Founding Full-Stack Developer

Google Workspace Apps Developer

About the Role

Kinematic Digital is seeking an experienced Software Developer specializing in Google Workspace application development. The ideal candidate will create, maintain, and enhance custom applications and integrations within the Google Workspace ecosystem, including Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail, and Calendar.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop custom Google Workspace applications using Google Apps Script and Google Cloud Platform

- Create automation solutions and workflow improvements using Google Workspace APIs

- Build integrations between Google Workspace and other enterprise systems

- Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with Google's security guidelines

- Maintain and update existing Google Workspace applications and scripts

- Debug and optimize application performance

- Provide technical documentation and support training materials

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

- 3+ years of experience in software development

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and Google Apps Script

- Experience with Google Workspace APIs and SDK

- Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and modern web development practices

- Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services

- Experience with version control systems (Git)

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Google Cloud Platform certification

- Experience with Google Workspace Add-ons development

- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and security protocols

- Familiarity with Google Apps Script Advanced Services

- Experience with Node.js and modern JavaScript frameworks

- Background in enterprise software development

- Experience with Workspace administrative tasks and configurations

Technical Skills

- Languages: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3

- Platforms: Google Apps Script, Google Cloud Platform

- APIs: Google Workspace APIs (Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail, Calendar)

- Tools: Google Cloud Console, Apps Script IDE, Git

- Security: OAuth 2.0, Google Cloud IAM

Required Experience with Google Workspace Development

- Creating custom functions and macros for Google Sheets

- Building automation workflows across Workspace applications

- Developing custom sidebars and dialogue interfaces

- Managing document permissions and sharing programmatically

- Implementing time-triggered and event-driven scripts

- Creating custom menus and user interfaces

- Working with Google Workspace Add-ons

Project Examples

The successful candidate will work on projects such as:

- Automated document generation and management systems

- Custom reporting and analytics dashboards

- Workflow automation between different Google Workspace applications

- Integration with third-party systems and databases

- Custom forms and data collection solutions

- Document approval and review systems

- Team collaboration tools and templates

Location

- Pune, Mumbai or Remote

Position: Senior Project Associate= 01

Essential Qualification:

(i) Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent

and

(ii) Four year’s experience in Research and Development in industrial and Academic Institutions or Science and Technology Organisations and Scientific activities and services

OR

Doctoral Degree in Science/ Engineering/ Technology/ Pharma/ MD/ MS from a recognized University or equivalent

Desirable Qualification: Full stack developer with demonstrable experience in working with different operating systems, Programming Languages (Shell Scripts, Python, C, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, HTML, PHP), Database Server (MySQL, OpenLDAP), Apache and NGINX Web Server, hands-on experience with application performance indicators like red metrics etc and Unity3D. Experience in React Native, online mentoring and content creation. Machine learning and evolutionary biology knowledge will be an added advantage. Previous experience in game development is highly desirable.

Upper Age limit (years) - 40

Monthly Emoluments: 42,000/- +HRA

Deadline for application - 22-Apr-2024

What can you expect?

You will be part of the founding team at LDU and will be responsible for the end-to-end technology of the company including:

- Work with the founders on cutting edge technologies, including AI/ML, blockchain, computer vision, etc. across the tech-stack.

- Formulate long-term technology & product strategy along with implementation roadmap, while envisioning the tech-stack

required to scale the business 100X

- Architecting and engineering solutions across the entire technology stack including front-end, back-end, infrastructure,

architecture, server-side engineering, UI, etc. in line with the company's strategy.

- Work on the D2C website and enhance the user experience while increasing the company's online presence.

- Provide help to everyone in the team and greatly reduce the time and technical costs of team communication, technology

docking.

- Plan and collaborate with the other teams including marketing/ growth, customer success/ sales, design, operations, etc. to

implement new product features, growth hacks/ initiatives identified through user interviews/ insights, etc in a timely manner.

- Will be involved in a horizontal technical requirement, so should be able to make a prototype design for a product very rapidly

while executing the same with a wide range of techniques.

- Build processes/mechanisms to track the KPIs across product/ technology and ensure religious execution of the targets

- Build and lead the technology team including the engineering team, product team, Quality Assurance, etc.

- Awesome work-culture (flexible work timings; no need to wear formals; awesome snacks to name a few)

What are we looking for?

We are looking to onboard a Full Stack Software Engineer, who has a founder's mindset including the following traits:

- Experience of full stack development across web & mobile based technologies and should have scaled a business

- Ability to work across stacks like MEAN, MERN, LAMP, etc. seamlessly

- Ability to build scalable products/ platforms, fully redundant fault tolerant infrastructure while working on modern technologies.

- Versatile Developer/Engineer that can help on both ends of the website development and better the same by enhancing user

experience.

- Ability to Code in both frontend and backend of the site

- Stronghold in both front-end & back-end development/ algorithms with experience of building agile, highly scalable, data-driven

platforms from scratch

- Ability to be hands-on with coding across big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, DevOps, business intelligent solutions, etc.

apart from strategically guiding/ mentoring the team

- Stronghold in executing stuff on the ground and hustle around to Get things done

- Ability to think and see the big picture while focusing on short term goals and deliverables

- Leadership qualities to hire and build a kick-ass technology/ product team going forward

- Experience as a founder/ being part of founding team is huge plus but not mandatory

- Experience in the Fashion/ Apparel industry is a plus but not mandatory

Urgently required Head - Products/Solutions Officer Mumbai for India’s largest micro retail solutions provider.

Mandatory:

BE/BTech with MBA from institutes of repute/ Tier 1 school/Tier 2 School

BE OR B.tech is compulsory

experience in web/ mobile apps

exp in payment gateway

iot and it infrastructure

Agile/Scrum Software Development methodologies.

Experience: 10-15 yrs

Location: Mumbai( WFO)

Responsibilities:

▪ Will be the Chief of Staff to the CEO - managing products & solutions, overseeing Buying & Merchandising (products and categories) & Marketing departments.
▪ Will be the products/solutions custodian of the organization with the CEO. Ability to contribute/align/build on the CEO’s solution(s) vision. Understands interplay between products, service, solution, business case and operationalization for Hardware and software both.
▪ Lives and breathes solutions: existing and potential, identifies both unserved and underserved needs. Constantly tracks markets and internal clients and consumers to make best in class solutions available ahead of time
▪ Regular stakeholder interactions: Head strategic initiatives for Micro Retail and business case, Buying & Merchandising for range and partners. Digital, Sales and Operations for dip sticks, business potential and operationalization
▪ Solution development and Solution management: Experience within project management, software & hardware development lifecycle, process and solutions design
▪ Builds Go-To-Market with Sales, Operations and Marketing
▪ Co owns P&L with Sales and Operations. Tracks products/solutions performance regularly to ensure plans/tweaks in time
▪ Work with cross functional teams for development of products, solutions and project management
▪ Govern and continuously improve the products/solutions based on implementation road map
▪ Problem solving, consumer centricity, spotting opportunities, solving problems, reducing friction
▪ Steer the technical direction for product and solution security mechanisms Requirements
Qualification

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!

We are looking for people who have a passion for solving problems, can write exceptional code and don't shy away from challenges and new technology. Our products affect thousands of people everyday and we want someone who would love to contribute towards that end.

If you:

• Know how to write robust and reliable systems
• Have knowledge of managing and scaling for high volume traffic
• Are someone who enjoys execution of an idea as much as finding new and innovative ideas to solve problems
• Actively try to gain more knowledge and pass on knowledge to your peers

Then we are definitely a right match for you

What we expect from you:

• Excellent understanding of web applications.
• Good knowledge about AWS or similar services.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Good understanding of the delivery pipeline in a team environment.
• Innovative and creative problem solving.
• Ability to understand and communicate across teams and departments.

What you will be doing:

• Work as a part of a team or individually.
• Build products that help us expand our portfolio and drive growth for the organisation.
• Take up ownership of the entire lifecycle of products.
• Help, mentor and guide interns, new joinees and other developers.
• Engage with the client and people from other departments to come up with the best solutions.
• Point out existing problems with our solutions, processes and architecture

What we look for:

• Should have used/contributed to popular Open Source Libraries and Tools
• Should have worked on web technology (Rails / SpringBoot / Django / NodeJs)
• Always on the cutting edge of technology.
• Ability to divide a larger problem into smaller pieces for everyone to work on.
• Process driven and detail oriented
• Should have mentored new joinees
• More than 3 years of relevant experience in the domain
• Should be able to work out of our Bangalore office.