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Job Position: Lead II - Software Engineering

Domain: Information technology (IT)

Location: India - Thiruvananthapuram

Salary: Best in Industry

Job Positions: 1

Experience: 8 - 12 Years

Skills: .Net, Sql Azure, Rest Api, Vue.Js

Notice Period: Immediate – 30 Days

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior .NET Developer with a minimum of 7 years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, including post-live support. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in .NET backend API development, Agile methodologies, and Cloud infrastructure (preferably Azure). You will play a key role in solution design, development, DevOps pipeline enhancement, and mentoring junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure .NET backend APIs.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead and contribute to Agile software delivery processes (Scrum, Kanban).
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and support release cadence targets, using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Provide post-live support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution as part of full lifecycle responsibilities.
• Implement unit and integration testing to ensure code quality and system stability.
• Work closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to manage deployments on Azure (Web Apps, Container Apps, Functions, SQL).
• Contribute to front-end components when necessary, leveraging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript UI frameworks.
• Mentor and coach engineers within a co-located or distributed team environment.
• Maintain best practices in code versioning, testing, and documentation.

Mandatory Skills:

• 7+ years of .NET development experience, including API design and development
• Strong experience with Azure Cloud services, including:
• Web/Container Apps
• Azure Functions
• Azure SQL Server
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – preferably Terraform
• Strong knowledge of RESTful services and JSON-based APIs
• Experience with unit and integration testing techniques
• Source control using Git
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and cross-browser compatibility

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Knowledge of JavaScript UI frameworks, ideally Vue.js
• Familiarity with JIRA and Agile project tracking tools
• Exposure to Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) concepts
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior developers
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Job Role- Fashion Consultant-(0-2 years)

Job Timings-Rotational

Working Days-6 Days (Weekends are working and between Mon-Fri (one day leave)

· Provide Style Advice:

Guide clients in choosing clothing and accessories that suit their body type, personal style, and occasion, while staying current with fashion trends.

· Curate and Coordinate Outfits:

Select and assemble outfits that reflect the client's preferences, brand image or seasonal trends.

· Support Sales In retail or brand settings, help drive sales by offering personalized styling services and ensuring that store visuals align with fashion trends and customer expectations.

About FoundingMinds:

We are one of the preferred product development partners in the software industry. We work with clients across the globe to design and develop products for them. We are also an incubator for many startups. As a contributor, you will get an opportunity to work with different ideas, brainstorm with diverse people, widen your way of thinking, learn different technologies, research what you have to do, contribute your best to the projects and take ownership of what you do to your project. If you are passionate you will have no dearth in opportunities to build your career in Founding Minds.

Profile required 

• Experience in Java stack (preferably Springboot)
• Strong knowledge in Design Principles & Patterns and Development methodologies
• Must have Good experience working on Rest services
• Good experience with Java Microservices architecture
• Strong Expertise with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Experience in test driven development (unit testing. Mocking, BDD)
• Strong experience in Agile methodologies
• Preferable to have experience working on Angular and React 
• Preferable to have experience on Docker and kubernetes
• Preferable to have experience in finance domain
• Preferable to have experience in AWS or any other cloud services

The ideal candidate should have

• Strong fundamentals in Core Java, JDBC, and J2EE.
• Hands-on experience of development and support of enterprise-level cloud-native application
• Hands-on experience in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, ORM Tools, and Cloud technologies
• Hands-on experience of Java Microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with AWS services
• Good communication & presentation skills
• Have a good sense of humor

If you’re an innovative thinker with a passion for technology and a drive to make a difference, we’d love to meet you. Apply now and take the next step in your career with FoundingMinds!

• Institute sales : Primary responsibility is to sell to schools and bring them onboard

o Tie up with schools and onboard them so that we can offer the Jodo plan to the parents in the school

o Negotiate and get into commercial agreements with schools

o Upsell our other payment products in the schools

• Stakeholder Management in Schools:

o Enable Jodo to liaison with the schools tied up with, for close to

everything from meeting the parents, to doing events etc.

o Forge a strong relationship with the school management and principal

and be their first port of call on anything to do with finances

• Team Building- Build a high quality sales team and lead it in that city

What we look for:

As a DevOps Developer, you will contribute to a thriving and growing AIGovernance Engineering team. You will work in a Kubernetes-based microservices environment to support our bleeding-edge cloud services. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline). You will also be contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to deploy software using orchestrators /scripts/Automation on Hybrid and Public clouds like AWS
• Ability to write shell/python/ or any unix scripts
• Working Knowledge on Docker & Kubernetes
• Ability to create pipelines using Jenkins or any CI/CD tool and GitOps tool like ArgoCD
• Working knowledge of Git as a source control system and defect tracking system
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot deployment issues
• Ability to use tools for faster resolution of issues
• Excellent communication and soft skills
• Passionate and ability work and deliver in a multi-team environment
• Good team player
• Flexible and quick learner
• Ability to write docker files, Kubernetes yaml files / Helm charts
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Prometheus and visualisation tools such as Grafana.
• Ability to write Ansible, terraform scripts
• Linux System experience and Administration
• Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.
• Ability to review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.

Required Skills (Technical Competency):

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Programming.
• Hands-on experience in Software development in C# [Desktop Applications].
• Strong expertise in OOPS, basic design skills.
• Experience in C#, Winforms is must,
• Knowledge in PRISM, MVVM, LinQ.
• Expertise in multi-threaded programming.
• Strong logical and analytical skills.
• Experience of software development process.
• Expertise in development, testing and debugging skills.
• Knowledge of design patterns and its usage and tools like Visio.
• Experience in UML, SOLID.
• Experience in unit testing frameworks like NUnit.
• Expertise in troubleshooting bugs and finding solutions.
• Strong abstraction, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process Oriented.

Role & Responsibilities

• Application Architecture: Design and implement application environment
• Manage the configuration and operation of client-based (on-premise) computer operating systems
• Monitor the system daily and respond immediately to security or usability concerns
• Create and monitor the disaster recovery (DR) of all servers.
• Respond and assign a team to resolve help desk requests
• Monitor and maintain server functionality and security issue.
• Administrate infrastructure, including firewalls, databases, malware protection software and other processes
• Automation configuration management using either Ansible, Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
• Manage and administer servers, networks, and applications such as DNS, FTP, and Web servers.
• Troubleshoot in-house network issues and fix them.
• Provide solutions to complex problems on the integration of various technologies
• Design plans as well as lead initiatives for the optimization and restructuring of network architecture
• Monitor the environmental conditions of a data center and cloud servers to ensure they are optimum for servers, routers, and other devices
• Collaborate with IT handlers, sales, and data center managers to develop an action plan for improved operations
• Conduct inspections on power and cooling systems to ensure they are operational and efficient
• Resolve operational, infrastructure or hardware incidents in a data center and cloud servers.
• Monitor and maintain company assets
• Infra-team management and skills enhancement (training) plans and execution

Skills

• In-depth knowledge of the Linux Operating System
• Expertise in Shell and/or Python scripting
• In-depth knowledge of any of the CI/CD tools like Jenkins/GitLab etc.
• Basic knowledge of monitoring tools like Zabbix/ Nagios etc.
• Expertise in any one of the cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and other cloud solution providers
• Strong experience with SQL and MySQL
• A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, Angular and NodeJS)
• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations
• Basic experience with VMware
• Advanced knowledge of system vulnerabilities and security issues

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 6 years experience delivering highly available web/mobile applications including 1-3 years as Senior/Lead developer.
• Prior experience in retail domain is a plus.
• 3 years of experience working with distributed teams.
• Deep knowledge of UI Libraries / Frameworks, API (REST), API Management and building scalable and high performance Web APIs.
• Must have experience building websites using Javascript and Java technologies (e.g. Typescript, Spring Boot etc.). Search Engine and Native App development experience is a plus.
• AWS Serverless Cloud native services experience with Lambda functions, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway etc.
• Strong knowledge of Caching frameworks, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL data stores, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Passionate about enabling next generation experiences.
• Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and cloud based infrastructure

• Develop omni-channel digital solutions leveraging serverless and micro services in a cloud based platform to develop backend services.
• Design high/low level solutions, contribute towards architecture and technical roadmap.
• Lead technical implementation/delivery.
• Host/Lead technical discussions.
• Champion software development best practices, test driven development, CI and CD.
• Build cloud native and highly cost efficient solutions.
• Innovate, Unlearn and Disrupt. Research next generation frameworks and technologies.
• Embrace change. 

We are looking for a highly capable Node.js developer to optimize our web-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end application developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.

To ensure success as a Node.js developer, you should possess extensive knowledge of Node.Js based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished Node.js developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end-users.

Node.js Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.

• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.

• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.

• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.

• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.

• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.

• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.

• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.

• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.

Node.js Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.

• At least 4+ yrs experience as a Node.js developer.

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

• Experience collaborating in an agile environment alongside designers, analysts, and product owners.

• Experience designing and documenting APIs (we use Node.js, Express, OpenAPI Spec)

• Experience in building scalable production services and monitoring performance (we use Kibana, New Relic)

• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

• Great organizational and time management skills.

• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.