Tech lead - Open Stack

Founding Engineer:

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and launching our product to customers. Specifically,

• Since our team is lean and we plan to keep it that way - you’ll be one of the first five engineers in leading the zero-to-one journey of a product our customers are hungry for
• Lead technical design and implementation of the frontend and backend of the product with coaching and mentorship from world-class technical architects
• Have knowledge of (or learn) how to work with Shopify’s CLI
• Iterate quickly to create delightful user experiences, working closely with customers/ design partners
• Help us hire a world-class engineering team in the months ahead
• Our team is currently fully remote (with offices to be opened in Bangalore and Mumbai over next few months) and cross-border across San Francisco, Boston, and India - help us cultivate a remote-first, inclusive, diverse, and friendly culture
• Work directly with the founders with an ownership mindset

Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel)
• Experience with service service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Mysql, Redis, Kafka)
• Prior experience working with frontend tech stacks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Prior experience working with frontend UI frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

• Be responsible for the research, design, development, and deployment of all products and platforms
• Proficient full stack web developer with experience in building large-scale applications.
• Ensure that the platform remains secure, scalable, sustainable.
• Set the bar for the quality of code, software engineering practices, communication skills, dealing with complexity and ambiguity.
• Hire all technical roles

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

As a Software Architect a Typical Day Might Include the Following:

• Work with product/tech team to discuss/define the architecture or solution of a given problem statement
• Set the end-to-end technical direction for the team, including platform, technology, tools, and infrastructure
• Communicate architecture in an effective and professional manner
• Drive technical decisions, solve tough problems, and coordinate multiple project execution
• Ensure that the inContact Development coding quality standards and review processes are followed to ensure proper security and high availability standards
• Monitoring the quality of code that is delivered through reviews and other processes
• Foster strong teamwork environment and create passion and energy within the team
• Be an active participant in the development leadership team ensuring corporate success

To Land This Gig You'll Need:

• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of software development experience
• Experience with developing large enterprise-scale application in AWS
• Full-stack experience with PHP, MySql, ReactJS, SQL/NoSQL and readiness to work with teams using other technology stacks like Java, Golang
• Strong quality orientation
• Expertise in designing application using relational and/or non-relational databases
• Working Knowledge of CI/CD
• Experience with micro-service design
• Experience architecting systems for performance and scalability
• Experience in product development
• Excellent problem-solving abilities
• Excellent decision-making skills
• Working Knowledge of design patterns
• Working Knowledge of Agile development processes
• Strong communication skills

Job Description

• Planning with the product advancement group to finish item thoughts 
• Utilizing different programming to plan the items. Has hands on coding experience across different technology stacks. Willing to experiment & explore across technologies and identify the best suited
• Performing constant market analysis of competing products
• Testing item models to control configuration blemishes 
• Talking with delivery team to work out financially savvy producing methodology and solutions. 
• Ability to ideate, code, setup a prototype and on approval design the entire application as per business requirements.
• Complete knowledge of Full stack development. .
• As a product engineer, our Super Hero is expected to participate in all parts of development life cycle. Create user friendly, cost effective product design.
• Ability to research w.r.t features, UX, functionalities and finally testing before being rolled out.

Job Requirements

• Familiarity with all stages of product development life cycle.
• Extensive experience in writing codes, deep understanding of platform architecture, ability to design & develop solutions & knack towards problem solving.
• Deep engineering skills in various technology stacks, ability to handle big data concepts, keen to work in IIOT & machine data domain.  
• Ability to effectively present ideas & communicate with team members within & outside organization, ability to write routine reports and correspondence and ability to speak confidently & effectively before groups of customers or other Donaldson colleagues.
• We are happy to have a technology geek take this position as long as s/he is able to align the product roadmap to organization’s growth roadmap.
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Effective written and verbal skills in English Language are mandatory.
• This is a global role and the candidate may be required to travel to Smart Ship Hub’s different delivery centres.

Experience Requirements & Educational Qualification

• Atleast 5 years of proven product engineering experience. Must have: managed product life cycle, knowledge of product roadmap, extensive coding experience.
• Should be open to working in Disruptive Application Design domain, IIOT, Smart Sensors, Big data

As a Scala Developer, you are part of the development of the core applications using the Micro Service paradigm. You will join an Agile team, working closely with our product owner, building and delivering a set of Services as part of our order management and fulfilment platform. We deliver value to our business with every release, meaning that you will immediately be able to contribute and make a positive impact.

Our approach to technology is to use the right tool for the job and, through good software engineering practices such as TDD and CI/CD, to build high-quality solutions that are built with a view to maintenance.