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Fresher- Product Engineer
4 years ago
Freshers at Mech Mocha
Mech Mocha has a well-developed program to recruit students for real careers outside of college. We care about creating stellar professional experiences. We are excited to work hard and create results together, and opportunities that will aid you in your long-term professional development.
We are seeking energetic, responsible students to join our rapidly growing team.
What you get: We offer hands-on, challenging projects and responsibilities that directly impact the company’s business. Fresh engineering hires get real-world experience with ownership of projects from day one. We encourage them to take initiative and develop programs that meet their particular interests. Of course, there is the opportunity to develop a network of contacts for your future.
There is no minimum academic score requirement. However, we insist on strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team, accomplishing tasks with limited resources at a rapid pace. Some job-related technical skills might be required.
Due to the large volume of applications, we will not respond to each applicant.
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Mech Mocha runs India's first vernacular social gaming platform for the next billion Indians. Let’s take you through our journey.
2015: Bangalore touchdown. We started small but with a big dream - to build mobile apps that entertain India.
Early Wins In no time, we evolved into a dynamic 30+ member team and our first game got over 10 Million downloads. Got Blume to invest in our adventure.
Bigwigs came onboard. We raised over $10 million in funding, thanks to industry stalwarts like Accel, Blume and Shunwei and grew to 50+ awesome people!
Making India Play. Our users, who we lovingly call ‘Pritam’ or 'Preeti', are spending over 70 million minutes of time per month on our platforms.
With Jio's aggressive entry, mobile data became affordable to additional hundreds of millions. These hundreds of millions of Indians are under-served w.r.t. digital products and services competing for their attention. Over the next 5 years, 500 million more Indians are expected to adopt digital platforms.
Their online behaviour is different from the behaviour of the audience in tier-1 India. For them, typing is an *unnatural* way of interacting with the smartphone. They're not as comfortable with English-first apps; they strongly prefer to consume online content in vernacular languages.
These users' way of looking at mobile games is quite interesting. It might be a shopkeeper in Lucknow, or a beauty salon employee in Jodhpur. They spend 12-14 hours a day at work, and have a lot of time alone- especially in the afternoon.
Hello Play allows them an escape mechanism from societal constraints, and they get a *human* connection with real people from across India with similar interests. We provide the most entertaining way of discovering new people and creating deep relationships. The product fulfils the innate need of human connection and the natural attraction towards entertainment through gaming.
We've observed during our 12 hour+ train journeys that co-travellers, who are strangers to each other, play a game of cards or Ludo to pass time. We've met a lot of interesting people this way ourselves, which makes us strongly believe in games as some of the best ice-breakers.
India’s first live social gaming platform where users meet new people through live social games
- 30+ minutes of in-app time spent by each user daily
- Over 100 million+ minutes of conversations on the platform since launch
About the Engineering team at Mech Mocha
Engineering at Mech Mocha closely works with the product team to achieve the overall outcome. Our engineers own their impact end-to-end. They contribute to the overall roadmap, product experiments, data analysis, turnkey deliverables and more. Our user feedback loop is immediate, which means we can rapidly iterate and deploy. High interaction with cross-functional peers.
- We love versatility in our engineers. Jack of all trades, master of none is often better than master of one.
- Communication and collaboration across the organization are as important as an engineer’s execution and delivery.
- We believe that the best engineers write simple codes for complex problems.
- We focus on details before deliverables. Premature execution is the root of all scope creep!
Some technical challenges that you will work on
● Machine learning for deep personalization in many aspects of the product, including providing better match quality for users, recommended games, show times, pricing , detecting fraud and content moderation
● Real-time scalable and synchronous multiplayer systems
● Live video + non-video broadcasting and engagement systems which is being used by thousands of users per room simultaneously
● Innovations on Augmented Reality built on top of the video streams to give our users the most fun experience
● Building an efficient people graph
Our tech stack: What you get to work on & learn
● Our backend applications are hosted as containers on self-hosted Kubernetes clusters
● Our application development is on pure native Android using Kotlin and Java
● Games are developed using a mix of Cocos2d and Unity
● Backend Services are built on Go atop Redis (for caching and pub-sub) and Postgresql as our backing DB
● Analytics, Data and ETL pipeline is built on Python over BigQuery and Redshift as data stores
● CICD pipelines use Ruby and Jenkins
Fresher engineers work in the following domains
- Data Engineering
- Applied Machine Learning
- Game Development
- Application Development
- Systems Development
- Augmented Reality
What we are looking for
- A sense of ownership and collaboration - take initiative, work hard, deliver, learn and unlearn
- Strong fundamentals in problem solving
- Strong fundamentals in one or more object-oriented modern programming languages
Brownie points for
- If you have done college projects or internships in consumer tech
Our building blocks
- Unstoppable drive: Visible energy. Initiative. Follow through.
- High ownership: Capability. Responsibility. Accountability.
- Effective communication: Unhindered by ambiguity. Driving clarity. Alignment. Thoughtful communication.
- Infectious positive energy: Fostering creativity. Encouraging and listening to others' ideas. Guidance, not criticism.
- Agile execution: Shipping early. Quick critical feedback. Fast iteration.
- User empathy: Knowledge of the targeted users. Deep respect for everything about them.
Why join us
- Flat organization- No bureaucracy, zero politics
- Small teams, big goals- Individual ownership, high visibility
- Learn and grow- Face-to-face sessions with industry leaders, accomplished founders, renowned designers
- Competitive compensation- Attractive package, generous equity, relocation bonus
- Interest-free loans- Looking to rent a house? We’d be happy to help out with the deposit!
- Work hard, party harder- Fun get-togethers, annual off-sites
- Eat. Repeat- There’s always food in the house
- Women in leadership- We believe in maintaining gender balance in our space and have women occupying over 50% of leadership roles.
- Outcome driven culture- We measure work by the impact it creates on the users, and not by the number of hours.
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