Technical Lead

Who are we?

Kriyadocs is a leading document workflow platform focused on the publishing industry. At Kriyadocs®, we have partnered with prestigious publishing houses across the world for over 18 years and delivered world-class, publication-ready digital & print content by applying cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, and extensive domain expertise. Technology is at the core of our evolution – we’ve consciously striven to always stay ahead of the curve in its adoption in order to provide best-in-class capabilities for our clients and our employees. This ethos is reflected in our vision and mission.

Our Vision: To make publishing all content as simple as clicking a button and become the partner of choice for individuals and organizations looking to share knowledge.

Our Mission: Provide a fantastic experience to authors, content publishers, and our own employees through technology and innovation, by publishing high-quality content seamlessly and quickly. We deliver Happy Authors and Happy Employees.

What is it really like to work here?

At Kriyadocs, every Kriyator is driven by our culture at the core to

• Deliver Excellence - Deliver Delight
• Stay Curious - Stay Driven
• Dream Big - Rise Together

You could also be a Kriyator, if you are

• Fearless in taking on challenges
• Focused in learning, demonstrating new skills and working towards successful outcomes
• Fanatical in taking pride and responsibility in all your work 

Job Description

We are looking for a Software engineer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. We want someone who is comfortable asking “why?” The ideal candidate is a divergent thinker who understands industry best practices and has experience with multiple coding languages. They are a team player possessing strong analytical as well as technical skills, and are able to communicate the logic behind technical decisions to non-tech stakeholders. They must be comfortable working in an agile environment and have the ability to “take the wheel” when necessary. They will work with multiple technologies and develop a keen sense of evaluating and using the appropriate technology to derive the best solution.

What you will do?

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write and test code to ensure compatibility and stability: refine and rewrite as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Follow the spec and its requirement and develop the features/project
• Providing written knowledge transfer material as documents

Requirements

Must have

• 1+ years experience coding in nodejs programming language 
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, Collections, good design principles like SOLID 
• Problem solving & analytical aptitude 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience in source code control with GIT/SVN
• Should be flexible to work on a variety of programming languages like NodeJS, React, etc. and on XML technologies like XSLT, XML Pipelines, etc

Good to have

• Experience working in the Node JS stack 
• Unit testing and automation frameworks 
• Experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Working with distributed microservice architectures 
• Agile product development life cycle

Eligibility Criteria 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer science or related fields from a reputed institution
• Any internship experience is a plus
• Experience : 1-4 years 
• Location : Chennai. Work from office (Mon to Fri)

Your Opportunity Join our dynamic team as a Full Stack Software Dev, where you'll work at the intersection of innovation and leadership. You'll be part of a passionate group of engineers dedicated to building cutting-edge SaaS solutions that solve real customer challenges. This role is perfect for an experienced engineer who thrives on managing teams, collaborating with leadership, and driving product development. You’ll work directly with the CEO and senior architects, ensuring that our products meet the highest design and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Coordinate closely with the CEO and product leadership to align on goals and drive the vision forward.
• Collaborate with distributed teams to design, build, and refine core product features that serve a global audience.
• Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, driving key services and technical initiatives from end to end.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems to ensure smooth product operations.
• Requirements & Technical Skills
• Bachelor's/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (B.Tech, M.Tech, B.CA, B.E./M.E).
• 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience as a software developer, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Proven track record in developing scalable, distributed systems and services.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong programming experience in Spring & Hibernate with Kotlin, React, Nest.js, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Expertise in Unix-based systems, container technologies, and virtual machines.
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DocumentDB). Preferred Qualifications
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Experience working on both structured and unstructured data sources. Soft Skills
• Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring capabilities to inspire and guide a team of engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable to new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Required Skills

• Extensive senior level full-stack software development experience with Node.js (2 or more years) with detailed understanding of user interface frameworks, back-end software architecture interactions and node module capabilities.
• Two or more years' experience with one or more JavaScript frameworks/technologies such as Express.js, Angular.js, React.js, MobX or Flux.js.
• Strong development experience with developing RESTful Web Services using Node.js.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and Kanban Agile development process and ceremonies including scrums, planning events, backlog grooming, retrospectives and demos.
• Complex programming, program debugging, data analysis, problem analysis and resolution of issues within open source applications.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills in providing technical direction and hands-on software development to include design, development and testing.

Desired Skills

• Client development experience with HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Experience with other JavaScritpt frameworks such as Express, Restify, Hapi, Sails, JOI, and Kinex.
• Javascript experience with ECMAScript2015 (ES6), ECMAScript2016 (ES7) or Bable compiler.
• Operating System and Infrastructure experience with Linux, Windows 7, Unix, Solaris, JMS, OOD, CVS.
• Experience with VersionOne Application Lifecycle Management Tools
• Experience with Jenkins and Continuous Integration.
• Standards & Protocols knowledge including XML, XSLT, WSDL, JSON.
• Experience with Testing Tools including Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Supertest, Enzyme, Instanbul, Selenium, Load Runner, JSLint and Cucumber.
• Experience with source code versioning and Pull Requests with Git and Stash.
• Experience with IDEs such as Sublime and Atom.
• Knowledge of SonarCube, Phabricator, Gerritt, Karma, Jasmine
• Knowledge of projects using SAFe methodology.
• Experience with DevOps processes and implementation.
• Experience with environments utilizing Cloud Technologies such as Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with NGiNX web server.

Skills: Java, spring, hibernate, AWS(mandatory), microservices architecture, redis(good to have)

Team Size: Current team size of tech team is 65+

Interview Process: 4 rounds( 1st round - Problem Solving/Data Structures, 2nd Round- Coding, 3rd Round- Technical Discussion and Final round with the HR).

Target Companies:- B2C fintech companies, app based product companies, edtech companies

Location: Bangalore(Currently WFH but later on will be following a hybrid model)

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

· Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns

· Strong problem solving and analytical skills

· Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack

· Ability to manage small teams (4-6 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

· Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems

· In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline batching.

· In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.

· In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.

· In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

What Can We Offer You:

We offer a great working environment - Very collaborative. You will get plenty of learning opportunities and challenging problems to work on. You’ll go to sleep everyday knowing that you’ve made a difference in people’s lives. Your work will be reaching out to millions of users.

Qualifications:

BTech/BE in computer science, electrical, electronics or related fields 5+ years of full stack design and development experience High emotional intelligence, empathy and collaborative approach. Experience in Angular Javascript frameworks, CSS, HTML5, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB to handle full stack web development. Experience with developing rich dynamic front end applications using Angular and CSS frameworks like BulmaCSS, Angular Material, Bootstrap, etc. Knowledge of GraphQL would be an added advantage. Knowledge of Cloud services like AWS, Heroku, Azure is preferable. Should be a quick learner to keep up with the pace of the ever changing world of technology as the candidate will get excellent exposure to the latest and trending Cloud based Saas technologies and best practices while working with varied customers based across the globe.

Responsibilities:

Develop web applications covering end to end software development life cycle right from writing UI code using Angular to backend API code using NodeJS and managing databases like MongoDB, MySQL, etc. Involved in full stack code management from Git check-ins to running automated builds and deployments using DevOps practices to deploy to public cloud services like AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. Handling full-stack web development workflow right from front end to backend to CI/CD workflows. Design and Develop the tech architecture and work closely with CEO and CTO of the company Drive and guide with work of other engineers on the team

This is a leadership role and candidate is expected to wear multiple technical hats including customer interactions and investor discussions

Mandatory Skill set:

• Multiple solution stack development experience along with MEAN(Mongo, Express, Angular and Node)

• Python with any web framework

• Micro Services, Performance Engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AZURE, CI/CD pipeline, , MySQL and Database design

Job Role:

• Responsible for component selection, design standardization, common library building.

• Build services and templates based on published standard (RFC type)Build coding templates and architypes adhering to design standard.

• Understand NFR and define architecture, design and validation for each NFR element.

• Design data model, service contract and document framework.Define and ensure coding standards

• Define and ensure UI standards are followed. Design micro services, security, deployment Well-versed in module level effort estimationWell-versed in application integration patterns Exposure to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases.

• Exposure to building architectural view like logical, physical and deployment.Exposure to performance bottleneck, RCA and remediation.Exposure to security issues, RCA and remediation.

Process Exposure:

• Able to interact with team, stakeholders and architects. Understand functional requirements and create design documents for features.

• Participate in sprint planning and story elaboration sessions.

• Candidate should be able to work independently in an Agile project.

• Experience with Test-Driven Development, Integration testing and Agile processes.Code review from a standard and design adherence perspective.