
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices

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Mandatory skills
Hands on Python Programming.5+ years of Data Engineering experience: Skills sets: Python, SQL (Snowflake), S3.
Good to have
AWS familiarity would help
Function: Software Engineering → Other Software Development
Java
Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
Ensure designs comply with specifications.
Prepare and produce releases of software components.
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
About the job
We focus on client adoption of disruptive technologies, technology architecture and providing specialized skills related to integration, custom software engineering, testing, application modernization, agile and more. We help our clients with the most complex projects including working in open web platforms, DevOps platforms as well as intelligent Computing and Architecture enhancement.
We are looking for hands on, smart thinking Applications developer to join our fast-growing team of talented professionals. You will have the opportunity to work on large enterprise solutions and deliver solutions that deliver business performance for our customers.
WORK YOU’LL DO
- Design and develop microservices/APIs using either Java/Spring boot, ISTIO, Kubernetes, Docker, CI / CD Pipelines
- You would scale micro services using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
- Collaborate with clients, architects, and application architectures to understand the operational objectives and purpose of the future system integration.
- Understand the points of integration between the different systems and highlight the potential risks associated with the delivery of solutions
- Collaborate with Functional Designers and Developers in order to find best solutions
- Produce detailed functional and technical specifications.
- Assist in producing solutions with threat assessments and associated security awareness.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- 5- 8 years of hands-on experience designing and developing microservices using either Java/Spring Boot
- 3-5 years of experience with system integration
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience with API concepts and technologies such as REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, YAML, GraphQL, and Swagger
- Experience developing within agile methodology using CI/CD pipeline
- Experienced in 3-tier, n-tier, cloud computing, microservices architectures and SOA.
- Good knowledge of integration architectures
- Experience supporting and/or implementing complex integration projects
- Excellent client management skills
- Experience with Data modelling would be an asset
QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience of working in an Agile Environment
- Ability to drive design from Stories and Requirements
- Adept at UML, Design Patterns, Reusable Services Development,
- Knowledge on Scaling Microservices
Our young and rapidly growing team at Zycus is looking to fill out vacant positions for Java Developers. We are a well established SAAS based company, with 20+ years of AI legacy and experience in the industry. Once you join us, you will get to innovate and experience the latest technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and AWS Cloud. We are looking for candidates well versed with Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Microservices, Hibernate, JMS/ Kafka/ Rabbit and most importantly an expert in design patterns. Exposure to Cloud platform, Full stack environment and Agile methodology, would be a plus.
We are looking for curious, collaborative candidates who are willing to learn and ready to take up new exciting endeavors. You are going to work together with the team on complex innovative projects in the industry. We are basically looking for an enthusiastic candidate with a coding experience of about 5-10 years, with a hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership.
You could be a perfect fit if you,
- understand use cases and product requirements, can design, develop, review (code/design), unit test, module test, integration test, documentation for PDLC.
- are an expert in maintaining, enhancing, bug fixing and following standard documentation process laid down for the project.
- follow the defined PDLC process and participate in improving the process, work with cross functional team to achieve project delivery goal.
- ensure all the work meets or exceeds predefined quality standards through exhaustive testing, peer reviews SQA process standards.
- are able to build solution which is easily scalable, high speed/ real-time performance, configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment using any open source tech stack.
- are able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
- are responsible for planning product iterations and releasing iterations on schedule.
Requirements
- 5-10 years’ experience in Java, J2EE and associated technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Micro Services, Spring boot)
- Technical Skills: Core Java, Advanced Java, J2EE, Exception handling, Collections, Oops, UML, Oracle, Jenkins, Maven & Linux
- Should be able to build solutions which is easily configurable, deploy able and secure in SaaS environment.
- Must have worked spring boot Extensively.
- Strong hands on development experience in Java, J2EE.
- Product development experience in agile environment will be a big plus though not mandatory.
- Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on.
- Strong evidence of a solution/product created ground up.
Product Development:
- Has in-depth knowledge on technology and end to end development processes.
- Has the ability to recommend new processes/alternatives to meet Product development requirements and rolling them out the team.
Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
- Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
- A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
- Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
- Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
- Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
About Us
Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.
Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.
Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore
Click here to Apply : https://apply.workable.com/zycus-1/j/E3B421108A/">Java Developer - Zycus (workable.com)
Read more about us here: [https://angel.co/company/fireflies](https://angel.co/company/fireflies) and here: [https://yourstory.com/2019/10/funding-startup-fireflies-enterprise-assistant-canaan-partners](https://yourstory.com/2019/10/funding-startup-fireflies-enterprise-assistant-canaan-partners)
We value your skills and abilities more than your resume.
Here's what we look for :
- You have raw intellectual horsepower and ability to learn quickly
- You have a strong background in computer science / math
- You contribute to open source (share your GitHub- More than 1000 commits in past year)
- You have experience working on apps that have supported 10,000+ concurrent users
- You understand sound architecture principals
- You can design and build scalable infrastructure
- You should be a great communicator and culture maintainer:
- We value over-communication and candid feedback and want to build a no-bs, results driven culture
Values that are important to us :
- You're data driven and customer focused
- You value fast & incremental engineering cycles
- You maintain design excellence and minimise complexity
- You measure your results & automate when possible
- You get 10% better at something every week
- You have an internal compass and take accountability & initiative
You'll be working with :
- Node.js, MongoDB
- Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch
- AWS, Docker, Terraform
- React, Keras, Tensorflow
About us :
- Fireflies.ai is an AI that joins meetings and takes notes automatically. [Product demo](https://app.fireflies.ai/view/ogM9zmKij2). We integrate with the leading platforms: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, Salesforce, & more https://fireflies.ai/integrations)).
- We are a US-based, AI company that is building a 100% remote team. Today we have over 40 employees in 5 countries around the world. Our engineering team is 20+ senior engineers. We were [featured on Forbes for Gartner's top 25 enterprise software startups to watch in 2020](https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2020/07/05/gartners-top-25-enterprise-software-startups-to-watch-in-2020/). We skyrocketed from a few thousand users to almost 100,000 users in 2020.
[Fireflies.ai](http://fireflies.ai) has raised $5 million from top-tier investors including Canaan and angels from Slack, Dropbox, Amazon and Salesforce.
- You'll be working with Sam Udotong, CTO @ Fireflies.ai. Sam graduated from MIT in 2016 where he studied computer science and aerospace engineering. He and his co-founder Krish were [featured as the cover of Entrepreneur magazine in Sept 2020]
- He's been a [speaker at the MIT AI Conference 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywhY2DCIZqU) alongside industry leaders like Richard Socher and Sal Khan. He's guest lectured at Stanford for their intro to AI class. Sam is scrappy & committed - he and Krish bootstrapped the company for 3 years, eating Soylent and Domino's pizza almost every day. [Being Scrappy as an Entrepreneur (Product Demo)](https://app.fireflies.ai/view/vWQjdABHqU). He rejected Harvard Business School to build Fireflies. Sam's goal is to build a multi-regional, boundary-less engineering team that has A+ productivity & communication such that when you go to sleep, you can hand off work and when you wake up, work has already moved forward. If we do these first principles well, we can theoretically build the best engineering organisation in the world.
- We want to transform how people communicate and work. Come work with us if you share the below values and want to work on hard engineering challenges that will actually make a difference in the lives of people.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly value diversity at our company, because our team will be stronger with different perspectives and experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
In this role, the individual will be part of the engineering team and will be responsible for
* Participating and collaborating with Product Owner/ Cross-functional teams in the organization to understand the business requirements and to deliver solutions that can scale.
* Design and Develop API in NodeJS using Express JS framework with relevant middleware integrations.
* Designing and implementing software that is simple, intuitive, and easy to use with Test first driven Approach.
* Proactively anticipating problems and keeping the team and management informed in a timely manner.
**Basic Requirements:**
* 1-2 years experience in designing and building secure large-scale systems.
* Deep experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks such as React.
* Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback
* Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
* Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, and a preference for agile development.
* Expertise in NodeJS and JavaScript;
* Strong in Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Mocha, Cucumber JavaScript testing frameworks.
* Strong in REST, GraphQL API frameworks.
* Knowledge of securing REST APIs using OAuth, JWT, etc.
* Experience in designing and working with No SQL Databases such as Mongo etc.
* Experience in designing and working with SQL Databases such as MySQL, Postgres, etc.
* Experience in building solutions on top of any of cloud technologies like AWS, Google Cloud.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Experience with building service side applications with object-oriented design and Multi-page MVC architecture.
* Actively practicing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life-cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Job Description
Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.
Key Responsibilities
Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best
technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.
Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.
Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.
Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while
continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products
spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.
Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.
Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and
cross-team.
Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to
them.
Skills required
MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.
3+ years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale
distributed internet systems and products.
Hands-on experience in Advanced Java/ Node.JS/other backend JavaScript
frameworks, MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.
Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge
technologies around server side development.
Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github,
Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-
energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.
The opportunity
The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.
You are great at
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.
Required Candidate Profile
- 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
- 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
- Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
- Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
- Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
- Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
- Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
- Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
- Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly







