Sr. Software Developer/Team Lead

JOB SUMMARY

Great Manager Institute® (“Company”) is a global digital platform for personalized development and certification of people managers, having the vision of creating a world where every individual gets the opportunity to work with a Great People Manager.

Our vision is to ensure that everyone gets an opportunity to work with a great people manager. Our mission is to ensure that anyone can be a great people manager who delivers sustained results by building high-trust relationships.

We take pride in saying that our short-term plan is for 1000 years!

We need amazing Software Developers to evolve our solutions into world-class products and become a part of a journey that is setting off a movement on people management. Imagine the impact of creating a product that helps evolve human behavior in a scalable manner.

OUR DNA

• Customer Obsession: We believe in the concept of understanding customers deeply by putting ourselves in their shoes and gather and use relevant data to take decisions.
• Speed: Speed is paramount to become a global start-up.
• Global Outlook: We are creating a product for the world, and it can be possible only if we combine personalized and localized offerings with global outlook.

OUR VALUES

• Be Transparent
• Bring the Best
• Have Faith
• Care
• Respect Individuality

This is a unique opportunity at the high growth start-up. The Technology Head will be a part of the core executive group at the Company.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Development of features and modules of Great Manager Certification product
• Engagement in new innovations within the core products and various extensions of the core product
• Solving coding-related problems of the junior software developers in the team
• Mentoring and supporting new techies, helping create a team of rockstar developers

Who will this role report to?

This role will report to the Technology Head of the Company.

Growth Opportunities for You

• This role is a great opportunity for contributing to the growth of a global company
• This is a critical role that will shape the technology roadmap of the Company and gives an opportunity to lead from the front
• Become an entrepreneur. We operate in a highly entrepreneurial culture. Almost all roles at the Company are constructed to operate with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• The role prepares you to become Lead/Head of Technology while establishing your brand value as a rockstar developer

Who Should Apply?

• Candidates with 5+ years overall experience in full-stack software development
• Hands-on MEAN Stack is required
• Strong understanding of latest full-stack technologies and their strengths, shortcomings, and applicability to the Company’s context
• Excellent analytical skills with an attention to detail
• Integrity, with an ability to handle sensitive information
• Drive to build something. The role is not for those seeking comfort, stability and a strict 9-5 schedule. Building market leadership is not an easy path. Motivation and speed are essential qualifying criteria

About the Company –

TekEat platform is designed for restaurant owners and food vendors who wish to earn more from online food delivery channel through an integrated ad-network. TekEat provides complete suite of Restaurant management solution with integrated advertisement channel in their end-customer-facing applications such as Restaurant’s Online menu and TekEat’s Customer Side application.

Job Objectives –

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high- powered desktop computers to small mobile devices
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Collaborate with senior management, operations & business team
• Building Rest APIs and maintain Database optimizations

Responsibilities –

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions.
• Skills And Qualifications
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Laravel, Yii, CodeIgniter)
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong Knowledge of SQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• Develop, test, and deploy fast and scalable web apps
• Designing and maintenance of fully functional large relational and non-relational databases
• Timely deployment of web apps on the cloud
• Server management and cloud-based infrastructure
• Establishment and integration of development tools as required
• Identification of application issues when deploying the apps
• App deployment on the cloud along with solving debugging issues
• Coding architecture for frontend and backend

Skills & Requirement:

• Minimum 5 years Experience required.
• Angular 2.0+, Angular 7, Nodejs, .Net 4.0, .Net Core, REST API, Micro services, Networking.
• Distributed server and storage – MongoDB & SQL Server

• Hands on experience in building web-based enterprise applications
• Good working knowledge Angular, Nodejs, .Net Core
• Understanding of cloud technologies
• Direct understanding of application lifecycle; Agile, SDLC
• Proficient in Object Oriented Programming.
• Experience with Networking Concepts.
• Good at API integration, debugging and fixing the issues with API
• Experience in performing SQL queries on a RDMS.
• Operational experience: Troubleshooting and Support
• Ability to work in groups and in independent settings to complete assigned tasks
• Previous experience on IOT Projects will be added advantage

Work Location: 1st Sector, HSR Layout, Bengaluru - 560102

Office Timings : Monday to Saturday – 9:00AM to 6:00PM

Work From Office Only

You will be responsible for overseeing full-stack development as well as the R&D around creating various, unique, and bespoke solutions.

You should be able to quickly understand and support initiatives that will contribute to the goals and success of operations. You would also be working with various departments to coordinate and develop digital solutions for bespoke in-house software.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with development teams and product manager to implement software solutions.

• Developing front end and back end website Architecture.

• Build user interactions on web pages.

• Develop and manage databases for functionalities.

• Designing and developing effective APIs.

• Test Software to ensure the responsiveness and efficiency of applications.

• Meeting both technical and consumer/client needs.

• Write technical documentation.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and review the code.

Position: Full Stack developer

Location: Bangalore

Experience:  3 to 5 years, preferably in an agile environment

RESPONSIBILITIES
·     Understanding requirements present in specification documents
·     Knowledge on cloud environment
·     API development for consumption by webapp and mobile apps
·     Database schema design
·     Integration with partner systems based on REST APIs
·     Working with code base across multiple development & staging environments
·     Take part in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
·     Be part of Production deployment & release activities

TECH SKILLS
·     Must Have:
*       Python and Node Js
*       RDBMS :Postgre SQL/ MongoDB
*       Must have knowledge on AWS or Digital Ocean
*       Good documentation skills
·     Good to have:
*       Javascript
*       RabbitMQ
*       Django
*       Docker
*       Redis
*       Flask
*       nginx
*       graylog

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!

Roles & Responsibilities:-

Coding and Development. The desired candidate will be responsible for developing next-generation web applications & software products
Analyzing requirements, problems and solving them with the best solution.
Producing high-quality code without much supervision and on-time delivery.
A high degree of passion for developing the ability to rapidly learn and apply new technologies to meet business goals is crucial.
Proficiency in design patterns.
Extensive experience with writing code accessing and manipulating the databases.
Must have worked on Web Services, E-commerce, CRM, e-learning products, etc 
Interacting & working with the design team to match code with design layout.
Working in a cross-functional team, collaborating with peers during the entire SDLC.