PROFESSIONALS WITH ABSTRACTION LAYERS
We have a great working environment with a rich culture of fun and professionalism that attracts the best talents.
Company
We are a custom software company in Bangladesh. We started as a start-up software outsourcing company in 2004. We became a Bangladesh limited company in 2005 and have been growing every year.
We find technical solutions for our clients. Typically this would mean we are building software products for them, but sometime we would be doing something completely different like researching business data or setting up their firewall.
People
We don't hire developers, designers or QA engineers, we hire people who solve problems. And we hire only the best. We run regular training and review sessions to keep us on the top. And our culture of constructive criticism, learning and sharing expands our horizons and keeps us level headed.
Culture of fun and creativity
We believe in the simple principle that creative work requires a special kind of work culture. We are very careful to maintain a culture that helps attract talented people and helps them achieve their best performance. This culture starts from work place structure to operating principles of the development teams.
We have a great working environment at our office space "Nirvana" totally custom designed for a software development company. From color selection to furniture orientation we have been very careful to create an environment that actively enhances the knowledge exchange and collaborative nature of our work.
Abstraction layers
Creative work needs a space and culture that gives freedom from everyday worries. The abstraction layer.
We achieve our abstraction layers by creating place where you are free. A space that is friendly (have you recently told your project manager how clueless he is?), informal, fun (have you played indoor cricket at work recently? Or been to a company party - all expenses paid 10 day trip to Goa?), knowledge oriented (we have weekly seminars of technology, mentoring is a big priority for all team members).
Leadership
Wahid Choudhury
Founder & CEO
Wahid has more than 20 years of experience in software development. He is the founder and leader of several software companies in diverse industries such as regulatory compliance, eCommerce, legal services and computer games.
Wahid has an exceptional technical background, as well as the advantage of having worked with dozens of start-ups during all stages of their technical and business development. He founded his first software company, Kaz Software, in 2004 and has grown it to be a 60+ strong team that has built more than 120 software applications for companies around the world.
Prior to founding Kaz, Wahid earned a master’s degree in computational Physics from King’s College, University of London and worked in several software companies in various software development roles.
Shawal Siddique
CTO
Shawal is a technology leader and has more than 15 years of experience in software development space.
His strength in technical project is over a wide range of projects in device drivers, enterprise web applications and mobile apps using technologies such as C#, Asp.NET, Aspnet Core, .NET Core, Xamarin, Angular, Aurelia, Angular JS, Knockout JS, Node JS, Azure and AWS.
His technical skills is coupled with years of experience in creating, mentoring and managing award winning software teams.
Prior to joining Kaz Shawal worked in several leading software companies in Bangladesh. He graduated from AIUB with a BSc in computer science.
Hafiz Choudhury
Adviser
Hafiz is an international tax consultant and entrepreneur. He works with major multinationals on tax policy and business strategy issues; he also advises governments on tax policy and administration through his consulting firm, The M Group, Inc. www.mgroupglobal.com
He has over 30 years’ experience in tax policy and administration operations worldwide – with an emphasis on International Taxation. A former Director with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Hafiz has extensive experience in the research and process reviews of international tax policy and application.
Hafiz serves on the United Nations Extractive Industries Taxation Subcommittee and on the Transfer Pricing Subcommittee. He has worked in locations as diverse as India, Qatar, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Pakistan, Mongolia, Latvia and China.
Hafiz graduated from London University with a Masters degree in International Relations, and joined HM Board of Inland Revenue in the UK (now HMRC), where he received his professional tax training. He is currently based in Washington D.C.
Culture of fun and passion
There is no doubt that there is something wrong with us - but in a good way (we think)!
We are always obsessed with something. The object of obsession changes over time, sometimes is just a new programming trick that someone has found, or sometimes its a game that we are playing. People outside of Kaz point these out as signs of our insanity. But we are proud of them.
Living to eat and drink, hackathons, sports, trips all over the world and other stories
One thing we are particularly famous for are our parties. We are seriously into eating and drinking - as all custom software companies should be we think.
"Kaz Catering Service" has earned a good reputation over the years arranging for great buffets and cocktail parties. It is so good the people sometimes ask us for catering for their events! We haven't expanded into that business yet thinking that the insanity might scare our potential customers, but you never know :)
Helping the community
We are strong believers that we as group of thinking humans have a very important responsibility for people around us. Our country has its share of woes and problems. We feel that we can play a role in our march towards a better and prosperous future.
We are involved with many efforts in helping the community around us. One our big long term project is a partnership with an organization called Prothom Shurjo (প্রথম সূর্য - Bangla for "first sun") that helps street children in the area near us by arranging education, food and shelter for them. They also run various training programs for them to teach them skills that they can use. Visit their Facebook site to see the great things they are doing: https://www.facebook.com/ProthomSurjoBD
Our blog also has stories about what we are doing with them.
Join us
You don't need to be a CS major to work here, but you need to be ridiculously smart and you have to like getting things done. If you think you can write a search engine like google, then you probably are a good fit for us!
Technology / language should not be a big issue for you, whatever comes your way you should be able to learn and adapt. Typically used technologies at Kaz are C/C++, .NET (C#, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, etc.), Java (various Java frameworks like Struts, Spring, JSF, GWT, Jboss, etc.).
If you think you fit in with our culture and our requirements then please send a short email to
hr@kaz.com.bd
Explain why you like software engineering/ graphics / SQA as a profession. Attach your CV to the email; please name the CV document in the following format: PrimaryLanguage_Years of Experience_Name (e.g. C#_10_Bill Gates.doc, Photoshop_5_Van Gogh.doc)
