BigData Developer (Spark+Python)

Job Description

We're searching for a Content Writer who can skillfully navigate the intersection of travel excitement, SEO precision, and the complexities of visa applications. Your content will not only inspire travel but also guide our Indian audience through the often-confusing visa process, all while driving organic search traffic.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Create travel articles, blog posts, and visa guides that are rich in information, engaging, and optimized for search engines.

● Work hand-in-hand with the SEO and Digital PR teams to align content with organic growth strategies and current campaigns.

● Update existing travel and visa-related content for improved clarity, user experience, and SEO performance.

● Conduct keyword research specific to the travel and visa domain, integrating high-ranking keywords seamlessly into your content.

Experience and Skills you MUST have:

● Minimum of 1 year of experience in content writing, with at least 1 year focused on travel and visa-related topics.

● An understanding of the visa application process and travel restrictions, particularly for Indian nationals.

● Demonstrated ability to enhance SEO performance through content initiatives.

● Strong research skills with an attention to detail.

● Familiar with working within a CMS and using other tools to enhance your content, such as SurferSEO, Grammarly, etc

Preferring candidates from Ahmedabad / Bangalore specifically!

Thence is searching for a highly skilled and motivated individual who is enterprising and eager to make a significant impact in the service space by enabling exceptional products. The ideal candidate should have a robust technical background, outstanding leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. Moreover, this role includes consideration for a Partner role after completing one year with Thence, accompanied by sizeable equity.

Reporting directly to the COO, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the company's growth by delivering digital products to clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team at Thence.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Developing digital products, applications and minimum viable product (MVP), including defining the overall architecture and system design to meet business requirements.
• Enabling our client to select the appropriate technology stack, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Designing and configuring the infrastructure to support the software application.
• Choosing the development toolkit, frameworks and libraries best suited based on business and project's needs.
• Crafting and executing database designs, ensuring data integrity, performance and scalability.
• Enhancing and optimising application architecture to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Ensuring application scalability to handle increased user loads and data volumes effectively.
• Upholding quality assurance standards through code reviews, testing and continuous integration practices.
• Ensuring IP security by implementing robust authentication, authorisation and encryption mechanisms.
• Exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance the software's capabilities and keep it up-to-date with industry trends.
• Developing the startup's strategic resource allocation plan, including budgeting for technology investments and staffing needs.
• Ensuring efficient utilisation of technologies by optimising resource allocation and minimising waste.
• Assessing and integrating new systems and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of the organization.
• Deliver digital products to clients across various verticals, including healthcare, Fintech, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
• Building, attracting and mentoring talented developers to foster a culture of learning, innovation and collaboration within the team.
• Collaborating closely with the sales team to ensure effective communication and strategic positioning of technology solutions, while continuously refining sales pitch strategies based on feedback and market trends to maximize success rates and drive revenue growth.
• Defining, managing and evaluating team members based on goals and performance metrics, providing status updates to the leadership team on a bi-weekly basis.
• Identifying process gaps and development inefficiencies within the organisation and defining and driving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to address these gaps effectively.
• Generate business opportunities from existing clients and collaborate with the business team to convert new business.
• Work towards achieving annual and quarterly revenue targets.

Skills Required

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to make strategic decisions and take ownership of account growth, revenue and outcomes.
• Strong technical background with experience in managing complex technical projects encompassing diverse realms such as Web, Mobile, Applications (Apps), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
• Extensive experience in establishing and refining processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at measuring and enhancing the quality and efficiency of development capabilities. This includes implementing frameworks to assess performance metrics, optimise workflows and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Proven track record of driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships.
• Enterprising and adept at handling clients effectively.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of proven agency experience in software development projects.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers, engineers, and testers
• working on multiple client projects
• Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture

Additional Opportunities:

After completing one year with Thence, high-performing individuals will be considered for a Partner role, with the potential for substantial equity ownership in the company.

We are looking for a talented and competitive Sales Development Representative who thrives in a quick sales cycle environment. The successful candidate will play a fundamental role in achieving our ambitious customer acquisition and revenue growth objectives. The ideal candidate must be a pro at using Linkedin, Sales CRM, Email and comfortable making connections via Skype chats or calls every day.

Job Responsibilities:

• Learn & understand our products and our prospective clients well.

• Understand customer pain points, requirements and correlate ZapInventory & ZapApps.io solutions and customer requirements.

• Source new sales opportunities through outbound reach, cold emails, skype chats or phone calls or anything to reach out to prospective customers.

• Respond, engage and qualify inbound leads and inquiries.

• Engage current users to expand awareness, educate, ask for referrals, identify new opportunities and develop account intelligence.

• Execute planned sales activities and develop a target list of high potential new customers.

• Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and services.

• Achieve monthly & quarterly quotas.

• Perform effective online demos to prospects.
  Manage customer queries on Intercom (or other chat tool we might be using) and email.

Requirements:

• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills and a positive and energetic phone presence.
• Ability to make focused efforts to close deals. The ideal candidate should be strategy driven with a research-based approach.
• Proven sales development experience, preferably at an Internet startup or SaaS industry.
• Savvy with LinkedIn sales navigator, and CRM tools.
• Proficient with corporate productivity and web presentation tools.
• Ability to multitask, prioritise and manage time effectively.

Additional Responsibilities: We also expect this person to handle our SEO management task which includes working with bloggers and digital media executives.

Website: https://nowpurchase.com/" target="_blank">https://nowpurchase.com  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/

Requirements:

• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.
• Experience with user interface design.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Good project management skills.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.

Skills Required:

• React (Must), Preferably mobx experience
• Modern CSS layouts like Flex, Grid
• Strong fundamentals in OOP design patterns
• Basic understanding of REST API's

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

• Define and document detailed requirements detailing market opportunities and associated technical integrations in collaboration with architects, engineers, and key stakeholders with ISVs and strategic partners.
• Drive product execution across a large set of engineers, product designers, and product managers.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing on company Platform collaterals and sales tools such as articles, datasheets, white papers, blogs, how-to videos, demos, etc.
• Conduct usability testing interviews to gather feedback on Product integration prototypes.
• Identify market opportunities and conduct customer/user research interviews in conjunction with lead Product Managers.
• Deliver product management analysis, including market requirements, and customer experience artifacts.
• Develop a deep understanding of the RDBMS competitive market landscape and product analysis.
• Own the roadmap of active and future projects and maintain the backlog of features and priorities.
• Be outcome and KPI drove to achieve growth of your products and take the right actions accordingly.
• Work with the engineering and product team to ensure proper investment and execution in support of your strategy.
• Communicate regularly with senior leadership on status, risks, and change control.

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience in a technical role, with at least 3 years of those in a product management role.
• Have experience defining a roadmap and managing incremental execution through successful launches.
• Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to prioritize and manage blocking issues.
• Thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of a fast-moving startup. That means flexibility as well as dealing with ambiguity.
• Experience working across organizations with Sales, Marketing, Support, Product, Engineering, and Design.
• 2+ years experience in data infrastructure or related IaaS products and/or services; AWS and/or Google Cloud background preferred.
• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, and data-driven product decision-making mindset.
• Experience with product management planning and design tools - Confluence, JIRA, Balsamiq, AHA!

Nice to have:

• Strong proficiency in the big data ecosystem e.g. Kafka, Spark, or similar technologies.
• Technically savvy and experienced with the cloud, APIs, enterprise software.
• Worked on data platforms or streaming applications.