Technical Lead

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, and by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

Our front-end applications are written in React with TypeScript using Gatsby and Next.js. For our REST and GraphQL APIs we use TypeScript and NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch behind the scenes.

All of our services are hosted on AWS using Elastic Kubernetes Service. CI/CD is handled by Jenkins, with automated Docker builds and deployments to staging. We use Github and JIRA to help us keep on top of our tasks, manage and host our code.

We have a strong culture for testing. We are individually responsible for our work and are immensely proud of the quality we produce. We try and automate as much of the testing as possible.

We have a learning and development budget for keeping up to date which can be spent on conferences, courses, and even books. We encourage sharing what we learn with the rest of the team and the wider community.

We are truly cross-functional: as well as designers and product managers, our teams include data analysts, mortgage advisers and marketing specialists. We’re focused on results: meetings are banned two days a week, and if you need to work from home to finish a project or leave early to manage your energy we encourage you to take it.

About the Role

• Develop scalable web applications for award-winning consumer-facing financial tools
• Develop quick internal admin tools for analysts to create and maintain critical rule sets around consumer financial data
• Integrate new external APIs from vendors or other teams into platform
• Work with UX and design team to transform wireframes into living products
• Build new REST and/or GraphQL endpoints for representing our data to consumer applications
• Own full development requirements and implementation, release management, QA regression scripts, and deployment to containerized production environments
• Communicate results and impact to business stakeholders

About You

• Experience with Node.js and a UI framework (React a plus)
• Experience with unit, integration and end to end testing tools and practices
• Experience with documenting, creating, and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL a plus)
• Keen eye for detail when translating design and requirements into working code
• Proficiency with security requirements, authentication and authorization layers (OAuth2, Google Sign-in)
• Aware of front-end performance implications and best practices
• Familiarity working in the cloud, especially as it pertains to the front end: (Amazon S3 or Azure Blob, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.)
• Familiarity with tag and event tracking libraries (e.g. Segment, Google Analytics)
• Fluent at using Git
• Excellent communication, collaboration and writing skills
• You feel comfortable that our values - being brave, investing in each other, making it simple, and owning it - reflect aspects of your personality and approach to work.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in software development into MERN (React & Node.js ) technology.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or IT.
• Must have Hands-On coding expertise of React.js, Reactstrap, NodeJS, MongoDB and ExpressJS.
• Configuring and managing deployment on AWS (EC2 IAM, S3).
• Knowledge of developing REST API using Express framework and front end integration with PUG engine.
• Experience with popular JS libraries like Ember, Babel, Typescript, Webpack, Socket etc.
• Exposure to scm tools like git, Git Hub, CI/CD methods, code coverage tools like SonarQube, etc.
• Good understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises, API formation, POSTMAN API etc.

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science.
• Experience with ( React+Node ) Or ( react + Angular) Or ( Node + Angular)
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks
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• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

~ What Qualities are we looking for ~

-Be part of a Culture where Customer Obsession, Ownership, Teamwork, Bias for Action and Insist on High standards are a way of life
-Desire to work in a start-up environment, work culture, and be able to self-manage and self-initiative.
-Learn and use cutting-edge technology to build state-of-the-art platforms that enhance customer experience at scale
-Be part of high-performing teams that know how to have fun along the way
-Collaborating with Designer and Product Managers to translate beautiful designs into pixel-perfect views
-Experimenting and suggesting improvements to our frontend tools & workflows
-Taking the lead to maintain, refactor and if necessary, throw away legacy frontend code -End-to-end engineering
- design, development, testing, and deployment for the UI work

~ Job Requirements ~

• experienced in Node.js, Express.JS, MongoDB etc
• Strong coding and design skills.
• Good command over Data Structures & Algorithms.
• The ability to produce bug-free and production-grade code.

Job description:

Red Ant Media helps its clients in building digital creative solutions to help them achieve their business goals. As an outsourced product development company, we embrace the crossroads of Creative design, Web development, Web design, and Digital Marketing.

We are a data-driven agency, who bring together data-driven insights, user objective, brand, technology, content, and creative vision.

Experience: 1 -2 years

Location: Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions ( MySQL, MongoDB)
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Node.js and framework available for it (such as express).
• Familiarity with Progressive Web Applications and Single Page Applications and frameworks (Vue, React, Angular with Typescript, etc).
• Hand on and implement complex Angular applications, directives, pipes, interceptors, services, etc.
• Node-based module loaders and task runners (Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt), creating npm modules.
• Proficient understating of code versioning tools, such as GIT.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, SCSS, and CSS3.

What you will be working on?

You'll be a part of the core team and will be working with the founders in building and iterating upon the core product.

How you can grow with us?

• Will be working on the bleeding edge technologies of IoT which are not usually accessible to software engineers.

• Will get exposure to IoT Hardware and Industrial Infrastructure.

• Will get to deliver on-time, quality software in the challenging domains of Energy/IoT/Automation.
  
  

We appreciate the following traits!

• Will be dealing with the web app, mobile app, frontend, backend, etc. So, you need to be flexible in getting the work done.

• Need not be proficient in all of these but you can trump any of this by being a quick learner and a hard worker.

• Should be familiar with the transition from the development phase to the deployment phase.