Variantz is an IoT SaaS startup that focuses on: (1) Property & Estate Operations (2) Healthcare & Wellness (3) Energy & Environment (4) Safety & Security (5) Home & Living (6) Workplace & Customer Engagement (7) Education & Training. We provide Smart-Connected solutions for Smart Homes, Smart Building, Smart Office, Smart Health, Smart Classroom, etc.
Variantz has gained various recognition & partnership such as e27 Echelon Asia's Top 100 Promising Startup, Vertex Technopreneur Circle, OCF Member, Open Alliance for IoT Standard Member, etc.
Background:
The project you will embark on focuses on the 3 areas: (1) Building & ensuring infrastructure architecture (2) Modular codebase & workflow development (3) Connecting the frontend. The outcome is an application ecosystem leveraging on IoT, API Development, and Predictive Analytics. It will be used by Household, Property/Security Operators, Merchants, Elderly, Office Staff, Educators, and Students.
Objective /
As an Individual Contributor, you focus on delivering (1) Backend modular codebase & workflow (2) ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. This ‘Brownfield’ project requires you to build web application focusing on creating/debugging/enhancing capabilities, while ensuring quality by writing, running, analyzing and automating unit and functional tests, continuously update the application to deliver worthy & engaging capabilities in the best way possible. You will work closely with frontend developers to ensure consistency and ease of API consumption. You will be responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Character & Personality:
• Organized, Independent, Communicative Self-Starter
• Responsible, Accountable, Deadline & Outcome Driven
• Self-Learn & Grow; Achieving ‘low-hanging fruit’ + Bite-size quick wins
• Focused while being flexible to embrace business priorities
Required Skills & Experiences (HANDS-ON):
• Backend: Express.js, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Redux,
• Tools: Travis-CI, GitLab, IDE (Visual Studio/WebStorm), UI Frameworks
• Methodology: Agile, Continuous Integration/Delivery, Unit Testing using automated TDD tasks
• Experienced with JSON, MVC OOP, RESTful API Use & Development, Web App Architecture
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Writing non-blocking code using advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, with regards to the app logic as well as the file system
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
Recommended Skills & Experiences:
• AWS Services
• React Native & Progressive Web App (PWA)
• UI & UX development
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• Software Engineering
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• MQTT with IoT Devices (Zigbee, Z-Wave, WiFi, Bluetooth, Raspberry Pi, LoRa)
• Dialog Flow (for Google Home)
• Facial Recognition & other forms of recognition
• Experience in both relational and non-relational databases
• Implementation of security and data protection
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Variantz Asia Pacific - Designation:
Cloud Application Developer – Backend MERN - Profession:
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Computer and IT