Senior UI/UX Designer

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka and backend systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java (8/11+), Spring Boot, and building scalable, real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
• Design and implement Kafka-based messaging and streaming solutions
• Optimize Kafka performance (topics, partitions, consumers)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices
• Ensure code quality and maintain best practices in a distributed environment

Required Skills:

• 6+ years in Java development
• 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience (producers, consumers, streams)
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing
• Experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to join our team as a Fresher Software Developer. As a software developer, you will be involved in the entire software development life cycle, from concept and design to testing and deployment. This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates or individuals with limited professional experience to kickstart their career in software development.

Responsibilities:

Coding and Development:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and develop high-quality software solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with industry best practices.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and provide constructive feedback.

Testing and Debugging:

• Conduct thorough testing of software applications to identify and fix bugs, ensuring the delivery of reliable and robust software.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues, providing timely resolutions.

Learning and Growth:

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends to enhance skills and contribute to continuous improvement within the development team.
• Actively participate in training programs and self-directed learning to broaden technical knowledge.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with team members, including other developers, designers, and product managers, to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Educational Background:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Infrastructure Engineers to join our Engineering team.

More on this here - https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html">https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html

We’re excited if you have:

• Recent experience designing and building unified observability platforms that enable companies to use the sometimes-overwhelming amount of available data (metrics, logs, and traces) to determine quickly if their application or service is operating as desired
• Expertise in deploying and using open-source observability tools in large-scale environments, including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana), Jaeger, Kiali, and/or Loki
• Familiarity with open standards like OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and OpenMetrics
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Istio as the architecture on which the observability platform runs, and how they integrate and scale. Additionally, the ability to contribute improvements back to the joint platform for the benefit of all teams
• Demonstrated customer engagement and collaboration skills to curate custom dashboards and views, and identify and deploy new tools, to meet their requirements
• The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment 
• Using CICD tools to automatically perform canary analysis and roll out changes after passing automated gates (think Argo & keptn)
• Hands-on experience working with AWS 
• Bonus points for knowledge of ETL pipelines and Big data architecture
• Great problem-solving skills & takes pride in your work
• Enjoys building scalable and resilient systems, with a focus on systems that are robust by design and suitably monitored
• Abstracting all of the above into as simple of an interface as possible (like Knative) so developers don't need to know about it unless they choose to open the escape hatch

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and build automation around the chosen tools to make onboarding new services easy for developers (dashboards, alerts, traces, etc)
• Demonstrate great communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute new open-source tools and/or improvements to existing open-source tools back to the CNCF ecosystem

Tools we use:

Kops, Argo, Prometheus/ Loki/ Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, MySQL/ PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, Cassandra, Fluentd, Redis, OpenVPN, MongoDB, ELK

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

Full Stack /Node. JS/ React.js Developer:

We are looking for  Developers responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements into the application. You will also be responsible for building rich UI components with React.

Skills: Node.js, React.js, MongoDB, Express JS, HTML, CSS.

Requirements:

• Should have experience on Node.js and frameworks available for it, such as Express or StrongLoop. Preferably Express.
• Should have experience in building Rich UI components with React.js.
•  Should have hands on experience on MongoDB.  
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks and workarounds.
• Knowledge of ES6, ES7 and Object-oriented and functional programming.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Should have experience in working on Linux (Ubuntu) Environment and basic linux commands.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Good to have knowledge on Redis DB.
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
• Good to have exposure working in an agile development environment.

Job Description

• Understanding of product landscaping, product benchmarking, product feature prioritization and product development processes are a must in order to be able to create a roadmap and deliver on the same;
• Direct interaction with end customers, OEMs, Channel Partners and Sales Teams in order to understand the business needs and document the voice of the customer for new product features or offerings;
• Improving the product development planning process as and when required in order to boost the product portfolio of the company;
• Create consistent and continuous engagement through the product in order to ensure complete satisfaction;
• Grow customers internally and externally by identifying other areas where the company can add value in a scalable manner;
• Identify new customer needs, create product strategies around the new needs and build scalable product offerings;
• Be able to say “no” to certain feature requests and explain to the stakeholders and help them

understand the reason behind it;

• Create transparent, scalable and easy-to-understand prioritization processes so that the business scales;
• Ensure customers are engaged and develop key product features to measure customer engagement and success which can be monitored and tracked;
• Provide frequent progress reports, both casually and in written format;
• Document decisions, strategy implementation and outputs;
• Present methods and results to peers’ management and customers as necessary

Required qualifications:

We are looking for a smart, adaptable individual with a healthy mix of software product management experience, enterprise software products, product landscaping, great presentation/communication skills, and strong leadership/people management skills and the following qualifications:

• At least 5-6 years of continuous experience in product management at a software product company , IIT and NIT will be a special consideration
• Good understanding of B2B product development and its life cycle.
• Previous experience working in a team and leadership skills;
• Experience in setting targets and milestones and achieving them;
• A problem-solving attitude;
• Ability to communicate effectively and concisely, whether verbally, in writing, or through drawings, presentations and schematics;
• Knowledge of core engineering concepts that will allow road-mapping an enterprise technology product efficiently;
• Ability to innovate, outdo expectations and persevere to benefit the team as a whole;

Individuals who are creative, enterprising and attentive to detail will fit right in with our small, passionate team. We always run-on high energy and enthusiasm and are looking for that fire in the belly! We look forward to meeting you!

 What you need to have:

• Minimum of 4 years (and above) experience in modern UI frameworks like ReactJS web/Native
• Experience and expertise in HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Familiar with UI design concepts and user interface design
• Experienced user of the GIT/GITHUB repository
• Experience with hands on UI development
• Experience in modern UI frameworks like ReactJS web/Native

• Experience in defining new architectures, design all layers of the solution, create architectural blueprints that can be used for final code development.
• Interface with client business/technical teams to understand complex requirements.
• Anticipate on technological evolutions(example use MySQL Lite not MS SQL, use C# not ASP, don't use JSF use Angular).
• Resolve technical issues.
• Bridge between Developers, Project Managers/Leads, and Client, ensuring smooth communication channel.
• Ensure quality of project implementation deployed.
• Provide technical guidance to projects/programs for complex components of a multiple technology suites.
• Ensuring documentation of the complete project architecture.
• Lead actions to determine root cause of problems and drive resolution.
• Participate in cross-functional work groups to assess business needs, develop a systems architecture strategy, and implementation plans.
• Leads work groups that are responsible for software development.
• Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly integrated and implemented by the development team.
• Coach the technical team in the development of the technical architecture and help them solve challenging technical problems
• Provide technical support and technical quality control throughout all stages of the project.
• Spearheads the development, implementation and communications of architecture roadmap strategies to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve.
• Identify existing architecture weaknesses and find opportunities for process reengineering and perform cost benefit analysis

• Time Management- Organizes own workload to achieve maximum productivity and completes work in a timely and professional manner. Handles multiple short and long term modules by proper planning while anticipating potential problems and planning for contingencies.
• Identify high-potential team members for next level positions and creating learning and development plans for them.
• Enable strong process in place and reducing dependencies on individual.

Technical Skills and Qualification

• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies, Java, Javascript, Contact center environment.
• Experience of current technologies including Open Source, J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JSP, etc.), web application development, web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Rich Internet Applications, messaging infrastructures and databases.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools and applications.
• Should be comfortable for 40%-60% coding.
• Able to convert requirements into executable code
• 9 to 12 yrs experience
• Qualification: BE/B-Tech /MCA or any equivalent degree

Desirables

• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Ability to lead discussions with all levels of the organization and provide balanced information of an idea or communication of an issue regardless of written or verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
• Having Analytical and problem-solving
• Ability to translate complex requirements into functional and Technical architecture
• Experience managing the technology aspect of multiple complex projects
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions and Assist team members in complex task
• Willing to take ownership and being accountable.
• Openness, communicates honestly, openly, and consistently.
• Positive Attitude encourages a positive rather than negative viewpoint.
• Integrity maintains the highest standard of personal conduct in performing all duties.
• Should be a good listener.
• Dependable, can be relied upon to get the job done.
• Able to avoid mistakes that could/should be anticipated.
• Should be able sense and grab the opportunities to innovate and improvise.
• Very high competence in presentation skills.
• Negotiator: Excellent negotiation skills which comes handy in hard selling new ideas/ new technical implementations etc.
• Risk Management: Should be able to take calculated risks in trying out new technical implementation avenues
• Able to communicate the org level vision to the team effectively

Summary
Our Kafka developer has a combination of technical skills, communication skills and business knowledge. The developer should be able to work on multiple medium to large projects. The successful candidate will have excellent technical skills of Apache/Confluent Kafka, Enterprise Data WareHouse preferable GCP BigQuery or any equivalent Cloud EDW and also will be able to take oral and written business requirements and develop efficient code to meet set deliverables.

Must Have Skills

• Participate in the development, enhancement and maintenance of data applications both as an individual contributor and as a lead.
• Leading in the identification, isolation, resolution and communication of problems within the production environment.
• Leading developer and applying technical skills Apache/Confluent Kafka (Preferred) AWS Kinesis (Optional), Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse Google BigQuery (Preferred) or AWS RedShift or SnowFlakes (Optional)
• Design recommending best approach suited for data movement from different sources to Cloud EDW using Apache/Confluent Kafka
• Performs independent functional and technical analysis for major projects supporting several corporate initiatives.
• Communicate and Work with IT partners and user community with various levels from Sr Management to detailed developer to business SME for project definition .
• Works on multiple platforms and multiple projects concurrently.
• Performs code and unit testing for complex scope modules, and projects
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume environment (~900 Million messages)

• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, KSQL, KStream and Kafka Control center.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on AvroConverters, JsonConverters, and StringConverters.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector,  JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
• Working knowledge on Kafka Rest proxy.
• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
• Create stubs for producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.  Leverage Hadoop ecosystem knowledge to design, and develop capabilities to deliver our solutions using Spark, Scala, Python, Hive, Kafka and other things in the Hadoop ecosystem. 
• Use automation tools like provisioning using Jenkins, Udeploy or relevant technologies
• Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
• Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, Data Integration.

We are looking for a creative UI/UX Designer with a good portfolio of personal or company-based projects either on Behance or Dribble to join our team!

As a UI-UX Designer, you will be responsible for delivering the best online user experience, which makes your role extremely important for our success and ensuring customer satisfaction and loyalty. 

You will be designing ideas using various methods and the latest technology. You will be designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, forms, and widgets. Your responsibilities would be -

1. Brainstorming feature ideas.

2. Wireframing/Prototyping using tools like Adobe XD / Photoshop.
3. Creating basic illustrations and icons using a tool like Illustrator.

4. Identifying opportunities / changing the interface to make user's lives easier.

5. Defining a good design process for future employees.

Apply if you like a startup culture and are willing to learn and adapt to changing needs.