UI Architect

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tying them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test and manage various applications
• Collaborate with engineering team and product team to establish best products
• Follow outlined standards of quality related to code and systems
• Develop automated tests and conduct performance tuning

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• 2+ years of experience working with .NET or relevant experiences
• Languages & Frameworks: C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web API, ADO.NET
• Frontend Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Database: Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, Joins, Jobs), MS Access
• Tools & Platforms: Visual Studio,
• Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Jira

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overview - We always put our users first. We start by looking at things from the user’s perspective and end by evaluating how the solution has impacted the user.  We are looking for People who are continuously adapting to new technologies and excited to work on products that influence millions of people every day. The Android and iOS mobile applications are used by millions of people around the world and are some of India’s best known and most loved applications and we’re looking for someone to lead the engineering teams that build these apps.

Role - We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full Stack Developer will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail. You will strike a balance between the consumers’ intent and the business’s needs.

What you will do in this role

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Translate requirements and mock-ups into fully functional features by working closely with business and product owners, creative designers and back-end developers.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Review requirements, design specifications, propose solutions and implementation.
• Work with team leads on the requirements and create estimates against those requirements.
• Deliver projects on time in an agile and continuous development environment.
• Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, etc.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goal.

What you should have

• 2-5 years of hands-on experience in software development and system administration.
•  Experience in Micro services, Serverless applications, Container-based applications.
•  Strong Experience on AWS cloud (Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, ECS, Dynamo DB).
•  Good understanding of Devops, Apache Kafka.
•  Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS.
•  Proficiency with server side languages such as NodeJS, Python and PHP.
•  Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Mongo DB and Dynamo DB.
•  Familiarity with Logging & Monitoring tools like Kibana, NewRelic, DataDog
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD.

• BE (Comp/IT), ME (Comp/IT), MCA, M.Tech, B.Tech.

• Defining new merchandising or reporting functionality
• Adding more advanced search capabilities
• Improving scoring/recommendation models
• eCommerce platform integrations/API implementations
• Load testing/scaling features as we continuously grow
• Something new. There are always interesting new challenges that come our way. Here are a couple of things we’ve worked on recently:
  • Managing background jobs with competing performance goals like quick turnaround while staying within platform API limits
  • Embedding and dynamically changing products in an email even after sending it
  • Managing and coordinating multi data-center processes

• 1-3 years of experience in Ruby On Rails (or a similar MVC framework like Express or Django). You are comfortable with Routes, Migrations, Models, Callbacks, Validations, and so on.
• Ability to design clean, scalable data structures for new features.
• A good understanding of design patterns so that complex processes are written in a maintainable way.
• Knowledge of managing source code with Git.
• Comfortable in a Linux OS.
• Good communication skills, and ability to clearly plan and describe features before building.

• Challenging, exciting work, at scale
  You get to understand the challenges our customers face first-hand, and collaboratively design and build amazing solutions that will be used by millions of shoppers through billions of API requests. There’s always something new and exciting to build.
• Have a direct impact
  Seven engineers currently build, refine, and scale the entire product. Working in a small team means you will have a say in the way the product is built, and your performance will have a direct impact on the company’s outcome.
• Culture
  Tagalys is a place for you to be yourself, enjoy your work, and achieve your potential. We love the energy that comes from working with smart people in a simple and welcoming environment. We design our workflow to make sure you are also able to focus on everything else in life that is important: family, friends, and health.
• Benefits
  You get great pay, coupled with flexible hours, a hybrid work model, and comprehensive insurance for your and your dependents. For the people contributing significantly, we also offer ESOPs so there is an opportunity to build wealth as you help the company grow.