Visual Designer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Mandatory Skills:

• Total 10+ years of experience in SAP projects

• Minimum 3+ years of Project Management experience

• Experience in handling SAP AMS projects

• Strong exposure to Managed Services and Shared Support Models

• Excellent customer handling and stakeholder management skills

• Experience in Presales activities

• Strong knowledge in Proposals and Estimations

• Good communication and presentation skills

• Ability to manage client expectations and project delivery effectively

• Candidate should be comfortable for Face-to-Face interview process

• Immediate to 30 Days joiners preferred

• Work from Office is mandatory (No Work from Home option)

Interested and relevant profiles can be shared at the earliest.

Responsibilities:

* Collaborate with sales team on lead generation

* Manage social media campaigns

* Analyze digital metrics & report insights

* Develop & execute digital strategies

*Good knowledge about Graphic Design

*Support with Real Estate processes

1.   Should have worked in Agile methodology and microservices architecture

2.   Should have 7+ years of experience in Python and Django framework

3.   Should have a good knowledge of DRF

4.   Should have knowledge of User Auth (JWT, OAuth2), API Auth, Access Control List, etc.

5.   Should have working experience in session management in Django

6.   Should have expertise in the Django MVC and uses of templates in frontend

7.   Should have working experience in PostgreSQL

8.   Should have working experience in the RabbitMQ messaging channel and Celery Analytics

9.   Good to have javascript implementation knowledge in Django templates

• Advanced Design Creation: Produce visually stunning designs for digital marketing, web graphics, social media, infographics, presentations, and print media.
• Web Graphics Expertise: Design high-quality visuals optimized for web usage (e.g., banners, web animations, interactive infographics) to enhance user engagement and experience.
• Mastery of Design Software: Expert-level use of Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere Pro to create static, dynamic, and motion designs.
• Video Editing & Motion Graphics: Use tools like Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro (FCP) for editing videos, creating motion graphics, and enhancing video content.
• AI-Powered Tools: Leverage AI-based tools like DALL·E, MidJourney, RunwayML, or Generative Fill in Photoshop to explore new creative possibilities, automate repetitive tasks, and improve design efficiency.
• 3D & Interactive Designs: Incorporate 3D modeling tools such as Blender or Cinema 4D to create immersive and interactive designs, particularly for web visuals and presentations.
• Design Automation & Scripting: Explore automation techniques using Photoshop Scripts, Illustrator Actions, or Figma Plugins for increased efficiency in repetitive design tasks.
• Web-Based Graphics & SVG Animations: Create scalable vector graphics (SVGs), CSS animations, and other web-optimized assets that are responsive and fast-loading, enhancing the performance of Ken Research's digital platforms.

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Terraform  etc