Job Opportunity for Software Engineer – Front End Developer at Kraftshala

About the company:

Kraftshala makes India’s most loved marketing & sales training programs with an Advocacy Score of 95%. We believe that education becomes a lot more fruitful, and a lot more fun, when you get kickass practitioners, the real experts, to train emerging talent. Our programs are built on frameworks and examples from the best in the industry and they are consistently updated with the latest, cutting-edge tools & learnings from the field. 

This is why S&M professionals from world’s top consumer companies (like Unilever, P&G, Nestlé, ITC, Facebook, Amazon, Yum! Brands, etc) as well as students currently studying in the best business schools of the country (all major IIMs, ISB, FMS, XLRI, SP Jain, IIFT, etc.) find value in our programs (remember 95%?). 

The goal now is to take our training programs to India’s masses- the talented people across the length and breadth of our country who have been denied a shot at professional success due to the limitations of the existing system. 

We are a team that is gunning to bring transformative changes to India’s higher education ecosystem. Welcome to the ride! 🙂

Funding:

Kraftshala is backed by number of eminent investors, including 

• Phanindra Sama, co-founder at Redbus and an early investor in unicorns like Unacademy and Innovacer
• Amit Kumar Agarwal, Saurabh Garg and Akhil Gupta, co-founders at Nobroker.com (India’s first realty startup unicorn)
• Sujayathi Ali, Co-founder at ShopUp and Voonik
• Doreswamy Nandkishore (Former Fortune 100 CEO, Head of Asia, Oceania, Africa for Nestlé S.A. and Professor, ISB) 
• Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani (co-CEOs of Performics, India’s largest SEO/ performance marketing agencies) 

What do we value (the Kraftshala Kode):

Like all good companies, we value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration. Our team’s distinctiveness comes from the following:

• We seek a user centric mindset so that we can Scale with Soul. People who start with the user and work backward, and take every opportunity to add value, even if they have to go well beyond, fit right in. 
• We believe speed matters enormously in business. We value people who have a bias for action and are willing to take calculated risks in the face of uncertainty. 
• We are a team of learners who like to observe, read, reflect and seek feedback to be better today than we were yesterday. 
• We value problem solving skills. We look at problems objectively, solve for root causes, make decisions for long term good instead of short term gain, and don’t let processes get in the way of value addition.
• We admire people with ambition & courage to take on large goals. We are seeking to build a team of self-starters who demonstrate high ownership. 
• We aim for consistency and reliability and expect the same from others. Predictability just makes everyone’s life a lot smoother. 
• We like people who are real, open and direct in communication, while still being empathetic. 
• We are practical optimists. Our team strongly believes in a better future and takes joy and pride in the fact that we are playing our part to make that future a reality.

What is the recruitment process:

As a small team (~50 folks), it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation with us will last about 30-60 minutes, except the first call which is a short one to understand expectations. Typically the whole process takes between 10 – 15 business days depending on your and our schedules. The process will occur over telephonic calls, so you don’t need to worry about travel.

Setting expectations: This will be a call to understand your profile and expectations briefly. 

Technical conversation: This will be a telephonic call with a senior member of the team wherein you can expect to be evaluated on your functional skills and other competencies needed for the job (mentioned below). 

Culture fit conversation: A telephonic conversation with one of our founders to ensure that there is a fit with the Kraftshala Kode. 

Extending an offer: If all goes well, we will extend an offer mentioning the relevant details.

Software Engineer – Front End Role Description

What will you be doing:

Product Development (~80%) 

We operate a number of consumer products across web and mobile that are used by thousands of India’s high potential professionals and graduates to learn, get mentored from business leaders and transform their careers. We have also created custom solutions in CRM and course management that our team uses. These products are built on React.js, Gatsby and Redux in the front-end and PHP with MongoDB and MySQL in the back-end.  

We are growing 4X year on year and your goal will be to take these various products to the next level of user experience by 

• Designing and architecting Software Solutions to cater to application build and/or scaling agenda
• Developing and designing new user facing features using React.js
• Gathering Software functional and non-functional requirements, validation of those requirements, doing technical feasibility analysis for challenges
• Writing clean, scalable and reliable code that can be re-used and follows software engineering
• Designing and testing applications to ensure cross-platform responsiveness and efficiency for mobile, ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
• Translating designs and wireframes into quality code
• Optimizing web components for maximum performance across a wide range of web capable devices and browsers

Team Leadership (~20%):

We are very much a young team in the making, and are looking for someone who’d enjoy

• Responsibility to chart out the tech roadmap for Kraftshala
• Independence to figure their own problem solving approaches 
• Grooming junior developers in the team
• Comfortable in owning large scale projects and continuously re-evaluating and innovating.

Must Haves:

• 2-3 years of experience as a part of a consumer product-oriented team (We are not too fussed about the number of years. Experience is simply a proxy for capability, which is what we really care for).
• Experience building web applications in React & Redux, Gatsby, Netfly, HTML5, CSS3.
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well documented and clean Javascript code.
• Proficiency with Git.
• Ability to write Performance Optimized Code.
• Strong product design sensibilities and obsessive attention to detail.
• Ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• Strong understanding of UI performance metrics, as well as how to capture and interpret them.

Good to Haves:

• Identify, troubleshoot and document browser/platform compatibility issues and standards.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Contributions to the open-source ecosystem.

Location:

We are a remote working organization