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Posted by Satpreet Arora
2 - 5 yrs
₹15L - ₹26L / yr (ESOP available)
Remote, Mumbai
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About Talent Litmus


- Talent Litmus is a game-based platform for assessments and learning founded by IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. We are a young, funded, growing and ambitious startup.


- Imagine if companies were to recruit candidates using interactive mobile games instead of tedious assessments. What if training sessions in organisations were not long 3-day workshops but gripping online role-playing games. We imagined it, and have made it a reality.


- We are using Games and Generative AI to make assessments nd learning at the workplace interesting.


Responsibilities


  • Complete ownership of our web and mobile platform - from specification to design, development, and troubleshooting.
  • Design and develop secure, scalable, performant and reliable systems.
  • Create a framework of technical standards and procedures
  • Collaborative work with other HR tech platforms to implement seamless integration.
  • Rapid development and prototyping of new features.


Requirements 


  • Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or Mathematics 2 or more years of demonstrated successful experience in Full-Stack web development.
  • Hands-on Experience with designing and building a high-quality front end for web applications.
  • Experience with Node. JS, Angular JS, MongoDB, ExpressJS, NestJs, AWS(EC2, Route53, S3, CloudFront, Lambda), Docker, nginx.
  • Experience with version control systems such as Git.
  • Experience with Typescript Basic understanding and exposure to GEN AI tech.
  • Bonus: experience with CI/CD, and game development (phaser.js, three.js, play canvas, etc. )
  • Ability to have smart technical conversations and defend hypotheses with factual data.
  • Candidates willing to work from home or from office in Mumbai
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