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About the Company – Gruve

Gruve is an innovative software services startup dedicated to empowering enterprise customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cybersecurity, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

As a well-funded early-stage startup, we offer a dynamic environment, backed by strong customer and partner networks. Our mission is to help customers make smarter decisions through data-driven business strategies.

Why Gruve

At Gruve, we foster a culture of:

• Innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Diversity and inclusivity, where everyone is encouraged to thrive
• Impact-focused work — your ideas will shape the products we build

We’re an equal opportunity employer and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We appreciate all applications, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to lead the development of an Infrastructure Asset Management Platform. This platform will assist infrastructure teams in efficiently managing and tracking assets for regulatory audit purposes.

You will play a key role in building a comprehensive automation solution to maintain a real-time inventory of critical infrastructure assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop an Infrastructure Asset Management Platform for tracking a wide range of assets across multiple environments.
• Build and maintain automation to track:
• Physical Assets: Servers, power strips, racks, DC rooms & buildings, security cameras, network infrastructure.
• Virtual Assets: Load balancers (LTM), communication equipment, IPs, virtual networks, VMs, containers.
• Cloud Assets: Public cloud services, process registry, database resources.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to understand asset-tracking requirements and convert them into technical implementations.
• Optimize performance and scalability to handle large-scale asset data in real-time.
• Document system architecture, implementation, and usage.
• Generate reports for compliance and auditing.
• Ensure integration with existing systems for streamlined asset management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3–6 years of experience in software development
• Strong proficiency in Golang and Python
• Hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Deep understanding of automation solutions and parallel computing principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

Mandatory Skills:

• AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) experience
• CI/CD migration expertise
• Proficiency in Windows deployment and support
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Terraform
• Automation using PowerShell
• Understanding of SDLC for C# applications (build/ship/run strategy)
• Apache Kafka experience
• Azure web app

Good to Have Skills:

• AZ-400 (Azure DevOps Engineer Expert)
• AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
• Apache Pulsar
• Windows containers
• Active Directory and DNS
• SAST and DAST tool understanding
• MSSQL database
• Postgres database
• Azure security

Fresh graduates or up to 4 years of experience in HR role

Startup experience preferred

Manage hiring and day to HR operations of our engineering team

ABOUT COMPANY

Our client is one of the strongest Consumer brands in the Bakery category, having a 25000 sq ft state-of-the-art centralized manufacturing facility with European equipment near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The founding team consists of a ‘Master Baker’ from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, one of the finest culinary institutes in the world and an IIM-A alumni with a McKinsey background.

JOB PURPOSE

The role requires to develop business by planning, directing and implementing sales strategies and programs to achieve or exceed the sales objectives for the company. Business Channels are Traditional Retail in Distribution, Modern retail, General trade and Corporate sales business for our bakery products

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To effectively manage the business in the concerned cities/regions and achieving the sales objectives

a. Setting targets and monitoring them monthly to ensure that they are in line with the business plan

b. Meeting the revenue and margin targets for the business

c. Generating sales of company products through a team of salesmen/retail promoters in order to achieve or exceed the annual sales targets

d. Analyzing the sales trend and taking corrective actions wherever necessary

e. Any other special assignments as applicable

2. To develop and maintain a strong sales infrastructure and an aggressive sales team

a. Managing, directing and coordinating the activities of the Area Sales Managers & Sales Officers

b. Sales team deployment as per the company's requirement and as per the budget

c. Accomplishing sales human resource objectives by orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees in assigned retail stores

d. Appointing the right set of channel partners with appropriate experience, good infrastructure, financially strong and with an attitude to grow.

3. To plan, prepare and exist control over sales budget, sales forecast, sales plan etc.

a. Developing sales plan to ensure optimum utilization of resources in the region

b. Meeting sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements

c. Preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions

d. Ensuring that all promotions are within the budget

e. Preparing sales growth blueprint for the future

4. To ensure coordination and relationship management with distributors, customers, as well as other departments

a. Ensuring that distributors and customers in the region are provided with information about new products and services in order to improve sales in the region

b. Developing and maintaining an efficient distribution network

c. Ensuring commercial hygiene by monitoring damages, complaints etc

d. Liaising with the Marketing team to ensure that adequate marketing support by way of merchandising and promotions is available in order to provide brand visibility and promote sales in the region

e. To continuously gain and update category and channel expertise

f. Continuously acquiring knowledge regarding the industry, market construct, and customer behaviour to enable effective business plans

g. Acquire knowledge regarding competition product, strategies to counter attack competition in the best possible manner

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

1. Knowledge: 

a. Sound knowledge of sales and sales administration processes

b. Strong understanding of modern trade and general trade

c. Understanding of perishable/limited shelf life products (e.g. dairy, bakery, juices etc) would be preferable

d. Knowledge of ERP systems would be a plus

2. Skills: 

a. Strong leadership skills

b. Excellent communication and negotiation skills

c. Presentation skills

d. Ability to manage and lead a team

e. Strong decision making ability

f. Ability to build relationships

g. Excellent business acumen

3. Attitude: 

a. Self-motivator

b. Aggressive

c. Sincere

d. Positive approach to problem solving

e. Commitment to achieving the sales targets

f. Dynamic and exploratory

4. Educational Level

a. Graduation: Any specialization

b. Post-Graduation (Must-have): PGDM/ MBA in Marketing or Sales Management

5. Experience

a. Preferably be from FMCG or Organised Modern retail background

• Skilled in Java / J2EE including frameworks like Microservices, Spring boot, hibernate etc
• Experience with microservices-based architecture including building
• Good knowledge of SQL (MySQL / Oracle / SQL Server / Postgres), NoSQL (MongoDB / Cassandra), App server Knowledge (Tomcat/JBoss etc.), OSGi, REST Web Services
• Working / Usage experience of Docker, Microservices, Jenkins, Multithreading, Design patterns, Java 1.8 and Container
• Experience with Cloud computing in added advantage (AWS / Azure)
• Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting Expertise.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written)

• A self-starter with prior experience leading UI design on a product team and great attention to detail.
• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with CTO and product team.
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
• Designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets.
• Identify and trouble shoot UX problems.
• You'll create functional and appealing features that will address our users needs and help us grow our customer base.
• 5+ years of proven experience as UX/UI designer with sound knowledge of wireframe tools

Job Requirements/Responsibilities :

- Participate as a team member in all phases of software development lifecycle.

- Coordinating with the team on individual responsibilities and roadblocks.

- Perform design, development and testing on individual tasks

- Managing initiatives on UI/UX work

- Transparently share the challenges & feedback.

- Participate in integrated testing of product/ package.

- Designing a modern highly responsive web-based enterprise application component user interface.

- Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

- Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.

- Learn and understand user interactions.

- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

- Coordinating with various teams working on distinct layers.

- Providing technical assistance to the other teammates.

- Keep compliance with Quality Systems and Procedure

• Manage sales operations in assigned district to achieve revenue goals.
• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.
• Provide outstanding services and ensure customer satisfaction.