Tech Lead (Base 24) _ 10-12 Years_ Bangalore Location

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior AEM  Developer to join our team of bright thinkers and doers. You’ll use your problem-solving creativity to design, architect, and develop high-end technology solutions that solve our clients’ most complex and challenging problems across different industries. We are on a mission to transform the world, and you will be instrumental in shaping how we do it with your ideas, thoughts, and solutions.

Your Impact:

• Drive the design, planning, and implementation of multifaceted applications, giving you breadth and depth of knowledge across the entire project lifecycle.
• Combine your technical expertise and problem-solving passion to work closely with clients, turning complex ideas into end-to-end solutions that transform our clients’ business.
• Constantly innovate and evaluate emerging technologies and methods to provide scalable and elegant solutions that help clients achieve their business goals.

Qualifications

• Overall experience of 4 to 8 years with 2-3 years of AEM including AEM 6.x .
• Strong hands on experience of Components, Templates, Taxonomy, metadata management, Forward and Reverse Replication, Workflows, Content Publishing and unpublishing, Tagging, Analytics, Deployment(Maven) and Content migration/ planning. · Significant hands-on design experience with AEM and very strong concepts of OSGi, Apache Sling, Apache Sightly, Apache Oak and Adobe Dispatcher
• Has worked on and implemented at least one of the popular Search engines with AEM like Solr, ElasticSearch or Lucene and involved in search queries performance tuning.
• Worked on integrations with popular products /Technologies like Salesforce, SSO, LDAP, API Gateways using ReST · Understands and implements the Quality Properties of the system in every day work including Accessibility, SEO, URL management, Security, Performance and Responsive architecture.
• Has implemented Quality Processes for projects like Continuous Integration (Bamboo/Jenkins/Git/BitBucket/Cloud Manager), SonarQube, Code reviews (Manual and Automated), code Formatters, Automation testing etc.
• Understanding of frontend technologies like Bootstrap, Backbone.js, ReactJS, Handlebars, Grunt, Angular, CSS3, HTML 5 and jQuery.
• Mastery of all core web and Java technologies including java 8/11, JEE, XML, XHTML, client/server-side scripting languages such as JavaScript, and JSP, HTL and web services development using Restful implementations.
• Good understanding of AEM capabilities including Multi-site manager (MSM) and Blueprinting, and the use of Online marketing components such as advanced targeting/personalization, and multi-variate testing, is preferred.
• Proficient knowledge of the end to end content lifecycle, web content management, content publishing/deployment, and delivery processes.
• Knowledge of Cloud native approaches and platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP. Understanding of AEM as Cloud Service.
• Familiarity with Adobe I/O Runtime and Adobe I/O Events.
• Good understanding of integration patterns and content-centric application development patterns using AEM Search, Commerce package or others platforms is preferred. Education:
• Full time Bachelor’s/Master’s degree (Science or Engineering preferred)

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Develop Digital Consumer experiences based on Adobe marketing product suite including Adobe Sites (AEM), CRX, WCM, Adobe Launch, Adobe Assets (DAM) & Adobe Social.
• Develop powerful features such as multi-site and multi-channel delivery, personalization/targeting, content aggregation & syndication, multi-lingual support, automated workflow management, social media etc.
• Diagnose and solve technical problems related to web content management implementation.
• Interact with clients to create end-to-end specifications and solution architecture for content & collaboration solutions.
• Mentor and provide inputs and direction to senior developers on the team for design and implementation.
• Collaborate with your architect to define implementation processes and quality gates and standards
• Write application code and extensions for the AEM platform that exceeds the defined quality standards

Additional Information

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being  

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role: Backend Architect

Amagi Background

Amagi is a SaaS platform that lets every content owner deliver their content to consumers anytime, anywhere, to any device. Amagi helps bring entertainment to hundreds of millions of consumers leading the transformation in media consumption. We believe in a connected ecosystem bringing content owners, distribution platforms, consumers and advertisers together to create great experiences.

Amagi grew by 136% last year and is on its way to double itself again this year. The market leader in FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV), it delivers more than 500 media brands to 1500+ end points and is growing exponentially.

Amagi is looking for Software Architects with 8-12 yrs experience in high level & low level design and development of highly scalable software products.

Role reporting into: Director, Streaming TV - Distribution, Analytics & Monetization

Location: Bangalore, India

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• You will lead a team of talented engineers to build the B2B products and services, as well as necessary frameworks, libraries and primitives to scale & connect our offerings together.
• Architect, design, implement and maintain highly scalable backend systems that can scale to millions of concurrent users in production.
• Derive next generation tools and technologies to support hundreds of high impactful customers on monetization products in production
• Collaborate with the product, business, design and engineering functions to be on top of your team’s deliverables & milestones.
• Timely delivery of highly reliable and scalable engineering architecture, and high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code for your team.
• Track & monitor team & individual performance, building continuous improvement into the process
• Drive design discussions and code reviews
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
• Hire the top talent for your team and mentor the team members.

Person Specifications

• 8-12 years of software development experience with demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful engineering systems or products efficiently and with high quality.
• Good understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set up.
• Good understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
• Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Working knowledge of one or more backend technologies from among Java, Ruby-on-Rails, Python, Golang.
• Well versed with development workflows for distributed systems deployed on the cloud (preferably AWS)
• Establishing and maintaining unit, integration and system test mechanisms in staging, pre-production and production environments

CTO / Head of Engineering

About our Client

Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech

It aims to become one app to manage all your brands loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.

The company currently powers closed-loop loyalty programs for all different brands under its parent retail group. Currently, it has 20Mn+ registered customers and 3Mn MAU across 8 brands. Its vision is to be at the center of D2C Brands and the consumer consumption ecosystem

Role description:
We are looking for a competent CTO (Chief Technology Officer) who will be our first technology go-to expert and play an integral role in setting the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth. In this position, you will oversee our overall technology development and technology utilization plan to manage all information technology resources of our company.

Key Responsibilities

•  CTO will be leading, building, and operating exciting products with a passionate team.
•  We are looking for someone who has developed and deployed software with a strong focus on end-user experience. We are seeking someone with a proven track record of shipping web scalable products.
•  The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and delivering cloud solutions with delightful consumer experiences, combined with ease of implementation/reliability.
•  Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
•  Experience with micro services-oriented architectures, Experience with scaling Big Data infrastructure.
•  Experience delivering platform technology and creating an ecosystem of applications and services across multiple verticals and solution offerings
•  Experience successfully scaling technology infrastructure to support rapid customer /data growth.
•  Experience with fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, design-forward, product-focused companies.
•  "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, team player with record of leading and mentoring employees

Candidate Experience: Desired skills

•  He/she should have prior work experience of 7-12 years on large-scale mobile app products and can rapidly familiarize yourself with complex products
•  Have inclination to learn and build new age products with blockchain and web3 tech
•  Strong track record of being able to develop and set release plans, track deadlines, deliverables, resource allocations, issues/risks and create mitigation strategies as needed to deliver a quality product on time
•  Strong technical and architecture skills in wide areas of platform engineering with proven ability to dive deep in any area as needed.
•  Extensive experience with eCommerce platforms, cloud systems, payment solutions, digital marketing technology, automation, and multi-device development is required; AWS experience is a strong plus
•  Experience managing Small teams and remote teams is a strong plus
•  Competent in driving a culture of continuous learning to improve technology and remove roadblocks that hold the team back.

Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate :

•  Experienced founding team
•  Backed by Future Group which gives an edge over working with different D2C and traditional brands ecosystem which is necessary to win in this market
•  Existing app customer base of 20Mn registered and 4-5 Mn MAU + which gives us a head start and starting customer base of FuturePay necessary for pivoting the product to Carrot as described earlier
•  Right to win - The founding team knows the business & its secrets inside out. We are starting with a significant head start and a precise plan of action
•  Barriers to entry - This is a specialized play with natural barriers to entry, allowing for significant value creation for all equity holders
•  Exposure to all aspects of company building - exposure to investors, fund-raising, decision making, building the team & culture
•  All of the above perks of joining a high potential company very early, along with a competitive market salary.

What you need to have:

Role will determine the process and strategy to be used in software design at a project level (Agile, top-down, bottom up, stepwise refinement, use of patterns and pattern languages, iterative and incremental processes etc.) and has a deep Understanding of the software development lifecycle and has knowledge of the overall application development space combined with understanding of the business and domain. Role will Identify risks across the project life-cycle and conceive mitigation strategies, will drive AGILE practices and frameworks within the organization and creating visibility for the same and guide the teams in application of AGILE frameworks, will resolve problems and identify opportunities for improvements within AGILE.  Will design and fine-tune DB solutions and will oversee performance tuning. Role will work with Configuration Management tools to enforce CM practices and processes. Role is required to help define and adhere to the QA standards and will work with a deep understanding of performance bottlenecks, production infrastructure, interfaces and dependencies of the product and Measure program performance against target and publish dashboards to leadership. Role is also responsible for Analyzing scope change requests to make informed decision on resourcing, cost and time estimation and effectively managing all escalations in-line with organization norms.

Director-Software Operations is also responsible for attracting and retaining top talent in the organization. Will use the “People first” approach in the decision making and helps the organization in the people engagement journey. Role is responsible for aligning the organizational objectives to the team objective, derive goals for individuals and ensure a fair, transparent, inclusive workplace culture. Will nurture teams through different situations, be responsible for the individual development plans and performance metrics.

Competencies:

• Anticipates stakeholder’s stated / unstated needs; suggests specific changes in processes to improve the company’s responsiveness and deliver superior stakeholder experience
• Builds and nurtures long-term, mutually profitable stakeholder partnerships. Builds a say in stakeholder decisions by establishing strong credibility and offering a superior end-to-end experience
• Builds and promotes systems / practices for effective capture, dissemination and management of knowledge at a Business Unit level
• Understands competitive global business environment and builds comfort with VUCA conditions, provides clarity to the team to act quickly and with precision on implicit and explicit stakeholder needs
• Focuses on continuous improvement through constant assessment of existing procedures, Selects and cross-fertilizes ideas across teams within the Business Units
• Drives collective accountability through appropriate actions (involving employees in goal-setting and ongoing communication
• Adapts management style to different situations and provides calmness and consistency to the team during stressful situations, serves as an advisor, providing guidance to multiple teams on contribution to key organizational decisions such that employee concerns are addressed.
• Drives synergy and cooperation across different stakeholders, to catalyze critical decision making, to work towards common organizational goal. Continuously owns and exceeds challenging targets; Drives team to consistently exceed past performance
• Encourages people to work outside of their comfort zone and creates the right conditions for them to demonstrate new competencies, Provides regular feedback in a constructive manner
• Develops and uses systems to organize and keep track of performance across the function, identifies areas to refocus team efforts and improve performance and quality while managing
• Shows respect for differences and draws upon different ideas in the business unit to enhance business performance, takes effort to create an open environment for team to voice views and capitalizes by leveraging synergies across teams.

Technical Skills:

• Should have prior experience in design, develop and maintaining .Net based web applications within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Should have worked on complex, multi-tiered architectural applications
• Strong experience in business understanding, requirement gathering and project scoping.
• Should have Experience of Object Oriented programming practices (SOLID principles, Design pattern)
• Should have prior experience in handling a large team of developers, testers, database developers and architects
• Should have experience in Feasibility Analysis - Technical feasibility (Study of proposed application, performance expected, application function, benefits), Financial feasibility (costs incurred, milestone timelines), Operational feasibility (does the application meet the need or solve the problem, will users be able to adapt to the application)
• Should have experience with the process of choosing from the design patterns and platforms and should be able to convey the merits and demerits of these to the team
• Should be well versed with the security frameworks, assessing vulnerabilities, Secured Code, SSL/Non SSL, Vulnerability tests amongst the areas being proficient at.
• Should have prior experience working with agile teams and alternative programming approaches like either of ADM/Scrum or Xtreme programming, KanBan or Re-factoring
• Experience in creating project charter for the project to clearly list out project objectives, duration, milestones, etc.
• Should have lead a team of Application and database developers and is competent to train/assist them on all their Technical requirements that come up as part of their day to day assignments
• Experience in developing web application with C#, MVC 5, ASP.Net, Web API
• Sound working experience in any one of the JS frameworks including advanced JS frameworks for web comprising of Angular, React, Backbone.
• Hands on HTML/5, CSS, Advance jQuery & JavaScript and advance knowledge of designing HTML pages with JQuery.
• Prior experience of bootstrap for managing highly dynamic & scalable browser-based UI.
• Hands on experience in writing high performance SQL queries, in SQL Server 2014/ 2016 or MYSQL will be preferred.
• Should be proficient at Cloud concepts & guiding principles - Various cloud solution like AWS, AZURE, OPENSHIFT, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google etc. and their key features, advantages and disadvantages
• Should be proficient at T-SQL programming and development
• Identify production and non-production application issues and assist team with optimal solution.
• Supporting creation of thought leadership (POVs, research papers) in the field of programming
• Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of .Net developed projects, including periodic code review.
• Should have worked with Gantt charts or similar planning tools and should have prior experience in reporting/MIS
• Should Contribute to the development of new techniques and plans within area of expertise.

Educational Qualification and Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years of formal education - Graduate / Post Graduate in Computer Science / Information Technology.
• Professional work experience of 15 to 20 years including 5 to 7 years in a leadership role.

• Develop and execute engineering strategy (including technology architecture, development stack, scalability, security etc.) of all our SaaS solutions while keeping in mind needs of business as usual and evolving product feature requirements
• Lead the engineering team and ensure good delivery management to deliver the product roadmap with high speed and quality
• Innovation – explore available technologies that may be useful to our context and run experiments and POCs to evaluate before adoption
• Bring automation and best practices to code management, testing and build & deployment processes
• Solve the most complex issues/initiatives through hands-on development
• Help the team members in resolving difficult technical issues
• Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement
• Provide thought-leadership to fellow team members by working as a guide and mentor to the rest of the team members

• Best in Industry Remuneration
• Attractive ESOP opportunity with huge potential upside
• Cutting edge technologies with always something new happening
• Start-up culture with full ownership and freedom
• Fully flexible hours and work from anywhere
• Super-fun work environment and colleague

• Microservices, Spring Boot, Core Java, Struts 2.0, JPA & Hibernate
• Hands-On experience in relational databases (MySQL Preferred)
• Experience in Data warehousing & Analytics
• Hands-on exposure in mobile application developmen

Qualifications

• B.E. / B.Tech from Tier 1 Institute

• 9+ years of experience in enterprise web application design and development with 4+ years of experience as an automation architect.
• Experienced in technology stack selection and the definition of solution, technology and integration architectures for small to mid-sized applications and cloud hosted platforms
• Strong understanding of various design and architecture patterns
• Experience in implementing and governing software engineering processes, practices, tools and standards for development teams
• Experience of setting up and operating the DevOps and automation infrastructure for continuous integration and delivery
• Full SDLC experience leveraging Agile, TDD and BDD for building and rolling out highly transactional and highly available platforms hosted on premise and on the cloud
• Proficient in effort estimation techniques
• Must be hands on technology and able to troubleshoot critical issues in design or code
• Experience in Mobile Applications automation using SeeTest, Appium
• Strong hands-on experience of designing and developing technology frameworks and micro-services, APIs, REST Web Services, leveraging Java and open source technology stack (i.e. Java, JavaScript, Node.js/ Angular.js/ React.js, Spring Bot, Non-blocking Java, etc. )
• Hands on experience with JBehave, Cucumber, TestNG, Extent Reports
• Strong design, development and performance tuning skills on at least two or more databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, NOSQL and NewSQL (e.g. PostgresQL, Cassandra, Mongo DB, Cosmos DB, MySQL etc.)
• Experience on enterprise architecture patterns and a couple of past examples of architecting high availability, scale and performance applications 
• Strong experience with code review and evaluate the architecture as well as design towards a set of business and technology goals
• Experience with SonarQube code coverage and code quality
• Experience with Cypress JavaScript automation
• Experience on command prompt tools like Shell Script, UNIX
• Hands on experience on Cloud stacks (AWS preferred)
• Hands on experience with standalone applications automation using UFT, LeanFT and VB Script
• Knowledge of principles on code quality, distributed applications, TDD & test automation, self-monitoring applications, refactoring and technical debt