Project Leader / Team Leader

We are building tools to help e-commerce merchants sell better. Our software powers more than 20000 merchants worldwide, and we're just getting started.

At StarApps, we ship on quality and time. Our team deploys new code daily, and our production scale is massive. Your code will improve the shopping experience of more than 50 million shoppers daily – a demanding but incredibly rewarding responsibility.

We're looking for Software Developers with a passion for solving challenging problems with performant code, the ability to learn new technology quickly, and the ability to work in a team environment. This role is based in Pune, India. You will be closely working with our Merchant Success team to improve products. You'll have the creative freedom to make a real difference in the world of commerce, the support to bring your authentic self to work, and the chance to work with the best in the business.

Requirements for the role:

• A product-minded developer who cares about the "Why" - Why build this feature? How will we measure impact?
• A generalist (or a Full Stack developer) rather than a specialist, excited by problems that require a mix of frontend and backend skills, and unblocking anything that stands in the way of success.
• Experience in writing automated tests as part of your development workflow.
• The curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; e-commerce is changing fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast.
• Familiarity with Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails, or the desire to learn quickly
• Strong logical mindset and ability to break problems into simple logical steps

Tech stack:

• React
• Ruby on Rails, Python
• Postgres
• AWS

It would be great if you have:

• A history of contributing to the developer community through code, documentation, mentoring, teaching, speaking or organizing events
• A passion for helping growing development teams and making others better
• Familiarity with development on a leading cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure, Aliyun, Tencent, etc.)
• A commitment and drive for quality, excellence, and results
• If some of this tech is new to you, that's ok! We know not everyone will come fully familiar with this stack, and we provide support to learn on the job.

What we offer:

• We care about you; therefore, you'll be offered a competitive salary.
• Opportunities to travel and work from exquisite locations with the team.
• Opportunities to go around the world to connect with our partners and to make new partnerships.
• We'll support your professional development however you need, whether with equipment, courses, books, or conferences.
• We offer one annual day off for charitable work and match your donations to a charity.
• Flexible holiday policy to help you plan your vacations better.

We will be conducting the assessment, interview, and onboarding of new members through video calls or in-person meets. We would like you to join ASAP and would like you to relocate close to our office in Pune.

• Collaborate, brainstorm, and strategize with multiple teams or clients for a wide range of materials that may include web pages, presentations, programming collateral, signage, internal communication, newsletters, and marketing materials
• Translate strategic direction into high-quality design within an established brand identity
• Develop concepts by hand or with software, and execute original content determining ideal usage of color, text, font style, imagery, and layout
• Manage the design and uploading process of all project material, understanding best practices for using a content management system
• Use trend intelligence and an understanding of the current and historical business and market to design and execute specific classifications

skills and qualifications

• Exceptional creativity and innovative design skills
• 3+ years’ experience (academic and professional) with design software, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Canva, etc.
• Proven experience with graphic design, strong portfolio of work
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Organizational and time-management skills for meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Job Description

It is a platform for parents to find and book kids' activity classes in their neighbourhood.

We are currently hiring a Frontend developer for a startup in the B2C marketplace space based out of Mumbai.  This startup is an Online Marketplace, that serves as a Discovery and Booking Platform for Kids’ Activity Classes. Operations were launched in  November 2019, and have over 20KParents and 500+ educators listed on our Platform across the major Tier-I and Tier-II cities in India.

Platform details are listed below :

1. A SaaS platform for educators to simplify the management of their classes and workshops.
2. Educators get access to a dashboard and use our Class Management tool to create listings, view registrations, manage bookings and payments.
3. The dashboard also provides analytics for teachers to track visitor traffic, see drop offs and understand which social media channel generates maximum ROI for them.
4. Discovery & Booking Platform for parents so that they can search, view and book classes and workshops for their children.

Top 2 role must have’s

1. You should have REACT JS experience of building a product
2. You should be willing to work in a very early stage startup

Tech skills required for this role:

• Front end design in REACT JS at least 1.5 years
• AWS server
• Mongo Database
• API's written in Nodejs

Required skillset
Experience in backend and frontend tech stack and deployment is mandatory.
Excellent programming skills in Golang/Python/Java, JS/Dart/Swift and HTML/CSS.
Proficient in Web architecture and cloud integration concepts.
Experience with NoSQL database is preferred.
Good to have hands-on experience with GCP/AWS/Azure.
Qualification: Bachelors/Masters Computer Science or related domain.
Knowledge of DevOps tools and CI/CD practices are strong additions

Responsibilities
Help to architect Concepts/MVP with minimal supervision.
Work on the full spectrum of technology stack - backend & frontend.
Explore the feasibility of running video analytics on Edge (App/Browser)
Work with the Analytics team for creating various visualization options

Senior Big Data Engineer 

Note:   Notice Period : 45 days 

Banyan Data Services (BDS) is a US-based data-focused Company that specializes in comprehensive data solutions and services, headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. 

We are looking for a Senior Hadoop Bigdata Engineer who has expertise in solving complex data problems across a big data platform. You will be a part of our development team based out of Bangalore. This team focuses on the most innovative and emerging data infrastructure software and services to support highly scalable and available infrastructure. 

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join our rocket ship startup run by a world-class executive team. We are looking for candidates that aspire to be a part of the cutting-edge solutions and services we offer that address next-gen data evolution challenges. 

Key Qualifications

·   5+ years of experience working with Java and Spring technologies

· At least 3 years of programming experience working with Spark on big data; including experience with data profiling and building transformations

· Knowledge of microservices architecture is plus 

· Experience with any NoSQL databases such as HBase, MongoDB, or Cassandra

· Experience with Kafka or any streaming tools

· Knowledge of Scala would be preferable

· Experience with agile application development 

· Exposure of any Cloud Technologies including containers and Kubernetes 

· Demonstrated experience of performing DevOps for platforms 

· Strong Skillsets in Data Structures & Algorithm in using efficient way of code complexity

· Exposure to Graph databases

· Passion for learning new technologies and the ability to do so quickly 

· A Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent professional experience is required

Key Responsibilities

· Scope and deliver solutions with the ability to design solutions independently based on high-level architecture

· Design and develop the big data-focused micro-Services

· Involve in big data infrastructure, distributed systems, data modeling, and query processing

· Build software with cutting-edge technologies on cloud

· Willing to learn new technologies and research-orientated projects 

· Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed 

CommerceIQ is a well-funded, Series B growth stage start-up that helps consumer brands grow their business on e-commerce channels (like Amazon, Walmart) using advanced algorithms and machine learning technology. We help consumer brands win shoppers at the moment of purchase by algorithmically managing supply chain, demand forecasting, promotions and advertising spend, fraud listing detection, content optimization and other aspects that help shoppers make online purchase decisions. 

In 2020, CoVid 19 affected every business, few positively and many negatively. However, E-commerce adoption has gone through the roof and we have seen e-commerce spend grow from 15% to 25% of retail spend in just 8 weeks! (Compare this to a decade that it took to grow e-commerce adoption from 5 to 15%). This put us in a unique situation and provided a huge opportunity for us to help brands grow significantly on e-commerce channels.

At the back of strong product-market fit and a change in human behaviour due to CoVid that buoyed e-commerce, we tripled our revenue consecutively in 2019 and 2020. More than 50 consumer brands use our product to drive e-commerce growth. Our customers include named brands like Bayer Healthcare, J&J, Nestle, Hamilton Beach, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Kellogg, Kimberly Clark, Colgate, Mars, Inc. and many others.

Our focus in 2021 is to heavily invest in our engineering, product and customer success capability to bolster our product, make our customers successful and establish ourselves as a market leader in this rapidly growing market!

Roles and responsibilities :

• Manage the performance and career development of a team of engineers, and own significant parts of CIQ applications that require design, architecture, and coding (Both Frontend and Backend).
• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
• Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on high standards.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying right design patterns, review code, and deliver with speed and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Own the QA and deployment strategies for the team.
• Work‌ ‌with‌ ‌multiple‌ ‌stakeholders to understand business, prioritise and execute based on company goals and priorities.
• Be the custodian of process and SDLC best practices within the team.
• Own hiring goals for the team and hire the best.
• Delivery and tech ownership of all roadmap / tech items for the team.

What you need to succeed :

• Should have proficiency in Backend and frontend technologies along with good experience in AWS.
• Should‌ ‌be‌ ‌aware‌ ‌of‌ ‌best‌ ‌practices‌ ‌for‌ ‌Software‌ ‌development‌ .
• 6+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
• 5+ years software design, coding in Java / equivalent and a good understanding of frontend technologies.
• 1+ years of management experience in building small to medium-sized teams, demonstrating growth and a track record of successful deliveries.

Preferred Qualifications : 

• 5+ years of experience in building and working with production grade systems.
• Shipped several large-scale projects with dependencies across multiple teams.
• Built and delivered on successful cross-functional partnerships across multiple teams.
• Been actively involved in creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap.
• Actively coached, mentored and grew team members in their careers.
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to hire and build incredible engineering teams.
• Good understanding and experience in practicing SDLC best practices.
• Strong believer in innovation culture and Engineering driven ideas.
• Experience in release management and agile methodologies.

• Ability to code and implement front-end web applications and backend processing systems.
• Research, evaluate, and prototype new methodologies, technologies, Prepare proofs-of-concept.
• Convert business requirements into technical documentation using UML diagrams.
• Accountable for peer review, and quality using various design principles and patterns.
• Responsible for team members learning.
• Enforce to follow Secure Coding guidelines.
• Provide clear communication and set expectations to team members.
• Assist Project Manager in defining and refining project scope and work.
• Foreseeing the project risk and define mitigation plan and keep the manager updated.

Skills Required:

• Multi-tier Web Services / RESTful APIs
• C++, Java, C#, .Net
• Web API Frameworks (spring, ASP .NET Core, ExpressJS, etc.)
• Frontend Javascript Frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)
• Understanding and usage of the unit testing framework. Like NUnit, x unit, and JUnit
• Knowledge of SQL and writing queries
• Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Effective communication, Teamwork, Team Handling, Adaptability, Flexibility, Leadership, Problem-solving, Work Ethics, and Creativity.
• Well-versed with the version control systems. Like git, gitlab, bitbucket etc. 
• Good to have knowledge of Microservices architecture.

Education Required:

• Candidates with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) are preferred.