UX/UI Designer

Job Title: Senior MEAN/MERN Stack Developer

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time About

Job : We are looking for a skilled and 1 - 4 years experienced Senior MEAN/MERN Stack Developer to join our talented development team. If you are passionate about cutting-edge technologies, have a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions, and thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain robust and scalable web applications using the MEAN/MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular/React, Node.js).

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Lead the architecture and design of complex software solutions. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement responsive and user-friendly interfaces. Implement best practices in software development, code reviews, and documentation.

Work closely with product owners and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software defects and issues. Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in MEAN/MERN stack development and AWS Cloud services.

Requirements: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Proven experience as a Senior MEAN/MERN Stack Developer with a strong portfolio of successfully delivered projects. Solid understanding of the full web development stack and a deep knowledge of MEAN/MERN technologies. Experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services). Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and development. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Effective communication and collaboration skills in a team environment. Preferred Skills: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP. Experience with serverless architecture and AWS Lambda. Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools. Knowledge of security best practices in web development and cloud environments.

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Performance tuning, improvement, and optimization of the application
• Ensuring high performance of applications and providing support

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and Node.js
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience with Mongo DB/Dynamo DB

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience as a Node.js Developer or similar role

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Handle a portfolio of projects and clients in parallel from Fortune 1000 companies and across geographies.
• Plan for a quarter ahead and develop an execution plan for projects and people in the team. Need to be ahead of both client and internal resources in planning and execution.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with product delivery, the sales team, client and account managers.
• Make sure that the projects are achieving promised business value/RoI and figure out ways to achieve it if there is a gap.
• Build Rapport with clients and manage those effectively, high end consulting touch would be required
• Manage escalations, variations, complexities in projects effectively.
• Able to effectively use the established frameworks in project execution, client handling, resource utilization, resource mentoring etc.
• Directly supervises functional consultants, solution architects; conducts employee performance reviews/evaluations and career development discussions
• Manage up- Make sure to keep the higher management honest and able to strike a right balance between issues/items that are to be escalated vs that are to be handled.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree (preferably from a top reputed university) 
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills with small and large groups
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand Fortune 1000 client business complexities and handle those

Experience:

• Overall 8+  years of professional services experience with extensive experience in customer facing  roles and involved in requirements gathering, gap analysis, feasibility study etc.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as Project manager or equivalent role demonstrating management and leadership experience, preferably in a fast paced consulting / professional services set-up.
• Minimum 1 year of experience managing large portfolio, leading cross-functional teams and tracking the project progress against the plans
• Experience in leading and mentoring people as part of the project life cycle.
• Experience in following the established processes/standards/templates to achieve successful results.
• Experience with Invoice-to-Cash related business process is desirable

Critical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team management and collaboration skills
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders and have challenging discussions
• Proven problem solving, risk mitigation and analytical skills
• Excellent team and interpersonal skills
• Strong ownership to drive the projects from start to finish with maximum client delight

In a mobile-first world, there is always an inevitable risk posed by cyber security concerns, which is addressed by our client through API-based solutions. They focus on securing mobile-first enterprises against new age cyber fraud. Their aim is to reduce risk and accelerate the growth of all mobile transactions.

• Planning and prioritizing different aspects of the end-consumer problems as a part of the design process
• Carrying out extensive user research, devising user journeys and understanding customer requirements with a first-principles approach
• Interacting and working closely with stakeholders across Product, Engineering and Marketing
• Effective communication with Front-end engineering on ensuring the last mile correctness of implementation
• Building and maintaining the design system and devising more components in alignment with the same
• Brainstorming ideas on the new age E-Commerce SaaS products and evangelising the design-thinking process inside and outside the organisation

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 1 year of experience working on UX challenges on digital products
• Ability to understand fundamental goals of business both in short and long term aspects
• Appreciate behavioural analytics principles and emphasis on data-driven decision-making
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate design decisions to the team and leadership
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Node.js (Hapi, Restify, Express, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Mocha)
3. Experience with Elasticsearch
4. Experience building and deploying Docker containers
5. Strong general Linux experience
6. Extensive experience with REST APIs
7. Experience with microservice architecture
8. Experience with MongoDB
9. Expert knowledge of Redis and caching strategies
10. Strong knowledge of unit/integration testing, including the art of mocking and writing testable code

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.

Blok is a technology-first online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.

We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team have held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.

Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.

Node.js and frameworks available for it - Express, StrongLoop, etc
Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

front-end technologies - HTML5, and CSS3
Writing scalable, reusable, testable, and efficient code