Technology Lead - Platform

Who Are We?

ALTRES, headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii (USA) and in existence since 1969, is working on industry leading products for the HR industry. We are looking for web developers with the right skills and experience to join our growing team. Altres Technologies is looking for techies that will appreciate a dynamic, creative and competitive work environment, that pairs perfectly with the stability and support of a successful organization with 4 decades of satisfied customers in the market.

Website- www.altres.in / www.altres.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/altres-technologies-india

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/altrestechnologies

About the Role:

You will contribute to our continually evolving HR platform by working as developer on the in-house product development team. It requires experience of working on HTML5, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, and Java (very important) in an agile environment. Mobile experience is a big plus. You will collaborate with locally based team members and remote Product/Project Managers and will contribute to the design and implementation of new features.

What Would You Do At Altres?

1.    Translate software requirements into workable programming code.

2.    Work with Team members, discuss technical solutions with them

3.    Participate actively in scrum meetings

4.    Conduct code reviews for peers.

5.    Perform coding, get it reviewed by other members of the team.

6.    Collaborate with Development, QA, and Product Management teams for implementation

7.    Mentor team members and guide them when needed.

8.    Ability to self-direct, work without supervision and balance multiple duties.

What Do You Need For The Job?

1.    Strong technical background with good understanding of product development life cycle.

2.    Expertise in full stack application design and development across all relevant form factors – smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, etc.

3.    7+ years of experience building web applications using J2EE (JSP, Servlets) and Core Java.

4.    Detailed understanding of front-end Web application technologies like HTML5, Javascript, CSS.

5.    Proficient in MySQL or another RDBMS variant with 2+ years of experience building and interfacing with the database.

6.    Good know-how of modern frameworks.

7.    Keen understanding of user experience and user interface design.

8.    Familiarity with Agile software development processes including Scrum.

9.    Experience with JIRA or similar issue & project tracking tool.

What’s In It for You?

1.    Competitive salary and benefits

2.    Opportunity to work for both front end and back end processes

3.    Great learning and development opportunities

4.    Working with an organisation that keeps up to date with industry best benchmarking in every aspect

You have experience in tackling organization wide challenges which are complex initiative that span multiple teams and products. Strong bias for operational and engineering excellence. critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions. You like to find patterns that can reuse across multiple stacks, and willingness to help organisations adopt newer technologies. You are a great communicator and you take care setting high benchmarks in technical design choices. You spend a lot of time on research and love to discuss pros/cons of all choices and helping others towards making careful decisions.

Responsibilities:

• You will participate in all aspects of our development and provide expertise on architecture decisions we'll need to make to solve organisational problems.
• Driving technical roadmaps for the organisation.
• Set the north star for all key technical metrics to monitor and set high standards.
• Identify and articulate current state architecture and clarity on final state architecture and build organisation level influence to drive this to conclusion.
• Coaching / mentoring folks across the organisation on various technologies.
• Improve the recruiting and hiring process.
• Thinks about culture and how to impact it.
• Build, develop and scale our platform that powers real estate agents, buyers and sellers.
• Become a domain expert on real estate technology and products and an empathetic partner to our customers.
• Inspire, recruit and mentor your engineering colleagues.
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive. efficiencies.

Requirements:

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent.
• Proven track record working in top talent and high performance environments.
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments.
• Experience with modern web frameworks (e. g. Go/React), distributed computing (e. g. Spark), public cloud platforms (e. g. AWS) and data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerisation, microservices architecture, continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience with multiple well-known products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance.
• 10+ years experience.

• Published Engineering blogs.
• Experience with multiple well-known products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance.
• External presentations in events.

• Design, develop, test, debug and maintain components of a feature-rich management and orchestration product
• Manage one or more project priorities and deadlines
• The programming languages are mainly Python and Java
• Understand the infrastructure details of public clouds and use DevOps best practices to implement provisioning

You'll Need:

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• Experience building and operating extensible, scalable resilient systems.
• Working knowledge of Java and Python.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, etc).
• Willingness and ability to learn new languages and concepts.
• 8+ years of experience and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science -or- a related field.

Nice to have:

• Cloud infrastructure systems engineering experience.
• Experience in building control planes.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with containers and cluster managers like Kubernetes.
• Experience in App deployment and config management frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.