
Interview Kickstart is one of the leading platforms helping Software Engineers prepare for tough technical interviews. Over the last 5 years we have helped over 3000 engineers Nail the toughest technical interviews on the planet. We are successful, profitable, and have a vision of building the world's largest Career Upleveling platform.
We need a top-notch Product Manager to come join our growing team at IK to lead our product development initiatives across all our platforms.
Who you are
- You have 7 - 12 years experience.
- You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
- You’ve had 5+ years of experience developing and managing the product life cycle of world class products.
- You have your ear to the ground on what competitors are doing and look for partnership avenues.
- You work with Sales and Marketing to define our GTM strategy and the messaging around it.
- You work closely with Design and the tech team to build simple and elegant products.
- You integrate usability studies, market analysis and research into product requirements and your user stories and personas.
- You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.
What will excite us
- Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
- You are highly metrics driven and love defining and measuring the success factors of products.
- You are a whiz at communicating with stakeholders, with users and with business partners and are deft at managing expectations.
- You love simplicity - in design, in user stories and in integrations.
- You love working with incredibly smart engineers.
- You are good at working with cross functional teams
- You are an excellent problem solver
What will excite you?
- Complete ownership
- Experiment, fail and learn.
- High pedigree, high caliber team.
- Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work.
- Top of the line compensation.

About Interview Kickstart
About
Interview Kickstart is currently the Gold Standard for Technical Interview Prep - nothing else comes close. We have helped more candidates get their dream jobs that anyone else, including many folks who have consistently failed interviews in the past. Our flagship platform UpLevel combines some of the best innovations in content, learning paths, videos, curriculum and assessments to create a powerful medium for students to become the best versions of themselves.
We are a growing team of passionate people who dream of creating the world's largest career upleveling platform, and we intend to build a company that will have a real, tangible impact on people's lives. We are profitable and are constantly on the lookout for the best of you to come join us.
Take a look at our open jobs and apply to the one that excites you. Our interview process is unique and is designed to help you succeed. We're looking forward to talking to you soon.
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3 - 4 years of experience in application development and maintenance
Bachelor’s Degree/B.Tech/B.E in Computer Science or a related discipline
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Experience with using and building automated tests
Experience with CI/CD tooling (at least Git and Jenkins)
Experience with the Agile/Scrum/Kanban way of working
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Experience with a modern frontend framework (e.g. Polymer, Redux, React, Angular, Vue.js or other component-based frameworks)
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Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
Knowledge of RESTful APIs.
Understanding of AWS, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda.
About the US
UniAthena is a rapidly growing EdTech platform offering upskilling courses and self-paced academic programs in collaboration with European universities and awarding bodies. Over 2.5 million learners from more than 150 countries are pursuing their upskilling journey on our 100% online and automated learning platform. Our vision is to make higher education accessible to all. We also offer online Master’s, Postgraduate Certificates, Diplomas, and Doctoral programs developed with European universities. As part of the Westford Education Group, UniAthena is on a high-growth trajectory in the dynamic EdTech space.
Job Description
We are seeking a skilled Angular Developer to contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of our short course platform. This role requires creating efficient, scalable, and user-friendly applications while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including UX designers, front-end developers, and backend engineers. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Angular's ecosystem and a passion for crafting seamless user experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code for the platform.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Ensure seamless integration of data storage and retrieval mechanisms.
- Maintain project versions using appropriate version control tools (e.g., Git).
- Document work comprehensively, including inline and explicit documentation.
- Report daily activities and progress to the reporting team.
- Work closely with the UX/Development team to ensure smooth integration of designs and functionality.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency in Angular and its ecosystem.
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end development practices.
- Experience with RxJS for reactive programming in Angular.
- Familiarity with Angular Material or similar UI component libraries.
- Knowledge of version control tools such as Git or similar.
- Experience with API integration and RESTful services.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Familiarity with state management libraries like NgRx.
- Experience with PrimeNG or other third-party Angular component libraries.
- Knowledge of server-side integration, especially with frameworks like Laravel or PHP.
- Understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Prior experience working on e-learning or similar platforms.
Data Strategy and Planning:
Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement data management strategies aligned with business objectives.
Define data standards, policies, and procedures to ensure consistent and accurate data collection and storage.
Data Collection and Integration:
Identify and assess various data sources, both internal and external, to gather relevant and reliable data.
Design and implement data collection methods and processes to ensure data is captured efficiently.
Oversee data integration initiatives to consolidate data from different sources into a unified database.
Data Quality Assurance:
Develop and enforce data quality standards to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data.
Implement data validation processes and routines to identify and rectify data discrepancies or errors.
Database Management:
Maintain and optimize data storage systems, including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Ensure data security and compliance with relevant data protection regulations.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
Collaborate with analysts to provide clean and structured data for analysis.
Assist in creating data visualizations and reports to communicate insights and findings to stakeholders.
Team Collaboration:
Work closely with IT teams, data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to define data requirements and resolve technical issues.
Provide guidance and training to team members regarding data management best practices.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- Linux
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Java 8
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem-solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3 years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
Role Introduction
• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and
toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.
• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed
self-service tools and supporting their adoption
• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus
on DevOps practices
• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption
• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing
technical leadership to team members.
• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling
and governing the tooling.
• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization
• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the
Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling
What you will do
• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for
improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks
• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on
good practices and standards.
• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes
• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection
• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.
Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling
governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools
are utilised and on the latest versions
• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along
with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.
• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature
estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools
• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment
perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them
resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.
• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-
task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint
• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated
to wider audience within Organization
• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts
regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting
• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in
hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding
of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.
• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for
improvement.
• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.
This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every
callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.
• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to
infrastructure, pipelines, access etc
• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule
• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required
• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs
What you will have
• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and
experience in team management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player
• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,
ServiceNow etc.
• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,
API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.
• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain
• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair
and technical debt
• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development
of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management
framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and
continuous service improvement
• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes
• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,
• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)
• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)
• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus
• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus
• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities
between projects
• Able to quickly learn new tools
• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of
roadmap-
• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions
within short span
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking
• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.
• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.
• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external
teams.
• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment
Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –
- Developing a comprehensive and sustainable employee engagement strategy using data by dividing members into different cohorts.
- Defining engagement and growth strategies for every member quarterly.
- Becoming an expert in our Engagement and Recognition tools
- Improving the Employee Engagement Index across teams by conceptualizing and implementing various employee development and engagement initiatives.
- Using tools to keep records of engagements, initiatives, processes, solutions, etc. thus building a playbook of success stories.
- Gathering, analyzing and presenting key employee engagement metrics to help support the delivery of key initiatives and preparing reports for key stakeholders in a timely fashion.
- Developing and delivering the organization's internal communication strategy, planning and making a calendar of activity to continually drive positive employee experiences.
- Initiating and implementing innovative team-building and collaborative initiatives that help improve the Organizational Development Index.
- Building feedback mechanisms into employee engagement activities and internal communications to enable employees to have an opportunity for dialogue.
- Synthesizing engagement data and developing clear stories for stakeholders
What you need to have:
- Engineer plus MBA/PGDM from Tier 1 B - School
- Experience of working in hyper-growth start-up
- 4-7 years of experience in engagement/ talent development role, out of which at least 2 years in leading specific projects.
- Engagement expert with strong domain knowledge.
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and work with sensitive data and information.
- Prior background in building unique engagement experiences.
- Good command over documentation and process flowcharting using tools.
- Excellent organizational skills and an ability to multi-task across concurrent projects with strong attention to detail.
- Proven ability to drive assignments on metrics using technology.
- Strong analytical skills/ comfort in data analysis, including MS Excel modelling & data manipulation skills and ability to manage reports & dashboards
- Passion for creating seamless and engaging user experiences.
- Curious about metrics, execution processes, people trends.
- Excellent communicator having the ability to influence and persuade others.
- Commitment to demonstrably improving team metrics.
- Positive, flexible, and proactive, hands-on with a can-do approach.
- Good command over documentation and process flowcharting using tools.

Required Skills:
- .NET Core
- C#
- Web API
- Aware of Microservice concepts
- MongoDB
- Excellent communication
Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux knowledge is desirable. Having worked in a product development environment is desirable. Having worked in the finance and banking domain is desirable.

