Account Manager

Athena is India’s largest institution in the premium undergraduate study abroad space. Founded 9 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 15 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various , universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education. 

If you are excited to work in a dynamic educational environment and love expanding your horizons of emotional and strategic counseling, we look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more:

https://www.athenaeducation.co.in/article.aspx 

Overview of the role: We are looking for someone who will support Athena's Knowledge center 

• Helping/ mentoring Athena students to build web and mobile applications
• Helping build a state-of-the-art web portal and apps for students and counselors
• Support in building Edtech products for Athena

This is ideal for technology enthusiasts who want to make an impact, who love teaching and mentoring students, and also who love building creative tech products. The ideal person would have a deep, driving desire to make an impact and believes in the power of education.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, innovate and support the students with their technology projects 
• Conceptualize the apps, guiding them on coding and stepping them when needed
• Creation of New Algorithms for solving Real World problems.
• Mobile App Development - Android and iOS
• Hybrid mobile applications (both IOS & Android) using ionic, Flutter and react native (preferred).
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
• Guiding students to project completion
• Tuned into the latest developments in the desired area including but not limited to application development, database technologies, devops, robotics, etc.

Key Skills-

• Strong fundamentals and knowledge of web technologies, data structures, algorithms, logical flow, and architecture 
• Good communication skills - Ability to motivate and mentor students
• Extremely hands-on in coding 
• Ability to learn, take feedback, and improve
• Knowledge of programming language and technical terminology
• Able to solve complex problems.

Education and Experience: 

• B.Tech/B.Sc/M.Sc (CS), Engineering, or a related field from a good institute
• Good to have experience in teaching and mentoring students in Computer Science modules
• Experience in Android Development
• Preferred 1 year development experience

Why should you be interested?

Impact

• Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.
• Opportunity to mentor budding writers

Team and Culture

• We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny.
• The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Professional Advancement

• We believe in providing opportunities for team members to build their skills and become independent drivers.
• We also offer the opportunity to collaborate across our group organizations- Hora.ai (Tech) and Sitare Foundation (education non-profit)- and learn from like-minded, passionate people who have all come together to create an impact. 

Location & Work Environment

The Vatika Triangle; Gurgaon, India

• We have built creative space in a top corporate building in a prime location in Gurgaon. 
• The office is on M.G. Road, a 2-minute walk from the M.G. Road Metro Station.

Our team comprises of creative and colorful characters, all goal-oriented and hungry for growth (and healthy snacks). The work environment is a mixture of formal and playful, as we all strive to get things done while sipping Italian coffee brewed in-house.

• Should be independent contributor.
• Writing individual user stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
• Identifying related user stories and epics, grouping them into themes as necessary and documenting the interrelationship and associated business process flows as necessary
• Prepare EPICS, Themes , User Stories and maintain product backlog, release backlog
• Constantly groom user stories, update acceptance criteria and keep the backlog up-to date
• Reviews, explain, orally, visually user stories, functional aspect of the system
• Participate in sprint review meetings, accept stories that meet the user acceptance criteria
• Manage changes to the stories, split user stories as appropriate
• Preparation of Documentation, Help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed.
• Serve as a liaison with the business community and IT to ensure that changes are understood.
• Promptly escalate issues, which affect product delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence and report same to Project Lead/technical lead

• Experience in functional decomposition of requirement in a logical manner.
• Ability to articulate functional acceptance criteria.
• Ability to draw visuals manually or using any tool to present functionality and system behavior
• Ability to interview users and capture user requirement as stories
• Client interactions during the project/product life cycle
• Good analytical skills
• 3-5 years of experience in Agriculture domain.
• Over all understanding of ERP, SCM, CRM kind of business process for better comprehension
• At least 1 full life cycle development experience of Concept to Delivery
• Hands on tools like JIRA, TFS kind of requirement management repositories
• Working experience of 3-5 years of Agile based projects as B.A. and aware of all nuances of Agile, SCRUM methodologies.

• Essentail Skills:
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Python dependency management using conda and pip

• Base Linux System Commands, Scripting
• Docker Container Build & Testing
• Common knowledge of minimizing container size and layers
• Inspecting containers for un-used / underutilized systems
• Multiple Linux OS support for virtual system

• Has experience as a user of jupyter / jupyter lab to test and fix usability issues in workbenches
• Templating out various configurations for different use cases (we use Python Jinja2 but are open to other languages / libraries)
• Jenkins PIpeline
• Github API Understanding to trigger builds, tags, releases
• Artifactory Experience
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, other deployment automation tool sets (DevOps)

What you need to have:

We are looking for an Flutter Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits.

This Flutter app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Flutter programmer works closely with other app development and technical teams.

Responsibilities

- Design and build advanced applications for the Flutter platform

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features - Work with outside data

sources and APIs

- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability - Work on bug fixing and

improving application performance

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Qualifications

 Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field

 Development experience with programming languages

 SQL database or relational database skills

 Proven software development experience and Flutter skills development

 Proven working experience in Flutter app development and

 Have published at least one original Flutter app

 Experience with Flutter SDK

 Experience with Bloc Pattern

 Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

 Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
 Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and

emerging technologies

 Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

 What you need to have: