Software Engineer ( MERN stack Developer )

Full stack software developer who enjoys solving complex problems

• Solid experience in.NET Core, SQL Server, and REACT (including REST)

• Experience in building cloud-native applications (Azure)

• Must be skilled at writing scalable, maintainable code

• Must have the ability to independently envision solutions and write clean code

• 5+ years of defining and implementing Application Architecture.

• Demonstrated experience with the .NET ecosystem (.NET Framework, ASP.NET, .NET Core)

• Demonstrated experience with front-end React, HTML and CSS Frameworks

• Experience building modern, scalable, reliable applications on the MS Azure cloud including services such as:

▪ App Services

▪ Azure Service Bus/ Event Hubs

▪ Azure API Management Service

▪ Azure Bot Service

▪ Azure Cognitive Services

▪ Function/Logic Apps

▪ Azure key vault & Azure Configuration Service

▪ CosmosDB

▪ Azure Search

▪ Azure Bot Framework

▪ Azure Cognitive Services

• Experience with highly available and large-scale cloud deployments.

• Extensive knowledge and experience with Enterprise Level architectural concepts and frameworks.

• Broad knowledge of Agile methodologies and best practices such as SCRUM, Kanban and Continuous Integration.

Principal Software Engineer

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join here?

You will enjoy working with us if you are looking to work in a stimulating, flexible, open environment. You will experience ownership and independence at the same time providing technical solutions that work.

You will be part of the madness and thrill of growing the business from scratch. You get to make decisions, fail fast and learn fast. You get to contribute, add value to the organization by thinking like an entrepreneur. You are supported by the best talent in the industry and work with creative teams. You are rewarded as you go on proving yourself.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or related field
• At least 6+ years of experience with at least 4 years of software application design experience
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• A full stack generalist with experience in both front-end and back-end technologies
• Proven experience in high-level programming languages, like Java and Development of scalable Web Applications and Web Services
• Experience in JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, NodeJS
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation to implementation
• Proven experience building complex web applications and micro services
• Strong experience with Spring Boot stack (spring cloud, spring-data)
• Extensive experience in developing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience in PHP is a plus advantage

Responsibilities:

• Participate in design reviews and recommend improvements
• Provide technical guidance in software design and development activities
• Recommend new technologies to ensure quality and improve productivity
• Support in all phases of SDLC and ensure delivery of high-quality products
• Analyse business requirements and design/develop most effective technical solution
• Analyse and troubleshoot application issues in a timely fashion
• Work with other engineers in planning, prioritising and executing assigned tasks within deadlines

x• Work with QA team in preparing test cases and assist in automation

• Mentor other Engineers as and when required
• Assist in maintenances and upgrades of existing software applications
• Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities.
• Assist in technical audits and make sure to implement audit recommendations.

Job Requirements

Must have:

• Experience working on Node.js with Typescript and Express.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB would be preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience in ReactJS and its main fundamentals like JSX, Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, etc.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, object model, DOM manipulation and event handlers, data structures, algorithms.
• Knowledge of Unit testing frameworks

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Job Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain software applications.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.

About Company

• Vision : Bikayi helps small to medium sized businesses go online and scale their businesses. Bikayi merchants are selling various things from groceries to apparels and electronic items.
• Scale : We are very close to grossing a GMV of 1B dollars on an annual basis. Probably one of your neighbourhood shops is using Bikayi to sell online.
• Fuel : Monetizing the product from early days we have a solid business model and our revenue numbers are growing at a healthy pace. Apart from this we are funded by top investors in the world like Sequoia capital and Ycombinator.
• People : We have a culture which gives you a lot of challenges to solve and at the same time get high rewards.

Fun facts

• 42,59,407 Indians started their online selling journey with Bikayi this year, That is greater than the combined population of Maldives and Monaco
• We witnessed a GMV growth of 5400% and revenue growth of 1100% last year.
• Band Chainsmokers have also invested in Bikayi 🎵

Responsibilities

• Guide the team : Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis.
• Responsible for code delivery : Pushing deploys on a constant basis. When working in a growth stage company, this part can be challenging as the speed of requirements is high. You will need to make sure you are able to push code on a regular basis.
• Design & Architecture : You need to have technical expertise in the company's tech stack and in general the frontend or backend infrastructures.
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used as a reference by other engineers.
• Own your product : You will be responsible for the success / failure of your team and the product. You will need to work with cross functional teams, understand their requirements and make sure that everybody is on the same page.

Requirements

• Past experience of working for tier 1 / vc funded companies.
• 3+ years of commercial work experience in the relevant domains.
• Continuous past experience of delivering products at a steady pace.
• Experience in the following would be preferred.
• Node Js for Backend Engineers
• React Js for Frontend Engineers

Company Perks

• Macbook
• Flexible hours
• Book reading / personal development stipend
• ESOP pool also available
• Health insurance benefits
• Fully stacked snack kitchen and gaming room
• Free front row tickets to The Chainsmokers concerts in India \m/

NOTE - SALARY IS NEGOTIABLE 

• Company Profile - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FYi4TuTx2_Kx-mWrOCNiaLK5JtWlJI-5/view?usp=sharing

About Us

We have grown over 1400% in revenues in the last year.

Interface.ai provides an Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) to FIs to automate calls and customer inquiries across multiple channels and engage their customers with financial insights and upsell/cross-sell.

Our IVA is transforming financial institutions’ call centers from a cost to a revenue center.

Our core technology is built 100% in-house with several breakthroughs in Natural Language Understanding. Our parser is built based on zero-shot learning that helps us to launch industry-specific IVA that can achieve over 90% accuracy on Day-1. 

We are 45 people strong with employees spread across India and US locations. Many of them come from ML teams at Apple, Microsoft, and Salesforce in the US along with enterprise architects with over 20+ years of experience building large-scale systems. Our India team consists of people from ISB, IIMs, and many who have been previously part of early-stage startups. 

We are a fully remote team.

Founders come from Banking and Enterprise Technology backgrounds with previous experience scaling companies from scratch to $50M+ in revenues.

As a SDE III, you will be :

1. Designing and implementing FullStack applications of interface.ai’s conversational AI platform and playing a significant role in evolving them.
2. Working with a team of driven and passionate engineers working on cutting edge technology, who take pride in solving complex problems.
3. Engaging in cross-functional team discussions on Product, design, QA, deployment and maintenance,  in a fast-moving collaborative set up.
4. Building reusable code and libraries for future use
5. Analyzing high level requirements, breaking it down into workable/demoable tasks, estimating them and delivering with high quality.
6. Contributing to improve our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

1. Are extremely self motivated
2. Have ability to learn quickly
3. Have a growth Mindset (read this if you don't know what it means - https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322" target="_blank">link)
4. Have Emotional Maturity (read this if you don't know what it means - https://medium.com/@krisgage/15-signs-of-emotional-maturity-38b1a2ab9766" target="_blank">link)
5. Are Passionate about the possibilities at the intersection of AI + Banking
6. Have worked in a startup of 5 to 30 employees
7. Have outstanding problem-solving abilities
8. Have proactive outlook for ways to make the solution better
9. Have 5+ years of experience in delivering scalable complex technical products
10. Have Good knowledge of distributed technologies, low latency, and highly scalable systems. 
11. Have Expertise in JavaScript and Node.js
12. Have Hands-on experience in Node.JS / Express.JS / Hapi.js / Koa.js (or any other Web Framework), and Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
13. Have Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
14. Have Hands-on experience in Mocha or other Javascript testing frameworks
15. Have experience working with react, python (Nice to have)
16. Have hands-on experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes
17. Have a strong understanding of systems using real-time interactions (web sockets, long-polling, server-sent events)
18. Have hands-on experience in the Implementation of security and data protection
19. Are eager to learn new technologies
20. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
21. Are passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers

Job Description

We are seeking a well experienced Java Technical Lead for our product. In this position you will design and implement technological solutions for our product on Java/J2EE stack.

What are my roles and responsibilities?

• Design, develop and implement software programming applications.
• Build highly scalable product.
• Participate in gathering business requirements and assessing existing architectures and resources.
• Ownership in producing the solutions conceptual architecture and associated artifacts.
• Work with application development team in delivering the project and deliverable within time and with good quality.
• Perform unit testing, oversee quality assurance of applications through system testing.
• Establishes processes for performance and conducts code review.
• Manage and mentor junior members of the team on good coding practice

What skills and experiences would I bring into this role?

1. B.E/ B.Tech / MCA in computer science or a related field
2. 6+ Years of Java/J2EE work experience.
3. Minimum 2+ years into Team Lead position.

1. Object-Oriented design, patterns, algorithms, data structures
2. Well knowledge about Spring Hibernate framework.
3. Exposure to React JS / Angular JS.

1. Experience with SQL/No-SQL database technologies – MySQL, Mongo dB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.
2. Good working experience in OpenStack/AWS & cloud application development and deployment
3. Experience in Web services (REST or SOAP)

1. End to end web development experience is highly preferred
2. Good understanding of unit testing methodologies.
3. Good analytical and communication skills
4. Startup work culture mindset.

ABOUT IDEAPOKE
Emerging Technologies | Bengaluru, India

Ideapoke is a global, fast growing start-up with offices in Bengaluru, Bay Area, Tokyo and Shanghai. Our software, search and insights power the innovation agenda of the largest Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies worldwide.

Our growth is powered by our people and their unwavering commitment to the company-wide vision, strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial do-it-all spirit. We push the boundaries and break existing thought processes with the strong belief that innovation amplifies success in every piece of work we do and by extension, amplifying the success of our clients.

Ideapoke’s like to constantly learn, grow and make a difference. Join us and be part of our story.