National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS) – Citizen Centric Smart Governance (CCSG) Hiring Phase II - Backend Support (1)

Project Name: National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS)

About the Project: 

National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS) is a program at NIUA, supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). NUIS is envisioned as a shared digital public good that fosters innovation and collaboration in the urban ecosystem, predicated on the empowerment of citizens and enablement of processes to drive solutions at scale and with speed.

The NUIS program is designed to provide the foundational components of this digital infrastructure and to support its adoption. The various platforms that make up the NUIS stack are designed to bring a holistic view across multiple urban verticals and enable rapid scaling of innovative local solutions. The urban governance and municipal services platform, known as Citizen-Centric Smart Governance (CCSG), will be one of the first platforms to be operationalised under NUIS.

Purpose of the assignment:

This role will be a part of the CCSG Team in the NUIS Program at NIUA supported by MoHUA. CCSG is envisioned as an open digital platform that allows cities of all sizes to rapidly roll out and configure for local requirements a core set of municipal services, in order to improve Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business, at a relatively lower cost per city. This will also enable evidence-based policymaking through compilation and monitoring of urban data in standard formats. By providing a basis for co-creation of local solutions, it enables innovation and partnerships with the broader ecosystem of industry, academia, and civil society. The CCSG team will manage the selection, piloting, and scaling of this platform, as well as the creation of enabling services, policies, guidelines, standards, and knowledge assets.

Scope of work:

Work in close coordination with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features and develop, troubleshoot, and debug functional web applications.

Role & Responsibilities:

Role: The Developer backend has to create server-side application logics, web services and manage the integration of the user-facing elements.

Responsibilities

• Able to develop functional web applications, patch issues
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Understand customers’ requirement (should be skilled at requirement analysis)
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Providing day to day support to clients
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Qualification: BE/B.tech/BCA required.
• Experience: 2 - 4 yrs.
• Proven work experience as a back-end developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Java, JavaScript, PHP and Python
• Additional experience with:
  • Play, AKKA
  • Springboot
  • Kafka
  • Yarn/Samza
  • ElasticSearch
  • Database (Cassandra, Postgres and Neo4j)

Location of position(s):

Based out of the NIUA office in New Delhi; with travel as required.

Term of position(s):

The position(s) are on a contractual basis for a period of 3 years, which may be further extended up to 2 years subject to performance and grant/project timelines.

References:

Please provide name and contact information of three references.

Remuneration:

At par with the industry standards, depending on experience and skills. Proof of past remuneration (last received salary/monthly contract payment) would be required.
Remuneration will be structured as follows: 70% fixed; 30% variable (conditional on achieving KPIs); additional performance bonus possible.

Application process:

Please submit a CV and cover letter through the NIUA portal. 

Hiring is on rolling basis and applications for this position will be closed as we find a suitable candidate. Encourage prospective and eligible candidates to apply immediately.