UX Designer

Qualifications Required:

Education: Relevant degree in software engineering fields; training in principles and techniques of software development.

Experience: 1-5 years of relevant software architecture, software development and software testing experience.

Skills:

• Strong technical skills in .Net, C#, VB, SQL Server 2008, Oracle, AJAX, Web Services. Strong English reading and writing communication skills, with an ability to express and understand complex technical concepts. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills. Ability to work in teams and has strong interpersonal skills. Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines. Ability to deal with clients and travel to project sites. Possess good organizational skills. Demonstrated ability to lead a moderate group of software engineers and also able to work independently. Ability to anticipate potential problems, determine and implement solutions.

Responsibilities: Responsible for software development activities throughout the project, including key phases of process such as development, testing, implementation.

Other: Be familiar with systems concepts design and standards. Good awareness and practical approach of standard SDLC and be quickly able to understand adhere to coding standard followed by Ember Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

We are one of the growing edtech company in India with a focus on the US B2B market. We are looking for a Engineering Manager to join the team and lead engineering efforts. We are looking from Product Base companies only.
 

Key Responsibilities 

• Build and lead multiple agile/scrum teams of top-notch engineers to own, drive & deliver critical parts of our products. 
• Work closely with Software Developer to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development. 
• Ensure timely delivery of projects with high quality. 

• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption. 
• Oversee architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions. 
• Architecting and engineering solutions which can meet the requirement of unknown customer buying off the shelf products 
• Engage with product management teams to drive the functionality, usability, and other non-functional requirements 
• Ensure on-time launches by managing design, development, and integration efforts according to a standard or customized project plan 

• Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement. 
• Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long-term vision. 
• Be responsible for mentoring and developing front line managers and engineers. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering 

• 10+ years of work experience in software development and 5+ years as a leadership role. 
•  Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies. 
•  Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale. 
• Deep understanding of JAVA, Spring boot, Hibernate.
•  Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems 
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis. 

• Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle. 
• Strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions. 
• Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience. Engaging and influencing peers and executives. 
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive. 

• Being a strong leader, team player, mentor, and people manager. 

Location 

• Pune 
• Hyderabad 

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)

• Analyzing, planning and developing requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects
• Assigning and overseeing the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones
• Holding regular technical team meetings to determine progress and addressing any questions or challenges regarding projects
• Determining and defining clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives
• Researching and evaluating hardware and software technology options and weighing the cost/ benefit analysis when making large purchases on behalf of the company
• Updating and maintaining all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 2 yrs management experience in consumer hardware/ software products (TWS, HeadPhone, Smart Watch), including development work and interactions with customers
• Extensive leadership experience and strong teaming abilities
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles    

We work in a project based environment, so each project (research assignment) would not last for more than 3-4 weeks. Research assignments would primarily focus on B2B respondents/ prospects and the candidate will be required to call-up these respondents/prospects and convince them to participate in our research surveys further take them through the questionnaire and capture responses over the phone.

- Primarily will be involved in generating Leads over the phone with national and international respondents.

- Perform secondary research, and generate leads using various tools, directories and websites.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Desired Skills and Experience

• Golang , Java , Python , Ruby

Responsibilities:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of Node.js, JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds.
• Excellence in at least one framework like strongloop loopback, express.js, sail.js etc.
• Excellence in at least one Javascript framework like Angular, vue.js, Ember, React or Backbone.
• Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications.
• Diligence for coding standards.
• Must be good with git and git workflow.
• Experience of external integrations is a plus.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCC, Azure.
• Expertise with linux based systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
• Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
• Extensive understanding of RDBMS systems.
• Interpersonal Go-getter attitude and a passion for making killer web applications.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment.
• Ability to quickly understand complex problems and devise effective solutions.
• Knowledge of D3/NodeJS/AngularJS/lodash etc.
• Experience on Cloud as a platform or Infrastructure.
• Inclination to application design standards.