Bereavement Leave: Provides time off for employees to grieve the loss of a loved one.

6. Professional Development Benefits:

1. L&D with FLEX- Enterprise Learning Repository: Provides access to a learning repository for professional development.
2. Mentorship Program: Offers guidance and support from experienced professionals.
3. Job Training: Provides training to enhance job-related skills.
4. Professional Certification Reimbursements: Assists employees in obtaining professional       certifications.
5. Promote from Within: Encourages internal growth and advancement opportunities.

• Consistently embarking an excellent first impression on call, delivering exceptional customer experience
• Engage potential customers in dialogue that opens opportunities with the help of scripts and presence of mind
• Going an 'extra mile' to create happy customers to drive loyalty and increase repeat purchase
• Contacting prospective clients / existing customers to inform them about the product using scripts
• Accurately record details of communication with customers
• Developing and sustaining solid relationships with customers to encourage repeat business
• Answer questions about product features in an engaging manner
• Answer all customer questions honestly and accurately
• Using sales scripts drive sales and respond to customer objections
• Developing in-depth knowledge of products and services offered by us to make suitable recommendations based on customers' needs and preferences.

Position Overview:

This position is part of highly skilled fimrware team that do software board bring up of bare silicon for next generation products. In order to write system software for embedded electronic products, this position requires academic background in electronics engineering to understand hardware concepts such as digital logic, schematics, and microprocessor communications to develop effective embedded software.

Candidate should have complete knowledge of Software development cycle from architecture definition to the implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Must wear multiple hats from analyzing field and factory reported issues to software integration.
• Be a liason for troubleshooting and debugging complex systems and identifying the root cause.
• Develop detailed design documents and customer facing application notes for the system and IOT features for Mobile routers.
• Act as a product lead and be part of bigger team in software bring up.   
• Ability to work on Low level software such as bootloaders and understanding of low level functional blocks is a must.
• Work on Linux kernel and configuration.
• Write or port device drivers for Ethernet, USB, GPIO, LED, Bluetooth, Accelormeter, LCD and touch screen.
• Debug stability issues in data routing between WAN and LAN interfaces.
• Work with Software QA with test plan and execution.
• Work with Hardware team to identify and root cause stability problems.

Experience/Requirements:  

• Demonstrable knowledge of C, C++, Assembly programming skills
• Overall 10+ years of experience in embedded environment preferabily Linux.
• Board bring up proficiency with bootloaders and other low level software, must be very good with debugging techniques.
• Experience in TCP/IP networking is must for trouble shooting throughput and other traffic issues.
• Driver experience with I2C, SPI, UART, LCD, Ethernet, PCIe is a plus.
• Experience with low level debugging using JTAG.
• Experience with Makefiles, and build environments such as PTXDIST, Yocto and Buildroot.    
• Experience with version control such as git and svn.
• Good communication skills and team player.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously to meet deadlines, in a fast-changing environment.

Education:

Who should not apply for this job

• If you are looking for a 100% hike in your salary but can't commit to what value you will bring on the table
• If you never read books
• If you jump companies every 11-12 months
• If you are not comfortable working on Saturdays
• If you have less than 2 years of experience
• If you have more than 4 years of experience

At this position you will:

• Get solid experience with high-load distributed architecture using REST and High load services.
• Work with automated CI/CD processes, AWS cloud, and VoIP.
• Implement and support microservices based on Elasticsearch, Mongo, and frontend.

Key-Skills Required:

Node.js  | Express  | REST Api   | Javascript  | Redux-Saga |   MongoDB | Web security TLS/SSL | Web Sockets |   Promises & Call-backs | Database & Data structures |   Redis | Elasticseach | React.Js

Key Deliverables: 

• New feature design and implementation, Bug fixing, testing and performance tuning.
• Work on the API and Engines.
• Code deployment on cloud & maintenance of the same.
• Take complete ownership of a product/feature from setup to deployment.
• Time-bound feature delivery & updating.
• Cost-saving using efficient & effective technologies

Role and Responsibilities: 

• Work on back-end (+ frontend integration) development of core scripts using NodeJS / MongoDB /Express /Redux, and Redis.
• Manage Key-value based databases like Redis.
• Active participation in the development of a sophisticated platform as one of the leading developers.
• Document code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions, and any changes made in database tables on procedural, modular, and database level.
• Respond promptly and professionally to bug reports. 
• Knowledge of bluebird.js (Promises), Async, etc will be of advantage.
• Coding and programming using Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structure and Algorithms, architecture/ design and build RESTful API.
• Passionate about building products and features and build the product from scratch with thrust on Web security, TLS/SSL, web sockets, etc
• Knows one or more of Wireframes/ Prototyping/ Functional Documentation of business.

4-10 LPA based on experience and on performance in the interview round (70% Fixed - 30% Variable Incentive based on performance/delivery schedule)

(We do ZERO deductions since the salary will be paid from US/Singapore)