Technical lead

Location:

• Remote – Anywhere in the world.
• Pick your home, or a coworking in your city.

Roles:

• Understand the requirements handed over to you.
• Turn requirements into architecture.
• Write tasks in the issue tracker detailing even the most subtle steps required to accomplish the task.
• Provide Architectural and Design direction.
• Code review and quality assurance.
• Guiding the team through technical issues and challenges.

Requirements:

• Education: You may have a few years of experience. OR You are fresh out of college – but you have already spent a few years in programming during your college. Any programming language is fine. Any grades are fine. Dropouts welcome!
• Practice: You have single-handedly coded at least 5 decent-sized projects – with you alone in the team.
• Habits: You read a lot. You confidently understand every word of Technical Documentation. Scarce Documentation is not a problem for you.
• After joining: You go through every word in the Engineering Handbook at Smarter.Codes. Practise it on dummy projects. Or even contribute to our handbook
• Attitude: You often say, ‘I do not know’ when you are in doubt. And you have longing to ‘be sure’.
• Tech Stack: React, Graph QL, Node JS, TypeScript, and minimal knowledge of Devops.
• Soft skills: Proactive communication skills, confidence, humility, ability to take ownership and responsibility, accountability, and management (people,time, and project).

What you get:

• Salary: Somewhere between ₹12,00,000 to ₹18,00,000 per annum (depending on your work experience). Often paid through weekly payments
• Stock options: You may receive stock options in one of our startups as a bonus (we are aiming for at least half of the team at Smarter.Codes to have stock options). This can even be double-digit equity in a “wannabe unicorn startup”!
• People: A mix of geeky, frugal, and seasoned professionals to work with. See who you would be working with on a daily basis. This could be a lot of learning!
• Paid leaves24 days in a year. Pick the dates for yourselves when you wish to stay unavailable. Cater to your social/personal engagements with ease, or make your own holiday calendar
• Flexibility: To work from anywhere and anytime during the week. With a minimum of 40 working hours a week

ABOUT SMARTER.CODES We are an AI startup and realise that Natural Language isn’t being understood by computers as sci-fi promised us. Started in 2014, Smarter.Codes earned clientele and appreciation from prestigious enterprises like Target Inc, Ford Motors, Tech Mahindra, Bank of Montreal, Delivery.com, TheMindGym, and likes. Bootstrapped during the first 3 years of its inception and angel funded in 2017. Smarter.Codes is navigated by two serial entrepreneur brothers and distinguished advisors across the globe – including mentors from the camps of 500 Startups, and Alchemist Accelerator.