Technical Lead

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who has experience building cloud native applications in an Agile environment

Key Aspects of Role :

• Leverage deep knowledge of the full technology stack to help achieve business objectives and customer outcomes
• Collaborate with Product Management to validate the technical feasibility of and establish non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with Architecture to evolve architecture to solve technical challenges, support future requirements, scale effectively, continually meet/exceed SLAs and resolve tech debt
• Technical advisor to internal or external stakeholders on complex technical components
• Technical leader working with the team to help remove blockers and act as a tie breaker
• Adjust the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through change and driving continuous improvement
• Guide, teach, and mentor team, providing feedback and moderating discussions
• Represent the interests of the team in cross functional meetings
• Maintain and proactively share knowledge of current technology and industry trends
• Work closely with peers to ensure the team is aligning with cloud native, lean/Agile/DevOps & 12 Factor Application best practices ensuring rapid value delivery and with quality
• Collaborate with other Principal Engineer’s to drive engineering best practices around testing, CI/CD, GitOps, TDD, architectural alignment, and relentless automation
• Excellent understanding and familiarity with Cloud Native and 12 Factor Principles, Microservices, Lean Principles, DevOps, Test Driven Development (TDD), Extreme Programming (XP), Observability / Monitoring

Required Skills:

• B.Tech/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, and 3 - 10 years relevant industry experience
• Coding experience in Java
• Extensive hands-on experience working with AWS cloud products and services
• Experience with popular open-source software such as Postgres, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis and Couchbase
• Experience working with NodeJS, React/Redux, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
• Experience with development frameworks such as the Spring/Spring Boot framework, Hibernate and knowledge of advanced SQL
• Proficiency with modern object-oriented languages/frameworks, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Data Streaming
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration platforms, preferably Kubernetes
• Experience delivering services using distributed architectures: Microservices, SOA, RESTful APIs and data integration architectures
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration platforms, preferably Kubernetes
• Advanced Architecture and system design skills and principles
• Excellent organizational skills and can drive a cross-team strategic project or initiative
• Solid coaching, mentorship and technical leadership to help others grow
• Able to drive consensus/commitment within and across teams and departments
• Advanced critical thinking and problem solving on complex issues and customer concerns.
• Strategic thinker beyond immediate needs, considering the longer-term
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to communicate highly complex technical concepts
• Demonstrate high level of empathy with internal colleagues, stakeholders and customers

Apply Now!!!

Egregore Labs (www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology.
Opportunity

Responsibilities:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with a user-centered approach with frontend technologies including Angular 2, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Build backend REST APIs on Python 3 based server frameworks for deployment and scaling of our product(s)
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend & backend platforms

• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services

• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance-driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 24 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services-oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/Javascript or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

Work from Home, office in Noida

Experience: 2yrs plus

Responsibilities

• Strong knowledge of MERN stack (MongoDB, Express JS, React JS, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap, SASS)
• Develop user interfaces for modern rich internet applications with the latest front-end technologies
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Should have excellent in-depth knowledge on Nodejs and MongoDB
• Hands-on experience working with Object-Oriented JavaScript (OOJS), JavaScript libraries and their practical uses in building complex interactive experiences
• Building reusable code for future use
• Writing tested code and its documention

• 1+ years of experience in front end development and backend development is must
• Thorough knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 (LESS/SASS),React, Nodejs and Mongodb
• Solid understanding of JavaScript and the ability to pick up any framework quickly
• Strong Experience in back-end frameworks used to develop dynamic web pages (REST, GraphQL, WebSocket/socket.io)
• Expertise in developing and testing across multiple browsers, platforms, DOM implementations, etc.
• Strong experience in React, React Hooks, Redux, Thunk | Saga, ES6, Typescript, ESLint, Nodejs, GraphQL, Redis, AWS, Git, Github, Docker

Bonus but not mandatory

• UI/UX designs
• AWS
• Git
• CI/CD

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.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

Job Responsibilities

• Manage a team of talented engineers and oversee daily execution
• Work with product managers in planning sprints and task estimation
• Remove roadblocks for teams and increase delivery velocity
• Provide technical leadership to the team
• Be Technical SME in client meetings
• Be a stickler for code quality, test coverage
• Coach and grow engineering team

To be successful in this role, you need to have/be:

• Proven track record in managing engineering teams and delivering quality products.
• Experience in Ruby on Rails, React JS tech stacks
• Experience in building high performance web applications/APIs
• Top notch analytical/problem solving/debugging skills
• Should have proven ability to build, lead and develop a team
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate needs as well as provide the team with a clear overview of the priorities
• Excellent verbal, analytical, organizational, and written skills