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Who Are We?

ALTRES, headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii (USA) and in existence since 1969, is working on industry leading products for the HR industry. We are looking for web developers with the right skills and experience to join our growing team. Altres Technologies is looking for techies that will appreciate a dynamic, creative and competitive work environment, that pairs perfectly with the stability and support of a successful organization with 4 decades of satisfied customers in the market.

Website- www.altres.in / www.altres.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/altres-technologies-india

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/altrestechnologies

About the Role:

You will contribute to our continually evolving HR platform by working as developer on the in-house product development team. It requires experience of working on HTML5, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, and Java (very important) in an agile environment. Mobile experience is a big plus. You will collaborate with locally based team members and remote Product/Project Managers and will contribute to the design and implementation of new features.

What Would You Do At Altres?

1.    Translate software requirements into workable programming code.

2.    Work with Team members, discuss technical solutions with them

3.    Participate actively in scrum meetings

4.    Conduct code reviews for peers.

5.    Perform coding, get it reviewed by other members of the team.

6.    Collaborate with Development, QA, and Product Management teams for implementation

7.    Mentor team members and guide them when needed.

8.    Ability to self-direct, work without supervision and balance multiple duties.

What Do You Need For The Job?

1.    Strong technical background with good understanding of product development life cycle.

2.    Expertise in full stack application design and development across all relevant form factors – smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, etc.

3.    7+ years of experience building web applications using J2EE (JSP, Servlets) and Core Java.

4.    Detailed understanding of front-end Web application technologies like HTML5, Javascript, CSS.

5.    Proficient in MySQL or another RDBMS variant with 2+ years of experience building and interfacing with the database.

6.    Good know-how of modern frameworks.

7.    Keen understanding of user experience and user interface design.

8.    Familiarity with Agile software development processes including Scrum.

9.    Experience with JIRA or similar issue & project tracking tool.

What’s In It for You?

1.    Competitive salary and benefits

2.    Opportunity to work for both front end and back end processes

3.    Great learning and development opportunities

4.    Working with an organisation that keeps up to date with industry best benchmarking in every aspect

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineer II is responsible for independently developing and assisting in the design of a product that our customers and associates love. As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Software Engineer IIs may be involved in configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions; Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

Learning - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems

Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Education Required:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Years of Relevant Work Experience:

3+ years

Preferred Qualifications:

• Should have worked in a SaaS Company
• Experience in creating developer friendly integrations with other Apps/Software
• Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Experience in version control systems
• Experience in front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Experience in source code version control
• Experience in Relational or noSQL database technology
• Experience in cloud computing techniques
• Experience in CI/CD tools
• Experience in microservice-based architecture
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Exposure to security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests

Ideal Candidate Profile (Essential Attributes)

• Expertise and Prior experience in JavaScript environment [Node JS/ PHP/ React JS/ React Native]
• Prior work experience in B2C start-ups (unicorn scale)
• Excellent coding skills with experience in building system architecture, databases
• Exposure to version control, documentation tools, progress management tools
• Must have built application from scratch and scaled to a sizable user base.

Desirable Attributes

• Experienced to work in agile environment
• Prior experience to host applications on cloud
• Able to work in fast paced evolving environment
• Ability to learn and adopt new tools/ technology

Target Industry/Sector

• Consumer Internet Companies – B2C

Key Responsibility Areas:

This will include but not limited to

• Development and building of large-scale applications which is scalable, high performing and resilient
• Understand product requirement and develop/deploy end-to-end scalable technology systems for our ed-tech business
• Setting up the technology infrastructure to host website and apps for our customers
• Integrate third party tools as per the product requirements
• Own the development and operations of our website, apps and database
• Regularly manage, test and fix issues related to security and performance
• Continuously strive to meet the development timelines with minimum bugs
• Maintain good coding practices to ensure quality, documentation, low maintenance
• Work closely with product owner, business owner and testing team to ensure timely and satisfactory product release
• Regularly stay in touch with technological changes in the industry and implement necessary changes to keep our technology ecosystem updated
• Any other items as deemed necessary for effective functioning and growth of the function

To know more about Centum Learning Ltd. please use the below links.

Brochure: http://centumlearning.com/documents/Centum_Brochure.pdf">http://centumlearning.com/documents/Centum_Brochure.pdf              

Website: http://www.centumlearning.com/">http://www.centumlearning.com/