UI/UX Designer

• Responsibilities:
• Conduct thorough research on industry-related topics and stay up to date with the latest trends and best practices. 
• Develop and implement content strategies to drive brand awareness, lead generation, and customer engagement. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, design, and development, to ensure content alignment with brand guidelines and business objectives. 
• Optimize content for search engines (SEO) to improve organic visibility and drive traffic to our website.

• The ideal candidate is adept at using large data sets to find opportunities for product and process optimization and using models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
• Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.

• Experience using statistical languages (R, Python, SQL, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Experience working with and creating data architectures.
• Looking for someone with 3-7 years of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models
• Has a Bachelor's, Master's in Computer Science or another quantitative field
• Knowledge and experience in statistical and data mining techniques :
• GLM/Regression, Random Forest, Boosting, Trees, text mining,social network analysis, etc.
• Experience querying databases and using statistical computer languages :R, Python, SQL, etc.
• Experience creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics: regression, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees,neural networks, etc.
• Experience with distributed data/computing tools: Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, MySQL, etc.
• Experience visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders using: Periscope, Business Objects, D3, ggplot, etc.

Job title: Engineering Manager

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 260+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment. 

Location: Bangalore, India

Department: Engineering

Job summary:

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, with experience in developing scalable SaaS applications and leading and managing high performing distributed teams, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. 

We are looking for an individual with great leadership and team handling skills, strong hands-on experience in software development, and excited to work in a fun and friendly fast paced environment.

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Manage a team (comprising of Software Engineers, Sr. Software Engineers, QA Engineers), including providing technical direction, task allocation, and code reviews.
• Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Owns overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
• Contribute technically to projects.
• Work closely with the Product Management team to ensure we're building the best products which deliver value to our clients.
• Set up best practices for development, champion their adoption
• Work closely with team to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment

• Managing customer issues and escalations and tracking the Customer SLAs closely
• Defining/evolving and enforcing relevant software development processes for the Engineering team.
• Ensuring that the team complies to the quality standards
• Active communication and coordination with clients and internal stakeholder
• Motivating, mentoring, and helping your team with developing their careers and provide guidance for performance appraisals
• Participate in hiring different roles required within the team

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima: 

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10- 12 years in the software industry and 3-5 years of experience managing customer facing software development teams.
• Minimum of 5 years of software product development experience, and hands on technical work with full life cycle implementations.
• Experience in Web application development / Hosted solutions
• Comfortable guiding teams in an Agile environment
• Should have worked in cross functional teams (product management, development, QA, sales, customers), should be able understand team dynamics and priorities of each functional stakeholder and work with them to meet project goals
• Should be assertive, proficient in resolving conflicts and gains consensus in cross functional teams
• Adaptable to changing business requirements and priorities
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, build effective teams and to motivate, direct and coach team members; ability to manage multi-site teams
• Strong Java, Database fundamentals.
• Knowledge of and experience in, maintaining mission critical applications with 24x7 operations, 5 9’s availability (Desirable)
• Knowledge of AWS, Springboot, ReactJS, Postgres (Desirable)

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

• 32 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work From Home assistance and equipment budget
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• International travel opportunities & Global annual meet-up
• High-quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)

Roles and Responsibilities

• 5 - 8 years of experience in Infrastructure setup on Cloud, Build/Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Configuration/Change Management.
• Good experience with Linux/Unix administration and moderate to significant experience administering relational databases such as PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience with Docker and related tools (Cassandra, Rancher, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience of working in Config management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with cloud technologies like Azure
• Experience with monitoring and alerting (TICK, ELK, Nagios, PagerDuty)
• Experience with distributed systems and related technologies (NSQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with scaling data store technologies is a plus (PostgreSQL, Scylla, Redis) is a plus
• Experience with SSH Certificate Authorities and Identity Management (Netflix BLESS) is a plus
• Experience with multi-domain SSL certs and provisioning a plus (Let's Encrypt) is a plus
• Experience with chaos or similar methodologies is a plus

The incumbent will be entitled to the following responsibilities:

• Work closely with the product team to identify research questions.
• Plan and conduct interviews, user surveys, card sorting, and usability tests to understand user needs and find relevant solutions
• Help define and refine user personas.
• Present and communicate insights in order to help shape long-term product strategy.
• Create use cases and flow diagrams, and define information hierarchies.
• Write compelling, user-friendly copy that guides the user and embodies the voice of the brand.
• Design and prototype elegant interactive solutions.
• Work within brand guidelines to create layouts that reinforce a brand's style or voice through its visual touchpoints.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to translate design appropriately.
• Provide support by participating in creative decision-making.

Requirements:

• Understanding of interaction design principles.
• A user-centric mindset.
• Attention to detail.
• Creative & analytical problem-solving approach, articulative, and rational.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, hyper-collaborative work environment with grace. And someone who wants to make great products
• 3 to 4 years of experience as a UI-UX Designer or a similar role.
• Bachelor's, associate's, or relevant program degree in design or art-related field.
• Portfolio of high-quality work and project samples.
• Mastery of foundational design concepts and visual principles, especially for the digital world.
• Up-to-date knowledge of design/CAD software like Adobe XD, InVision, Sketch/Illustrator/Affinity, Photoshop, Figma, etc.

Location: Remote.

REQUIRED CITIZENSHIP / WORK PERMIT / VISA STATUS:
Should be currently based in Japan with Valid work visa

MUST HAVES:

Experience Required:

• LAN/Wireless LAN based skills(over 3 years experiences)
• Firewall based skill (over 3 years experiences)
• Server based skill (over 3 years experiences)
• WAN/Internet based skills (over 3 years experiences)

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• Required General Skills:

• Fluent in Japanese(both written & verbal) and English(reading & written)

Job role :

• · WAN, LAN, Wireless LAN, Firewall, ServerWork Contents;
• · Support Design and Implementation
• · Create documentation or basic design and detail design
• · Join required meeting(Internal, External)
• · Management Change(Create and close change record)
• · Test(Unit, Integrated) in on-site
• · Create the result of test document
• · Create change procedure
• · Installation equipment in on- site
• · Support soft MACD from remote site
• · Create operation manual
• · Support problem management
• · Support inventory management
• · Support configuration hencmanagement
• · Support reporting
• · Cisco Router/Switch/FW (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, STP, VLAN, QoS, VRF)
• · Juniper Router/Switch(SRX/EX/QFX)
• · Server (Linux,)
• · Wireless (CAPWAN)