Business Developer

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

We're seeking an exceptional design leader to manage and guide a team of talented multidisciplinary designers in one of the fastest growing tech startups of the nation to drive it towards becoming the best design team in the industry.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Manage the team and the work-

• Own a team of multi-disciplinary designers consisting of product designers, visual designers, visual communication designers and researchers.
• Along with the design leads, manage various design projects and their priorities.
• Help the team in resolving blockers. Ensure the output meets business goals,
• deadlines and the quality bar.

Shape up product direction and drive design-led projects-

• Take part in ideation, planning and prioritization of our diverse range of products & features keeping the short and long-term goals of the organization in mind.
• Find out new directions that we can take in our quest to make payments and finance easy and accessible to all.
• Strategise, prioritize and drive design-led projects. Also, help to extend the existing design systems and build new ones.

Mentor, Guide and Lead the Team-

• You will be responsible for the growth of the team. Help them grow their soft and hard skills. Help them define their career paths, identify opportunities and level up to do the best work of their lives.

Raise the Bar-

• You will set the bar high. You know what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.

Drive and improve the design process-

• Iterate upon and improve the design processes to introduce the best practices within the team. Bring in users to the center of the process and encourage design decisions to be backed by user-behavior and data.
• Create frameworks and guidelines for the team to deliver better and faster.
• Conduct design reviews and status meetings. Facilitate design sprints, workshops, brainstorming sessions.
• Prioritize research and design improvement opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Share engineering principles to guide

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

We're seeking an exceptional design leader to manage and guide a team of talented multidisciplinary designers in one of the fastest growing tech startups of the nation to drive it towards becoming the best design team in the industry.

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

We treat all our employees as adults. We think that you can do your best with freedom to experiment, sense of ownership of your work, license to fail and when you have peers who care just as much as you about their art. We default to transparency because everyone can contribute to anything, and it's only possible if you get to know what's going on.

We believe in having the best tools for the job. We are happy paying customers of Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision, GitHub, Principle and Slack, some of the most important tools in our workflow.

We think that you can do your best with freedom to experiment, sense of ownership of your work, license to fail and when you have peers who care just as much as you about their art.

We prefer to mingle with the community through meetups and conferences on topics as broad as daylight. And at the end of the day we accept that we are humans, fallible to error, learning through errors together. After all, there's comedy in error too.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-quality, efficient, and scalable backend applications.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code adhering to best practices.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
• Debug and troubleshoot complex technical problems.
• Identify and implement performance optimizations.
• Participate in code reviews
• Hands-on experience with Springboot, Java 8 and above.
• 2-5 years of experience developing Java applications.
• Knowledge about at least one messaging system like Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.
• Required React developer requirements, qualifications & skills:
• Proficiency in React.js and its core principles
• Strong JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 skills
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Redux)
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
• Experience with design patterns and best practices for Java development.
• Proficient in unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit).
• Experience with build automation tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with one of these databases – Postgres, MongoDb, Cassandra
• Knowledge on Retail or OMS is a plus.
• Experienced in containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps mindset
• Ability to reverse engineer existing/legacy and document findings on confluence.
• Create automated tests for unit, integration, regression, performance, and functional testing, to meet established expectations and acceptance criteria.

We are looking for a hands-on technical expert who has worked with multiple technology stacks and has experience architecting and building scalable cloud solutions with web and mobile frontends. 

 What will you work on?

•  Interface with clients
• Recommend tech stacks
• Define end-to-end logical and cloud-native architectures
•  Define APIs
• Integrate with 3rd party systems
• Create architectural solution prototypes
• Hands-on coding, team lead, code reviews, and problem-solving

What Makes You A Great Fit?

• 5+ years of software experience 
• Experience with architecture of technology systems having hands-on expertise in backend, and web or mobile frontend
• Solid expertise and hands-on experience in Python with Flask or Django
• Expertise on one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google App Engine)
• Expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Mongo, ElasticSearch, Redis)
• Knowledge of DevOps practices
• Chatbot, Machine Learning, Data Science/Big Data experience will be a plus
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

The job is for a full-time position at our https://goo.gl/maps/o67FWr1aedo">Pune (Viman Nagar) office. 

(Note: We are working remotely at the moment. However, once the COVID situation improves, the candidate will be expected to work from our office.)

About the Company:

Vista Rooms is your quintessential “Home Away From Home” experience. As guests, you can choose from a collection of over 500 luxury villas and private holiday homes, from all across India. Ideal for individual and group getaways, we help you create memorable experiences whilst you reconnect with nature, yourself or your loved ones.

Only 1 in 10 villas that we scout are carefully selected and added to our portfolio, to ensure that they meet our reliable quality standards. Additionally, as managers of cherished holiday homes, we also look after our homeowners’ interests and needs with trust and transparency.

Our dedicated 24x7 guest services team, includes our founders, and is available to all of Vista Rooms stakeholders. Having served 300,000 happy travellers at over 500 holiday homes, we are South Asia’s largest chain of luxury private villas. Why work with us: We're a non-hierarchical, rapidly growing organization with a young team of realists. We adapt, iterate, and improve. If your work ethic is in line with us, you’ll be a great fit.

Additional Perks:

Employee discounts on villa stays, reward and recognition. Work and play go hand in hand here. About the Role: Ensuring seamless guest experience from post-booking till checkout.

Location:

Pune, Maharashtra

Job Responsibilities:

● Responsible for ensuring seamless guest experience.

● Take ownership of guest issues and follow problems through to resolution.

● Make decisions that are in the best interest of the company and the guests.

● Meet and maintain Vista standards and metrics such as guest satisfaction, accuracy, and efficiency.

● Provide guidance or assistance during the stay, post-booking to check-out, grievance handling and provide timely solutions.

● Ensuring timely collection of feedback post guests' stay.

● Reporting any damage of the property to the property operation team.

● Ensure closing of current guest tickets before next arrival.

● Generating weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports on service or guest experience.

● Ensure collection of extra payments during the stay.

● Keep up with the industry’s developments and apply best practices to the areas of improvement.

● Control resources and utilize assets to achieve qualitative and quantitative targets.

● Adhere to and manage the approved budget.

● Responsible for Managing and training the team.

Required Skills:

● A user-centric approach to drive higher satisfaction among guests, owners

● Exceptional service orientation and ability to provide timely solutions

● Ability to execute and drive efficiency through continuous process improvement.

● Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate and manage.

● Strong in building and maintaining the relationship with stakeholders

● Ability to deliver results under pressure and within the deadline.

● Strongly inclined to do high-quality and impactful work in a dynamic environment.

Qualification and Experience:

● Bachelor/ Master's degree in hospitality studies or related field with a minimum of 2 years of work experience in guest handling or managing guest experience.

You should apply if you have —

1. 3 - 5 years of technical experience (you can count internships & freelance work towards this).
2. Proficiency in React (especially Hooks) and Typescript; experience in Node.js is nice to have.
3. Experience in profiling apps for performance.
4. A track record of writing accessible and detailed version-control commits, documentation and code reviews.
5. A strong ability to write clean, scalable, self-documenting & highly-testable code.
6. Very good problem-solving skills.

You'll be helping us with some of these challenges —

1. How do we keep building more features while keeping the code clean, as small as possible and highly performant?
2. How do we build a strong testing-first delivery cycle so we can ship code with greater confidence?

We're problem-solvers at heart, and we value data-driven decision-making. We believe in high-quality execution, crafting great user experiences, honest & transparent communication and enabling our people to thrive and be the best version of themselves.

The early engineering + product team includes folks from https://home.lynk.co.in/" target="_blank">Lynk,Zoho and https://www.kilobytetech.com/" target="_blank">Kilobyte, and we're hoping to build one of the best teams in the city; kind & compassionate, diverse and smart — one you can be proud for being a part of.

We're all generalists and prefer picking the right tool for the job. That said, we do use a lot of new & exciting technology.

Backend

• Golang for most services and Node.js (https://koajs.com/" target="_blank">Koa, https://github.com/lukeed/polka#polka" target="_blank">Polka) for a few
• gRPC for inter-service communication
• PostgreSQL

Frontend

• 100% TypeScript
• React v17 & https://nextjs.org/" target="_blank">Next.js v10
• https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand#readme" target="_blank">Zustand
• https://chakra-ui.com/" target="_blank">Chakra-UI
• https://www.framer.com/motion/" target="_blank">Framer Motion
• https://storybook.js.org/" target="_blank">Storybook
• https://maizzle.com/" target="_blank">Maizzle

Infra

• AWS (with extensive use of RDS, S3, ECS, SQS, SES & CloudWatch)
• Gitlab for version-control and CI/CD
• All apps built and shipped as Docker images
• Kubernetes for container orchestration
• https://www.honeybadger.io/" target="_blank">Honeybadger for error analytics & uptime monitoring

Job Description

We are looking for a ROR developer. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to develop amazing products and hungry for a new adventure, a word class workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Bengaluru / Kolkata or remote.

• Production experience in Ruby.
• A completed technical degree in Computer Science or any related fields.
• 3+ years of professional product development experience.
• Being comfortable with microservices architectures, API-based
• You are a pragmatic programmer who understands what is needed to get things done.
• Problem solving and collaborative mindset.
• Experience working with DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Experience with AWS (RDS, DDB, Lambda, CW, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Kinesis).
• Experience with performance improvements (Caching Techniques, SQL Query Optimization, Performance monitoring and profiling.
• Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods and best practices.
• Takes end to end ownership of the development and operation of complete features.

Required skill

• Around 6- 8.5 years of experience and around 4+ years in AI / Machine learning space
• Extensive experience in designing large scale machine learning solution for the ML use case,  large scale deployments and establishing continues automated improvement / retraining framework.
• Strong experience in Python and Java is required.
• Hands on experience on Scikit-learn, Pandas, NLTK
• Experience in Handling of Timeseries data and associated techniques like Prophet, LSTM
• Experience in Regression, Clustering, classification algorithms
• Extensive experience in buildings traditional Machine Learning SVM, XGBoost, Decision tree and Deep Neural Network models like RNN, Feedforward is required.
• Experience in AutoML like TPOT or other
• Must have strong hands on experience in Deep learning frameworks like Keras, TensorFlow or PyTorch 
• Knowledge of Capsule Network or reinforcement learning, SageMaker is a desirable skill
• Understanding of Financial domain is desirable skill

 Responsibilities 

• Design and implementation of solutions for ML Use cases
• Productionize System and Maintain those
• Lead and implement data acquisition process for ML work
• Learn new methods and model quickly and utilize those in solving use cases