Careers

PaperPlane is looking for a Tech Lead who can provide technical expertise & consultation along with solutions to execute client-specific interfaces & workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Team Management & Leadership:
  • Should lead a technical team of 5-10 Web Technology Developers.
  • Should provide Technical leadership to the team for design, development and testing for mid-sized and large customer projects.
  • Should Coach and guide Team members in the progression and development of their personal and technical skills.
  • Should interview & hire team members as per Organizational Requirements.
  • Should track the deliverables of team members for both Quality & Timeliness.
• Application Definition and Design:
  • Work with the Product Manager for finalizing user task flows and application logic.
  • Support Designer / Design Team during the design process to finalize interaction flows by providing insight into technological limitations & possibilities.
  • Should be able to question, assess and manage functional and non-functional requirements and ensure that they are addressed with the technical solution.
  • Analyze Product Requirements.
  • Communicate the technical approach, dependencies & limitations.
  • Define & Document the System & Application Architecture (High Level & Low Level Design).
• Development Process Management:
  • Adopt an Agile Development Process.
  • Ensure On Schedule Delivery of planned activities.
  • Understand overall implications of your proposed solutions.
  • Interact closely with internal & external resources through the entire development / production / testing cycle.
  • Ensure Version Management Practices are strictly is followed by the team in GIT or SVN.
  • Define and Control the release management process.
• Quality:
  • Define & Ensure Quality Standards in development are consistently met.
  • Implement Unit Testing in projects using Industry Standard tools.
  • Document Best Practices and ensure that the team follows them.
  • Ensure code is well structured, commented & Technical Documents are always up-to-date.
  • Ensure code developed is scalable, secure and extensible. Use & build industry standard integration practices.
• Communication:
  • Should communicate Technical Solutions to Clients on Calls and through well structured documents.
  • Should respond & reach out in a timely & context aware manner with the Client on Technical issues over emails, Project Management Tool (Basecamp) or Calls in conjunction with the product or project manager.
  • Should provide status updates on Individual Team Tasks to the Project Managers.
• Reusability & Automation:
  • Lay the foundation for a reusable code through components and libraries.
  • Leverage Architectural Frameworks & Design Patterns.
  • Create Helper Functions & Libraries for automating lower level programming.
  • Create Automated scripts for deployment.
• Research & Knowledge Management:
  • Research and implement findings to continuously evolve & improve products.
  • Conduct Knowledge sessions for the team on concepts & technologies.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Should have a minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing and running highly scalable solutions using Web Technologies.
• Should have successfully developed and took ownership of conceptual and logical architecture designs for IT systems.
• Should have Deep roots in Object Oriented and MVC programming.
• Must be very well versed with Web Application deployment/production and post- deployment monitoring processes.
• Should be able to implement solutions in one or more web technologies & databases (RoR, Node.js, PHP, Javascript, JQuery, My SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB and other similar technologies ).
• Should be well versed with LAMP. and should have worked on PHP Frameworks preferably – CodeIgniter, Zend or Cake PHP.
• Should have good experience in using Javascript frameworks such as jQuery, YUI or AngularJS.
• Should have a strong understanding of DOM, HTML CSS, semantic markup, and cross- browser issues.
• Should be able to analyse & work with existing codebases.
• Should be able to explore Open Source Frameworks like WKHTML2PDF or D3.js and integrate them within Projects.
• Should be able to mange Application Performance by regular performance monitoring, tuning & optimization.

Other Qualities:

• Should possess demonstrable communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to work in an environment of perfection and compliance to web standards and high design quality benchmarks.
• Should be Flexible self-starter, who enjoys solving problems and technical challenges.
• Should be a Team player with passion – who understands and respects personal & cultural differences.
• Should possess excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Should have a fearless ability to jump lower in the stack to solve important problems.
• Strong organizational and time management skills – know what you need to do, and DO IT!
• Collaborative style.
• Should be keen to develop own skills and extending own level of influence.

Brownie Points:

• Experience in the below areas will be a strong bonus:
  • Mobile Development.
  • Open Source CMS such as Drupal, Wordpress, Cake, Zend.
  • Third party API integration like Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, etc.