Careers @ XOKind

As a Backend Software Engineer (specific title is flexible based on seniority and areas of expertise) your primary responsibilities will be to design and implement robust, performant services supporting our mobile and web applications. You will be architecting, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining these services in close collaboration with a small, passionate team consisting of a frontend engineer, designer, AI experts and a product manager. As an early Engineering hire, this role offers tremendous leadership and growth potential, and you will end up shaping and owning a significant portion of the codebase. Further, as a very early hire in the overall company you would own a significant equity stake and there is potential for you to influence and be involved in all aspects of the company’s activities and future direction.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, testing, supporting, and documenting various containerized services written in Python/Go
• Integrating 3rd party travel supplier REST/SOAP APIs
• Designing large-scale data processing and ETL pipelines, managing and persisting state via file/object stores, databases, and caches
• Setting up instrumentation to support monitoring, logging, and tracing of network connected services
• Providing strategic input and help in setting technical direction

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing scalable yet performant software systems in a high level programming language like Go, Python, Java, C++
• Familiarity with modern, cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Redis, Linkerd, Helm, gRPC
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OO design.
• Utilization of cloud services (DBs, object storage, message queues, API gateways, functions, VPCs) from at least one major provider like GCP or AWS
• An immense pride in your craft, a continuous growth mindset, a can-do attitude
• Strong communication and time-management skills

Apply

Please email your resume, and a github link to: jobs@xokind.com.

As a Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist (specific title is flexible based on the level of experience) your primary responsibilities will be to design, develop and deploy ML models to enable capabilities of our product, understand user preferences and delight users with intelligent algorithms. You will bring your expertise in AI and creative problem solving skills to tackle challenges and opportunities in defining our data and modeling strategies. You will also collaborate closely with a team of AI experts, software and platform experts, a designer, and a product manager to build the product. As an early Machine learning and Data Science hire, this role offers tremendous leadership and growth potential, and you will end up shaping and owning a significant portion of the ML algorithms. Further, as a very early hire in the overall company you would own a significant equity stake, and there is potential for you to influence and be involved with all aspects of the company’s activities and help shape its overall future.

Are you a Machine learning expert who is passionate about machine intelligence and also excited to bring ML and AI to solve problems for end-users during their decision-making and planning process? Then please get in touch!

Responsibilities

• Bring creative problem solving to the company’s technology and product development
• Develop, deploy and optimize machine learning models to enable product capabilities and improve user experience
• Develop data collection strategy, apply state-of-the-art or develop unique AI models (computer vision, natural language processing, knowledge graph etc.) for information and knowledge extraction
• Build, test and improve recommendation algorithms to surface the most relevant information and options for users
• Build, test and improve optimization and planning algorithms for the use case
• Integrate the models with various data source APIs and the backend infrastructure
• Work in close partnership with Product, Engineering and Design functions to actively and continuously identify opportunities to leverage Machine Learning to drive user engagement, understand user behavior and apply AI to delight users

Requirements

• Advanced Degree (PhD and/or Masters) in a quantitative field such as Machine Learning /AI, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AI, ML, data science and analytics
• Familiar with latest AI research and data science advances
• Familiar with Python, ML cloud services, and various DL frameworks and ML packages
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn new technologies
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong partnership and collaboration skills

Apply

Please email your resume (and ideally a github link) to: jobs@xokind.com.

As the UX/UI Designer your primary responsibilities will be to design modern, easy to use mobile and web interfaces that enable our users to discover, plan and book itineraries all from a single place. You will collaborate directly with a team of AI experts, engineers, and a product manager to build the product. We expect you to have a keen understanding of how people use their devices to research and plan travel and leisure, and experience with the latest design software and wireframe tools. The role offers tremendous potential for product impact as well as growth into broader leadership positions within the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop modern, intuitive, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile and web
• Design graphic user interface elements like menus, tabs and widgets, as well as navigation components like buttons and search fields
• Develop style standards on fonts, colors and images
• Create wireframes and prototypes that clearly illustrate how the app will function and look
• Make UI and UX adjustments based on team and user feedback
• Participate in the development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance
• (A plus but not required) Depending on your interest and ability, translate your designs into front-end code
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership

Requirements

• Portfolio of design projects and proven ability to deliver high quality designs to your teams and customers
• Passion for taking complex human decisions, simplifying the steps and reducing cognitive labor
• Strong knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Figma, InVision, etc.) and design software (e.g. Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
• Strong communication and time-management skills
• Strong graphic design skills, with a good understanding of typography, intuitive layouts and palate development
• Understanding of Apple’s human interface design guidelines, Android design and other mobile platform designs, including Google’s material design
• Associate’s degree or higher in interaction design, human-computer interaction, cognitive science or another design-related field

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Please email your resume, cover letter and a portfolio link to: jobs@xokind.com.

As a Frontend Software Engineer (specific title is flexible based on seniority and areas of expertise) your primary responsibilities will be to turn wireframes and conceptual mockups into a fully-functioning and consistent reality for our end users. You will be architecting, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining, clean and well-behaved components/screens for iOS and Android devices as well as the web. You will also collaborate directly with a team of AI experts, a designer, and a product manager to build the product. As an early Engineering hire, this role offers tremendous leadership and growth potential, and you will end up shaping and owning a significant portion of the codebase. Further, as a very early hire in the overall company you would own a significant equity stake, and there is potential for you to influence and be involved with all aspects of the company’s activities and help shape its overall future.

Responsibilities

• Designing and architecting the constituent components of a modern cross-platform mobile app
• Writing the code and associated unit/integration/functional/performance tests necessary to build confidence in your implementation
• Assisting with middleware/backend service integration (interest and ability permitting)
• Prepping and validating release builds, writing corresponding documentation
• Maintaining and supporting releases post deployment
• Developing and maintaining the company website
• Providing strategic input and help in setting technical direction

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing complex, native mobile</li> applications for iOS or Android using one or more of:</li> Flutter, React Native, Dart, Swift, Kotlin
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript. Exposure to popular JS libraries and frameworks like React, glitter, D3, Bootstrap.
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OO design.
• Utilization of cloud services (DBs, object storage, message queues, API gateways, functions, VPCs) from at least one major provider like GCP or AWS
• An immense pride in your craft, a continuous growth mindset, a can-do attitude
• Strong communication and time-management skills

Apply

Please email your resume, and a github link to: jobs@xokind.com.

As the Digital Marketing and Growth Manager your primary responsibilities will be to increase customer acquisition, activation and retention through a combination of growth and digital marketing strategies. This includes designing and implementing innovative digital campaigns, interacting with customers via digital channels, creating and promoting interactive and engaging content, and expanding the opportunities for revenue through marketing partnerships and influencer campaigns. You will work closely with product, design, and engineering. As the first member of our team to focus on digital and growth marketing, this role offers tremendous potential for future leadership opportunities within the company.

Responsibilities

• Wear the digital and growth marketing hats within the company, to drive steady growth in user acquisition, activation and retention.
• Create and manage digital marketing campaigns and strategies, including social media budget planning, content creation, and implementation schedules.
• Ensure consistency in our marketing messages by working cross-functionally with product, engineering and design.
• Manage influencers and partner marketing campaigns.
• Collect and analyze data on customers’ interactions with our digital campaigns and unique visits to our website and app. Use this data to report progress back to the team, and to inform and adjust our marketing strategy.
• Grow our social media presence on new social media platforms as well as existing ones (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn..).
• Research and monitor competitive marketing strategies.
• Create engaging copy and graphic content for our website and social media pages, and contribute to the development of our brand’s voice.

Requirements

• At least four years of professional digital marketing experience and at least two years in a growth-focused marketing role
• Deep knowledge of social media platforms
• Proven ability to collect and analyze data to make strategic recommendations
• Strong verbal, written and visual communication skills with a strong track-record of contributions in content creation (visual and written) for web and social. Please send us samples.
• Attention to detail and creative problem solver
• Degree in Communications, Marketing or a related field
• Experience in the travel industry is a plus, but not required
• Experience in a growth-related role at a startup is a plus, but not required

Apply

Please email resume and portfolio to: jobs@xokind.com.