Technical Lead

Build and maintain products. Build products and features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with multiple disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time working on critical projects which require focus on integrations, scalability, and performance. You will also be the first line of defense in ensuring that the product features are achievable and have a clear purpose, trimming off unnecessary detailing, especially in the earliest stages. Align across teams and stakeholders. Play a key role in ensuring that objectives and expectations are aligned across multiple concurrent products. You are expected to break down features within each project and prioritize tasks based on the expertise of the team, keeping redundancy in mind. 

Maintain a high bar for code quality and future proofing. Implement processes for checking in code that maintains a high bar of code quality. You are expected to optimize for a solution that affords the best user experience in a reasonable amount of time while ensuring to allow for adequate security, ability to scale in the future etc. 

Responsibilities

● Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems

● Design and develop robust solutions for client onboarding, portfolio analytics, tokenized security issuance, authentication, and security

● Build solutions to integrate with APIs of external solutions providers including crypto custodians, exchanges, fund admins etc.

● Architecting and building frontend features in React.js

● Ensuring a highly performant and responsive UI

● Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation

● Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams

● Independently work and lead project initiatives in a fast paced environment

Requirements

● 5+ years of work experience as a Senior Software Engineer or similarly senior member of a fast scaling company, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team. Web3 based experience preferred.

● Have experience in rapid prototyping of features across various products. Demonstrable open source contributions and experience with Git advantageous.

● Professional experience with Python, Javascript, Typescript, or Go

● Must have experience building and/or integrating with RESTful APIs

● Working knowledge of Django, FastAPI, or React.js and Redux

● Working knowledge various frontend frameworks and languages such as HTML, CSS

● Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems

● Familiarity with websocket architecture and implementation

● Experience working with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes

● Team-building and technical leadership experience

● Being nimble and reacting quickly to changing business conditions

● BTech in Computer Science or a related field (Masters is a plus

Benefits

● Competitive salary, benefits & participation in the firm's ESOP program

● Be part of something exciting. Rare opportunity to come in early and build the next generation of institutional grade financial services.

● International work environment and flat organization. Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career

About the job

Whirldata Inc. is an AI/Data Sciences/App Dev company established in 2017 to provide management and technology consulting services to small and medium enterprises across the globe. We are headquartered in California and our team works out of Chennai. The specific focus is on

1. Helping clients identify areas where Data Sciences and AI-based approaches can increase revenues, decrease costs or enhance customer engagement experience
2. Help clients translate business needs into process flows for exploratory and cutting-edge applications
3. Provide appropriate and targeted solutions that can achieve the planned objective

Whirldatas management team consists of individuals with a combined 45+ years of management and technology consulting experience, spanning multiple verticals such as finance, energy, retail, manufacturing and supply chain/logistics. Please look up our website and go through the blogs/videos/articles to find out more about us.

Working Philosophy

Whirldata works on the principle that, larger business goals come first and any technology-intensive solutions need to support necessary business goals. Hence all engagements start as a management consulting exercise and solution building follows after a thorough understanding of business needs.At Whirldata, we put our minds together, mix technology, art & math to deliver a viable, scalable and affordable business solution. We are passionate about what we do because we know that our work has the power to improve businesses. You can join our team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front-end and back-end architectures, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Who we are looking for:

Full Stack Engineer (Position based in Chennai)

The following criteria are mandatory requirements and we strongly encourage that you apply only if you meet all these criteria:

1. Minimum 3 years of work experience

2. Proven capability to understand clients business needs

3. At least one demonstrable stint of architecting a database from scratch

4. Multiple programming language capabilities a must. In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language

5. Willingness to wear multiple hats depending on our business needs will be a priority

6. At least 2 years of hands-on experience in front-end development

7. Knowledge of current tools, platforms and languages an absolute must

8. Hands-on experience in cloud technologies and project management capabilities will be considered favourably

What do you get in return

• AI, Data Sciences and App dev require individuals who are both business and tech-savvy. We will turn you into one and make you a rockstar!
• You will get to work in an environment where your effort helps the customer and you will get to see it
• We will provide on-the-job training that will make you a doer and not a talker on data sciences, AI and app dev
• Opportunities to shine and pave your own way forward. We are good at identifying your talents and providing a platform where you will get immense satisfaction from demonstrating the same.
• Of course - we will pay you well too!

If you are interested - please apply with a small note with your thoughts on why you find this opportunity exciting and why you are willing to consider a move.

Location: Remote

Experience Range: 8+ Years

Srijan’s team of enterprise Drupalists are helping our customers build cutting-edge web experiences, migrate to Drupal, tune and improve their Drupal implementations, and advise on all things Drupal and web architecture. With the rapid adoption of Drupal as a web platform, and with our growing number of technical development  projects supporting our clients and partners, our Technical Architects are in high demand. They consult remotely or travel on-site periodically to work with some of the most talented technologists and some of the hottest web properties on leading-edge web development projects. Engagements vary by customer and can include anything from custom coding and mentoring of partner and  client teams to application design and ongoing guidance on architecture through development and application launch.

• Prior experience building, leading and architecting Drupal
  • Knowledge of Drupal 8, 9 is a
  • Knowledge of at least 1-2 non php
  • Perform complex Drupal development tasks including custom module development using the Drupal API system and hooks from major  Drupal core systems
• Ability to guide technical discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to negotiate mutually agreeable outcomes with clients, partners, and Srijan stakeholders.
• Ability to perform complex Drupal development tasks including custom module development using the Drupal API system and hooks from major Drupal core systems
• Experience defining and scope a technical solution for large scale Drupal projects
• Experience working in a consulting or agency environment with direct interaction with enterprise-level clients
• Excellent ability to partner with both internal and external
• Strong leadership and presentation

• Passion for the web, open-source
• Deep experience architecting web
  • Understanding of  HTTP Layers
  • Understanding of API Modeling
  • Understanding the caching layers
  • Understanding of Microservice
  • Understanding of the Event bus
• PHP, Drupal, MySQL, SQL administration, and optimization, and Unix/Linux or Windows
• 5+ years relevant experience developing Drupal
• Must be a self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced work
• Knowledge of or experience with other CMS technologies and/or open-source technology is a
• Long-time Drupalists, that are active contributors, are well rewarded, but we’ll also help great developers and consultants become one
• Experience providing technical support or consulting strongly
• Strong problem-solving abilities, initiative, and the ability to thrive under
• Excellent interpersonal and English communication
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred
• Understanding of Virtualisation and
• Well versed with Build, Bake and Run process of CI/CD
• Understanding of Debugging, Performance optimization and CI/Cd
• Should have a pulse of the latest technology

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Build and deploy on to AWS
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.