Senior UI/UX Designer

BrightEdge is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join our fast-growing team in Cleveland, OH. In this position, you will develop key backend and frontend components used by some of the largest companies in the world. You’ll innovate alongside the best minds in the industry, as well as be one of the first engineers launching our Cleveland engineering team.

Core Responsibilities

• Build scalable cloud-based web applications (Python, Java, Django, JavaScript, React.js)
• Own feature design, build, and implementation from end to end
• Create innovative solutions to complex data-driven problems
• Participate in code and design reviews
• Collaborate with our HQ team on exciting new releases

What it Takes to Be Successful

• A BA/BS degree is required
• 5 years developing experience (Python, Django, Scala, Impala, Javascript)
• A working understanding SaaS and Cloud Computing concepts
• Familiarity with Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence concepts
• Eagerness to learn (platform training will be provided)
• Passion for the code you write and pride in making it maintainable and scalable

About Upswing

Open banking is a reality of this decade and it needs robust, customizable and secure rails to run on. Our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable, and easy-to-integrate API platform.

Every company today has an opportunity to extend financial services to make banking experiences lively and delightful. Our open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customizable, simple, and modular which significantly reduces the integration effort for our partners to launch financial products in weeks, not years.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

What will you do if you join us?

• Implement responsive web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well

You should have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years of web development experience. Development experience for Mobile screens would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of Javascript. Proficiency in Typescript & React Js would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages

Roles & Responsibilities:

 3+ years of experience developing mobile apps.  Experiencing fine tuning applications to improve performance and memory utilization.  Thorough understanding of iOS development for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices.  Experience of design and development of iOS applications, preferably in an Enterprise setting  Proficient with Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch  Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, SQLite, MapKit, UIKit, Core Location, etc.  String knowledge in Restful, SOAP APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services  Strong knowledge of Storyboard, Autolayout, ARC.  Experience of design and development of iOS applications, preferably in an Enterprise setting  Proficient with Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch.  experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, SQLite, MapKit, UIKit, Core Location, etc  Experience with offline storage, threading, multitasking, and performance and memory tuning with  tools  (such as Instruments).  Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines  Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred  Knowledge of Graph APIs is preferred.  Familiarity with cloud message APIs, Local and push notifications  Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, TFS or SVN)  Familiarity with continuous integration.

Candidate Required:

 Excellent communication skills  Be an effective Team Leader and should be able to handle and lead a team with effective delegation.  Proficient in mobile app UI development and best practices  Ability to understand that business needs may shift your priorities and adjust accordingly  Exceptional written and oral communication skills.  Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a focus on listening and questioning skills.  Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.  Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Srijan is hiring for a Scrum Master/Senior Scrum Master role with a permanent WFH option.

A notice period of 30 days or less is preferred.
Remote working option available.


Roles and Responsibility:

 Backlog Maintenance

• Create and Manage Backlog
• Backlog grooming: Manage/Update “sprint-backlog” and “project-backlog” regularly after client calls and demos
• Plans forward-looking technology investigations (spikes / POC)
• After each sprint demo work with the dev team to estimate and re-estimate the backlog
• Facilitate prioritization of backlog first time;
• Facilitate prioritization of backlog during planning n+1 sprint with client
• Creating mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch images to illustrate or to detail for getting clarity from the client, and for communicating the task to the dev team
• Use JIRA for all backlog (no use of Google spreadsheets)

Daily Stand-ups

• Drive daily-stand-ups
• Ask what was done yesterday, what is the plan for today
• Ask probing questions in the stand-ups and outside of it
• Identify potential roadblocks or challenges that may come up
• Consult Group Lead and raise your concerns
• Implement advice by GL
• Ensure that the team is working towards completion of the sprint; each stand-up well did, will suggest if the velocity is enough to complete Sprint or no
• (Maintain and) Update the “information radiator board (with stickies)” for all sprints

Sprint Demos

• Run sprint demos
• Calls must be marked on the client and team’s calendar; no ambiguity in when calls happen
• Every member must be present on calls at least 2-mins before the scheduled time on the calendar; be the first to join the call as moderator
• If you are unable to join, ensure that the session is recorded; if it cannot be recorded, ensure the team has captured all feedback during the demo

Business Analysis

• Understand the business of the client and the project
• This will enable you to question business needs that clients communicate
• Validate and record agreements in stories, acceptance criteria
• Create mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch annotations to illustrate or to detail --  for getting clarity from the client; and for communicating the task to the dev team -- put these in stories in JIRA

Project Management

• The Plan -- Do -- Check -- Act (Complete control on the project)
• Create Physical boards “information radiator board (with stickies)
• Plan deliverables (JIRA/Sprint) along with the team
• Organize the Sprint, get re-estimates done,
• Plan Sprint n+1 with the client -- prepared stories for the n+1 sprint to be taken up by dev team; work with QA in
• Learn to read JIRA Burndown Charts to know if the project is on time or is there likely to be a delay
• If there is likely to be a delay, speak to the Agile Coach / Group Lead to decide the nature of communication to be sent to the client
• Release Planning - define release goals

Quality Assurance

• Detail out stories with acceptance criteria
• Ensure all stories have acceptance criteria
• Work with QA in improving quality of acceptance criteria
• Work towards zero-defect sprints
• Defect triage - accept/reject
• Support the Dev+QA team in testing yourself
• Use JIRA for all these activities
• Drive testing strategy
• Deliver stories piecemeal for testing throughout the sprint
• Validate technical architecture by asking relevant questions

Stakeholder Management

• Send out weekly Status emails to internal and external clients -- must be on SM’s calendar
• Red, Amber, Green status
• Budget consumption
• Key activities this week
• Pre-empt and document roadblocks that you/team foresee
• Raise/Flag issues to clients and work aggressively within the team/org to mitigate this
• Coach clients on agile/scrum, our model, align them on our practices, using Jira, etc

Engineering Practices

• Drive towards Unit Testing
• Drive towards Continuous Integration (CI) using Jenkins; leads to a clear release and deployment strategy/plan
• Piecemeal UAT strategy
• Drive Intrinsic quality like Code, stories written, test scenarios written
• Continuously monitor and improve them. Question people on them
• Use Jira rigorously to track stories, defects, and manage it end to end.

People, Process and Tool Coach

• Coach people to improve in their role
• Challenge and question people on the way they are working to make it better
• Run sprint-retros
• During retros listen for “cause” behind the words; by asking probing questions
• Continuously strive to improve yourself
• Handhold team on Scrum way of doing
• Strategize which tool to use for what purposes.

• 8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Must have experience leading a team of around 15-20 team members in an Agile environment.
• Experience working in multi-geo or offshore environment
• JIRA experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction
• Proven problem-solving skills from problem assessment to solution selection
• Ability to identify alternatives and make contingency plans
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects and assignments
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, providing options and recommendations relating to resolving issues, mitigating risks, and resolving escalated items.
• CSM (Certified) or PMP (Certified) Good to have

Job Description

We are seeking a passionate candidate, who is result orientated, sound knowledge of IT services, with either a proven track record of proposal writing and proposal/bid management in government or commercial proposals. The consultant will be accountable for technical writing for business proposals and managing large and complex proposals as projects.

Key Responsibilities

• To respond to RFP/RFI documents
• Scope analysis and feasibility studies
• To perform bid management, creation of bid plans, schedule, and kick-off packs
• Creation of outlines, storyboarding and win themes
• To create a compliance matrix
• To research and write generic (but technical) content for proposals (for ex: writing a generic solution roadmap for any IT service, but NOT a technical architecture)
• Articulate value proposition and highlight sales messages
• To coordinate with the clients (CXOs) and external stakeholders for inputs required
• Proofread and format documents

Key Requirements

• 6-12 years of experience in proposal writing or bid management
• IT services industry experience is must
• Must have managed large and complex RFPs
• MBA, ITIL is an added advantage
• Ability to work under high-pressure environment and deadlines
• Fundamental knowledge of IT services (web design, web development, cloud, mobility, etc.)
• Experience working with government proposals is an added advantage
• High level of commitment and flexibility
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Optional (added advantage)

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
• Knowledge of IT domain (cloud, mobile apps, web, and portals, analytics)
• Pre-sales consulting background in IT services

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location : Gurgaon ( WFH untill Pandamic ) 

You'll be responsible for developing web applications for managing various working aspects of e-commerce, warehousing & supply chain systems. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic and client-side interfaces, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain highly scalable user-facing software applications.

● Participate in business discussions and present software solutions to their various problems.

● Coordinate full cycle product development activities with executive management, product management, quality assurance, support, and operations teams.

● Build software modules, libraries, and frameworks that support complex back-end applications as per the specifications and on time.

● Design schema for SQL and NoSQL database.

● Setup metrics tracking and inspect server code for speed optimization.

● Assign tasks to team members and gauge progress of various projects.

● Should open to work on PHP/Laravel.

Requirements:

● 4+ years hands-on experience on writing and deploying production quality code.

● Solid foundation in computer science with strong competency in data structures, algorithms and software design.

● Have created enterprise level applications in any programming language.

● Professional experience using PHP, Python and Golang among others.

● Development experience with Unix/Linux.

● Strong Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases.

● Hands on experience in using AWS technologies like EC2, lambda functions, SNS, SQS and worked on serverless architecture.

● Follow right back-end engineering practices and desire to continually keep up with its advancements.

● Constantly improve product quality, security, and performance.

● Experience in leading the team and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment is a plus.

● Domain knowledge of warehousing operation related processes and ecommerce workflows is preferred.

● Should open to work on PHP/Laravel.

Job Role – SDE2

Duration – 12 months

Location – HYD

Key Skills:

• 3- 5 years
• Understanding databases and building reports
• Ideal candidate should have experience in Cosmos, Kusto and powerbi
• Mandatory experience in some Database query language(such as SQL)