AI/ML, NLP, Chatbot Developer

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented HR Business Partner & Payroll Specialist to join our dynamic team. This dual role is critical in aligning HR practices with business objectives while ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing. The ideal candidate will be a proactive and strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills, a thorough understanding of HR principles, and expertise in payroll administration. This role requires a self-starter who can manage multiple priorities, build strong relationships with employees and stakeholders, and maintain the highest level of confidentiality.

Responsibilities:

HR Business Partnering:

●    Serve as a strategic HR partner to assigned business units or departments, understanding their goals and challenges and developing HR strategies to support their success.

●    Provide guidance and support to managers and employees on a wide range of HR matters, including employee relations, performance management, talent development, and organizational design.

●    Collaborate with management to identify and address employee performance issues, conduct investigations, and recommend appropriate disciplinary actions in accordance with company policy and legal requirements. 

●    Support the implementation of HR programs and initiatives, such as compensation and benefits, learning and development, and employee engagement programs.

●    Partner with the talent acquisition team to understand workforce planning needs and participate in the recruitment and onboarding processes.

●    Analyze HR metrics and trends to identify opportunities for improvement and develop data-driven solutions.

●    Stay up-to-date on relevant employment laws and regulations and ensure company policies and practices are compliant.

●    Facilitate organizational changes and support change management initiatives.

●    Act as an employee advocate, fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Payroll Administration:

●    Collect, review, and verify employee timekeeping data, ensuring compliance with company policies and applicable laws.

●    Calculate and process payroll adjustments, including new hires, terminations, promotions, leaves of absence, and retro payments.

●    Administer employee benefits programs related to payroll, such as deductions for health insurance, retirement plans, and other voluntary benefits.

●    Prepare and submit statutory payroll reports and filings (e.g., PF, ESI, TDS, Professional Tax, etc.) in compliance with local and national regulations.

●    Reconcile payroll data with general ledger accounts and resolve any discrepancies.

●    Respond to employee inquiries related to payroll, benefits, and tax-related matters in a timely and professional manner.

●    Maintain accurate and confidential payroll records and documentation.

●    Participate in the implementation and maintenance of payroll systems and software.

Qualifications:

●    Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. A Master's degree in HR is a plus.

●    3+ years of progressive HR experience, with a significant portion in HR Business Partnering and payroll administration.

●    Strong understanding of HR principles, practices, and employment laws.

●    Proven experience in managing the full payroll cycle and familiarity with relevant payroll software and systems.

●    Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong attention to detail and accuracy.

●    Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.

●    Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and integrity. 

●    Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.

●    Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). 

Preferred Qualifications:

●    Familiarity with HRIS systems (e.g., Greythr & Zoho)

●    Experience in developing and implementing HR policies and procedures.

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.

What we are looking for:

• 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out. 

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

Hi, Connections!

📢WE ARE #HIRING!📢

👉ROLE : Engineer / Senior Software Engineer, .NET Core with Angular9+ to 14.

👉Position: #hybrid

👉 Location: #pune

👉Job Responsibilities:

● Develop full-stack features and rapid prototypes

● Develop enhancements to existing software products

● Develop API integrations to external solutions

● Work in a team and communicate successes and challenges quickly and objectively

● Create relevant documentation for deliverables in Jira and SharePoint

👉Experience Required:

➡️ Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills

➡️ 3+ years of software engineering experience

➡️ 3+ years of back-end experience with C#, .NET Core (C API preferred), ASP.NET Core, SQL, RESTful, web services and microsevices

➡️ 1+ years of front-end experience with Angular9+ to14 , RxJS, TypeScript,HTML5, CSS3 ,SCSS

➡️ 3+ years of experience with Web Workers and WebSockets

➡️ 3+ years of experience with SQL and any NoSQL database with eventual consistency

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Responsibilities 

• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify, and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth

• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes

• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact

• Define vision, strategy, teams and detailed roadmap for the Customer Acquisition area, maximizing monetization through marketing channels like SEO, SEM, CRM, Display Advertising,

• Drive operational product delivery: specify user stories/ product features, determine business value, priorities and MVP. Support product build. Provide acceptance for delivered product.

• Identify customers behaviours and needs through research and analysis on the upper funnel of the customer journey

• Analyse, understand and share learnings from experimentation to build a strong knowledge base of the product
  
  Skills and Experience
  
  - AARRR
  
  - Min. 4 years experience in B2C Product Management
  
  - Experience on Customer Acquisition Marketing, being able to define strategies to achieve marketing goals though product roadmap planning
  
  - Solid end-to-end understanding of internet businesses
  
  - Solid technical understanding
  
  - Experience with web analytics software such as Google analytics
  
  - Familiarity with A/B testing or other multivariate testing
  
  - Knowledge and experience in conversion optimisation, digital marketing, UX design and/or consumer psychology and research is a plus
  
  - Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
  
  Abilities/Qualities
  
  - User focused individual who keeps the customer at the heart of everything we do, while having strong commercial awareness
  
  - Data driven. Base your decisions on facts rather than opinions
  
  - A go-getter who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty and dives into a project to achieve success by problem solving
  
  - Eager to learn and aware that valuable information can come from both positive and negative results through experimentation -Passionate about product development and constantly looking for ways to improve it
  
  - Open minded team player with excellent communication skills -Self-motivated and results driven with a take charge attitude to manage the full development cycle of a product

• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization

Legal decision maker

CS Experience optional

• Meeting with clients to discuss website design and function.
• Designing and building the website front-end.
• Creating the website architecture.
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
• Conducting website performance tests.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Conducting WordPress training with the client.
• Monitoring the performance of the live website.

As a DB2 Administrator, candidate would involve in L2 activities, troubleshooting database & key responsible for Migration, Upgrading activities including DB2 replication suite and services.

Responsibilities -

·         Product lifecycle Management of DB2 LUW Product including replication suite

·         Perform Health check activities, monitoring, backup, space management, Maintenance i.e. Reorg / Run stat utilities

·         Follow-up CIRATS i.e. Compliance, Issue, Risk and APAR (Authorized Program Analysis Report) Tracking System

·         User management and BAU activities

·         Setup and maintenance of Data replication services

·         Disaster recovery and business continuity planning

·         Backup and recovery methods including point in time recovery

·         DB2 node directory / catalog configuration

·         Database performance tuning and troubleshooting

·         24*7 on call support for DB2 portfolio and applications

·         Provide best in class solutions for all business needs

·         Explore and help organization to implement best technical practises / recommendations to reduce technical debt and cost

·         Managing and maintaining physical databases including database storage management, procedures and tools for access, database security, monitoring and tuning the database

·         Analysing system storage capacity and recommending improvements to ensure efficiency

·         Assisting in the design and implementation of the physical framework of the database

Required Skillset -

• 6+ years of relevant experience in DB2 LUW Administration
• Good experience with
  • Performance tuning and troubleshooting
  • High availability solutions HACMP, TSA, MSCS Cluster
  • Monitoring, backup, recovery, IBM Data Server Manager, TSM , Commvault
  • Data replication, Q-replication & CDC
  • Implementing DB2 key features
  • Desirable experience with Db2 Pure scale
• Experience with tools i.e. ITM, Nagios, Service Now
• Experience with automation and scripting such as CRON, PowerShell, Shell Scripting
• Experience with configuring and usage of Clustering, db2diag and notification logs, snapshot and event monitor
• Experience with use of problem and change management tools

Other desired traits -

• Technical agility
• Good Team player, Self-starter
• Willing to take accountability and drive projects/tasks to completion
• Good written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to relate technical issues to non-technical personnel