UI / UX designer

Role & Responsibilities

Lead and deliver designs that are innovative and sophisticated, buildable and scalable, and thoroughly documented.

Be responsible for delivering on our vision and strategy for customers and support the app team in shaping ACKOʼs

roadmap for D2C ensuring design tasks are prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics.

Drive design tasks aligned with our product goals and metrics by collaborating closely with strategy, product, and business teams.

Take ownership of the entire user journey, from ideation and prototyping to user testing and final production, ensuring timely delivery.

Utilise data insights, including metrics and usability studies, to inform and refine design decisions.

Demonstrate a strong understanding of design patterns, best practices, and standards for both iOS and Android platforms.

Effectively communicating and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure seamless implementation of designs

We are hiring BigCommerce Technical Lead ( Fulltime ) 

Job Summary:

We're seeking an experienced BigCommerce Technical Lead to join our team! As a technical lead, you'll oversee the design, development, and deployment of e-commerce solutions on the BigCommerce platform. You'll lead a team of developers, provide technical direction, and ensure the platform is optimized for performance, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities:

- Lead development efforts on BigCommerce projects

- Manage the BigCommerce platform, including customizations, integrations, and third-party applications

- Serve as technical lead for all BigCommerce projects

- Mentor and guide a team of developers

- Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards

- Lead the design and development of custom BigCommerce themes, plugins, and extensions

- Implement advanced customizations, including API integrations and custom functionality

- Optimize and maintain existing BigCommerce stores

Qualifications:

- Deep expertise in BigCommerce development, including Stencil framework and custom theme/plugin development

- Strong proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and back-end development (PHP, Node.js, Java, etc.)

- Experience with RESTful API development and third-party integrations

- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines

- Knowledge of cloud services, serverless architectures, and performance optimization techniques

• Creating cost effective, scalable, agile processes that can cater to increased production across multiple business units
• Collaborating closely with the Designers, the Business Analyst(s) and the Merchandiser(s) for the same
• Ensuring that both the raw material and finished goods meet the quality benchmarks of the company (quality benchmarks and documentation will also be your accountability)
• Bringing in more robust quality measures to the entire production process - from procurement to finishing
• Ensuring complete and timely handoffs amongst teams to ensure the manufacturing is as per plan
• Motivating and upskilling the teams and ensuring smooth communication and collaboration at all times
• Ensuring that the suppliers are able to fulfill the fabric and raw material requirements on time and that there are no delays on their front because of capacity issues
• Ensuring that the internal infrastructure/ production capacities and capabilities and external capacities (supplier networks and their infrastructure) are ready to handle the forecasted production requirements (which is planned 365 days in advance)
• Constantly partnering with suppliers, local authorities and internal teams such as Technology, Finance, HR, Legal etc
• Ensuring that the processes and their interface with technology stays updated with changing times
• Submitting pricing proposals and production cost estimates
• Ensuring cost optimization and ensuring strong fiscal controls are in place across the production process
• Partnering closely with the leadership team and Finance to ensure that the production planned and executed is as per the business targets
• Driving a strong execution culture within the team so as to ensure that delivery is as per the production planned / launch plan
• Working closely with the legal team to ensure that all requisite paperwork/documentation safeguarding the company with new/old - vendors/suppliers/ fabricators against delays, quality defects etc are in place beforehand and retrospectively

Desired Candidate Profile

• MBA/ Masters in Supply Chain/ Planning/Production/ Operations
• Prior experience as an Operations lead for a manufacturing concern preferably in an ecommerce set up
• Experience in handling transitions (location as well as team transitions ) and setting up teams from scratch
• 12+ years of relevant experience (preferable)    

We are looking for a Staff Engineer who is an expert in Javascript (Node.js). We are looking for engineers who work like owners as you will be tasked with leading the development of one of our 5 major components of the Hatica platform. You will work with experienced engineers and on a modern cloud-native stack built using Javascript (React and Node) and Golang with an in-house real-time data analytics engine on Postgres and Elasticsearch among others.

Experience - 3 - 7 years
Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our backend microservices powering the core of our software platform
• Help your fellow DevOps and junior engineers working on our cloud infrastructure and other components of our product to ensure high code quality and robust architecture.
• Work with your team members to maintain high uptime and reliability of our core backend and APIs

Requirements and Qualifications

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with backend development
• 3 years of experience with Node.js
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Understanding of GraphQL
• Ability to write and maintain high quality code
• Understanding of web coding patterns
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture
• Understanding of AWS and cloud-native technologies is highly preferred

Benefits

• Work with the best and brightest on a global cutting-edge SaaS product
• Performance oriented culture built on fairness and inclusivity
• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible work hours
• Fully remote team, work from anywhere

Job Type: Full-time

About Us 

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a  new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale.  upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management,  Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build careers of tomorrow. 

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19 • upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most  sought-after startups in India 

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany. 

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech • upGrad is the official education partner for the Government of India - Startup India program 

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning \

Role Summary 

This role will primarily be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning the execution of upGrad's product design strategy. As the strategic design leader, team coach, and customer champion you'll galvanize people to solve complex problems, developing strategies, and ensuring product designers have the space to create products that deliver enduring value.  You will also lead change cross-functionally to drive better experiences and influence our company's product, operations, content, and data to unlock the unrealized wants of learners and coaches across new subjects and fields.

You’ll lead your team through the design process, help build a vision, and navigate ambiguity through partnering with research and enabling experimentation, all while mentoring, and growing a hardworking and capable design team.  

You’ll run design critiques, host collaboration & brainstorming sessions, drive design execution excellence, identify areas of process efficiency, and promote a high-output and fast-paced design practice.

Roles & Responsibilities

•  Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing, and iterating  on product features across web and mobile platforms 
• Get out of the Office and work with research to observe the impact of your work in the real world, and take that input back to your work as a designer to be constantly improving our products.
• Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice 
•  Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers and have a significant impact across all the product teams
• Bring consistency to all the platforms and products
• Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Design practice better at upGrad such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence,  interviewing potential new team members
• Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code.
•  Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator. 

Skills Required::

•  7 years of Product Design experience with at least 2 years of experience leading  product design teams
• Consistent track record of leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams thought ambiguity and deliver the best products possible to our customers are an experienced mentor and coachable to give and receive honest, thoughtful,  and direct feedback that removes roadblocks encourages growth, and accelerates delivery
• Are intent on crafting psychologically optimistic spaces where your direct reports and your collaborators are confident in sharing their ideas, opinions, and reservations in order to get to the best customer-focused solution
• Experienced recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
• Ability to understand complex feature sets and their dependencies while being able  to deliver a design strategy that accounts for capabilities and limitations of the product 
•  Methodology rich, including standard approaches for design deliverables including  user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks 
•  Have the ability to communicate research findings and design decisions openly and  confidently, regardless of the audience  
• Have partnered with research teams or led research experiments to validate and  inform product thinking 
• Have a proven history of partnering with engineering in a continuous delivery environment

Job Description:

•          The resource needs to have experience of working in Exalogic admin activities and Oracle products (Oracle Banking Platform, Exalogic & Weblogic).
•          Technical role where he/she has to work on day to day assigned tasks
•          Schedules and organizes work assignments and help out in managing client's demands to ensure their satisfaction.

 
Preferred Skills:

•          Few of the activities are listed below
•          Operational Support for 3 Exalogic Racks with
•          Exalogic Infrastructure  patching/upgrade  (Compute Node, ILOM, Control Stack, IB Switch, ZFS Storage)
•          140+ VM’s  spreading across DEV/QV/PROD/DR/IT to support along with WebLogic
•          OEM12c/13c is used to monitor Exalogic machines
•          Platinum support  patching 2 times per year
•          Exalogic ZFS storage management & advisory for optimization