Tech Lead

Job Description

Objectives of this role

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
• Assume leadership of new projects, from conceptualization to deployment
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality and application design
• Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• Architect and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimised for speed and scale
• Work primarily in MERN stack(Mongo, Express, ReactJs, NodeJs)
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs
• Collaborate across time zones via Slack, GitHub comments, documents, and frequent videoconferences

Required skills and qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in building large-scale software applications
• Experience in MERN stack(Mongo, Express, ReactJs, NodeJs)
• Experience in building web applications
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration testing

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, or engineering
• Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies
• Professional certification

We are the largest online legal / tax / compliance service provider in India. Our business is technology driven and our platform is already servicing customers across India and abroad. 

Our dev team comprises seasoned and experienced developers along with Senior Resources for mentoring. We are looking for seasoned engineering leaders to expand our team.

At Vakilsearch, our customers come first. We're a small, close-knit team. We work purposefully and think big when it comes to our growth as a team and individuals. 

We encourage you to spend time with our users, and our empathy for our customers sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we ship. We welcome people who are passionate about building a digital legal / tax / compliance future without reliance on humans and subject matter experts. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward together!

We are looking for a hands-on technical lead developer to help us with various products that we are developing in the legal, tax and compliance space. Ideal candidate would have tons of experience in HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / ReactJS / Next.js and would be a W3C standards enthusiast with an eye to detail and responsive layouts.

As a technical lead, you will be responsible for the system design, implementation and management of multiple products. 

You will work very closely with product leadership (CPO) and will be involved at various stages of the product development lifecycle including brainstorming, wireframing, high level design, execution and taking the product to production. 

You will be responsible to build/mentor a world class engineering team and execute multiple product deliveries at the same time.

You’re someone who’s smart, organized, motivated and gets things done. You want to work in a startup environment, because you like the idea of doing a bit of everything and taking ownership of what you work on. You have ideas about everything, and you’re not afraid to argue your point (while respecting everyone else’s of course). You’re constantly thinking “how can we do this better?

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and UI/UX designers to understand business requirements, user experience goals and other pain points
• Integrate with various partners through PWA apps, website integrations, landing pages
• Integrate with Facebook, Google ecosystem, Instagram and other APIs to share data
• Create a system that’ll be used in multiple projects by multiple teams in the company for many years
• Build reusable components & write unit and integration tests for your code
• Ability to work independently on challenging compound problems as well as collaborating with other team members to solve major goals
• Working knowledge of Zapier or equivalent 
• Mentor and lead the engineering team as a subject matter expert for all technology and architecture related issues
• Should be proactive and enhance existing software architecture by analyzing and identifying areas for improvement, optimization or refactoring
• Tune applications at all levels to ensure high product efficiency and quality including application load time, google page speed etc
• Constantly explore new and emerging technologies and techniques, and research ongoing industry developments/trends in the space and make appropriate recommendations to the management for enhancements
• Aware of Software estimations and capable of doing and validating estimates across multiple technologies
• Able to balance tending to existing production services with working on new business critical integrations
• Provide technical leadership in defining the product & drive development processes to meet aggressive release schedules
• Work closely with our senior engineering management, product management, and executive team to define product strategy and roadmap
• Proven ability to manage multiple product lines and meet aggressive release schedules

• Skills & Key Qualifications:

  • Minimum 5+ years of software development experience with significant exposure to ES6, NodeJS along with front end development
  • Proficient in front-end technologies - ReactJS / NextJS / NodeJS
  • Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code and following test-driven development
  • Expert level knowledge of ReactJS ecosystem and ES6
  • Good understanding of different microservices principles, patterns, anti-patterns best practices
  • Proficient in Data structures and Algorithms, time and space complexity analysis
  • Hands on in npm modules, packaging, designing of callbacks, async/await, ES6
  • Ability to design and architect Enterprise JavaScript applications using ReactJS
  • Experience with popular ReactJS workflows (such as Redux, Hooks or MobX)
  • Expertise in understanding of web markup (HTML5 and CSS3), JSX and templating technologies
  • Experience writing unit tests using JavaScript testing frameworks
  • Proficient understanding of build tools and code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
  • Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
  • Demonstrated understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX

Roles and Responsibilities 

1) Understand client requirements and functionalities. 

2) Write well-designed, testable, efficient code. 

3) Responsible for solving complex technical issues. 

4) Ensure quality projects are delivered within defined timelines. 

5) Active involvement in client communication to understand functional requirements. 

6) Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables. 

Required Skills 

1) Good experience in Angular

2) Hand on Node.JS./Express JS 

3) Database: MYSQL/MongoDB 

4) Experience in JavaScript, TypeScript. 

5)Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery 

6) Experience working in an Agile environment. 

7) Good communication skills.

Key Qualifications

1) BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant field and 6+ years of experience in building backend services with

Python 3.7.x using Django >= 2.2.1, Django REST framework >= 3.13.1, Flask >=1.1.2 and relational databases

design and maintenance.

2) At least 4 years of solid experience in working with front-end MVC framework React and caching strategies

(memcached, Redis).

3) Expertise in building microservices-based and cloud-based architectures including development and deployment

in AWS.

4) At least 3 years of experience with Web Application technologies: REST, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, AWS

Lambda, API Gateway and web servers Apache, Nginx.

5) Follows coding best practices to produce tested, scalable, reliable and maintainable code.

6) Hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and releasing large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

1) Understand complex requirements, scope and architect major features and perform API technical design for

junior developers to enhance the product at all layers.

2) Think in terms of future possibility of features, backward compatibility, and application performance.

3) Build cloud-based Python Django software products and implement UI components in React.js framework.

4) Write quality code (with comments, unit tests & documentation), design, implement and manage data pipelines

at enterprise scale with data migration and production data maintenance.

5) Collaborate with different teams to conceptualize, design, and build highly scalable and reliable software

solutions with REST APIs following SDLC best practices and DevOps principles.

6) Work closely with product, project and business teams to translate user feedback and company vision into

technical roadmap.

7) Possess strong product-centric mindset. You should be interested in the way software products are built and

comfortable to be proactive with your ideas and opinions.

 Must Have: BE/BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or Information Technology

Our Stack

Back-end: Python, Django REST, MySQL, Celery, Rabbitmq, Sqlalchemy, RDS

Front-end: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

Ops: Docker, AWS, RDS, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS Route53, AWS cloudwatch

• Work on world-class solutions to deliver industry's leading Cloud operations management
• Develop system architecture, design and build platform services for scalable, resilient, multi-tenant Cloud SaaS. Examples of work include:
• Writing microservices based distributed applications
• Designing REST APIs for backend services
• Develop user-interface for our SaaS
• Handle cross-cutting microservices concerns such as externalizing configuration, logging, health checks, metrics, distributed tracing
• Work with customers, partners, and business leaders to architect solutions for Cloud Operations

• Has significant (3+ years) experience developing and deploying Cloud services for a large scale software projects on public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Has hands-on experience building multi-tenant SaaS solutions on public clouds (AWS)
• Strong experience with React, NodeJS, Java, GO, Python
• Has expertise with microservices, infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD), etc.
• Has experience working with containerization, cluster orchestration, or infrastructure management frameworks (such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
• Basic knowledge of AWS security (IAM, Cognito)
• Knowledge of good engineering practices and agile culture
• Takes initiative in a fast-paced environment
• 100% hands-on and loves to code

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, etc.
• AWS certification
• Experience with machine-learning (ML), MLOps
• Experience with Apache Flink, Spark, Hadoop, or other
• Experience working remotely in a distributed team
• Startup experience

Job Description  -

Viaan Gaming is looking for a Sr. Software Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. The ideal candidate for this position will have a broad technical skill set and extensive experience in this industry. As a result, the candidate should be able to design, develop, test and deploy the products required for the company's needs. Moreover, the candidate should be able to work with other developers in determining product strategy. 

Responsibilities - Own the product : Design, Develop & Deploy  - Assume full ownership of new technology solutions - right from the requirement to release.  - Ensure Quality & sustainability of the architecture - Obsess about code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, and documentation  - Focus on quality with continuous integration and deployment.  - Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs. - Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders. 

Required Skills 

- Mastery of the JavaScript language (ES 2017) and all the modern tooling that it requires is essential!  - Proficient in  Node Js - Express, Restify - Strong understanding of React.js, Redux, and Webpack with at least 2-4 years  experience developing software.  - Experience writing unit, integration, and functional tests, specifically for single page apps  - Proficient in design & architecting scalable products. - Expert

Knowledge of Development Tools Bitbucket, Docker & Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD with BitBucket and JIRA  - Web Server technologies:- Apache, Nginx - Understand client-server architecture, REST APIs and websocket communication.  - Good level of understanding in SCSS and CSS and familiar with responsive UI.  - Expert knowledge to handle integration & deployments Cloud computing AWS - Expert in HTTP terminologies such as Request/Response cycle, content negotiation, CORS etc  - Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes - Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability  - Obsess about code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, and documentation  - Familiarity with AWS products - Beanstalk, Elb, ECS, EC2, SNS, SQS, S3, etc.  - Great interpersonal and communication skills  - Good organizational and time-management skills 

 Qualifications ● Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science / engineering

• 1-2 years of work experience, preferably in a startup
• An engineering degree from a reputed college or University
• Hands-on experience in developing end-to-end applications using Node.Js, ReactJs,
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS, web standards, best practices
• Experience of working with databases - MySQL, MongoDB
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• An experience in writing clean, semantic code with cross-browser compatibility in mind
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• A passion and the ability to make beautiful, smooth, delightful web experiences
• A Will-Do attitude

• A team of aces, from top-tier schools and startups, to work with
• A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
• A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative and implementable ideas
• An open work culture

• Competitive salary
• Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.
• Opportunity to grow really fast.

• Shortlist
• Intro call of 15min
• 1-2 Tech rounds
• HR round
• Offer rollout

The Senior Full Stack Developer is responsible for bringing the platform to the next level and ensuring the stability of the core platform. S/he will report directly to our GM and will have the opportunity to participate in the next phase of growth at Delishop, developing the platform and adapting it to meet the needs of new verticals. S/he will have flexibility and responsibilities from day one with expectations to contribute to the growth of the company by bringing new ideas and solutions to the table.

Duties:

• Coordinate project work with junior staff under the supervision of the GM.
• Act as a technical lead to the junior staff
• Lead production troubleshooting.
• Participate in the ideation of how to optimise the platform.

Requirements:

• At least 4-5 years of working experience in development.
• Very good knowledge of ReactJS including workflows (eg: redux)
• Good knowledge of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache/Nginx, MySQL, PHP).
• Experience creating and using APIs (REST)
• Solid experience with ExpressJS/lambda and other backend technologies
• Understand of token and authentication mechanisms (eg: JWT)
• Experience with AWS, Command line tools and Auto-Scaling Environments.
• Comfortable with GIT (CLI), including branching and merging.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Eager to try out and learn about new technologies and approaches every day.
• Attention to detail, problem solving and teambuilding skills.
• Able and confident to communicate in English with colleagues and clients.
• Curious about best practices and adopting them;
• Experience with leading development teams and interacting with clients.
• Works hard, party harder.

Compensation

• USD 1000-1200 per month
• Working Hours: TBD