UI/UX Designer

Designation: Tech Lead

● Location: Bandra West, Mumbai, India

● Position Type: Full-time, Permanent

Company Description

Brown Living (www.brownliving.in) is a platform focused on making Sustainable Living Easy, Accessible, and Affordable. As India's first plastic-free marketplace, we promote a sustainable and earth-friendly lifestyle. Our team curates a wide range of everyday-use products that are

ethically sourced and promote minimal waste. We support artisan groups and sustainable brands dedicated to creating a positive environmental impact. Through our platform, we are building India's largest ecosystem for sustainable living and empowering artisans, women entrepreneurs, and innovators to combat plastic pollution.

Role Description

The Tech Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership and direction to the technology team. This role involves overseeing technology projects, setting the technology strategy, and ensuring the smooth operation of digital assets. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical

background and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

■ Lead and manage the technology team (currently outsourced).

■ Oversee all technology-related projects and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.

■ Develop and implement the technology strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.

■ Manage the development, maintenance, and optimization of the website, e-commerce platform, and other digital assets.

■ Ensure technology solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant with industry standards.

■ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their technology needs and provide effective solutions.

■ Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation.

Key Result Areas (KRAs):

● Successful delivery of technology projects within budget and timeline.

● Improved website and e-commerce platform performance and user experience.

● Enhanced system reliability, security, and scalability.

● Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to meet business objectives.

● Development and implementation of a robust technology roadmap.

● Increased efficiency and productivity of the technology team.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

● Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering, or a related field.

● Proven experience in a technical lead role.

● Strong technical expertise in web development, e-commerce platforms, and related technologies.

● Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

● Excellent project management and organizational skills.

● Strong leadership and team management abilities.

● Problem-solving and analytical skills.

● Ability to stay up-to-date with emerging technologies.

● Tech Stack:

○ Frontend: Angular 18

○ Backend: Nodejs

○ Database: MySQL

○ AWS: S3, ECS, Lambda etc

Note: This role offers an exciting opportunity for a young professional who is passionate about technology and making a positive impact in the sustainability space. Based in Mumbai, India, the successful candidate will join a collaborative and passionate team dedicated to driving innovation and positive change at Brown Living.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates can apply online via the job application form available here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgb8MMrZX0STJb1Nt63jizdYccAxTQWbAmFAt4YcoAJBJlmg/viewform

Read More:

1. Website - https://brownliving.in/

2. About Brown Living’s Mission & Vision - https://brownliving.in/pages/about-us

3. Meet the Brown Living Team - https://brownliving.in/pages/our-team

4. Work with Us - https://brownliving.in/pages/work-with-us

5. The Brown Lens Curation Method - https://brownliving.in/pages/the-brown-lens

6. Brown Living’s Impact - https://brownliving.in/pages/our-impact-plastic-free-carbon-neutral-shopping

The ideal candidate will be familiar with the full software design life cycle. They should have experience in designing, coding, testing and consistently managing applications They should be comfortable coding in a number of languages and have the ability to test code in order to maintain high-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test and manage various applications, Product Development
• Collaborate with the engineering team and product team to establish the 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
• 6 to 10 years of experience working with .NET or relevant experience
• Must have experience in Product Development
• Experience developing web-based applications in C#, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript/ASP, or .NET, Angular 8+
• Experience working with MS SQL Server and MySQL Knowledge of practices and procedures for full software design life cycle
• Experience working in an agile development environment

• Hire kick-ass engineers and coordinate their training and onboarding with our HR team
• Guide and mentor the engineering team, setting the bar for good programming skills through personal example
• Work with the Project Management team to manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines
• Prepare and manage the engineering department’s budget
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Track, report and improve execution metrics for your group.
• Deliver superior economics by making strategic investments in automation, analytics and machine learning.
• Work with our security team to assure Cloud environments are secure and compliant.
• Implement engineering processes under the guidance of the CTO. 
• Lead technical resolution of priority incidents, facilitate post-incident evaluations and ensure permanent closure of incidents.
• Design, experiment, and implement processes to increase the overall productivity of geographically distributed teams by tracking the relevant metrics
• Make an impact on overall tech culture and make collaboration across teams very effective to reach important business goals.

• Experience as a director of engineering or similar senior-level position
• 10+ years working in a technological role with 2+ years managing 20 or more engineers
• A seasoned leader who has unlimited energy to influence and daring to take initiatives and risks.
• A programmer who is a role model.
• Excellent project management skills
• High personal drive; results oriented; makes things happen
• Supremely tech savvy, able to wear multiple hats such as being an awesome programmer, application developer, technical architect, database designer.
• Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment (i.e. DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, etc.).
• Must be knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective in building close working relationships with others
• Innovative and creative and adaptive to new environment
• Ability to absorb professional knowledge quickly and develop skills.
• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies.
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals with creative approach to work.
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management.
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

TECHNICAL Project Manager             

GormalOne LLP. Mumbai IN

GormalOne is on a mission to make dairy farming highly profitable, especially for the smallest farmers living in the most neglected geographies. We are a dairy-focused technology solution provider with a vision to resolve the pain points of everyone in the dairy ecosystem. We are building a comprehensive platform for cattle management where farmers to AITs (Artificial Insemination technicians), para vets, veterinarians, consultants, and corporates can collaborate and benefit each other using data. Nitara offers an easy-to-use artificial intelligence-enabled herd management system for farmers/veterinary/paraprofessionals/AITs.

We are looking for a Project manager who will be instrumental in the planning and management of both IT and IT-related projects. As a Technical Project Manager, you are required to have a high level of technical expertise as well as organization, leadership, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for project planning and delivery. Ensure scope for all the projects are delivered to meet the business need as per the agreed schedule, scope, quality, and cost. Lead project planning effort in the creation of project plans, tasks, and schedules
• Conduct high level scoping, impact and risk assessment, schedule, and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the projects to the agreed scope.
• Organize and facilitate regular project scrum to track project tasks and dependency.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Work closely with various teams internally & the user side to ensure delivery of solutions and deployment as per requirement.
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, overcome obstacles, resolve conflicts, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
• Responsible for the overall health of the projects by monitoring schedule, budget, milestones, and benefits attainment, project risk control, and project governance.
• Ensure that realistic project plans are prepared and maintained & all activities are tracked against the plan, providing regular and accurate reports to Management.
• Responsible for change control, gaining agreement for CRs to the projects from the product owner and other relevant stakeholders.
• Provide weekly / regular project updates to the Program Management Office.
• Work towards continual improvement by implementing corrective action plans based on performance analysis, lessons learned, project archives, etc.
• Hiring, training, and developing new employees to meet organizational needs
• Reviewing employee performance evaluations and providing feedback on areas for improvement.

Certifications Required

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Prince 2 foundation/practitioner.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Skills and Capabilities

Essentials

• Min 3-5 years of technical project management experience with overall 5-10 years of IT services experience.
• Excellent project management skills to develop a business case and deliver solutions to the user with oversight of technical solution implementation.
• Proven experience in managing projects using agile methodologies such as agile scrum. Good knowledge of tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Projects, Confluence, etc.
• Experience in managing projects in a variety of technologies (e.g. Java, .Net, etc.)
• A high degree of technical competency in software development practices, project management, and the ability to bridge the gap between technology and business needs.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills in order to gather insights from data to identify underlying issues
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, Scrum/Agile development environment with the ability to multi-task and respond flexibly to change
• Deal well with ambiguity and changing deadlines while keeping the focus on delivering results.
• Strong and effective project leader who can prioritize well and communicate effectively.
• Comfortable in getting hands dirty in day-to-day tasks to get things done
• Experienced self-starter with a problem-solving focus, an analytical mindset, and extreme attention to detail.
• Experience in handling different phases of the project's life cycle from requirement gathering until steady-state handover.
• Proficient in written and spoken English in a business setting.

Soft Skills required:

• Strong analytical skills
• Strong written documentation skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Good communication skills and able to communicate at all levels
• Ability to work well in a diverse environment and proven ability to influence others to achieve positive outcomes

Kindly note: Salary shall be commensurate with qualifications and experience

Visit us at - https://gormalone.com/">https://gormalone.com/  &  https://www.nitara.co.in/">https://www.nitara.co.in/

This role is at high growth startup providing secure video hosting to media and e-learning businesses and thus in high requirement in current market. Site is at www.vdocipher.com. Already in revenues , profitable with 2000+ business customers across 40+ countries. Serving Petabytes of online video content. 

We use API-first approach to implement new features and create developer-friendly interfaces. We have a hybrid model between monolithic and micro-service system based on separation of concern and function.

Salary range -  is 21 to 26 LPA (CTC=Gross), The wide range is to accommodate candidates based on actual experience and skill set. ESOPs will also be granted.

2 to 5+ yrs of work experience expected.

Responsibilities

1. Developing new web services
2. Implementing new features to API
3. Provide secure authentication with role-based-access-controls.
4. Ensuring inter-operability of API with diverse customer frameworks through SDKs
5. Future-proofing of the API with unit testing and extensible design
6. Write and maintain API documentation
7. Choosing the right database and information flow for new features
8. Designing and maintaining the Database schema

Required skills

* Thorough knowledge of Nodejs development ecosystem

* Understanding of security practices and exploits on the web

* Handling authentication frameworks with jwt, oauth and related technologies

* Experience with stateless server apps for horizontal scaling

* Database best practices for optimizing query performance

* Understanding applications of relational vs no-sql databases

* Understanding of version control (Git, SVN)

* Basic understanding of a front-end web environment (HTML5, CSS)

* Write clean and reusable code by following coding standards

* Understanding of writing tests and automation frameworks

Hiring Process

1. Resume Shortlisting
2. 15 min Short introductory phone call 
3. Tech Round Interview 1 (75 mins)
4. 2nd Round Interview (Tech + HR , 1 hour 45 mins)

As Back end developer, we expect you to be motivated in solving real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our Resellers. Being a small company we have a culture of creative problem solving, intellectual design, fast-paced development, and passionate product delivery. Enhance or build Restful web services for our mobile app.

Responsibilities:

• Develop server-side components, REST APIs
• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.
• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.
• Lead the design and architectural improvements
• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

Requirements:

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.
• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.
• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.

• Customize, develop and support solutions on salesforce.com platform.
• Develop, test, document and deploy high quality solutions for our clients.
• Working closely with clients and the development team to determine the project requirements.
• Document unit test scripts and record test results post completion of development.
• Review self and peer's code/configuration as part of review process.

Hard Skills

• Strong understanding of the SDLC
• (Agile and Waterfall approaches and tools)
• Advanced Salesforce customization/coding (Apex & Visualforce development)
• Salesforce data loading & using data loader/Data stage/related tools.
• Lightning component experience preferred.
• Knowledge in Java/.Net Programming & OOPs concepts is an added advantage.
• Basic source control knowledge Git/SVN
• Proficient in building integrated solution involving web services using both REST and SOAP
• Strong in RDBMS concepts, SQL and SOQL query languages and ER concepts
• Experience of developing using Eclipse/Mavens Mate IDE
• Hands on experience in migrating code/configuration to production is an added advantage.

Good to have

• Certifications on Salesforce Admin, App Builder, Platform Developer 1 is a must
• Comfortable & familiar with MS office tools
• Analytical & problem-solving skills
• Clear communication and articulation ability
• Team player

Soft Skills

• Effective written and oral communication
• Inspire and motivate the team to perform at their best.
• Professional maturity to give and receive feedback.
• Supports team members in meeting their commitments.
• Good presentation skills to run governance and steering committee meetings.
• Excellent listening skills with sharp acumen to replay or summarize conversations especially when a client is involved.
• Ability to cross/up sell when there is an opportunity.
• Understand client business and add value to requirement conversation.