Search Specialist

Job Title : MERN Stack Developer

Experience : 5+ Years

Shift Timings : 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Role Overview:

We are hiring a skilled MERN Stack Developer to build scalable web applications. You’ll work on both front-end and back-end, leveraging modern frameworks and cloud technologies to deliver high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop responsive UIs using React, GraphQL, and TypeScript.
• Build back-end APIs with Node.js, Express, and MySQL.
• Integrate AWS services like Lambda, S3, and API Gateway.
• Optimize deployments using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
• Ensure code quality with Mocha/Chai/Sinon, ESLint, and Prettier.

Required Skills :

• Strong experience with React, Node.js, and GraphQL.
• Proficiency in AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (CDK/Terraform).
• Familiarity with MySQL, Elasticsearch, and modern testing frameworks.

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate Search Specialist Backend Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on improving and optimizing our search capabilities to enhance user experience, scalability, and relevancy.

Location - Bangalore

Designation - Senior Software engineer - Search Specialist

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain the search application, ensuring performance, and scalability.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement search features and improvements.

● Ensure search results are relevant by employing techniques like ranking, personalization, and recommendation.

● Work on complex problems related to search algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

● Implement logging, metrics, and monitoring for search services.

● Optimize search by tuning the underlying algorithms, experimenting with new techniques, and leveraging tools like Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.

● Maintain and improve existing search functionalities while ensuring backward compatibility.

● Stay updated with the latest advancements in search technology and industry best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

● Experience with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr, or similar technologies.

● Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

● Proficiency in Python and Django.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and backend services.

● Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or machine learning as applied to search.

● Knowledge of various search relevance techniques and ranking algorithms.

● Experience in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). ● Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

● Strong analytical and debugging skills. Personal Attributes:

● Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.

● A keen interest in improving user experience through search.

● Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment

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]

What you need to have:

About SteelEye

SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London and has offices in Bangalore and Paris, that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations in the European Union. Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability. The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses. We are looking to hire a seasoned SRE to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.

Being part of a start-up can be equally exciting as it is challenging. You will be part of the SteelEye team not just because of your talent but also because of your entrepreneurial flare which we thrive on at SteelEye. This means we want you to be curious, contribute, ask questions and share ideas. We encourage you to get involved in helping shape our business.

What you’ll do

• Deliver plugins for our Python-based ETL pipelines.
• Deliver Python microservices for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Implement algorithms to analyse large data sets.
• Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
• Deal with challenges associated with handling large volumes of data.
• Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
• Thrive in an environment that uses AWS and Elasticsearch extensively.
• Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
• Champion best development practices and provide mentorship.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in o Python 3.
• o Python libraries used for data (such as pandas, numpy).
• o AWS.
• o Elasticsearch.
• o Performance tuning.
• o Object Oriented Design and Modelling.
• o Delivering complex software, ideally in a FinTech setting.
• o CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of design patterns.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.

About SteelEye Culture

• Work from home until you are vaccinated against COVID-19
• Top of the line health insurance • Order discounted meals every day from a dedicated portal
• Fair and simple salary structure
• 30+ holidays in a year
• Fresh fruits every day
• Centrally located. 5 mins to the nearest metro station (MG Road)
• Measured on output and not input

We are looking for a Senior Python Developer to produce large scale distributed software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the complete software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities:

Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions Design client-side and server-side architecture Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications Write effective APIs Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software Create security and data protection settings Write technical documentation

Requirements
Proven experience as a Python Developer or similar role Knowledge on Python, Django, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS Excellent communication and teamwork skills Great attention to detail Organizational skills An analytical mind Experience on Apache Kafka, Hbase and Graph DB is an added bonus

About Vymo

Vymo is a Sanfrancisco-based next-generation Sales productivity SaaS company with offices in 7 locations. Vymo is funded by top tier VC firms like Emergence Capital and Sequoia Capital. Vymo is a category creator, an intelligent Personal Sales Assistant who captures sales activities automatically, learns from top performers, and predicts ‘next best actions’ contextually. Vymo has 100,000 users in 60+ large enterprises such as AXA, Allianz, Generali.Vymo has seen 3x annual growth over the last few years and aspires to do even better this year by building up the team globally.

What is the Personal Sales Assistant

A game-changer! We thrive in the CRM space where every company is struggling to deliver meaningful engagement to their Sales teams and IT systems. Vymo was engineered with a mobile-first philosophy. The platform through AI/ML detects, predicts, and learns how to make Sales Representatives more productive through nudges and suggestions on a mobile device. Explore Vymo https://getvymo.com/">https://getvymo.com/

What you will do at Vymo

From young open source enthusiasts to experienced Googlers, this team develops products like Lead Management System, Intelligent Allocations & Route mapping, Intelligent Interventions, that help improve the effectiveness of the sales teams manifold. These products power the "Personal Assistant" app that automates the sales force activities, leveraging our cutting edge location based technology and intelligent routing algorithms.

A Day in your Life 

• Design, develop and maintain robust data platforms on top of Kafka, Spark, ES etc.
• Provide leadership to a group of engineers in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Manage and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
  
  

What you would have done  

• B.E (or equivalent) in Computer Sciences
• 6-9 years of experience building enterprise class products/platforms.
• Knowledge of Big data systems and/or Data pipeline building experience is preferred.
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience as technical lead or technical management experience.
• Excellent coding skills in one of Core Java or NodeJS
• Demonstrated problem solving skills in previous roles.
• Good communication skills.