Software Engineer - QA/Testing

Position: DevOps Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: 3 to 6 Years

Key Skills: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, DevSecOps pipeline

Job Description:

• AWS Infrastructure: Architect, deploy, and manage AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SageMaker, API Gateway, and VPC.
• Networking: Proficient in subnetting, endpoints, NACL, security groups, VPC flow logs, and routing.
• API Management: Design and manage secure, scalable APIs using AWS API Gateway.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
• Automation & IaC: Use Terraform and CloudFormation for automating infrastructure management.
• Containerization & Kubernetes: Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and managing containerized deployments.
• Monitoring & Logging: Implement monitoring with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools.
• Security: Apply AWS security best practices using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and GuardDuty.
• Cost Management: Monitor and optimize AWS usage and costs.
• Collaboration: Partner with development, QA, and operations teams to enhance productivity and system reliability.

CK-12 is on the lookout for talented, creative, and dedicated people to join our mission to provide great education to students around the world. We are looking for candidates to join our office in Bangalore.

We have a strong education platform that has served over 265+ million users, has got over 2.33+ billion questions answered, and more than 290,000 customized Flexbooks. We have embarked on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered student tutor and Teacher Assistant to build the next generation of learning platforms.

About CK-12 Foundation:

CK-12’s mission is to provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students as well as teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence, and circumstances.

To achieve this noble and ambitious vision, we at CK-12 are challenging the traditional model of education to transform it dramatically. Technology has opened up lots of opportunities to revolutionize education for the benefit of students, teachers, and parents.

We have chosen to be non-profit so that we can effectively realize our mission and do the right thing! It also provides us with the ability to experiment with big and bold ideas. CK-12 is backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative, and non-bureaucratic environment where you will get a lot of cool things done you never imagined! We are a small group of passionate folks who are determined to disrupt the current form of education.

Technology is key to scale education and we deeply believe in it. Come develop great solutions on our cloud-based (AWS) and AI-first platform delivering rich and interactive content.

Does our mission, people and technologies excite you? If the answer is YES! and you are a great technologist who will challenge status-quo (no order takers please!) by innovating, please come join us! Together, we will change the world!

Check out our latest product offering: Introducing Flexi 2.0

• Flexi, our AI-powered Student Tutor – https://www.flexi.org/
• AI-powered Teacher Assistant – https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

Location: Bangalore Office

Position: Frontend UI Developer (React)

Basic:

• Passion for creating great user experiences that are simple and intuitive
• Good understanding of CS fundamental algorithms and Data Structures
• Great problem solver
• Understands and researches different front-end frameworks and patterns to implement great user interfaces
• Implements solutions keeping in mind the user experience, multi-devices, performance across devices, and bandwidths
• Ability to work in an Agile environment with rapid iterations
• Creates and reviews high-level designs
• Creates detailed designs from high-level designs and reviews designs of other team members
• A Code Craftsman who follows the best software development and coding practices delivering understandable and maintainable code with thorough unit test coverage

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 1 years of experience
• Hands-on with frameworks like React, Redux, Backbone, Webpack, Lerna
• Expert knowledge of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), design, and development
• In-depth knowledge of browser internals and architecture
• Expert in JS (OOJS), HTML5, CSS3, JSON, REST, XML, W3C standards
• Experience with responsive web design & frameworks media queries
• Experience with UI patterns (security, performance, usability)
• Familiar with version control systems (Git/Subversion) & build tools like Grunt

Desired:

• Experience with ES6, Node.js
• Worked in distributed/agile environments
• Performance optimization for scalable web apps
• Familiarity with LLMs (Large Language Models)
• Familiarity with Storybook (React) or similar frameworks

JD:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of software modules owned by a team. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well designed and high quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams. 

Key Skills:

• 3 to 6 years of experience
• Extensive experience on C/C++/Python
• Experience on OS - Unix/Linux and Windows
• Hands on experience in Networking and Multi-threading

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Cloud Technologies, system programming is a plus

Roles and responsibilities:

• Play key role in design/development of security product. 
• Responsible for the complete software development cycle.
• Gathering & understanding requirements.
• Design, development & implementation independently.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery.
• Will be able to work in end to end features. 

Qualification:

• B.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.

We are looking "Senior Programmer" for Reputed Client @Permanent Role.

Experience: 4 - 8 Yrs

Required Technical :

• At least 2-year experience developing in 3G programming languages (C, C++, Java, etc.)

• At least 1 year working on porting assignments/projects

• 1-year experience with databases (developing, optimizing, scaling)

• solid understanding of Linux

• solid grasp of computer architecture (x86, System Z or POWER instruction set)

• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems

• Experience in developing technical solutions for clients

• Effective interpersonal skills

• Ability to collaborate across teams and with clients

• Self-motivated and an aptitude to learn and apply knowledge quickly

Preferred Technical :

• Systems Z software and hardware background/experience

• Experience in open-source community development processes and tools

• Experience with CI/CD, Cloud & Databases

Location : Trichy , Madurai , Chennai

Summary of the role

The person will work closely with the overseas stakeholders, senior management team & internal departments. His/ her work will have an immediate impact on strategic initiatives, productivity, overseas program management and communicating objectives between overseas management teams and Indian stakeholders and Co-Founders office and also other departments.

The person will work closely with the CEO of Impact Guru Foundation, India, the US Board and other vertical heads in order to aggregate, review, and prepare deliverables for the United States market.

The person will have to focus on international relations, interdepartmental collaborations and business stakeholder management to evolve our fundraising platform into a world-class experience for our fundraisers and establish a platform for providing intelligent insights for internal stake holders as well.  

Roles & Responsibilities

●      General Operations and Management

●      Central link between Impact Guru Inc. India and Impact Guru Foundation vertical heads: Development, Communications, Programs, Impact, IT, and Finance

●      Develop and manage shared internal documents

●      Overall administrative support from India

●      Special projects and assignments

●      Donor Stewardship and Communications

●      Manage the outreach communications calendar and pipeline

●      Evolving strategic business initiatives from development to successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads.

●      Understand and resolve challenges to manage international (US) relations and constantly develop international leads to improve IGF visibility and reach in the international market.

●      Review, design, and execute on improvements to org structure, find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.

●      Strategize campaigns to build close relations with new & existing Partners

●      Serve as liaison between US office, senior leaders, and CEO, regarding company climate, employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning.

●      Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and international stakeholders.

●      Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives on special projects.

●      Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications.

●      Provide direction to the team & personally drive efforts to ensure targets for the department are met consistently.

●      Ensure timely & accurate reporting by all team members 

●      Provide premier support and service to US-based donors and prospects coming to India to visit IGF, India programs

●      Serve as primary point of contact and support for visitors leading up to, and during, their time in India

●      Database Management and Maintenance

●      Prospect research

●      Grant Research and Pipeline Management - Lead role in researching and identifying corporate, foundation, and institutional proposal opportunities from United States-based entities

Grant calendar and pipeline management

Key interactions 

●      Internal: candidate will report into Impact Guru Foundation Co-Founders & their office, and closely work with the Development team in India. 

●      The candidate will report into the CEO of Impact Guru Foundation, India and closely work with the Development team in India. 

●      Strong interpersonal skills, which enable you to build meaningful relationships with diverse others and invest them, and a focus on collaborating to reach outcomes with teams.

●      Energetic, enthusiastic and a team-player. Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects and timelines efficiently with minimal oversight, learn quickly on the job, and thrive under pressure

Professional Experiences

●      High on integrity, accountability and drive. Growth-oriented mindset and a drive to develop self as well as to challenge and improve existing systems and approaches.

●      ​​​​​​​Excellent critical thinking skills and ability to analyse complex data sets from varied sources (both quantitative and qualitative), drawing narratives, and communicating impact stories to external partners.

●      Minimum 4years of Prior experience in an NGO, Foundation, fundraising, start-up environment.

●      Excellent communicator in written and verbal form.

●      Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity.

●      Nimble business mind with a focus on developing creative solutions.

●      Strong project reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communication.

Qualifications

●      Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent practical experience. (mandatory)

Functional & Behavioural Competencies

●      Project management

●      Multiple stakeholder management

●      Growth mind-set

●      Aggressive delivery targets-oriented mind-set

●      Entrepreneurial mind-set

●      Ability to deliver in high pace environment

●      Excellent communication

●      Dynamic personality

What do we offer?

●      Attractive salary & performance-linked bonuses

●      An opportunity to be in a leadership position of a high-growth start-up

●      Fun, casual & flexible work environment

●      Entrepreneurial, forward-looking, growth-driven & open work culture

This position is responsible for building out and maintaining SaaS Applications. This critical role creates agile software products and a better user experience for customers and allows client to set the standard for an open ecosystem of cutting-edge product offerings by working with C#, .Net, Web APIs, SQL , HTML, Javascript/Typescript, CSS3

Duties and responsibilities

Design, implement components of the Product, provide technical expertise for software solutions developed by the Company. Integrating the Equity Management platform with external partners (Brokers, Client Companies, etc.). Participate in planning sessions.

Work with Customer Support to resolve customer issues

Qualifications

Required qualifications include:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

5+ years’ experience designing and developing SaaS web applications using .Net/.Net Core, C#, Angular

Experience in the full stack from database development through front-end

Experience w/database technologies – SQL, Entity Framework

Experience designing and developing Web application (ASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC) ( 5 years+ )

Experience designing and developing Web APIs (ASP.NET MVC/Core) ( 5 years+ )

Experience designing and developing responsive UI applications

Experience w/front-end technologies – HTML5, SASS/CSS, Angular, Typescript

Experience designing “thick client” applications with AngularJS/Angular ( 3 years+ )

Experience with Unit Testing and Mocking frameworks and concepts

Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Experience with GIT

Strong communication skills – written and verbal

Strong collaboration skills – experience working in a small-team environment

Experience with Oracle databases, including writing/optimizing complex queries, stored procedures, and scripting is a plus

Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS)

Experience building apps in financial domain is a plus

Experience with Azure DevOps

Experience with Jira

Will be a plus:

Experience with Powershell.

Experience with Nuget packages.

• You have a strong appreciation for design and interaction, as well as an intimate understanding and appreciation for presentation layer code.
• You love puzzles, problem-solving and have proven in-depth knowledge in a variety of tech stacks.
• You are passionate about being precise in the implementation of designs and do not compromise on quality.
• You are comfortable working in a high-pressure environment and are able to adapt to the needs of the day.
• You are open-minded and curious to learn

Expectations and Responsibilities

• See a project through from conception to finished product
• Strong organizational skills. You should not need someone to “manage” you
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Be able to push the boundaries of technology to deliver an unparalleled product
• Able to research and use cutting edge tools to deliver seamless experiences for users

We expect you to have some exposure to the following technologies

• HTML5, CSS, SASS, JS
• CSS Libraries - Boostrap, CSS Grid
• Front-end frameworks (React/Angular/Vue)
• Git

• Design and build application for iOS platforms
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software development practices
• Responsible for working on iOS frameworks, Xcode, Swift, Rxswift, Xcode SDK Platform tools
• Responsible to work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities 

• 2 - 7 years of experience in building applications using C++ programming language.
• Comfortable with core programming concepts and techniques (e.g. concurrency, memory management).
• Enjoys working with algorithms and data structures (e.g. trees, hash maps, queues).
• Strong in Data structure and good in problem solving.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Certifying the application – White box testing, black box testing.