Senior Software Designer

Vizup Commerce provides Video solutions for Shopify Brands. Vizup Commerce enables D2C brands to apply gamified techniques with interactive videos to educate customers, build trust and increase sales. It has 150+ brands as its customer base including Neemans, Soulflower, FormulaZ, etc.,

Looking for candidates who are curious to learn and shape their career as Full-stack engineers (frontend heavy). Our current tech stack entails Python/Django for the backend and Svelte JS for frontend.

Hybrid/Remote work

Requirements:

• Develop user-friendly web interfaces using modern frontend technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks.
• Ensure that the applications are responsive and optimized for various sizes of devices.
• Attention to detail in UI is a must. Interest in UX design principles is a plus.
• Ability to identify issues and fix them.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.
• Experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework/library (React, Angular, Svelte etc)
• Experience with CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, TailwindCSS

Preferring candidates from Ahmedabad / Bangalore specifically!

Thence is searching for a highly skilled and motivated individual who is enterprising and eager to make a significant impact in the service space by enabling exceptional products. The ideal candidate should have a robust technical background, outstanding leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. Moreover, this role includes consideration for a Partner role after completing one year with Thence, accompanied by sizeable equity.

Reporting directly to the COO, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the company's growth by delivering digital products to clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team at Thence.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Developing digital products, applications and minimum viable product (MVP), including defining the overall architecture and system design to meet business requirements.
• Enabling our client to select the appropriate technology stack, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Designing and configuring the infrastructure to support the software application.
• Choosing the development toolkit, frameworks and libraries best suited based on business and project's needs.
• Crafting and executing database designs, ensuring data integrity, performance and scalability.
• Enhancing and optimising application architecture to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Ensuring application scalability to handle increased user loads and data volumes effectively.
• Upholding quality assurance standards through code reviews, testing and continuous integration practices.
• Ensuring IP security by implementing robust authentication, authorisation and encryption mechanisms.
• Exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance the software's capabilities and keep it up-to-date with industry trends.
• Developing the startup's strategic resource allocation plan, including budgeting for technology investments and staffing needs.
• Ensuring efficient utilisation of technologies by optimising resource allocation and minimising waste.
• Assessing and integrating new systems and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of the organization.
• Deliver digital products to clients across various verticals, including healthcare, Fintech, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
• Building, attracting and mentoring talented developers to foster a culture of learning, innovation and collaboration within the team.
• Collaborating closely with the sales team to ensure effective communication and strategic positioning of technology solutions, while continuously refining sales pitch strategies based on feedback and market trends to maximize success rates and drive revenue growth.
• Defining, managing and evaluating team members based on goals and performance metrics, providing status updates to the leadership team on a bi-weekly basis.
• Identifying process gaps and development inefficiencies within the organisation and defining and driving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to address these gaps effectively.
• Generate business opportunities from existing clients and collaborate with the business team to convert new business.
• Work towards achieving annual and quarterly revenue targets.

Skills Required

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to make strategic decisions and take ownership of account growth, revenue and outcomes.
• Strong technical background with experience in managing complex technical projects encompassing diverse realms such as Web, Mobile, Applications (Apps), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
• Extensive experience in establishing and refining processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at measuring and enhancing the quality and efficiency of development capabilities. This includes implementing frameworks to assess performance metrics, optimise workflows and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Proven track record of driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships.
• Enterprising and adept at handling clients effectively.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of proven agency experience in software development projects.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers, engineers, and testers
• working on multiple client projects
• Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture

Additional Opportunities:

After completing one year with Thence, high-performing individuals will be considered for a Partner role, with the potential for substantial equity ownership in the company.

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

About the role

Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for a full stack engineer to help us scale Plum.

You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides.

• Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
• Run test-harness to guarantee the structure, integrity, and design of the application.
• Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
• Optimize JavaScript implementations to ensure that code remains performant.
• Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
• Push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with Nodejs, React.
• Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• Understand complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

Job Description :

- Strong understanding of the Ruby programming language and Rails framework

- Proficiency in Javascript including experience with React, Angular or Vue

- Database understanding (Postgres/MySQL)

- Previous experience maintaining production applications

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

Skills Required :

- Navigating and understanding a large codebase

- Experience with Git continuous integration and regular deployments

- Understanding and appreciation for UX and usability

- Excellent communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews,

- Writing tests using Rspec and Capybara.

Position description:

We’re looking for a senior full stack developer (MERN) with a proven experience to design and create software. The responsibilities will include coding both on the front and back-end, writing APIs, and React components.  

Having an experience of web development using JavaScript, you should be able to create web applications from scratch. The ideal candidate should have experience of working in agile teams. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participating in the design and creation of scalable software
• Writing clean, functional code on the front- and back-end
• Writing unit tests and fixing bugs or other coding issues
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs and react components
• Perform peer code reviews

Reporting Team

• Reporting Designation: Full Stack Development (KH_PPLS_PE_SPD.Full Stack Development)
• Reporting Department: Software Product Development (KH_PPLS_PE_SPD)

Required Certification/s:

Required work experience

• Industry: IT
• Role: Web Development
• Years of experience: 3 to 6

Key Performance Indicators:

• 3-6 years of industry work experience 
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role 
• 1+ years of web application development with JavaScript as full stack 
• End-to-end full stack experience designing and building scalable applications 
• Excellent JavaScript / Typescript skills 
• Strong proficiency in React (hooks knowledge is plus) 
• Strong proficiency in Nodejs 
• Good HTML5 / CSS3 skills with expertise on responsive web design 
• Must have development experience in Micro services using NodeJS and TypeScript 
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, mongoose, aggregation framework and Redis 
• Experience with Web sockets and related frameworks (e.g. Socket.IO) 
• Experience in using and developing GraphQL APIs 
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN. 
• Open minded to take up any challenge, research and provide solutions –  

Required Competencies:

• Great attention to detail 
• Testing libraries – jest, testing-library is plus 
• TDD / BDD experience is plus 
• Experience with AWS, K8S is plus 

• Familiar with SDLC methodologies like SCRUM, AGILE, Continuous Integration  

Required Skills:

ReactJS, Node.JS, HTML, CSS, Javascript, NoSQL