Technology Research & Development Professional

>Technology Research & Development

• You are an inventor at heart, with an intense desire to make a great product that will change peoples lives. You are creative and passionate about innovation - you love to come up with out-of-the-box solutions, and you turn them into reality by your focus, persistence and commitment to quality.
• During your school and college days, you were considered a Star Programmer by your classmates and teachers. You enjoyed conducting or winning programming and debugging contests.
• If youre a fresher, you do a lot of programming projects on the side - above and beyond the requirements of your university syllabus. If youre a working software professional and your current responsibilities are monotonous and not in sync with the level of impact you wish to make, youre takng the initiative to learn new technologies or do a pet project in your spare time.
• You love reading about people who made legendary contributions in the software and hi-tech industry. (You may also have a long and growing secret list of cool software applications which youd develop in future and thus become a legend yourself.)

• Basically, far more than the number of programming languages and alphabet soups (C, C++, C#, C%(we made that one up), ASP.NET, PHP, SOAP, SQL,...) you are fluent in, what matters is your ability to solve problems, and solve them in ways that are fast, robust, and scalable. So if youre a fresher, as long as you are good in 1 or 2 programming languages and you know a bit about databases and systems, youll be fine. Experienced developers must bring in architectural thinking and project leadership skills as well.
• If youre really interested in the technologies we use, our development platform is open source
  • Front end coding mostly comprises mobile and web applications (HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, J2ME, Flash, etc).
  • Server side code (Java, J2EE, PHP, etc).
  • Our database is MySQL.
  • NOTE: As we scale, were constantly exploring newer technologies. So if you come on board and try to convince us why we should be using a different framework, you just might get away with it.

• You will be exposed to the complete software life cycle of product creation, from Gathering Requirements, Design, Architecture, Programming, Testing all the way to final end-user deployment. Requirements get written right in front of you and the end-users bouquets or boos will often be delivered right to you.
• Theres scope to explore and use several areas of Computer Science such as Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Knowledge Modeling, Algorithm Design, Visualization, Analytics, Data Warehousing and User Interface design. Interest in, or exposure to fields such as Cognitive Psychology, Pedagogy, Instruction Design, etc would be a great plus.
• Youll have the opportunity to communicate and work closely with with members of diverse teams such as Content authors and editors, Instruction Design experts, Teachers, Product Management, Sales, etc. So it helps if you are articulate and open-minded, and have strong team building, listening, communication and collaborative skills.

• Member, R&D (Smart Applications and Tools)
• Member, R&D (Backend Platform)
• Internship (For final year students)