Head - Software Development - IT

The successful candidate should be strongly versed in software development processes.

Previous experience with shipping an end to end consumer product is a big plus. The company team is fun-loving, quirky, and full of self-starters. We are looking for someone who values working independently but with the support of a skilled and diverse group of individuals. You should be motivated, enjoy a collaborative work environment, and want to have an impact on the world - we help children learn how to read!!!

They should have strong experience in + ability to grow in their team for - 

- Software QA process - be a believer in setting the right QA process and abiding by it (Not to the point of it being a religion; but know how much is a must)

- Their team should be able to improve and extend product documentation

- Work collaboratively with other arms of the engineering team that are co-located in other countries

- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to develop product requirements and innovative solutions

- Strong software development skills such as:experience with a source control system

experience with an issue tracking system

writing and maintaining your own unit tests

experience with the design and development life-cycle

knowledge of debugging and problem-solving methodology, particularly as reported against Production software

- Experience working on a Production (24x7) environment

- Experience with distributed programs or micro-services

- Experience with highly-available and scalable systems

- Previous start-up experience

Technologies we are looking at (And therefore the leader should be expert in at least 1-2 areas, conversant in few others)

- Backend (NodeJS, Python, Java, Spring)

- iOS and Android SDK (Objective C, bluetooth low energy, SDK

- Game (Unity 3D)

- Data Science (Python, R, streaming servers, Spark)

- UNIX systems

- Relational databases (PostGres), non relational (Cassandra, Mongo)