Senior Planning Engineer

Job Title: Admission Counsellor

Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore

Company: CollegeX

About CollegeX: CollegeX is a leading education consultancy dedicated to driving admissions for our partner universities. We help students find the right programs and institutions to achieve their academic and career goals. Job Role: As an Admission Counsellor, you will be responsible for guiding prospective students through the admissions process, helping them select the right universities and programs, and ensuring a smooth application experience. Key Responsibilities: Counsel students and parents about various universities, courses, admission requirements, and career prospects. Handle inbound and outbound calls, emails, and WhatsApp inquiries from prospective students. Follow up with leads to ensure a high conversion rate. Assist students with application procedures, visa processes, and documentation. Collaborate with partner universities to stay updated on admission criteria, deadlines, and scholarships. Maintain and update the student database and generate reports on admissions progress. Participate in education fairs, webinars, and marketing campaigns to generate leads.

Required Skills & Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in any discipline. 1-3 years of experience in student counselling, admissions, or education consulting. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work in a target-driven environment. Proficiency in MS Office and CRM tools is a plus.

Why Join Us? Competitive salary and performance-based incentives. Opportunity to work with top universities. A dynamic and growth-oriented work environment. If you're passionate about helping students achieve their academic dreams, apply now!

As a Co-Founder & CTO at Ostrich AI, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our company. Located in the Greater Bengaluru Area with remote work flexibility, you'll lead our technical initiatives, charting the strategic course for our platform's development. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the implementation of our innovative data management and distributed computing solutions, ensuring the highest standards of privacy, security, and accountability. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll drive innovation, tackle complex technical challenges, and shape the future of AI infrastructure. 

Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

Company Overview

VC-backed Fintech startup with an innovative online trading application seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing team.

We're based out of UK and have our engineering team in India.

Job Description

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
5. Maintain existing React systems, including fixing bugs
6. Handling backend infra written in Next/Node/Express

Skills

1. Strong proficiency in debugging, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
2. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
3. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
4. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
5. Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
6. Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
7. Knowledge of isomorphic Next js and Node js is a plus
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
10. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
11. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
12. Familiarity with basic authentication mechanism and security
13. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
14. A knack for benchmarking and optimization
15. Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

[Please note: Our HQ is in Wales and we're in the process of creating an Indian Entity. This means that the candidate will be responsible for all Tax related compliances until the entity is setup.]

Responsibilities:

• Devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues.
• Monitor all operations that affect the quality.
• Supervise and guide inspectors, technicians, and other staff.
• Assure the reliability and consistency of production by checking processes and final output.
• Appraise customers' requirements and make sure they are satisfied.
• Report all malfunctions to production executives to ensure immediate action.
• Facilitate proactive solutions by collecting and analyzing quality data.
• Review current standards and policies.
• Keep records of quality reports, statistical reviews, and relevant documentation.
• Ensure all legal standards are met.
• Communicate with external quality assurance officers during on-site inspections.

Requirements:

• Key requirements: Functional Testing, Automation, Base24 JIRA, API.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering with 1-3 years of relevant experience.
• Highly experienced in Embedded C, C++ coding as per MISRA standards
• Experience in firmware programming for 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit controllers.
• Knowledgeable in Linker Scripts, Make files & firmware debugging using JTAG or on the UART console. 
• Experienced in Communication peripherals like SPI, UART, I2C, CAN, etc.
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• Ideation, designing, prototyping, and developing as per product requirements.

• Expertise in system architecture and design for Embedded software systems.
• Develop modular Embedded Code to port into different projects.
• Experience on Real Time Systems and Scheduling mechanisms
• Development experience in "middleware" / “application” / Low layer.
• Experience with developing embedded code for networking technologies like TCP/IP and UDP would be a plus.
• Document state machine diagrams, flow charts to understand the system architecture
• Working closely with Design teams to understand Hardware Implementation.
• Develop Test methods, in some cases automated test cases to test the firmware code and support hardware engineers.
• Use Debuggers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and other necessary electrical tools to debug the code for problem-solving.
• Excellent reading skills for complete understanding of technical documents such as Processor Architecture Specifications and MCU hardware manuals, schematics etc.
• Ability to generate ideas in response to complex issues and execute on solutions.
• Python programming is a big plus.

The key aspects of this role include:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python.
• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements
based on business need and architectural improvements.
• Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers.
• Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features.

To be the right fit, you'll need:
• More than 4+ years of experience as a software developer in Python, with knowledge of at least one
Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc.
• Good understanding of common design patterns and architecture principles to design reliable and
Scalable applications
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of databases line NoSQL or MongoDB
• Good to have AWS and Docker or Web services
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Understanding product features, preparing technical documentation.
• Take ownership over project timelines and deliverables.
• Contribute to the design, architecture and build of our Core Platform.
• Help scale the platform and build out new features.
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Self-directed, but also work well with other engineers.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Anticipate future technical needs and craft plans to realize them, and balance feature development with investments in tech debt reduction.
• The ability to combine speed and quality and that you can achieve both at same time.
• Excited about working for a startup and moving quickly.
• Experience in team handling will be a plus.
• Work with customers for understanding requirements whenever needed.

Senior Software Development Engineer - Chennai  

Who we are?  

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.  

In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.  

With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.  

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/  

What You’ll Do?  

We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:  

• Lead design and development of products working closely with business team 
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers 
• Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance 
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel 

• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption 

Who You Need To Be? 
 

• 4+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery 
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).  
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities. 
 

• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background. 
• Able to take ownership of working with atleast one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend 
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.  
• Skill set 

• Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure 

• Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development 
• Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus. 
• Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place. 
• Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work 
• Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few 

• Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus