VP Engineering

Prelude

We are BeyondScale, on a mission to build the mobile learning app to help organizations create internal courses for their workforce easily. eLearning is booming and we aim to tap into the under-served non-IT L&D market and make a difference in the livelihoods of millions of people.

We’re now looking for a passionate “Django Developer” who is willing to join us at an early stage and help us build a world-class product. 

Django Developer 

Job Description:

• 2+ years of experience coding with Python.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Eager and proactive to learn new technical skills.
• Hands-on experience in developing web APIs and writing database queries in PostgreSQL (MongoDB, MySQL and DynamoDB is a plus).
• Good understanding of OOPs, Multiprocessing and threading.
• Proficient in testing and debugging programs.
• Well-versed with Git and modern development workflow practices

Position: Technical Architect

Location: Hyderabad

 Experience: 6+ years

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Architect with a strong background in Python, Node.js, and React to lead the design and development of complex and scalable software solutions. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional technical skills, a deep understanding of software architecture principles, and a proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality projects. You should be capable of leading a cross-functional team that's responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment with Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities:

●       Lead the design, development, and deployment of software solutions, ensuring architectural integrity and high performance.

●       Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and product managers, to define technical requirements and create effective solutions.

●       Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.

●       Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to achieve project goals.

●       Drive continuous improvement by staying updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

●       Conduct code reviews, identify areas of improvement, and promote a culture of excellence in software development.

●       Participate in architectural discussions, making strategic decisions and aligning technical solutions with business objectives.

●       Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of software applications.

●       Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical specifications.

●       Define and enforce architectural patterns, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of systems.

●       Lead efforts to refactor and optimize existing codebase, enhancing performance and maintainability.

Qualifications:

●       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.

●       Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development with a focus on Python, Node.js, and React.

●       Proven experience as a Technical Architect, leading the design and development of complex software systems.

●       Strong expertise in software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.

●       Extensive hands-on experience with Python, Node.js, and React, including designing and implementing scalable applications.

●       Solid understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

●       Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

●       Should create automation test cases and unit test cases (optional)

●       Proficiency in database design, optimization, and data modeling.

●       Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

●       Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.

●       Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively interact with cross-functional teams.

●       Prior experience in mentoring and coaching development teams.

●       Strong leadership qualities with a passion for technology innovation.

●        have experience in using Linux-based development environments using GitHub and CI/CD

●       Atlassian stack (JIRA/Confluence)

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python  & Django

2. Solid understanding of Python concepts

3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)

4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas

5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar

6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL

7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask

8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git

9. Working experience with Docker

10. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

Hiring for a funded fintech startup based out of Bangalore!!!

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a Senior DevOps engineer to join the engineering team and help us automate the build, release, packaging and infrastructure provisioning and support processes. The candidate is expected to own the full life-cycle of provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, maintenance and support for cloud as well as on-premise deployments.

Requirements

• 5-plus years of DevOps experience managing the Big Data application stack including HDFS, YARN, Spark, Hive and Hbase
• Deeper understanding of all the configurations required for installing and maintaining the infrastructure in the long run
• Experience setting up high availability, configuring resource allocation, setting up capacity schedulers, handling data recovery tasks
• Experience with middle-layer technologies including web servers (httpd, ningx), application servers (Jboss, Tomcat) and database systems (postgres, mysql)
• Experience setting up enterprise security solutions including setting up active directories, firewalls, SSL certificates, Kerberos KDC servers, etc.
• Experience maintaining and hardening the infrastructure by regularly applying required security packages and patches
• Experience supporting on-premise solutions as well as on AWS cloud
• Experience working with and supporting Spark-based applications on YARN
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Teraform, etc
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and various test report and coverage plugins
• Experience defining and automating the build, versioning and release processes for complex enterprise products
• Experience supporting clients remotely and on-site
• Experience working with and supporting Java- and Python-based tech stacks would be a plus

Desired Non-technical Requirements

• Very strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong desire to work with start-ups
• Must be a team player

Job Perks

• Attractive variable compensation package
• Flexible working hours – everything is results-oriented
• Opportunity to work with an award-winning organization in the hottest space in tech – artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning

• Collaborate with Dev, QA and Data Science teams on environment maintenance, monitoring (ELK, Prometheus or equivalent), deployments and diagnostics
• Administer a hybrid datacenter, including AWS and EC2 cloud assets
• Administer, automate and troubleshoot container based solutions deployed on AWS ECS
• Be able to troubleshoot problems and provide feedback to engineering on issues
• Automate deployment (Ansible, Python), build (Git, Maven. Make, or equivalent) and integration (Jenkins, Nexus) processes
• Learn and administer technologies such as ELK, Hadoop etc.
• A self-starter and enthusiasm to learn and pick up new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Need to have

• Hands-on Experience in Cloud based DevOps
• Experience working in AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, ECR, ECS etc)
• Experience with any programming language.
• Experience using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Experience in Python.
• Should be very comfortable working in Linux/Unix environment.
• Exposure to Shell Scripting.
• Solid troubleshooting skills

Job Description:

We are looking for a candidate with 5-8 years of experience in Agile methodologies like SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SAFe and fluid, along with in-depth knowledge of agile values, design thinking, customer value, product management, etc. with strong experience in Agile transformations from design to implementation.

Responsibilities:
- Preparing monthly project status updates and capital forecasts per established processes
- Disrupting and improving the way teams work by increasing organizational agility to produce dramatically better outcomes
- Preparing and conducting periodic project status reports to update teams and executive management regularly on progress, risks, and issues
- Understanding break down of backlog into tasks, defining effort (as complexity), and estimating initial remaining hours
- Designing an optimal system by meeting project requirements while maximizing characteristics such as scalability, security, reliability, durability, and cost-effectiveness
- Facilitating the process for building up multiple products parallel and doing continuous integration

- Focusing on customer values, coaching teams to embrace the right mindset in ways of working (cadence, ceremonies, tools), and on-boarding new teams with the setup of working processes

- Anticipating and identifying impediments (systematic, behavioral, etc.) and working with

the right team members to resolve them

- Monitoring the team's outcomes and dynamics while assisting them in improving team performance and agile maturity

Required Skills:
- Experience with Jira or any other Agile project management tool
- Good understanding of Agile development processes
- Strong working knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test-driven development, continuous integration, DevOps

- Good Documentation and Reporting Skills
- Good Analytical and Problem-solving skills

- Good Communication skills

- Strong Decision-making skills

Note: Certification in CSM, PSM or related field will be an added plus

Perks and Benefits 

Medical Insurance and other perks.

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
• Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
• Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
• Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
• Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
• Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
• Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues

• 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
• Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
• Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
• Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
• Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
• Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
• Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
• Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Experience in working with docker is a plus
• Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
• Strong communication skills — both written and verbal

About us

Villa Plus is UK's leading villa holiday tour operator, providing holiday makers the ability to book their own private villas across Europe. Customers have a choice of close to 2000 villas in 19 destinations with option of booking flights, car hire, transfers and travel insurance. Over the last 33 years Villa Plus has catered for holidays for nearly 200,000 customers and it manages about 50,000 bookings annually online.

Our digital platform, http://www.villaplus.com">www.villaplus.com runs totally in Azure Cloud. A headless CMS platform is used for non-villa marketing content.  Ash software is value-added partner and technical arm of Villa Plus which aims at delivering delightful experience to customers.

Experience:
7+ years in Product development

Qualification:

• Bachelor / Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of professional experience in software development

Our team is highly motivated and is looking for a senior engineer who can steer the team technically in our vision.

Strong belief in software craftsmanship and practicing it in day-to-day work, expert in Microsoft .NET technology stack is a must.

A good team player with expertise working as part of Agile teams. Hands-on experience in practicing Scrum, XP and Kanban.

• Strong hands-on experience in web development using ASP.NET MVC and C#.
• Usage of SQL and no SQL databases
• Hands on experience in test-driven development and DevOps practices
• Strong design capabilities, following SOLID principles using C#
• Well-versed with pair-programming
• Working on solutions hosted in cloud environments (AWS or Azure)
• Implementation of Continuous Delivery processes
• Usage of Git
• Good understanding of Behaviour-driven development and domain-driven design

The following would be beneficial:

• Working in the travel and hospitality domain including:

• .Net core 2.0, Web API
• Scripting Languages like Typescript or JavaScript
• Frontend: Angular7
• Automating business processes
• Integration with 3^rd party systems
• Customer management, including CRM solutions
• Content management
• SEO
• Booking and post sales flows, web and mobile solutions

Are you interested in working from home office?

• Comprehensive experience working with remote teams
• Excellent communicator
• Self-managed
• Open to travel to Pune office occasionally

Responsibilities:

• Contribution to the product roadmap in one-week sprint model
• Helping your team to deliver at high velocity
• Practice and promote Agile practices
• Continuously learn and deliver incremental business value
• Use Continuous Delivery Practices
• Select the best tools to solve the problems at hand
• Mentor junior team members
• Effective collaboration and removal of silos
• Build high availability solutions.
• Development of asynchronous and/or multi-tiered scalable applications

Job Location Pune

• Are you a software craftsman and passionate coder with a proven track record of successful deliveries?
• Are you interested in a high growth career opportunity and enjoy building software that brings smiles to our customers?

Then you are someone who will enjoy this incredibly challenging role with us.