Job Description

Opportunity and Role Description 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 India’s top consumer companies (like Unilever, P&G, Nestlé, Yum! Brands etc) as well as students currently studying in the best business schools of the country find value in our programs (remember 95%?).

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

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

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  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.
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  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.
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  We are a team of learners who like to observe, read, reflect and seek feedback to be better today than we were yesterday.
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  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.
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  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.
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  We aim for consistency and reliability and expect the same from others. Predictability just makes everyone’s life a lot smoother.
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  We like people who are real, open and direct in communication, while still being empathetic.
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  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 (telephonic/video conference) with us will last about 40-60 minutes. The process will occur over telephonic calls, so you don’t need to worry about travel.

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  Communication Evaluation: This is a short assessment to make sure that you meet the communication (written) standards required in the job.

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  Skill Assessment Task: This will be a task that assesses you on the core skills you’ll need to succeed in this role.

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  Technical conversation: This will be a telephonic call with our current Admissions team wherein you can expect to be further evaluated on your sales skills and other competencies needed for the job (mentioned below).

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  Culture fit conversation: A telephonic conversation with our founder to see if there is a fit with the Kraftshala Kode.

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

Software Engineer- Full Stack Role Description What you will be doing: Product Development (~60%):
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 and Node 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

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  Designing and architecting Software Solutions to cater to application build and/or scaling agenda
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  Gathering Software functional and non-functional requirements, validation of those requirements, doing technical feasibility analysis for challenges
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  Writing clean, scalable and reliable code that can be re-used and follows software engineering
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  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
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  Solving for server side challenges

Team leadership (~40%):
We are very much a young team in the making, and are looking for someone who’d enjoy

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  Responsibility to chart out the tech roadmap for Kraftshala
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  Independence to figure their own problem solving approaches
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  Grooming junior developers in the team

Must Haves:

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  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).
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  Proficient knowledge in Laravel
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  The ability to understand & design REST APIs and Web Development Architecture
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  Good knowledge of relational database systems such as MySQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
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  Experience of working on large scale Node/ PHP applications with React.js
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  Ability to write Performance Optimized Code
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  Strong product design sensibilities and obsessive attention to detail
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  Ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks
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  Ability to manage a hosting environment, including database administration as well as scaling applications to handle load changes
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  Experience in AWS

Good to Haves:

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  Contributions to open-source ecosystem

Location:

We are remote working organization.