Software Development Engineer/Testing

Aspiring Minds is a global job skills credentialing leader set up with a vision to create a merit driven talent ecosystem and enable efficient job skills matching by crafting credible and intelligent assessments. The flagship product AMCAT, is the world's most widely-taken employability test helping over two million candidates find the ‘right' jobs every year. Backed by state-of-the-art, adaptive assessment technology and machine learning algorithms - it allows adaptive, standardized and reliable measurement of generic employability skills (language, cognitive, behaviour) and a wide range of functional skills using simulated assessments.

Aspiring Minds enables job seekers to evaluate their job skills, earn industry recognized credentials and find appropriate career opportunities. It also help companies dramatically improve their quality and efficiency of hiring and are today associated with more than 3500 corporations.

Founded in 2008, Aspiring Minds is a 500+ people strong organization with operations in US, China, India, Middle East, Philippines and Sub-Saharan Africa.

We're an agile team deeply driven by the idea of building and delivering world-class products that delight its users. We have a performance driven environment which is designed to enable everyone in the team to deliver their best and prosper in their respective roles. Our work culture is focused on bringing in more transparency, ownership and openness in the team.

Website: https://www.aspiringminds.com/

Profile Offered: Software Development Engineer/Testing

Job Location: Gurgaon

Interview Location: Delhi/NCR

Annual Compensation:

• INR 3.5 LPA to INR 6.5 LPA (Profile and salary will be decided basis performance in assessment and interview rounds on the day of recruitment drive)
• Additionally, INR 50,000 will be paid as joining bonus in 2 installments after successful completion 4 and 8 months

Degree and Stream: BE/B.Tech in Electronics & Communication, Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline with no active Backlogs

Target Batch: 2019 and 2020

Tentative Interview Schedule: 29th Feb 2020

Joining: 2019 Batch - Immediate, 2020 Batch - Upon completion of graduation

Job Description:

• Design, develop, document and support highly scalable product components of a world-class assessment platform in a rapid paced & team oriented environment that manages thousands of clients and millions of assessments every month.
• Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
• Will be involved in all aspects of product life cycle, from the initial Kick-off through the requirement analysis, design & implementation and taking it to production
• Continuously drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize distributed systems and tools to best meet evolving business and market needs
• Work alongside a dedicated operations team to develop and support the smooth 24x7 operation of our worldwide product
• Deliver on planned goals aggressively as a team member
• Write well documented Code with unit and integration tests that automatically ensures software reliability.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve complex business problems spanning their respective areas and participate in technical & product design discussions rationally

Basic Qualifications:

• Excellent programming, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to instrument a system to identify and solve performance issues & constraints
• Knowledge of designing & developing multi-threaded/multi-process distributed systems in any of the technology (Java/Nodejs/PHP/GO) using OOPs.
• Good understanding of the core elements of file system, kernel and database internals - latency, throughput, reliability, availability, consistency, security, RDBMS etc.
• Expertise to produce bulletproof code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable with thorough automated test coverage of the code
• Knowledge in working with large code bases and solving complex problems.
• Ability to learn and adapt best software engineering methods and practices.
• Fluency in engineering practices such as Agile, Scrum, CI / CD and code reviews

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge in anyone of Java/PHP/Python/Node/Go ( Go/NodeJS preferred )
• Knowledge with any RDBMS (MySQL preferred)
• Knowledge of any noSQL like MongoDB, Aerospike,Redis (Any 1)
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, Microservices, SOA
• Have exposure with AWS, Docker, GIT environments

Selection Process: Coding test followed by Technical and HR Interview