UI Designer / Visual Designer

Description

3-4 years of proven and progressive experience using Java 8 and frontend technology like Reactjs/Angular2+. Experience working with Java Enterprise application frameworks like Java EE, Spring, DropWizard, and Hibernate. A strong understanding of Object orientation, SOLID principles, Clean coding, and patterns is desirable. 

Job Requirements

• Experience working with any of the enterprise Java applications or frameworks like Java EE/Spring/Hibernate/DropWizard etc.
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge. Understanding functional programming would be a plus.
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding process.
• Experience in developing applications integrating with RDBMS like MySql or Postgres.
• Experience with a NoSQL database (MongoDB or GraphDB) will be a plus.
• Experience in developing web applications using ReactJS/Angular.

Job Responsibilities

• You will use continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.
• Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices.
• Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software.
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between.
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills.

Job Description:

• Delivery of high quality, efficient code.
• Improving the overall quality of the applications and the speed of new feature delivery.
• Communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders.
• Ability to understand stakeholder requirements and problems, and deliver high quality solutions.
• Able to work effectively as part of a team, sharing knowledge and experience.

Requirements:

• Required skills: PHP and its framework (Laravel), code versioning tools (GIT), MVC Framework, etc.
• At least 3 - 5 year of working experience in PHP or related fields is required for this position.
• Good in MySQL and database designing.
• Experience of working with REST API design and its implementation.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Ability to effectively communicate via written and spoken English.

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

Strong Experience across Applications Migration to Cloud, Cloud native Architecture, Amazon EKS, Serverless (Lambda).​

Delivery of customer Cloud Strategies aligned with customers business objectives and with a focus on Cloud Migrations and App Modernization.​

Design of clients Cloud solutions with a focus on AWS.​

Undertake short-term delivery engagements related to cloud architecture with a specific focus on AWS and Cloud Migrations/Modernization.​

Provide leadership in migration and modernization methodologies and techniques including mass application movements into the cloud.​

Implementation of AWS within in large regulated enterprise environments.​

Nurture Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption.​

Work with designers and developers in the team to guide them through the solution implementation.​

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

 Analyze user engagements (e.g. click-through and bounce rates)

 Report on web traffic from all social media

 Build and support SEO strategies, including optimizing keywords in content marketing projects

 Identify the habits of our online customers and suggest ways to reach a broader audience

 Maintain a cohesive strategy across all platforms to increase our brand awareness

 Coordinate with our digital team and the Marketing department to design advertising campaigns

 Ensure timely responses to customers and followers’ queries and comments

 Advise other employees on their social media activity (e.g. how to respond to comments and questions by customers and what to share on personal or company accounts)

 Research how emerging social networks and features can benefit our company

Requirements:

 Previous work experience as a Social Media Analyst, Social Media Coordinator, or similar role

 Hands-on experience with social media platforms and digital marketing campaigns

 In-depth understanding of SEO, keyword research, and Google Analytics

 Experiences with social media management tools, like Buffer and Hootsuite

 Familiarity with online content (experience with WordPress and content management systems preferred)

 Ability to identify target audience preferences and trends

Excellent communication skills

 Time management and multitasking skills

 Additional qualifications in digital technologies or social media management will add plus points to your performance.