Business Development Associate

Role & Responsibilities

Define and Drive Design Strategy: Develop and implement a UX design strategy that aligns with the company’s goals and ensures a consistent, high-quality user experience across all products.

Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other teams to understand business needs, user pain points, and technical constraints. Together, you’ll create user-friendly, innovative solutions.

Lead User Research & Testing: Oversee user research activities to gather insights about customer behaviors, needs, and pain points. Use these insights to inform design decisions and validate solutions through testing.

Create Exceptional Designs: Guide the team in developing user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI designs that bring ideas to life and delight users.

Leverage and Expand the Design System: Utilize our existing design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all designs. Collaborate with teams to integrate it seamlessly into every product and expand its scope to support evolving design needs.

Build and Maintain Design Systems: Own the creation and evolution of a design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all products.

Ideal Candidate

6-8+ years of UX/UI design experience, including 2+ years in managerial roles.

Expertise in design tools like Figma, Sketch, InVision, Rive, Framer, and Lottie.

Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design and problem-solving skills.

Experience designing for Android, iOS, and responsive web platforms.

Solid understanding of UX principles, usability, and accessibility standards.

Bonus: Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; skills in animation or storyboarding

Identify and Solve UX Challenge: Proactively identify potential design issues, such as responsiveness or platform-specific nuances, and ensure solutions are effective and scalable.

• We are looking for a strong backend developer with good experience in AWS.
• Should be able to write solid and clean code.
• Should be good with algorithms and architecture.

Responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer (Backend):

• You will be a guide in the entire application lifecycle including research, design, development, testing (dev owns quality), along with continuous deployment and delivery
• Lead design with a major focus on best user experience, performance, scalability and future expansion
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills to bring in continuous improvements and implement best practices.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar, adopt best design practices to solve complex problems and ensure our product is the best in usability.
• You will work directly with the CEO and the cross functional product teams, align on the needs of the products and operations.
• You will analyze business, technology challenges and suggest solutions
• Build an “Awesome” team

This opportunity is for you if,

• You have 4-6 Years of work experience in building highly-interactive applications using Java, Spring MVC, Spring JMS, Spring JDBC, Spring IOC, Spring Boot, MySQL, MiBatis, ReactJS, Java Script, jQuery, AWS, JMS and have knowledge on wide range of web technologies, tools and Frameworks.
• You have experience in working with Restful webservices
• You have strong knowledge and understanding of design patterns and domain driven design
• You understand fundamental design principles behind building scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications 
• You have functional knowledge of inclusive design: accessibility, and related tooling
• You have consumer web development experience for high-traffic, public facing web applications
• You have knack for writing clean, readable, re-usable code
• You have good knowledge on TDD and CI/CD practices.
• You have experience in managing and publishing releases using Git branching and tools like NPM and YARN.
• You have penchant for learning
• You are a great analytical & logical thinker and someone who loves solving problems
• You are passionate, energetic, enthusiastic and a go-getter
• You are “ FUN @ Work “

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  

Qualification: B.com / BBA / MBA / 1-2 years of Experience in sales and marketing 

Skills: Excellent Communication and Writing skills in both English & Tamil, Spontaneous Mindset, Wide Knowledge about Sale &  Marketing , Social Skills and Technical knowledge, Anger & Stress management skills.

Salary: As per Industrial standard 

We are looking for a fresher or 1 year experienced WordPress/HTML/Bootstrap developer to design and implement attractive and functional websites for our clients. You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development including the implementation of WordPress themes and plugins as well as site integration and security updates.

To be a successful WordPress/HTML/Bootstrap developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of front-end programming languages, a good eye for aesthetics, and strong content management skills. Ultimately, a top-class WordPress developer can create attractive, user-friendly websites that perfectly meet the design and functionality specifications of the client.

WordPress Developer Responsibilities:

• Meeting with clients to discuss website design and function.
• Designing and building the website front-end.
• Creating the website architecture.
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
• Conducting website performance tests.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Conducting WordPress training with the client.
• Monitoring the performance of the live website.
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WordPress Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Proven work experience as a WordPress developer.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, and SVN.
• Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug.
• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.
• Ability to manage projects.
• Good communication skills.

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!