Job Openings in Oxylabs 

Oxylabs is the largest Social Gaming Company based out of India, with Over 20M (2 crores)  users worldwide and growing at over 50,000 users a day. We are not a services company, we publish our own web based games & other web applications. We are self funded and have been profitable for over a year.

Social gaming is a $1B +/year market today and expected to grow to over $10B+ within next 5 years.  Some of our competitors are doing over $100M/year in revenue. Our revenues have been growing rapidly, however we have much more room for growth. We are currently 15 people and looking to expand our team to 50 people within next 3 months.

Looking for

We are an engineering company with a flat hierarchy and will remain engineering focused.  Everyone in our company is hands on, including CEO. We are looking for hands on people to join our product team and management team. Once again I would like to stress the importance of being hands on and the appreciation for engineering.

We care more about drive and passion and past achievements as opposed to big names on candidates resume.  We have a sweet spot for entrepreneurial candidates who have taken risks to follow their dreams, independent of the outcome.  We like people who have worked in product oriented companies as opposed to services oriented companies.

We love people who have an intense curiosity and a hunger to learn, who constantly work on improving themselves beyond their work requirements.

That being said , we are always open to candidates who have an intense drive to create something of their own, candidates who see value in leaving their mark, who have understand pride of ownership.

1. Chief Operating Officer/ GM India operations

Location: Delhi

Requirements:

Education:

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  Bachelors:   C.SC/ EE/ECE from a top tier school.

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  Masters:  MBA from a top tier business school Highly desired.  

Work Experience:

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  Minimum of 4 years of Software engineering experience in product based companies.

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  Minimum of 2 years of Product management experience highly desired.

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  Candidates must have had successful products.

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  Must be an engineer at heart with strong business acumen. 

Responsibilities:

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    • Will work closely with the CEO and will be responsible for entire India operations.  CEO is based out of US, primarily to maintain relationships with all the top tier Social networks and Monetization vendors.
    • This job is janitorial, just as the CEO’s job. Primary objective is to help out the engineering team in removing the obstacles thus maximizing the efficiency and growth.
    • Budget:  Entire budget of India operations
    • Recruitment: Work with the CEO to grow Indian team.
    • Facilities: End to end responsibilities Indian facilities
    • Delivery: Responsible for delivery of all applications.
    • Process:  Much like any startup we are very process light. As we grow to a larger team, COO will help implement just the right amount of processes to keep us efficient and agile.
    • Business Development: responsible for maintaining relationships with all the media properties in South east Asia ( Orkut, Myspace india, facebook india, Itimes, Bigadda, MTV, etc..) and all mobile operators in India.

2. Product Manager/ Engineering Leads

Note: All our Product managers are hands on engineers; they lead by example not by management.  If you are looking for a pure management job, this is not the right fit.

Candidates will be responsible in entire end to end process of conceptualizing, developing, deploying, growing and maintaining applications.  Each PM will own several applications/games that will be launched in multiple portals world wide. Each PM will be responsible for their team.

Location: Delhi

Education:

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  Bachelor’s:  C.SC/ EE/ECE from a top tier school.  

Work Experience:

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  Minimum of 2 years of Software engineering experience in product based companies.

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  Team leading skills with product & project management skills will be a plus.

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  Must be hands on. 

Skills

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  Very strong applied logic.

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  Independent thinker.

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  Fast learner. 

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  We believe that if an engineer has the skills above, they can pick up any technical tools required.  Given the cutting edge nature of work, majority of people who joined us acquired the required skills without a formal training process – just learning simultaneously with work.   

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  That being said following mentioned are the skills:

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    • Wide exposure to social media (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogging, etc..)
    • Analytics driven growth and iteration
    • Strong understanding of Viral, engagement, and retention loops.
    • Back end OS: Linux ( CENTOS)
    • Clients: Browsers, Mobile phones ( Smart phones, IPhones, GPhones)
    • Front end web technologies: Javascript, Flash, HTML, Jquery, XML,XSLT
    • Middleware: PHP, Python, Ruby
    • Highly scalable Data storage
    • Non relational Distributed Object stores: Memcached, Memcachedb, Tokyo Tyrant
    • Infrastructure: Cloud computing, Dedicated hosted servers

3. Software Engineers

Location: Delhi

Education:

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  Bachelor’s:  C.SC/ EE/ECE from a top tier school.  

Work Experience:

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  0-3 years of hands-on Software engineering experience.

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  Candidate should have a strong drive and an innate desire to grow and learn. 

Skills:

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  Very strong applied logic

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  Independent thinker

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  Fast learner 

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  We believe that if an engineer has the skills above, they can pick up any technical tools required. Given the cutting edge nature of work, majority of people who joined us acquired the required skills during training process.  

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  We believe that in order to create highly optimized, highly performant products engineer should have a wide exposure to whole end to end app development.   

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  Below are the skills that we use day to day & thus are desired. We don’t expect the person coming in to have a hands-on experience on all of these but the more of these you know the best. The fresher will get a waiver here: they might not be knowing most of these but they should have good command on the languages & concepts they have used in the projects they have done till now in their college & in their internships – which we expect should be web based; preferably in the social domain:

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    • Wide exposure to social media (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogging, etc..)
    • Understanding our users and their cultural context
    • User focused design. Good engineering is not about complex technologies, good engineering is about creating products that users enjoy
    • Analytics driven growth and iteration
    • Strong understanding of Viral, engagement, and retention loops.
    • Back end OS: Linux ( CENTOS)
    • Clients: Browsers, Mobile phones ( Smart phones, IPhones, GPhones)
    • Front end web technologies: Javascript, Flash, HTML, Jquery, XML,XSLT
    • Middleware: PHP, Python, Ruby
    • Highly scalable Data storage :
    • Non relational Distributed Object stores: Memcached, Memcachedb, Tokyo Tyrant
    • Infrastructure: Cloud computing, Dedicated hosted servers