Senior Java Developer

About Digit88

Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner! 

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners. 

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best. 

The Vision: To be the most trusted technology partner to innovative software product companies world-wide

The Opportunity: 

As the Engineering Manager, you will own, drive product engineering projects / programs and deliver to global enterprise customers. You will be part of the Digit88 leadership team to drive engineering and business excellence, build high performance teams, develop innovative culture to delight customers. You will provide thought leadership in technology and engineering practices to customers as well as the teams. 

What you'll do:

• Work closely with product managers to finalize and translate requirements into actionable plans for the engineering team.
• Guide the engineering team in architecture, design, and development of innovative solutions.
• Unblock engineers during development and provide technical support and mentorship as needed.
• Lead and manage a team of 10 senior engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Define and monitor development timelines to ensure conformance and timely delivery of projects.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and best practices across the engineering team.
• Collaborate with US product management and senior management to align engineering efforts with business goals.
• Ensure high-quality software delivery by implementing and upholding best practices in coding, testing, and DevOps.
• Maintain strong communication with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and senior management.

What makes you a great fit:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or a similar leadership role.
• Strong technical expertise in Java, microservices, messaging, and DevOps practices.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, with a track record of successful project delivery.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with US product management and senior management.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving requirements.
• Passion for innovation and staying up-to-date with emerging technologies.

Benefits/Culture @ Digit88: 

● Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident) 

● Flexible Work Model 

● Accelerated learning & non-linear growth 

● Flat organisation structure driven by ownership and accountability. 

● Opportunity to own and be a part of some of the most innovative and promising AI/SaaS product companies in North America and around the world. 

● Accomplished Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, Adobe and other innovative product companies 

● Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Energy/Utilities, ESG, HealthTech, IoT, PLM and more. 

You will work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges. 

This is the right time to join us and partner in our growth!

Job Description:-

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, ensuring scalability and reliability of cloud resources.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Establish and enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes, facilitating faster and more reliable releases.

Configuration Management: Manage and automate server configurations using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, ensuring consistency and compliance across environments.

Monitoring and Logging: Set up and maintain monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack) to proactively identify and troubleshoot issues within the AWS infrastructure.

Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices and compliance standards (e.g., AWS IAM, Security Groups) to protect data and resources. Conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments.

The Successful Applicant

AWS Proficiency: Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is a plus.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

CI/CD Tools: Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, or AWS CodePipeline. Ability to configure and optimize automated build and deployment pipelines.

Containerization: Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes in AWS.

Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automating tasks and managing infrastructure.

Monitoring and Logging Tools: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.

Security and Compliance: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).

Networking: Knowledge of AWS networking concepts, VPC, and routing. Experience with VPNs, Direct Connect, and other networking technologies is a plus.

Database Administration: Basic knowledge of database administration on AWS, including RDS, DynamoDB, or Aurora.

Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey technical information effectively.

We are hiring Full Stack Developers who are passionate, self-driven and capable of working in both frontend and backend technologies. They will work closely with our product team in building features and applications to directly benefit the product's growth.

We have a ton of interesting problems to solve. You will be surrounded by hard-working and smart developers who share the same goals as yours.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Developing and managing well-functioning databases and applications.
• Modifying and testing changes to previously developed program
• Working effectively in collaboration with other teams /partners in Scaled Agile Framework and other support functions when required with a continuous focus on improving applications.
• Ensuring quality delivery of the code to UAT and production environments with complete ownership.
• Working towards improving code quality standardization.
• Maintaining and upgrading the software following deployment
• Managing the end-to-end life cycle for the production of software and applications
• Overseeing and guiding the analyzing, writing, building, and deployment of software
• Overseeing the automated testing and providing feedback to management during the development process
• Being creative in using tools and third-party services to deliver the code faster

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Python in the backend
• Experience in web frameworks like Django
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and Javascript front-end frameworks such as React, Vue or such
• Experience with Postgres, SQLite
• Experience with Version Control Systems like Git 
• Sound knowledge of Software engineering best practices
• Sound knowledge in RestFul API Design
• Good knowledge of database concepts
• Good understanding of incorporating ML models in Python applications
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in maintaining production servers
• Experience with AWS / Digital Ocean / Heroku

• Working with the product team to develop new features focused on improving the user experience
• Improving existing features and working on streamlining client implementations through improved tools
• Improving our technical architecture and building out a continuous integration pipeline
• Modernizing our front-end in new frameworks
• Everything else - our team is small and you'll likely be involved in almost every tech-related thing going on
  
  

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience building consumer-facing web apps
• You are interested in the full-stack opportunity and love building a feature from start to finish
• Self-starter with a deep interest in tech - we want someone who will come in with opinions, and shape our engineering practices and decisions for the better
• An eye for design - you'll have an important role in making the product look great
• Believe in our mission and love the idea of working in education to help students succeed
  
  

Technologies you'll work with:

• NodeJS, http://sails.js/">Sails.JS
• http://react.js/">React.js, Redux, Redux-Saga
• Kubernetes, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Whatever else you decide - we're constantly re-evaluating our stack and tools
• Having prior experience with the technologies is a plus, but not mandatory for skilled candidates.

Benefits

• Remote Option - You can work from any location of your choice
• Reimbursement of Home Office Setup
• Competitive Salary
• Friendly atmosphere
• Flexible paid vacation policy

• Develop Magento extensions based on requirements given
• Customize 3rd party Magento extensions
• Diagnose and fix bugs in Magento websites
• Customize Magento functionalities by following Magento standards
• Optimize speed of Magento by identifying and fixing bottlenecks

• Proficient in Object-Oriented PHP, MVC, Javascript, jQuery, prototype, SQL, HTML, and CSS
• Extensive in developing Magento extensions and themes
• Deep understanding of the Magento architecture and data flow
• Thorough understanding of Magento concepts of Layouts, Blocks, Models, Controllers, Helpers, Observers, etc
• Understands the ORM concepts and database structure of Magento
• Knows how to extend Magento functionalities including REST APIs
• Understands the performance bottlenecks of Magento and the ability to write optimized code
• Knowledge in Magento 2 is an added advantage
• Knowledge in Linux environments
• Good knowledge in GIT concepts and operations
• Knows how to consume 3rd party RESTful services
• Magento Developer Certification is an added advantage

About The Company
At AutoVRse, we build the finest, customised Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR/AR) applications, helping enterprises harness the power of immersive technologies across several key functions. Combining our photo-realistic visualisations with interactive virtual environments, we have partnered with firms like Bosch, Volvo, John Deere, Fidelity and Abbott to deploy VR experiences in India, Singapore, Australia, Germany and USA. Our experiences are used in design reviews, as sales tools, for experiential marketing and for virtual training.

Over the last few years, we’ve been named:
• “Best 40-Under-40 Startups in South India” (2018, TNIE),
• “Elevate 100 Top Startups in Karnataka“ (2017, KBITS),
• “Most Innovative Startup in India” (2016, CIO Demo), and several more.

About The Role
As a full stack developer, you will work closely with the engineering team to create immersive, next-gen VR/AR products on the web. You will work on cutting edge technologies 3D technologies and frameworks like WebVR and Threejs to build scalable, creative and practical applications for our enterprise clients.

As a full stack developer, you will work closely with the engineering team to create immersive, next-gen VR/AR products on the web. You will work on cutting edge technologies 3D technologies and frameworks like WebVR and Threejs to build scalable, creative and practical applications for our enterprise clients.

Responsibilities
• Build web-based 3D, VR applications for our clients
• Research, define, extend, and maintain production pipelines, processes, and workflows for our web-based 3D products
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
• “Pixel-perfect” implementation of our approved user interface

Qualifications
• Experience in deploying web applications in production
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Experience in server management and deployment for the relevant environment
• Experience in web-based 3D like WebGL/WebVR is a plus but not required.