Associate Security Analyst (VAPT) - Fresher (Immediate Joinee)

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Node.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in backend development, a solid understanding of JavaScript, Express.js, and familiarity with databases. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications, collaborating with front-end teams, and ensuring optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Build and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and Express.js.
• API Development: Design and implement RESTful APIs to support various functionalities.
• Database Management: Work with both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, reusable, and testable code while following best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Identify and resolve application issues to ensure smooth operations.
• Security Implementation: Apply basic security measures to protect applications and data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers to integrate UI components with backend logic.

Required Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience in Node.js backend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and ES6+ concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Express.js or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React/Angular is a plus).
• Experience working with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Basic understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with Git for version control.
• Knowledge of basic cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus).
• Understanding of Docker and containerization is an advantage.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn.

Role Summary: 

As a Lead Backend Engineer at our dynamic tech company, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the backend architecture and leading a talented team of 5-6 engineers. Your expertise in a diverse tech stack and your leadership skills will be essential in driving our backend projects to success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guide and mentor a team of 5-6 backend engineers. Ensure the team delivers high-quality code, adheres to best practices, and meets project deadlines.
• Hands-on development using TypeScript, Node.js, and Nestjs to build robust and scalable backend systems.
• Proficient in managing databases PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Implement efficient data storage and retrieval strategies.
• Expertise in Elasticsearch
• Work with Neptune and Gremlin to handle complex data structures and relationships.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and maintain high-quality software.
• Work closely with frontend teams, designers, and product managers to ensure seamless integration and alignment with business goals.
• Plan, track, and report on project progress. Manage resources effectively to meet deadlines.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Neptune, and Gremlin.
• Proven experience leading a team of engineers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Prior experience in a similar lead role.
• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• A dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A chance to work on cutting-edge technologies.

About Us:

Apport Software Solutions Private Limited is a dynamic and innovative SAAS-based product company offering conversational commerce and empowering global brands with scalable personal commerce and relationship-led sales on WhatsApp. Started in 2017 with a vision of enabling global brands to win more customers using simple yet robust technology on mobile, today we have over 7000+ customers across 140+ countries using our technology to grow digitally. Backed up by investors from Silicon Valley, Info Edge Ventures, and BEENEXT Asia, we are headquartered in Mumbai, India.

QuickSell:

QuickSell is a sales acceleration commerce suite started in 2017 with the vision to empower businesses to translate conversations into conversions on customer-first channels like WhatsApp through assisted personal commerce. Today over 7000+ businesses from 109+ countries all over the world use QuickSell to accelerate the process of sharing complete and accurate product information with customers and various business stakeholders with objectives like dynamic product showcase and ordering booking over WhatsApp. For more details, check out our website: https://quicksell.co/

DoubleTick: 

DoubleTick is a mobile-first conversational CRM built on top of WhatsApp Business API to unlock WhatsApp's marketing and sales capabilities. It offers top-notch features, including a central team inbox, bulk broadcasting and analytics, bot studio, commerce and cataloging, chatbots, and role-based access. For more details, check out our website: https://doubletick.io/

Some of the brands powered by DoubleTick include GRT Jewellers, Raheja Developers, Sabyasachi, Tarun Tahiliani, ICRA, BVC Logistics, RS Brothers, Manepally Jewellers, Tupperware, Birla Brainiacs KGK Group, Walking Tree, CKC Group, Malabar Diamonds and Gold, BVC Logistics, Emerald India, Prima Art, Siroya, SabyaSachi, etc. 

Qualifications & skills:

• C#.net, ASP.net MVC, Microsoft sql server, LINQ, Entity framework, .net Core.
• Repository / version management tools such as GIT, SVN, TFS.
• Diploma / bachelor degree / master degree in computer science or subjects related to computer software programming.
• Demonstrated knowledge of web technologies, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively. Being a team player is more preferred.
• Ability to understand and work on requirements.
• Flexible in work and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary.

Responsibilities & duties:

• Understanding requirements from the project manager or team leader and writing tasks associated.
• Develop and implement tasks while following project management guidelines to maintain coordination between teams.
• Test and maintain projects to ensure strong functionality and optimization along with performance.
• Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technically support colleague(s).
• Deliver projects / work on time to ensure we never fail our commitments.
• Recommend improvements to existing projects as necessary.
• Create requirement documents , write tasks and delivery manuals when needed or asked by your PM / TL.
• Help your co-workers if needed and support everyone in the company for their tasks.

3 - 5 Years of experience, in that min 2 years of experience with PHP MVC frameworks like

Laravel(preferred), CodeIgniter, etc.

Strong Experience in PHP and MySQL and their declarative query languages

Understanding the fully synchronous behaviour of PHP

Strong experience in JavaScript and good to have working knowledge on any JS frameworks like Angular (Preferred) React, Python etc. - Understanding of MVC design patterns

Good understanding of front-end technologies JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, HTML, and CSS3

Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

Understanding accessibility and security compliance

Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Basic knowledge of AWS and Shell command

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

We're looking for a Performance Marketer to drive our strategic product and technology vision on the growth and platform side of products. Evaluate the customer touch-points and growth levers in our onboarding product. Define, drive and modify traffic and growth metrics for the organization. Be responsible for building and executing new initiatives and roadmaps. Manage product lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond. Salary up to 35 LPA

🙋What makes you a good fit?

• Minimum 2 years of experience working on building products or problem-solving in a B2B domain.
• Relevant product experience in growth products, onboarding journeys, retention and engagement journeys
• The drive to build products with an insight-first approach but at the same time a track record of boldly pursuing intuitions and validating them via experimental outcomes.
• Data orientation, analytical skills, and an ability to interpret everything in terms of measurement.
• Comfort with ambiguity, belief in first principles, and the skill to transform broad ideas into action plans via high bias for action
• Unnoticeable cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Business acumen to appreciate and understand levers for business growth and profitability.
• Preference to work independently.

• Understanding position requirements and the hiring function’s deliverables in depth.
• Sourcing, screening, and developing a candidate pipeline.
• Ensuring a healthy pipeline till closure, report sourcing risks upfront.
• Managing candidate expectations and negotiating compensation packages for new hires.
• Developing external contacts to stay abreast of new hiring practices and trends in the industry.
• Providing recruitment reports and metrics.
• Exposure to both tech and non tech positions across levels and experience in hiring high budget resources.
• Utilize the existing recruiting database and tools to maximize the output.
• Work with agencies to explain the hiring needs and give regular update about the candidates received on ATS.
• Work on recruiting projects to improve recruiting process efficiency.
• Maintain market intelligence on the hiring landscape and utilize this information for hiring the best talent in the firm.

Talent Management

• Provide support in the following areas: performance management, data analysis, employee relations, learning and development, and strategic development.
• Utilize data strategically: Identify trends in both qualitative and quantitative data to help improve organizational health, understand when data will assist in making informed decisions.
• Partner with team members to roll out programs to support employees on talent programs.

Requirements (Must Have):

• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high growth, dynamic business environment.
• Effective influencing and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with employees, leaders, and a variety of stakeholders to drive organizational change.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to develop relationships within the organization;
• Excellent communication skills.

• Develops applications using C#, .NET, JavaScript, and the Microsoft suite of technologies.
• Participates in software development on daily basis. Helps collaborate with peer junior developers in the team.
• Participates in design and development activities on daily basis.
• Develops within & leverages integration technologies like Azure IOT hub, service bus, etc.
• Recognizes synergies & functionality across multiple technologies, and leverages them as appropriate
• Reviews and analyzes business requirements and provide technical feasibility and estimates
• Creates technical documents for software products using Visio, PowerPoint, Word, and other MS Office applications.
• Participates in all Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning and Estimation, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Translates technical requirements into application code and modules
• Makes modifications to existing applications and modules in accordance with written user stories
• Unit tests and works closely with the QA/Testing team.
• Troubleshoots and resolves issues in a timely fashion, communicating updates as determined until the issue is resolved
• Works closely with the team to help identify the root cause and implement solutions to reduce the recurring defects and issues
• Takes part in code reviews and reviewing the work of colleagues
• Works with developers to maintain a standard release plan, including code check-in processes & solution management

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience working in an IT environment
• 3+ years experience as a senior software developer.
• 5+ years experience as a software developer or senior developer.
• 5+ years experience as a software developer using the following development languages: C#, .NET
• 2+ years experience in Microsoft Azure.
• 2+ years experience using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops
• 5+ years experience using Microsoft Visual Studio
• 2+ years experience using a relational database (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
• 6+ months experience using Azure Cosmos DB or a NoSQL database
• Demonstrated project experience regarding estimates, planning, and deliverables with a high degree of accountability
• Proven ability working with business, engineering, and R&D teams to translate needs to Application Development teams
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical area or equivalent
• Experience working in a multi-technology environment is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in IoT environments
• Experience developing mobile solutions
• 2+ years of experience with Angular, client-side JavaScript framework.
• Experience using PI OSIsoft (PI OSIsoft API and/or PI AF SDK)
• Strong knowledge of a variety of software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum) and an understanding as to when each of these approaches is most suitable 
• Experience in working in a methodical and structured manner.
• Excellent communication skills: presentation, written, and oral.
• Strong interpersonal skills to successfully team with software vendors, outsourcing partners, and internal business and IT associates.
• Must be able to perform as an effective member in a team-oriented environment, maintain a positive attitude, and achieve desired results while working with minimal supervision
• Enthusiasm for learning new skills and technologies, and passion for conveying knowledge
• Excellent organization skills
• Prior experience working with global development teams