ABOUT KALON COUTURE
Imagine an online fashion platform where nothing will be out of stock and everything you order will be tailored to fit you perfectly. All you need to do is to take a one-off body scan, then your perfect-fit garment will be ready at your door within 2 weeks at the same price as ready-to-wear.
This is Kalon Couture, an online fashion platform that utilises 3D body scanning technology to provide affordable made-to-measure garments in a mass scale.
Kalon’s website will also be equipped with a virtual try-on function where any chosen designs can be instantly projected on customers' 3D avatars. Customers can then visualise how the garments look on them without needing to queue for a fitting room!
On production, our algorithm in development can generate made-to-measure patterns (assembly pieces of garments) automatically. Together with the virtual sampling system, Kalon can dramatically cut costs by over 80% thus allowing these perfect-fit garments to be sold at affordable price.
Kalon has been selected as one of the Cyberport Incubatees, receiving various government sponsorships. The seed fundraising round has also been closed and now preparing for its official launch in March 2018.
JOB DUTIES
You don't need to know anything about fashion as that is what you will learn here. You just need to be passionate, innovative and good at your job – programming.
What you will be involved in:
- Development of our garment creation algorithm that redefines fashion manufacturing. A prototype of the algorithm is already built using Python and further development is in progress, ultimately aiming to create an automatic pattern generator for creation of our made-to-measure garments
- Development and maintenance of our online virtual fitting system, which allows customers to try on our garments with their 3D avatars on our website
- Website management and maintenance with front and back end web applications
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Coding, application implementation and documentation of all relevant projects
- Follow-up and supervision on the outsourced project of our virtual fitting system development, providing technical advice whenever necessary
- Development of both pattern-making/garment-manufacturing instructions and front end user interface for our garment creation algorithm
- System design, development and maintenance of our front and back end web applications
- Data management
QUALIFICATIONS
- A Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or related discipline from a HK university is required
- At least 1 year of experience in software development or related practice is required for junior position; 3 years of experience for senior position
- Knowledge in HTML/CSS/PHP/JavaScript
- Knowledge in multi-media computing or 3D technology application is an advantage