Senior Team Lead - Software Engineering

Job Summary:

Job Description Combine your passion for technology, healthcare, and communications as an HCS Web/React UI Software Engineer. You will develop and improve our software workflow control systems through the full software development cycle from design to maintenance, while improving hospital communication and performance. This role will work on re-engineering existing applications into the SAAS model using state of the art technologies.

Primarily responsible for technical leadership, support, and guidance to local engineering teams, ensuring that projects are completed safely, efficiently, and within budget as well as overseeing the planned maintenance programs of facilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and coordinate all facilities management and project activities, including maintenance, renovation, and remodeling projects.

• Lead and manage facility-related projects, such as renovations, expansions, or relocations. Develop project plans, allocate resources, set timelines, and monitor progress to ensure successful completion within budget and schedule.

• Oversee relationships with external vendors, contractors, and service providers. Negotiate contracts, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with agreed-upon terms and service level agreements.

• Identify and implement best practices in facilities management. Ensure facilities comply with all relevant codes, regulations, and health and safety standards. Stay updated on changes in regulations and implement necessary changes to maintain compliance.

• Oversee facilities planned maintenance programs.

• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.

• Lead and oversee engineering projects within the Dubai & Northern Emirates region.

• Prepare financial reports and forecasts for management review.

• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.

• Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations.

• Generate progress reports, status updates, and other project-related documentation as required.

• Ensure that all project deliverables are of the highest quality, and that they meet the requirements of the project scope.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or related fields.

• Engineering qualifications in Electrical or HVAC disciplines will be an advantage.

• 5 - 10 years of experience in Engineering in Healthcare setup or a similar field.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Must have hands-on experience in hospital systems.

• Ability to think critically and maintain a high level of confidentiality.

• Must be willing to participate in crisis management at facility level.

• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Familiarity with project management software.

About us:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview: 

We're looking to on-board an enthusiastic Customer Success Specialist who loves delighting customers. The role requires hand-holding customers during on-boarding and making them Astra-nauts (yes, that's what we call our customers & team members!) who are well versed with Astra's platform. 

The role will also require collaboration with our sales, security and marketing team. We're a cyber security company with CTOs, engineering leaders & CISOs as our ICP, hence we'll prefer candidates who come with some understanding of principles of computer science.  

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring a smooth customer on-boarding
• Championing product adoption
• Maintaining high NPS
• Ensuring renewals of the accounts assigned to you
• Understanding customer requirements and translating them into deliverables.
• You will be attending to customer emails and phone calls on a daily basis
• You will be looking after stakeholder management between various teams and customers.
• Experience working with brand image and promoting value through customer experience
• Building a rapport with the customers
• You will be up-selling and cross-selling complementary Astra products
• You will be ensuring timely delivery by communicating across teams
• Diligently maintain customer success platform

Requirements for this role:

• 1-3 years of experience in customer success
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical knowledge required to work in a cyber security organization’s customer-facing role
• Ability to build rapport with the stakeholders
• Willingness to work in a remote setup

Benefits of joining the Astra Squad:

• Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
• Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
• Revel in our open, growth-centric ambiance; it's like a digital playground.
• Dive deep into the captivating world of cybersecurity.
• And yes, get ready for some unforgettable workcations—think Chikmagalur & Jim Corbett.

Recognizing the manpower needs and taking them to the HR Manager for approval

• Creating job descriptions for various roles and advertising them on various 

platforms

• Managing HR activities like meetings, interviews, and other schedules.

• Managing and handling the orientation of new employees.

• Assessing the training needs and coordinating the training and development 

programs for employees with HR Heads.

• Provide support to employees in various HR related topics such as leaves, 

compensation etc. and resolve issues and problems.

• Process, verify and maintain documentation relating to HR activities such as 

staffing, training and performance evaluations.

• Conduct employee onboarding and help plan training & development

• Maintain employee files and records in electronic and paper form

• Overlooking the daily operations of the HR department.

• Exit interviews and Full & Final Settlement.

• Payroll, Time office and attendance management.

Requirements

• Must have proven experience working as an HR executive or its equivalent.

• Experienced with recruiting and its full cycle.

• Good knowledge of employment/labor laws

• Outstanding knowledge of MS Office

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to prioritize and multi-task

• High ethical conduct

• BSc/BA in Business administration or relevant field

• Additional HR training is an advantag

Responsibilities

• Lead the app team to develop apps using Flutter for both Android & iOS platforms.
• Implement best practices for app development, usage tracking, and issue fixes.
• Do regular code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Be an individual contributor to write quality code that is simple, reliable, and scalable.
• Implement test-driven development.
• Ensure the best performance and user experience of the application.
• Work with the team to manage, optimize, and customize multiple applications.
• Evaluate and implement out-of-the-box ideas for application development.

Required Skills

• Must have 8+ years of experience in native mobile development (Android / iOS).
• Must have 2+ years of experience in Flutter with Dart.
• Must have worked and successfully deployed apps on play-store/app-store using Flutter.
• Experience with any of the state management solutions like Bloc, Provider, Mobx, etc.
• Extreme attention to detail and the ability to match the design as closely as possible.

Job Perks

• Get to work with a highly passionate team of engineers.
• Open and embracing culture towards the latest hot technologies.
• A high level of freedom & responsibility.
  
  

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible, cost-optimized and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements
• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Micro services and scalable cloud native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with cross functional team along with client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate into the Evaluation Review of your team member

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience in building enterprise web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework
• Experience with Redux and React Hooks
• Expert in HTML5, CSS3
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of best practices and modern web design trends is necessary.
• Some experience with modern web-based typography.
• Excel at rapid prototyping and at writing good code.
• Experience with testing/debugging in multiple browsers and platforms.
• Expertise in using Javascript
• Should have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Should be able to write Unit testing using any one of the frameworks like Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Jest , Enzyme or any other similar framework.
• Should have experience in either one of the Build scripts like Gulp or Grunt or Webpack
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build+caching
• Problem-solving and debugging skills
• Component-based architecture

What you need to have:

• You will be responsible for the delivery of the application/ feature/ module your team will be working on.
• Write/Review Code every day in addition to pairing with team members on functional and non-functional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals, and improvements to code quality across the team
• 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
• Ensure all code is thoroughly covered by automated tests and that all features meet quality checks before deployment.
• Contributing to the constant improvement of practices and processes in the team.
• Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Mobile, DevOps, UX, Data Science, Data Engineering, QA, etc.) to define and execute the feature roadmap.
• Research new technologies and tools and share your learning with the rest of the team.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including new hires.

What makes you a great fit for our team:

• 5-8 years of overall experience with at least 2+ years of full-stack experience. 
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Experience in NodeJS for at least two years and exposure to Python, Go, etc will be a huge plus and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, ReactJs(preferred), VueJs)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB) and UI/UX design
• Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server-side development.
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in building microservices-based architectures
• Knowledge of or experience with at least one or more of PaaS environments - AWS, Google App Engine, Windows Azure Cloud Services or similar
• Ability to deliver in a global team environment with members working remotely in various time zones and locations
• You are a problem solver with exceptional analytical skills and high attention to detail
• Good knowledge of data structures(list, graphs, maps) and their advantages or disadvantages.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, successfully handle ambiguity, and have experience working with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation
• You have excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to handle both executive-level discussions as well as technical deep dives
• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security, operability, and scalability of systems.
• Able to occasionally travel to our USA headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA

Education: 

• Bachelors - (Preferably from Tier-1 College)

Keywords:

• Node, NodeJS, AWS, Full Stack, Serverless, Amazon Web Services, Lambda, REST APIs, Webservices, Microservices, ReactJs, VueJs, AngularJs