Senior Technical Architect - Java

Responsibilities :

·      You will manage a team of backend engineers to deliver a valuable and delightful product for our users.

·      You will be responsible for liaising with external stakeholders such as product, acquisition and retention teams to come up with a charter for a certain vertical(game), and then execute on it. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge tech stack and keep it current.

·      You will be responsible for setting the correct set of processes in engineering that help you get very high efficiency in the organisation.

·      You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines.

·      You would need to demonstrate an ability to stay objective while creating an appropriate decision-making framework for the entire organisation.

·      You will believe in measure-ability of the success of the tech stack and processes adopted.

Requirements:

·      B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

·      10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in management role.

·      Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.

·      Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies

·      Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership

·      Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.

·      Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.

·      Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment

·      A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.

·      Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.

·      Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.

·      Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams.

Extramarks Education India Private Limited

Extramarks is leading the Education Technology sector in India by providing 360⁰ education support to learners through new age digital education solutions. These solutions are used by schools in class room for imparting education and by students at home to make learning easy and effective. Keeping pace with globalization and technology in education, Extramarks empowers young learners to step in with the latest technology and have anytime-anywhere access to quality learning. In a very short period, Extramarks has become extremely popular among schools and students. More than 8000 schools use digital learning and technology solutions of Extramarks across India, Singapore, Kuwait, UAE and South Africa.

Extramarks Learning App allows students to learn at home at their own pace and space and provides complete educational support eliminating the need of a tutor. The three pronged pedagogical approach of Learn, Practice and Test ensures better learning outcomes for students. All concepts are first explained in an easy to learn manner with the help of rich media then the students are allowed to practice the concept. Virtual Practicing modules and Q&A allow the retention of knowledge that is tested on a robust teaching platform to identify the learning gaps.

Extramarks is currently in the process of scaling up rapidly and is looking to hire for the position of Sr. Development Manager, to be an experienced professional with unique skill who stretches from strategy to execution. Extramarks is driving student learning through data driven techniques by providing personalized learning recommendations to the students. Apart from such customer facing innovations, we are also implementing internal operational excellence solutions through similar data driven approaches. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join Extramarks and help change the face of education in India.

Job Description:

- Drive high performance in the Engineering team, with a relentless focus on agile methodologies and continuous innovation in processes, work practices and tooling.

- Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure solutions are maintainable, modular, and of high code-quality.

- Manage the program releases and collaborate with Architects for bringing new practices and making right technical choices for the system.

- Build a strong, progressive engineering culture that values diversity, trust, efficiency, technical ownership, and accountability.

- Able to lead the development cycle and ensure delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimised for performance and built to scale.

Required Skills:

- Extensive experience in managing teams building high-volume and highly complex consumer software products.

- Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing product experience.

- Deep understanding and prior hands-on experience of back-end technologies like Java based microservices & system design architecture with Spring / Spring boot frameworks, hibernate & SQL OR NoSQL databases. (e.g. MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra).

- Good understanding of Java Memory Management, Garbage Collection, Multithreading, Immutability & concurrency programming.

- Expertise in effective planning and prioritization of projects to create an environment where randomization is either absent or extremely minimized.

- Able to break complex projects into modules and propose effective solutions in view of capabilities of existing platforms and infrastructure.

Desired Skills:

- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services.

- Experience with high performance & high scale applications.

- Good knowledge of multiple data storage systems

Engineering Director 

Experience: 9+ yrs. 

Location: Pune (Hybrid) 

We are seeking an Engineering Director, who operates with vision and integrity, and who will use innovative technologies that maximize productivity and help our company grow. Someone who plays an active role in development, identifying requirements and setting timelines and managing the project end to end. Exceptional leadership, communication, and project management skills. 

Technology Skills: Java/ AWS/ Microservices/ Serverless architecture/ Cloud computing/Spring boot/Spring Cloud. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Manage Engineering processes and workflows  
• Use development methodologies to prioritize, estimate, and deliver projects with increasing efficiency by leading cross-functional team 
• Define the strategic direction and contribute to the technical strategy. 
• Provide clear and concise technical guidance to engineering teams  
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements 
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies 
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development 
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind 
• Excellent project management skills 
• Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems 
• Bachelor's degree in the engineering field. 

About Intraedge: https://intraedge.com/ 

Intraedge is a Technology, Products and Learning Organization, It was founded in 2002 with offices in the US, India, Europe, Canada, and Singapore. We provide our clients with the resources and expertise to enhance business performance through technology. 

About Fluidra: https://www.fluidra.com/ 

Fluidra, a multinational group listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange, is the global leader in developing innovative products and services in the global residential and commercial market. 

Roles and Responsibility :

- This position requires you to lead and manage the whole engineering team.

- Manage your OKRs, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.

- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

- Architect & design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Lead multiple modules, third party integrations and business partners integration.

- Taking architectural decisions, defining high level and low level design.

- Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent and more to be shared via email.

Skills you are expected to have :

- Hands-on experience in advanced Golang, Python, PHP, Reactjs, React Native PWA, Javascript, AWS Cloud Services.

- Deep understanding of technologies, high level design, low level design in a secure, scalable and available set-up.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Hands-on experience in system design, architecture or developing distributed systems.

- Should be good in writing code keeping scalability, flexibility and monitoring at center.

- Good understanding of source control tools GIT, Jira and Bitbucket, code reviews etc.

- Preferable experience in Django and Laravel frameworks, but not limited to these only.

- Experience in the development of robust and scalable Rest APIs and APIs testing tools such as postman etc.

- Experience in micro service-based development would be a plus.

- Experience in queuing systems such as rabbitMQ, Active MQ would be a plus.

- Experience in AWS cloud services.

- Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipeline.

- Good analytical and communication skills.

- Candidates from the fintech domain would be preferred (Payments/ Banking/ Wallets/ Insurance/ Financial Markets).

About Us :

- We are a consumer lending fintech start-up on a mission to provide Fair Finance to Everyone. We have raised $15 million in debt and equity funding from leading angels that have previously backed Ola, Oyo, Myntra, Uniphore and 1mg as well as marquee NBFCs.

- Our loans are originated in partnership with 1000+ merchants who are present in over 80 cities -

- Leading healthcare chains: Indra IVF, Partha Dental, VLCC

- Home improvements: Asian Paints, Design Cafe, @home by Nilkamal

- Education : upGrad, Toppr, Board Infinity, Career Point, Bansal Learning, Miles Education E-Bikes - Ampere, Hero Electric, Lectrix, Benlng

- Our founding team has worked at fintech companies in London where they won a Banking Technology Award for Best Mobile Initiative as well as Indian FinTechs such as Coverfox and Liquiloans.

- The team has extensive experience in credit, investment banking and vendor management. They have graduated from London Business School, Northwestern University (USA), and attained the CFA charter.

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

1. Lead over a product in the Technology department.
2. Self-sufficiently lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring.
3. Work with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
4. Recruit, train, retain, and simply make Blok a great yet challenging place to work for the people in your team.
5. Mentor team, resulting in trickle-down happiness and efficiency.
   
   Requirements

1. You have at least 2 years of experience in a managerial position in a technology company.
2. You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services, and know-how to compose a service-oriented architecture. You’ll lead by example by executing when necessary.
3. Bias towards action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way. You embrace the agile software development mindset.
4. Hiring prowess. You're a strong leader who can attract talent around the world, raising the bar for excellence. You retained, mentored, and hired senior engineers and managers with a track record of building productive, world-class engineering teams.
5. Mentorship. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through motivating, mentoring, teaching, and reviewing, you help other specialists make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
6. You have the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with others at all levels within the organization. You have experience with effectively creating alignments with multiple teams and operating well in ambiguity.
7. Dedication. You care tremendously about keeping the experience consistent for users. You are your harshest critic and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team's scope.
8. Experience within our tech-stack (Microservices, Node.js, Java, React, MongoDB, Kotlin, Swift, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, WebSockets, etc.)
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative regardless of boundaries empowers their teams and works well in a cross-functional set-up.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Work with outside data sources and APIs

- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

- Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

- Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability using JUnit, Mocikto or Espresso.

- Lead and Mentor Android developers

 Required Skills and Experience :

 - 6+ year of proven software development experience and Android applications development

    in Android Kotlin and react native based Hybrid app development

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

- Experienced in Android Kotlin and react native based Hybrid app development

- Experience with Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

- Experienced in Client server programming (RESTful APIs) to connect Android applications to backend services

- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience in Android Studio IDE and tools like Android Device Monitor, Logcat

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

- Proficient in using code versioning tools, such as Git, SVN

- Strong CS fundamentals and a good working knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

- Strong on OOPS and Java concepts

- Proficient in integration of third party libraries OkHttp, Retrofit, ButterKnife, Image caching libraries

- Working knowledge of RxJava, RxAndroid

- Expert in debugging, troubleshooting, memory optimization, performance and scalability of mobile app.

- Apk size and battery optimization

- Strong design/development experience working on at least 4 Mobile application apps from Scartch

- Has worked on MVP, MVVM design patterns for android applications

- Has experience on working with web views in Android and customizing them for different features

- Follows coding guidelines, Reviews code for peers and juniors.

- Understands and implement security guidelines

- Experience in localization

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Job Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above, computer-related major, good English reading and writing ability.
2. Skilled use of Redis, MongoDB, React Native, Android Development and other caching technology.
3. Familiar with basic Linux operation, have experience in super-million-level PV application development and have experience in high concurrency and big data processing.
4. Five years of WEB development work experience, familiar with PHP website program development language with successful large-scale website project development experience or e-commerce development experience is preferred.
5. Familiar with Opencart system module development, development, template improvement and system reconstruction according to the requirements of the prototype, and complete the experience of website construction;
6. Proficient in HTML, DIV + CSS, XHTML, XML page structure, proficient in JavaScript / Ajax scripting language, can write web programs compatible with all major browsers;
7. Familiar with the MySql database, can write efficient SQL statements, have large database optimization experience;
8. Have a good learning and research ability, good business ethics and personal professional ethics, teamwork spirit, good at communication.