QA Engineer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a passionate and skilled React.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience in front-end development. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications using React.js while ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and seamless user experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using React.js.
• Collaborate with designers and backend developers to implement UI/UX designs.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers.
• Work with RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services.
• Troubleshoot and debug application issues.
• Maintain clean, scalable, and reusable code following industry best practices.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including scrum meetings and sprint planning.

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS.
• Knowledge of Redux, Context API, or other state management libraries.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming.
• Familiarity with Git version control.
• Understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Basic knowledge of Node.js (preferred but not mandatory)

• Model Development and Deployment:
• Design, develop, and implement machine learning models for various applications (e.g., classification, regression, natural language processing, computer vision).
• Deploy and maintain machine learning models in production environments.
• Optimize model performance and efficiency through feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and model selection.
• Build and maintain scalable machine learning pipelines.
• Data Engineering and Management:
• Work with large datasets, including data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature extraction.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and storage.
• Ensure data quality and consistency.

• Market intelligence—be the expert on our buyers, who are they, how they buy and their key buying criteria.
• Understand the competitive landscape—be an expert on our competition and how they are positioned.
• Collaborate with product management and marketing communications to develop product positioning and messaging that resonate with our target buyer personas.
• Understand and document our buyer’s process, including where they get information, and the who, what, when and why behind the decisions they make. Then drive changes to our sales and marketing processes based on what you learn.
• Develop a marketing plan for the products you support in conjunction with our marketing team, including key activities and budgets to support the retention of existing customers and the acquisition of new customers.
• Assess the effectiveness of the marketing programs that support your products on an ongoing basis, and report back to the business on required changes.
• Plan the launches of net-new products and releases of existing products, and manage the cross-functional implementation of the plan.
• Act as the primary thought leader for the products you support externally, including speaking engagements and written works.
• Understand and support our sales channels; train them on the problems we solve for our buyers and users; develop internal tools and external collateral and teach them how and when to use it.

• 5+ years of product marketing experience with at least 2 years of experience in a market-facing role (e.g. delivering presentations to customers and prospects, conducting competitor analysis and market research)
• Proficient in productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, Project or Basecamp.
• Comfortable using collaboration and CRM tools such as Slack and Salesforce.
• Familiar with marketing automation tools such as Marketo, Pardot and Omniture, and Google Analytics.
• Power user of networking tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
• Exceptional ROI-tracking skills, able to prove what is –or isn’t—working
• Must be a strong public speaker, comfortable in front of large, senior groups, and a solid writer.
• Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties. Team player!
• Must be a strong public speaker, comfortable in front of large, senior groups, and a solid writer.
• Bachelor’s degree in business or marketing; MBA preferred.
• Pragmatic Institute Certified (PMC) III or higher preferred.

Hood is a new-age anonymous social network.

Hood has recently raised $3.2Mn seed funding and is backed by top VCs, 16+ unicorn founders including Vijay Shekhar Sharma - PayTM CEO, Ritesh Agarwal- OYO CEO, Kunal Shah - Cred CEO and outstanding management team.

Role & Responsibilities

• Execute full lifecycle software development
• Architect and conceptualize the product from initiation
• Program well-designed, testable, efficient code Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system

Qualifications: -

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 2-4 years of experience in software design and development.
• Strong coding skills (JavaScript/Typescript, Node.js).
• Strong database design (MySQL/DynamoDB) and query writing skills with a commitment to performance and efficiency.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms.
• Experience building distributed domain-driven microservices.
• Strong understanding of database and storage fundamentals.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Knowledge of React.js is a plus.
• Startup experience is a plus.

What you can expect from us

1.Learning Budget: If there's a workshop, book, or event you think will help you learn, we'll cover your bill.

2.Health insurance for you and your family.

What happens after you apply?

Step 1: Within 7 days of your application our wholesome, original & expressive - our People Team will reach out to you for a quick chat.

Step 2: Within 4-6 days of chatting with the People Team, you will get a call from someone from your future team to discuss the job role.

Step 3: If all goes well, we’ll schedule a call with your future manager to deep dive into the role with you and for you to show off your skills through a small task.

Step 4: After a quick interaction with the People Team, If our vibes match, a quick call with our Founders.

If we mutually enjoy the 4 steps, we onboard you with a big smile :)

NOTE

At any step, if things don't work out, we will proactively send out an email. You are welcome to

ask for detailed feedback and re-apply in the future.

We prefer [Passion>Skills>Education]

• Perform installation, setup, and configuration of hardware such as x86-based servers, NAS storage systems, Troubleshooting capabilities of Windows Server OS, Sound knowledge of AD, DNS, Group policy etc, tape drives and tape libraries, LAN switches (Layer 2 and Layer 3), desktop computer and notebooks.
• Perform installation, setup, and configuration of server and desktop operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 and newer, Microsoft Windows 10 and newer, Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), standard applications on desktops such as Microsoft Office 365, email clients, antivirus clients, encryption etc.
• Upgrade hardware components such as hard disks, memory, I/O adapters in servers and storage systems.
• Upgrade Operating Systems and install patches and troubleshooting of OS.
• Perform installation, setup, and configuration of data backup / restore solutions such as Symantec Backup Exec / NetBackup, and able to provide advice to customers on backup policies.
• Remote operation of Data centre
• Knowledge of LAN, WAN, IP segments, basic installation of Firewall, L3/L2 switches, router etc will be added advantage
• To find out and understand the detail requirements of configuration settings from customers before installation and configuration starts.
• To coordinate and manage the progress of the installation and implementation of projects.

• 8+ years of industry work experience
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• 3+ years of web application development with JavaScript as full stack
• Full stack experience designing and building scalable applications from end-to-end 
• Excellent JavaScript / Typescript skills
• Strong proficiency in React (hooks knowledge is plus)
• Strong proficiency in Nodejs
• Good HTML5 / CSS3 skills with expertise on responsive web design 
• Must have Design and development experience in Micro services using NodeJS and TypeScript
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, mongoose, aggregation framework and Redis 
• Experience with Web sockets and related frameworks (e.g. Socket.IO) 
• Experience in using and developing GraphQL APIs
• Experience in performance tuning
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.
• Open minded to take up any challenge, research and provide solutions Great attention to detail

• Testing libraries – jest, testing-library is plus
• TDD / BDD experience is plus
• Experience with AWS, K8S, CI/CD is plus
• Familiar with SDLC methodologies like SCRUM, AGILE, Continuous Integration

• Design – Analyze, design & document the system / solution based on the business needs which is scalable, resilient and maintainable with low overhead for both client and server side
• Problem solving – Solve the challenges and problems faced by team by guiding and team with best practices
• Coordinate - Communicate system requirements to developers; explain system structure to them and provide assistance

• • Code Reviews – Perform code reviews 

• • Planning – Plan and assign tasks to team members