Project Engineer/Project Manager

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)

Instrive is a Chennai-based start-up that provides high-quality Dev-ops solutions for clients worldwide. We strive to solve problems and create value in this increasingly digital world. Instrive was founded to create high-quality products and deliver great user experiences worldwide.

Several products are being developed for both in-house purposes and our overseas clients, and we are actively expanding our team of talented professionals.

We are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and our employees have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this innovation. Our flat organisational structure encourages open communication and idea-sharing and provides ample opportunities for employees to take ownership of their work and make a real impact.

As part of our ambitious product roadmap, we need senior developers with experience in NodeJS.

Your primary responsibility will be to develop UI components, processes, documentation, and an organisation-wide style guide that can be reused across all applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain web applications using Node.js, Express, and related technologies
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Collaborate with the team to design and implement new features and functionality
• Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure a smooth user experience
• Optimize application performance and scalability
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards
• Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends
• Work with other developers, project managers, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver high-quality solutions

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 3-5 years of experience in web application development using Node.js
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including experience with popular libraries and frameworks such as Express.js, Nest.js, and Mongoose
• Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of web protocols and technologies such as HTTP, REST, and WebSockets
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and SQL databases like MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL
• Experience with Git and version control
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Adaptability to rapid change

Good to have:

• Experience with GraphQL and Apollo
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven architecture
• Familiarity with cloud-based development tools such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions
• Familiarity with load balancing, caching, and performance optimisation techniques
• Experience working with remote teams and communicating effectively with remote stakeholders.

Perks and Benefits:

By working at the intersection of product, strategy, and technology, you will learn how to make strategic decisions, prioritise product features against business objectives, and put the user first.

In addition to the exciting work, Instrive offers our employees a comprehensive benefits package. This includes health insurance, paid time off, and professional development and training opportunities, so our employees can continue to grow and advance in their careers. 

We focus on fostering a positive and collaborative work environment and are committed to helping our employees reach their full potential.

You will make a meaningful impact and create lasting connections with our outstanding team, no matter where your career takes you.

Looking for an experienced candidate with strong development and programming experience, knowledge preferred-

• Cloud computing (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Coming from a strong development background and has programming experience with Java and/or NodeJS (other programming languages such as Groovy/python are a big bonus)
• Proficient with Unix systems and bash
• Proficient with git/GitHub/GitLab/bitbucket

Desired skills-

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Experience in any scripting language (Phyton, Shell Scripting, Java Script)
• NGINX / Load Balancer
• Splunk / ETL tools

Roles & Responsibilities :

• You’ll work as part of the software engineering team along with other front-end, back-end, mobile app, QA teams & you will also closely work with the founder.
• You should be able to take the ownership of a project end to end.
• Your primary focus will be to build, implement & maintain the complete back-end stack of the product.
• You will create production grade code and will implement the solutions which run bug free.
• Participate in product development discussions and product development road-maps.
• Collaborate with members across departments to identify and build on improvements to product, process and systems.
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• Required Experience and Qualifications:

• 2 to 6 years of software development experience.
• Experience of working on application architecture design will be preferred.
• Experience of working in at least 1 or 2 projects, managing or leading the entire tasks.
• Experience in Docker/Kubernetes, Agile methodologies & CI/CD  automation process.
• Knowledge of Queueing technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Version control using Git.
• Experience in microservices architecture, in-memory systems like Redis and basic knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
• Experience of building applications processing large volumes of streaming data will be preferred.
• Experience from a middle size company or from a startup will be preferred.
• BE/MCA/MSc in Computers/Information technology with a good academic record.

Key Skills:

• Java, & Spring boot
• Hibernate
• Spring Boot JPA
•  Object Oriented Programming
• MySQL & MongoDB
• Jenkins

Perks & Benefits:

• Great learning, innovative and development platform.
• Remote work and flexible timings.
• Reimbursement of the online learning courses on certification.
• Medical insurance coverage for you and the dependence.
• Five Working days per week.

Intellectual Skills:

• Excellent communication skills and up-to-the-mark language proficiency.
• Sharp listening, analytical, synthesizing and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to remain professional, confident and patient at all times.
• Quick learner and effective coordinator. 

Technical Competency: 

• Significant PHP knowledge, including experience building/customizing object-oriented web-application in PHP.
• Past working exposure with Zend Framework, Cake PHP, Laravel, Symfony OR any other MVC focused PHP web application framework that consists set of reusable PHP components/libraries.
• Good experience interacting with MySQL database systems through an abstraction layer in addition to the ability to write raw SQL statements.
• Basic knowledge with client-side scripting and familiarity with JavaScript libraries and frontend development approaches.

Key Responsibility Areas: 

• Codebase development & various frontend/backend feature enhancements for applications
• Managing development processes, version control, build/deployment release planner and other technical documentation/working notes
• Prioritize and proactively manage the work-task/tickets that come through any queue or roadblocks
• Proactively communicate issues or delays to the leads
• Understand and effectively communicate various status updates, progress and decisions with clienteles’ team
• Ongoing reporting on project activities and ensuring timely completion of projects/assignments

About WeSkill: WeSkill is an early-stage funded EdTech startup. Founded by alums from IIMA, IITB and IITD. We are on a mission to reimagine holistic education for kids in India.

As a Full Stack App Developer, you will:

• Be a core team member and ride alongside the founders in a high-growth journey

• Play the role of a tech-lead on various projects, and establish yourself as an SME in certain areas

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code

• Write Unit & UI tests, set up dashboards and alerting, uncover and fix bugs, crashes, and other issues, in order to ensure a robust app

• Analyze and optimize UI and infrastructure application code for quality, efficiency, and performance

• Mentor, coach and develop engineers and lead by example

• Collaborate with Product Designers to deliver compelling consumer-facing products on the Android Platform

We are looking for:

• Minimum experience of 3 years in developing android applications with proficiency in Kotlin/ Flutter
• Strong preference for candidates who've worked for a consumer-facing product company or social media or EdTech company
• Experience in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Have experience with common Android libraries like Retrofit, OkHttp, Picasso, RxJava, Gson, Arch-components, etc.
• Debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and using tools like adb, proguard, etc
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management is a plus

Pay range: Competitive salary with generous ESOP pool

Position: Senior Android Developer