Unreal Engine Sr. Game Developer

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

At Codvo, software and people transformations go hand-in-hand. We are a global empathy-led technology services company. Product innovation and mature software engineering are part of our core DNA. Respect, Fairness, Growth, Agility, and Inclusiveness are the core values that we aspire to live by each day. We continue to expand our digital strategy, design, architecture, and product management capabilities to offer expertise, outside-the-box thinking, and measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

•   The Kafka Engineer is responsible for Designing and recommending the best  approach suited    for data movement to/from different sources using Apache/Confluent Kafka.
•   Create topics, set up redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, and alerts, and has good          knowledge of best practices.
•   Develop and ensure adherence to published system architectural decisions and development       standards
•   Must be comfortable working with offshore/global teams to deliver projects

Required Skills

•  Good understanding of Event-based architecture, messaging frameworks and stream processing solutions using Kafka Messaging framework.
•  3+ years hands-on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a high-volume environment.
•  Strong knowledge and exposure to Kafka brokers, zookeepers, KSQL, KStream and Kafka Control centre.
•  Good experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connectors, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, and Transforms.
•  Hands on experience with developing APIs and Microservices
•  Solid expertise with Java
•  Working knowledge on Kafka Rest proxy and experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.

Good to have: 

•  Understanding of Data warehouse architecture and data modelling
•  Good knowledge of big data ecosystem to design and develop capabilities to deliver solutions using CI/CD pipelines.
•  Good understanding of other AWS services such as CloudWatch monitoring, scheduling, and automation services
•  Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, and Data Integration
•  Ability to guide and mentor team members on using Kafka.

Experience: 3 to 8 Years 

Work timings: 2.30PM - 11.30PM
location - hyderabad

Job Profile - We are in search of a smart and highly motivated project manager with 5+ years of experience in the IT industry, who can effectively coordinate our internal resources and the third parties for the flawless execution of projects.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field, with at least 2 years of experience in project management and related areas. 
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies.
• Ability to delegate and allocate responsibilities efficiently to manage projects end to end.
• Resource management skills and ability to handle complex / sensitive issues
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
• Awareness about the latest technologies for product development and execution.

• Manage project work in alignment with the Statement of Work (SOW) obligations and ensure accurate team reporting.
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan with proper cost and time estimates.
• Ensure that all projects/releases are delivered on-time within the scope to attain customer satisfaction.
• Meet with client teams and gather requirements, conduct regular team meetings and track project progress.
• Ensure teams follow the correct procedures, policies and documentation requirements across project phases.
• Build and structure project teams to ensure maximum performance. 

No one should have to make life’s big decisions alone.

At Unibuddy, we're on a mission to connect prospective students to current university students and staff. Shared experience empowers students with the information they need to make life’s first biggest decision: where to go to university and what to study.

Unibuddy's technology helps Higher Education institutions enable prospective students to chat directly with student ambassadors and staff, and to take part in online live events. We provide data tools and insights so that universities attract, engage and retain a diverse student population.

Since launching in 2017, we’ve grown rapidly and now work with over 300 Higher Education institutions in 28 countries worldwide. We’ve raised over $13M from top-tier investors that will fuel our expansion and help us achieve our ambitious goal of empowering 10 million students to make the right choice about their Higher Education journey.

In the next chapter of our journey, we’re looking to take a huge step forward. We're transforming our product offering. We're changing the way both prospective and current students make their life-determining decisions on a global scale. This, and our recent success, means that we need to scale. We're looking for people to help us supercharge our growth, while we continue to embody the values that have got us so far already.

🧗🏻‍♀️ Your Mission 🧗🏾‍♂

As a Software Engineer, you will help drive Unibuddy’s growth by helping build and enhance our products that are aimed at aiding prospective universities and students, turning them into happy and successful users of Unibuddy. We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic engineer to join our engineering team in Bangalore and help accelerate our next phase of growth.

As we are a rapidly growing company you will gain exposure to all areas of the platform, understanding the key success drivers at an early stage engineering team and gaining invaluable experience for your future career. Success in this role will lead to opportunities for growth across the entire engineering team with significant scope for future development.

👩🏻‍🔧 Your day to day tasks will be...

• Quality and consistency: Consistently deliver high quality code. Maintain code quality across the team by reviewing code written by other members of the team
• Constant Learning: Acquire expertise of the codebase to answer questions for newer devs on how to design features around our codebase
• Knowledge sharing: Have extended knowledge of design patterns to help newer devs on finding the appropriate coding solution to a technical problem
• Mentorship: Organising knowledge sharing session when finds out a domain is uncovered by other members of the team
• Setting standards: Proposes set of coding standards for the team
• Going beyond: explores new technologies and new techniques the team could use
• External point of contact: should be able to answer questions about the stack from other non-technical teams
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👨🏽‍💻 This might be for you if…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or any other related field. The equivalent of this in working experience is also acceptable for the position
• Self-motivated, hard-working, coachable, and driven with a strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Enjoys working in a collaborative atmosphere where new ideas are valued
• 2+ years of overall professional web development experience
• Communicate effectively in fluent English
• Experienced in Javascript, and ReactJS / React Native OR Angular 
• Experienced in industry standard coding practices
• Organising knowledge sharing session when finds out a domain is uncovered by other members of the team
• Have experience working on projects involving test-driven software development
• Most Important: Understands the value of our product and is driven to make it a success
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🎁 Key Benefits

• Stock options based on performance
• Personal development budget of ₹80,000 per year to be used for courses, books, conferences
• Private Unibuddy office in Bangalore with lounge, ping pong tables, conference rooms and more!
• 25 days paid holiday each year
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home Wednesdays
• Conveyance allowance
• Health Insurance
• Free lunches on work from office days
• Bi-weekly tech lunches for a fun learning experience
• Monthly social outings
• 2 weeks personal project time each year
• Yearly cross-tribe pollinations (we have another engineering team in London)
• Wholesome development experience with MacBook Pro and extra monitor(s)
• Regular and transparent appraisals based on performance 
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🚀 More about our Team

As an engineering team, we are dedicated, hardworking and always looking to learn and improve our craft. This happens in regular knowledge sharing sessions with both Full Stack and Machine Learning teams, and we are always keen to collaborate when a challenging problem comes up.

In our work, we use industry best practices like TDD, CI/CD and code reviews as part of building every feature. We also continually evaluate new technologies to see if they can help improve our platform.

You can check out the technologies that we work with
here: https://stackshare.io/unibuddy/unibuddy-platform">https://stackshare.io/unibuddy/unibuddy-platform

• Managing a team of representatives offering customer support.
• Overseeing the customer service process.
• Should be able to resolve queries over the calls or have experience in Outbound or Inbound process.
• Good to have experience in Service/Product Support.