Technical Architect

We are Seeking:

1. AWS Serverless, AWS CDK:

Proficiency in developing serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and other relevant AWS services.

Experience with AWS CDK for defining and deploying cloud infrastructure.

Knowledge of serverless design patterns and best practices.

Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.

Experience in CI/CD workflows with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.

2. TypeScript, React/Angular:

Proficiency in TypeScript.

Experience in developing single-page applications (SPAs) using React.js or Angular.

Knowledge of state management libraries like Redux (for React) or RxJS (for Angular).

Understanding of component-based architecture and modern frontend development practices.

3. Node.js:

Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js.

Understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.

Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration.

4. MongoDB/NoSQL:

Experience with NoSQL databases and their use cases.

Familiarity with data modeling and indexing strategies in NoSQL databases.

Ability to integrate NoSQL databases into serverless architectures.

5. CI/CD:

Ability to troubleshoot and debug CI/CD pipelines.

Knowledge of automated testing practices and tools.

Understanding of deployment automation and release management processes.

Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Certification(Preferred-Added Advantage):AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer - Associate)

· Salary Package: As per Company Standards

Job Description:

Technologies/Frameworks –

·        Core Java, J2EE,

·        Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security,

·        JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices

·        Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage

·        Junit or Mockito frameworks

·        Maven, Git

·        Knowledge Data Structures,

·        SQL, MySQL

·        Designing relational database schemas                                                                                                                                                

·        Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices

Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies. Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira.

Strong knowledge of working in Integrations of 3rd party APIs and creating the new APIs.

Must have good knowledge of creating Flow diagrams, UMLs and all the required documentations.

Must have Team Lead exposure

Domain Preference

Skills Required: Java, HTML , CSS ,Angular,Springboot

Job Requirements:

• Experience in Core Java and J2EE

• Good hands-on experience in working with Spring, Hibernate Frameworks.

• Should have working experience on Web Services, and Database design.

• Working knowledge of HTML 5 ReactJS is needed.

• Knowledge in NOSQL databases and analytics will be an advantage.

• Analyze, Design & develop features in product

• Code review of team members/peers

Role - Technology Lead

Role Overview 

As a Tech lead, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and  procedures, working closely with the co-founders in building a team. You will be responsible for  defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and  debugging of the software applications. The technology lead will be a part of the core leadership  team and will be involved in all crucial decisions. So apart from strong technical skills, leadership is  something we are looking for.  

Responsibilities  

▪ Work Experience between 3 to 5 years in large scale applications with desire to work in fast  paced startups  

▪ Must have led a team of 3 to 10 engineers. Excellent business understanding and  prioritization skills. Fully hands on with coding and up to date with technology trends. 
▪ Focus on code maintainability and performance of application and a demonstrated product  development ability.  

▪ Must be excellent with hiring and should have built a team from scratch or small size 
▪ Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems  

▪ Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user  experience and user engagement.  

▪ Assist with troubleshooting of issues as needed 

Tech Stack -

Node Js, Nativescript, Angular, React, React Native, MongoDB, AWS.  

• Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems
• 2+ Yrs experience in microservices
• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts
• Familiarity with different design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
• Know how of Java concurrency patterns
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services
• Experience in working with popular web application frameworks like Play and Spark
• Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, SWT, AWT according to project requirements
• Ability to write clean, readable Java code
• Experience in handling external and embedded databases
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
• Basic knowledge of JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its drawbacks, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, for instance, Git
• Understanding of building tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, etc
• Expertise in continuous integration
• Other required skills of a java developer include the basic knowledge of:
• JavaServer pages (JSP) and servlets
• Web frameworks like Struts and Spring
• Service-oriented architecture
• Web Technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery
• Markup Languages such as XML, JSON
• Abstract classes and interfaces
• Constructors, lists, maps, sets
• File IO and serialization
• Exceptions
• Generics
• Java Keywords like static, volatile, synchronized, transient, etc
• Multi-threading and Synchronization

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 7+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders

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!

Job Description:

Primary:  Core Java, Spring boot, Microservices, Angular 4+ version, HTML, CSS

• Should have hands on experience on Angular 4 + version and Java Development.
• An in-depth understanding of design aspects and should be able to apply the same.
• Translates business requirements into technical details relevant to web application.
• Familiarity with JS frameworks such as AngularJS, jQuery
• Deep and extensive knowledge of JavaScript and the web development ecosystem (bootstrap, SASS)
• Experience with server-side technologies languages such as Node.js, Bower, Gulp/Grunt
• F/E Unit test framework: Jasmine, Protractor
• B/E Unit test framework: JUnit Mockito
• Knowledge and experience using IDEs such as Eclipse/RAD/IntelliJ,
• Good working experience in Core Java, MVC frameworks, and UML, Design Patterns.
• Experience in Jersey or Rest Easy
• Experience with EJB, Hibernate, Spring Framework
• WebSphere Application Server and DB2 and Oracle DB
• Experience in design and engineering of REST/SOAP based web services.
• Should have experience utilizing best practices and have worked with industry standard design patterns.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 Security Rules
• Proficient understanding of Code version tool like Git/ Bitbucket and SVN
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and tools such as Maven and Jenkins.
• Experience in distributed Agile SCRUM methodology 

Secondary:

• Hibernate/JPA, jQuery, bootstrap, Webservices, Good communication skills.

Work Experience:  3 to 8 Years

Work Location – Pune (Viman Nagar)

 About Company: Great Places to Work certified company

AIT Global India Pvt. Ltd. (https://aitglobalindia.com/">LINK) is one of the formidable IT Services Organization which has deeper expertise in various areas of Technology to address the critical business priorities of customers from Public Sector, Education, E-Commerce, Healthcare, BFSI, Financial Services, Automobile, Manufacturing Retail and a lot more. Organizations belonging to these industries have to – not only be agile towards the Technological Disruptions and maintain a steady / balanced course towards its business priorities, but also Overcome the Challenges to Maintain Costs & ‘Ensure Long-Term Growth’ as this scenario isn’t going away anytime soon. We are headquartered out of Matawan, New Jersey (USA). In the past one and half decade, we have organically grown from service to service each time exceeding our goals and moving forward towards the next. There are a range of services which we could deliver for the customers that could add value to their business goals or objectives, which help them attain new milestones of growth. With almost a Decade and a Half Years of Happy Customers from different parts of the world for services ranging from Web Technologies, Mobile Technologies, Product Development, DevOps, Data & Analytics, Quality Assurance, Digital Content Management, to emerging Technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cyber Security, Cloud and more... our organization has served customers when it mattered them the most; to help them achieve their business growth priorities. While doing this we now have almost 100 employees working from USA on H1 Visa working in 4 different time zones and in India we have around 200+ Employees, working on different IT projects out of the two locations in Pune.

And of course - As an IT Services Organization we are also helping our customers with Subject Matter Experts from various fields of Technology on a 'Contract to Hire' basis as a part of our Consulting Line of Business.

We have our Registered Office at Wanowrie and our India Development Centre is located at Viman Nagar, E- Space IT Park.

We are proud to be  ISO certified and as https://www.greatplacetowork.in/get-certified/certified-organizations/#mid-size">Great Place to work  certified since last wo consecutive years. AIT Global India feels honoured to have recently certified and featured in https://www.cioreviewindia.com/magazines/rpa-october-2020/#page=28">CIO Review earning recognition among their "Most promising RPA Service Provider" Companies.