Technical Architect/CTO AT PUNE

Upto 50% Equity and Co Founder position available for the prospective CTO candidate.

Requirement-

CTO + CoFounder wanted for our Tech startup where we're trying to build Connected Mobility in parallel to a "short videos app" meant for dashcam videos getting recorded straight from the user's smartphone. So you can say we're a TikTok of dashcam videos at the front.

Expecting the individual is capable & willing to work on these below languages-

Our backend codes are in CakePHP,
Admin Panel in Laravel,
Android is in Java.
No iOS app yet but we plan to roll it out soon.

Hence, we're expecting the CTO to be having fair idea/expertise about these languages. Also, we don't have an iOS app at this point, but it would be benefecial if there's a fair knowledge about iOS apps as well. Also, since the server being used is AWS we are hoping the person knows how to efficiently utilize various features of the same while linking the things.

Proposed Salary may be available only after angel investor, VCs come on board.

Technology: node js, DynamoDB / Mongo DB

 

Roles:

• Design & implement Backend Services.
• Able to redesign the architecture.
• Designing & implementation of application in MVC & Microservice.
• 9+ years of experience developing service-based applications using Node.js.
• Expert-level skills in developing web applications using JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
• Experience working on teams that practice BDD (Business Driven Development).
• Understanding of micro-service architecture and RESTful API integration patterns.
• Experience using Node.js for automation and leveraging NPM for package management
• Solid Object Oriented design experience, and creating and leveraging design patterns.
• Experience working in a DevOps/Continuous Delivery environment and associated toolsets (i.e. Jenkins, Puppet etc.)
  
  
  

Desired/Preferred Qualifications :

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
2. Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities
3. Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up like environment
4. Experience leveraging node.js frameworks such as Express.
5. Experience with distributed source control management, i.e. Git

Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app. Founded by seasoned stock market professionals and IIT Alumni. With the vision to make stock market knowledge accessible to every Indian household, Bullspree is on a bull run. The venture is backed by renowned Industry Veterans and covered by leading media agencies.

About the role: 

This is the role of the VP of Technology at Bullspree that is expected to work closely with the founders to drive the day-to-day technology development at Bullspree. There is no bar in compensation for deserving candidates. Get in touch if you think this sounds interesting to you.

Desired Skills: 

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent streams from Top Tier Institutes.
• 3 – 7 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on Cloud 
• Proficiency in developing ReSTful APIs, flutter, mobile libraries, Android OS, App Development language (PHP/Kotlin/Java/JavaScript or equivalent) 
• Knowledge of Cloud Services, Containers, Databases, disaster recovery, and message queues (Kafka / RabbitMQ) is highly preferable.
• Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Spinnaker, SonarQube) and best practices 
• Good proficiency in SQL 
• Good understanding of database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc. 
• Sound debugging skills with the ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts 

Good to have: 

• Strong experience working with multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/AZURE), Docker, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform 
• Good understanding of observatory tools and logging 
• Enthusiasm for open-source contribution 
• Previous experience working in an environment with microservices 
• Knowledge of IT security 
• Experience in distributed and big data technologies

About First Principles

We are a Tech Holding Company and our portfolio companies generate millions in revenue. What is unique about FirstPrinciples is that most of our companies remain controlled and majority owned by First Principles and its team members rather than by external investors. We are proud that our product engineering team builds world class products from India. https://firstprinciples.io/">https://firstprinciples.io/

About this Role

As we scale and build our organisation, we would like to add an individual to our core Technical Leadership who can scale our key products and projects and help us build and foster relationships with Enterprise clients.

We are looking for an experienced Technology Leader to join our fast growing organisation to help us with driving Technical Strategy, Approach and oversee the Implementation for internal and external products. You should be someone who loves Engineering, have amazing debugging skills and slay problems with technology. 

In this role, you will undertake Technical / Solution Architecture and should also be able to help team with Engineering and coding wherever required. That includes, working along with the team, writing code, doing R&D or POCs, ensuring we follow modern industry standards and building beautiful high performing Software and Applications and thus delivering a better solution and product. You will also help FP build strong relationships with clients and technical leadership on the client side.

You would be required to have a minimum of 10+ years of experience with a mix of Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Cyber - Network Security, Enterprise Application Maintenance, Database Management along with Project, Client and People Management skills which are necessary to lead the team and be their voice. You should be a leader and not just a manager who loves delegating things to the off-shore team, but rather someone who would not hesitate to take over Git-Pull and start writing code and show ‘here is how it’s done’ and amaze everyone with your expertise! :-) 

Because this is a Senior role, you would also be involved working with the Product/Project Manager and will be responsible for the delivery and output.

Tech Stack [High-Level]: We are JavaScript focused i.e. we work in ReactJS, NodeJS, AngularJS, TypeForm, TypeScript, Redis. On the server side, we work with AWS/GCP/DO. Database: MySQL, PostgreS and MongoDb. API: REST and GraphQL API. We also have a strong DevOps stack - including Kubernetes(K8), Dockers and CI/CD automation. 

Interview Process: 

• 60 min Discovery Call
• 15 mins introduction and what you bring to the table (We love people who say, “We build the damn table”) 
• 15 min understanding your experience and background
• 15 min on why you want to join our team and your expectations, future plans
• 15 min Q&A
  
  
• 60-90 min Technical Interview  (May be more than 1)
• Technical Call
  
  
• 45-60 min Final Call
• 15 min discussion on results 
• 15 min CTC expectations / negotiations 
• 15 min closure
• 15 min buffer

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Principal Software Engineer /Architect

Axtechnosoft Private Limited

 

Job Description

Responsibilities: -

• You would take ownership of the existing system and scale it more than 10X over the next 2 years.
• Apply best coding standards.
• You would create the infrastructure that can serve 100s of customers and millions of data requests per hour.
• Over the next year or so, you would be able to guide a team of 5 to 15 people to accomplish your goals. Mentoring this team into a world-class engineering team would be a key part of your role.
• Your earlier experience in successfully building, deploying and running complex, large scale web or data products.
• You would work hand-in-hand with the Product Management team to build engineering capabilities that align with the evolution of the product.
• Eventually work with Data science teamwork to ensure that the algorithmic intelligence that we build is plugged into the product in an expected manner.
• Overall, you would be responsible for end-to-end architecting from Engineering standpoint.

Must have: -

• Total experience of 8+ years while relevant experience of at least 2 years.
• Have built a platform that handles at least 500k to 1 million data request an hour.
• Worked on building an infrastructure that serves 200k+ customers.
• Hands on coder.
• Expert level knowledge in at least one technology stack - Python or ideally, Java. Also Angular, React, Node.js
• Expert level knowledge with Elastic Search or NoSQL technologies like MongoDB/HBase/Cassandra/Redis/Neo4j
• Experience developing web applications.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Working knowledge of databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.
• Devops experience working with AWS / Other cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of API’s.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Implementing Software Engineering best practices.
• Previously worked on user facing products with scale.
• Agile methodology.
• Great attention to detail.
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind

Good to have: -

• Working knowledge of React Red.
• Open-source technology.
• Working knowledge of AI/ ML.
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field.
• Experience working in a start-up environment.

 

Key Skills

Python

Angular Javascript

Reactor & Solids Processing

Node.js

Elastic Search

NoSQL

Web Applications

Database

Web Servers

UX/UI Design

AWS Cloud

Agile Methodology

The opportunity:

1. Opportunity to join a very ambitious project starting in the Smart Automation field.

2. Initial team of two senior entrepreneurs already working in this area with strong skills in strategy, consulting, and business development.

3. Startup positioning, business plan, tactical and strategic activities plans minimizing funding needs already well defined.

4. More information will be communicated during the first interviews.


Must have:

1. Demonstrated experience through all phases of the technology life cycle, including project planning, requirements definition, architecture design, build/configuration, testing and operational transition, operating model, governance.

2. Masters' degree in Computer Science or related field.

3. Advanced technological skillset and a demonstrated history with technology.

4. Must have experience with PHP Codeigniter 3 and 4 AND HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (ES6 2020), JQuery, Codeigniter 4, PHP, MySQL, Nginx / Apache, AWS.

Optional: React.js , Node.js

5. Exceptional team management skills with excellent verbal and written communication.

6. Ability to delegate efficiently & decision making

7. Extensive industry knowledge with an eye towards the future & Passionate for achieving goals.


Specific duties include:

1. Creating technology standards and practices and ensuring adherence

2. Leading the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships

3. Closely working with senior CTO and Building and managing the technology team

4. Overseeing research and development as well as special projects

5. Making recommendations to senior management through presentations and advocacy

6. Managing data systems implementation and monitoring their effectiveness in meeting business goals

7. Supervising software testing, and information systems security and maintenance

8. Managing staff in functional areas such as LAN/WAN architecture, systems operations, and hardware and software support

9 Anticipating and reacting to major technology changes

10 Developing technology contingency plans to keep projects on track

11 Supervising Web application and software development

Apart from all the formalities mentioned above, dedication & Passion is something that cannot be measured by any parameter, would love someone with the same passion as us and join with our journey.


Salary/Offer:

Only equity (based on candidate experiences) will be offered as of now. Salary will be there once the company is stable.

Are you someone with a strong technology leadership background?

At Solutionec, we are looking for a Solution Architect professional who will work on complex and critical technology programs. Also, this role will allow you to engage in new and emerging technology and play an active role in Solutionec’s journey to the cloud.

In close partnership with business and IT partners, you will provide technical leadership and vision, authoring multi-year architecture roadmaps, and actively promoting opportunities to optimize, consolidate, reuse, and simplify. You will author actionable architecture solutions that achieve business goals, align with Solutionec technology strategy, and promote standard methodologies in design and architecture.

• 10+ years’ experience which include analysis, design, architecture, and development along with leadership skills
• Experience with Java/ C/Python is a must.
• Experience hands on full stack architect with deep expertise in architecture design tools and in open source technologies/frameworks such as PostgreSQL, Ceph, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Tomcat, Apache, angular/react, nodejs, spring boot
• Experience with TSQL/SSRS/SSIS/SSAS/Informatica
• Experience leading multiple, full lifecycle, large-scale Data Migration Projects
• PostgreSQL Database Administrator with proven experience in large scale data migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL
• Experience with complex end to end Cloud migrations to AWS/Azure
• Experience in cloud technologies including designing solutions that use AWS services such as EKS, RDS, S3, ALB, CloudWatch, ElastiCache and Lambda
• Experience in the consulting field with excellent leadership, customer service, oral and written skills, project pricing, and presentation skills
• Certified Solutions Architect with one of the major cloud providers will be a plus
• Experience with healthcare a plus

Looking for smart people to join my team.

Key Skills Expected • Will be expected to architect, develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems • Should have excellent coding skills and good understanding of MVC frameworks • Strong understanding & experience in building efficient search & recommendation algorithms; experience in Machine/ Deep Learning would be beneficial • Experience in Python-Django would be a plus • Strong knowledge of hosting webservices like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc is critical. • Sound understanding of Front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS etc We are looking for self-starters who are looking to solve hard problems.

Desired​ ​ Skills​ ​ and​ ​ Experience ● B.S.​ ​ or​ ​ Masters​ ​ in​ ​ computer​ ​ engineering​ ​ or​ ​ related​ ​ discipline,​ ​ from​ reputed​​ ​ university ● Must​ ​ have​ ​ been​ ​ involved​ ​ with​ ​ startups​ ​ (some​ ​ successful​ ​ and​ ​ others​ a ​ ​ learning ​ ​ experience) ● Must​ ​ be​ ​ a ​ ​ hands-on entrepreneurial​ ​ CTO,​ ​ who​ ​ has​ ​ worked​ ​ at​ ​ least​ one​​ ​ high​​ ​ profile​​ ​ startup ● Strong​​ ​ network​​ ​ to​​ ​ recruit​​ ​ from​​ ​ within​​ ​ (India​​ ​ and/or​​ ​ overseas) ● Must have experience and ability to hire quality team, with first hires being​ ​ from​ ​ personal​ ​ networks ● Experience​ ​ in​ ​ leading​ ​ the​ ​ full​ ​ cycle​ ​ of​ ​ web​ ​ and​ ​ mobile​ ​ application​ development processes,​ ​ from​ ​ design​ ​ to​ ​ implementation, deployment​ ​ and​ ​ ​ operation. ● Experience​​ ​ with​​ ​ Python​​ ​ development​​ ​ and​​ ​ object-oriented​​ ​ design ● Extensive​ ​ experience​ ​ with​ ​ MCV​ ​ frameworks​​ ​ (Django​​ ​ is​​ ​ a ​ ​ plus) ● Experience​ ​ managing​ ​ multi-discipline​ ​ teams​ ​ of​ ​ developers​ ​ is​ ​ a ​ ​ plus ● Extensive​ ​ knowledge​ ​ of​ ​ and​ ​ experience​ ​ with​ ​ SMS,​ ​ USSD​ ​ or​ ​ other​ protocols​​ ​ for​​ ​ mobile ​ ​ communication​​ ​ standards,​​ ​ particularly​​ ​ GSM ● Exceptional​ ​ project​ ​ management​ ​ and​ ​ organization​ ​ skills Responsibilities: ● Collaborate​ ​ with​ ​ the​ ​ Founder​ ​ to​ ​ build​ ​ a ​ ​ comprehensive technology​ vision​​ ​ and​​ ​ product​​ ​ roadmap ● Build​​ ​ out​​ ​ the​​ ​ architecture,​​ ​ team,​​ ​ technology​​ ​ stack​​ ​ and​​ ​ platform ● Set​ ​ the​ ​ tone,​ ​ best​ ​ practices,​ ​ and​ ​ overall​ ​ strategy​ ​ for​ ​ technical​ operations​ ​ – ​ ​ from​ ​ coding, project​ ​ management,​ ​ documentation,​ architecture,​ ​ and​ ​ scaling​ ​ ​ – ​ ​ and​ ​ rigidly​ ​ adhere​ ​ to their​ implementation,​​ ​ adjusting​​ ​ as​​ ​ needed ● Own​ ​ & ​ ​ report​ ​ on​ ​ technology​ ​ related​ ​ metrics​ , ​ ​ always​ ​ looking​ ​ for​ ​ a ​ way​​ ​ to​​ ​ improve​​ ​ ​ ​ users’ ​ ​ experiences ​ ​ via​ ​ technology ● Identify​ ​ and​ ​ incorporate​ ​ growing​ ​ trends​ ​ and​ ​ best​ ​ practices​ ​ in​ technology,​ ​ evaluate​ ​ and identify​ ​ appropriate​ ​ technology​ platforms ● Lead​ ​ strategic​ ​ planning​ ​ to​ ​ achieve​ ​ goals​ ​ within​ ​ timelines​ ​ by​ identifying​ ​ and​ ​ prioritizing development​ ​ initiatives​ ​ and​ ​ setting​ timeframes​​ ​ for​​ ​ development​​ ​ and​​ ​ deployment ● Recruit,​ ​ hire​ ​ and​ ​ lead​ ​ a ​ ​ high​ ​ quality​ ​ technology​ ​ team​ , ​ ​ with​ ​ close​ collaboration​ ​ and communication​ ​ with​ ​ a ​ ​ top​ ​ notch​ ​ data​ ​ science​ team ● Recommend​ ​ technologies​ ​ that​ ​ support​ ​ company​ ​ organizational​ needs​​ ​ internally ● Maintain​ ​ a ​ ​ governance​ ​ process​ ​ ​ that​ ​ meets​ ​ government,​ ​ partner,​ and​​ ​ company ​ ​ expectations​​ ​ for​​ ​ information​​ ​ privacy ● Communicate​ ​ the​ ​ company’s​ ​ technology​ ​ strategy​ ​ to​ ​ investors,​ management,​​ ​ staff, ​ ​ partners,​​ ​ customers,​​ ​ and​​ ​ stakeholders ● Develop​ ​ and​ ​ manage​ ​ a ​ ​ multi-year​ ​ technology​ ​ roadmap​ , ​ ​ ensuring​ the​ ​ deployment​ ​ of architectural​ ​ solutions​ ​ that​ ​ are​ ​ secure,​ ​ scalable,​ comprehensive​​ ​ and​​ ​ maintainable ● Assist​ ​ the​ ​ CEO​ ​ with​ ​ fundraising​ ​ and​ ​ strategy,​ ​ Product​ ​ & ​ ​ Operations​ Leads​​ ​ with​​ ​ feature ​ ​ road-mapping Key​ ​ Personal​ ​ Attributes ● A​ ​ natural​ ​ leader ● Loves the intensity, chaos and passion of start-ups, and wants to work with a fun-loving team who truly enjoy working together to realize​ ​ a ​ ​ shared​ ​ dream ● Team player who is takes ownership of work, is detail and deadline oriented,​ ​ with​ ​ a ​ ​ strong​ ​ ​ work​ ​ ethic