UX Designer - Remote

About Us:

Varivas is a community that allows users to create, support, and recommend content. The mission of Varivas is to give community freedom, ease, and complete control of their content.

Varivas is an early-stage startup looking for its first few members.

 https://www.varivas.community/

Become part of a core team of an upcoming startup building an exciting product from scratch.

Your Responsibilities:

• Write scalable backend code and audit existing backend code for sanity, performance and security
• Design and implementation of on-demand scalable, and performant applications.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools for various test automation frameworks
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Achieve repeatability, fast recovery, best practices, and delegate proper ownership permissions to teams
• Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion for better cost and efficiency
• Collaborate with and assist QA in performing load tests and assessing performance optimization
• writing and maintaining the DevOps processes in tools such as confluence

We are looking for someone who is:

• Ready to take complete ownership of the whole infra at Varivas
• Has previous experience in building and maintaining live production app
• You have an eye for detail.
• You’re a problem solver and a perpetual learner.
• You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Good Problem-solving skills and troubleshooting
• Build high-performing web and native applications that are robust and easy to maintain

Our Current DevOps stack:

• Github/bitbucket
• Azure cloud storage
• MongoDB Atlas
• JIRA
• Selenium, cypress test automation
• Heroku/digital ocean
• GoDaddy
• Google Analytics/search console
• SendGrid
• sentry.io
• hotjar

What we can offer:

• Payment for work done (of course 🙂)
• Remote work from anywhere
• part time or full time engagement
• Complete flexibility of working hours
• Complete freedom and ownership of your work
• No meetings, standups, or daily status group calls. (We prefer asynchronous communication like slack)

We are looking for a Senior Microsoft SQL Developer to design, develop, test, plan, implement and maintain conceptual and logical database models.

For this role, you should know how to analyze system requirements and implement migration methods for existing data. Hands-on experience with SQL Server 2012 and above is also required. Ideally, you are familiar with database design, reviewing code, writing stored procedures, creating and modifying SQL agent jobs, making structural changes to tables and views.

Ultimately, you will develop database solutions to ensure project information is stored effectively and securely.

We’re a fast-growing company with clients in the United States, UK, and Australia. You will join a team of talented developers, quality engineers, product managers whose mission is to impact above 100 million people across the world with technological services by the year 2030.

Working as Senior Microsoft SQL Developer at Navtech, you will:

1. Design conceptual and logical data models and flowcharts.
2. Improve system performance by conducting tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new elements.
3. Design and Build database systems of high availability and quality depending on each end user’s specialized role.
4. Help write and optimize in-application SQL statements.
5. Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
6. Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases.
7. Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data.
8. Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users.
9. Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures, and standards.
10. Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy, and integrity.
11. Monitor database performance, implement changes, and apply new patches and versions when required.

1. 5+ years of experience in SQL Server Development with at least 1 year of Lead experience.
2. Advanced experience in database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high availability strategies for SQL Server 2016, SQL Server in Cloud (AWS RDS preferred).
3. Advanced skills in resolving database locking conflicts/blocking and resource utilization.
4. Ability to work with other developers and engineers to analyze database performance and identify problems in areas such as execution plans, index coverage, and SQL server statistics.
5. A thorough understanding of Performance Monitoring, Tuning, and Optimization, using native and third-party monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
6. Advanced knowledge of SQL Server Disaster Recovery (DR) options, Always On availability groups, and experience administering Windows Server, including Active Directory, Failover clustering, database partitioning, security, and encryption (a plus).
7. Experience supporting SSIS, SSRS, replication, database mirroring (a plus).
8. PowerShell scripting experience with the ability to write automated scripts and strong knowledge of system tables and DMV’s is required. (a plus).
9. Administering Microsoft SQL Server databases in a high transaction, 24x7 database environment (a plus).
10. Experience in Postgres, No-SQL databases (a plus).
11. MCSA SQL Server 2012/2016 , MCSE or MCDBA (a plus).
12. Should have excellent logical, analytical, and communication skills with client interaction experience.

Benefits

• Working with industry giants while following your passion for technology.
• Competitive pay package with additional bonus and benefits.
• Performance review and Appraisal Twice a year.
• Family Health Insurance cover for self and family.
• Work with US, UK, and Europe-based industry-renowned clients for exponential technical growth.
• Work with a culturally diverse team from different geographies

As a Senior Software Engineer - I,you'll take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams. As SSE - I, you could expect to: 

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components. 
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
• Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
• Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Minimum Requirements: 

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant software development experience

• BE/B.tech Computer science or related degree.
• Salesforce Platform Developer II certification is highly desired
• 4+ years of experience programming on the Salesforce platform
• Deep understanding of the Salesforce.com product suite including Sales Cloud, Platform and the App Exchange
• Extensive development experience with Apex Classes, Triggers, Visual-force, Lightning, Batch Apex, SOQL, Salesforce API's and other programmatic solutions on the Salesforce platform
• Firm understanding of advanced design patterns and engineering best practices
• Familiarity with agile software delivery methodologies such as Scrum
• Background in development of enterprise systems as part of a complete software product life-cycle
• An effective communicator that works well in a collaborative team setting
• Natural problem solver who enjoys identifying ways to improve our customer's overall experience
• Prior experience in SaaS or subscription-based companies is a plus
• Familiar with integration applications such as Boomi, Informatica and Mulesoft preferred
• Working knowledge of Web and JavaScript frameworks are a plus Self-starter, self-motivated, able to work independently, prioritize effectively, and perform multiple tasks under minimal supervision.