Business Development Associate

🚀 Hiring: Python Developer

⭐ Experience: 2+ Years

📍 Location: Mumbai

⭐ Work Mode:- 5 Days Work From Office

⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

(Only immediate joiners & candidates serving notice period)

Looking for a skilled Python Developer with experience in Django / FastAPI and MongoDB / PostgreSQL.

⭐ Must-Have Skills:-

✅ 2+ years of professional experience as a Python Developer

✅Proficient in Django or FastAPI

✅Hands-on with MongoDB & PostgreSQL

✅Strong understanding of REST APIs & Git

Company Description

Miko is an advanced artificial intelligence innovation lab with a mission to bring AI and robotics to every consumer home. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, our workforce spans several countries, including the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. To check out various product offerings, visit Miko's website.

Responsibilities:

Non-Direct Routing (NDR) Optimization:

- Develop and implement strategies to optimize NDR processes, minimizing transportation costs while maintaining service levels.

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (sales, procurement, customer service) to identify NDR opportunities and -streamline order fulfillment.

- Manage carrier and logistics service provider relationships, negotiating rates, managing contracts, and ensuring compliance with routing guidelines.

Reverse Logistics (RVP) Management:

- Oversee the RVP process, encompassing returns, exchanges, and product recalls, to minimize costs and maximize recovery value.

- Partner with customer service, repair, and warehouse teams to streamline RVP processes and improve customer satisfaction.

- Manage relationships with reverse logistics partners, vendors, and service providers to ensure timely and efficient processing of returns and exchanges.

Pickup Coordination:

- Coordinate pickups from various locations (suppliers, warehouses, distribution centers) to optimize transportation efficiency and minimize costs.

- Schedule and monitor pickup activities, track shipment status, and resolve any issues or delays to ensure on-time pickup and delivery.

- Communicate pickup schedules and requirements to carriers and internal stakeholders for alignment with logistics plans.

Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement:

- Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure logistics performance in areas like on-time - pickup/delivery, NDR utilization, and RVP processing time.

- Analyze logistics data and performance metrics to identify trends, root causes of issues, and opportunities for improvement.

- Lead cross-functional teams in implementing process improvements, best practices, and technology solutions to enhance logistics efficiency and customer service.

Qualifications:

- Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).

- 1-3 years of experience in logistics operations, transportation management, or a similar role.

- Proven track record of identifying and implementing logistics process improvements.

- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across departments.

- Experience working with transportation management systems (TMS) a plus

• Expertise with NodeJS (extensively using ExpressJS) and databases like MongoDB or MySQL
• Comfortable with developing MVC architecture-based code
• Skilled in implementing security features across the applications and components
• Skilled with code optimization techniques
• Strong troubleshooting techniques
• Strong defect resolution process for minimized latency
• Familiarity with confluence management like JIRA/Trello/Youtrack

• Networking fundamentals, prior working experience in network technologies and protocols
• Tools usage - Code quality, Memory/CPU profiling tools
• Ability to build supportability features to reduce the defects in software components
• Knowledge of GNU tools, revision control software (SVN, Git, etc.) and development lifecycle, docker container usage and LDAP is a plus

About the team

The Creative Team is a team that functions purely on data, creativity & caffeine (occasionally beer). We’re a motley crew that was put together to make the impossible possible; i.e., make fintech fun. We’re now on the hunt for a young, hungry writer to join us on this mission. (Don’t worry, you don’t need to be good at math.)

About the role

Fintech is a hot, booming industry. Understandably, it’s also getting crowded. As such, every piece of communication - from a tiny button on our app to a large-scale ATL campaign - is important in helping us stand out and become a loved brand. As Sr. UX Writer, you’ll be responsible for maintaining a consistent tone of voice on our app that delights our customers at every step of their journey. 

What You will do

• Work with the Creative Team, Design Team and Product Team to craft simple, delightful and effective in-app communication including - but not limited to - buttons, tooltips, empty states, etc. 
• Assume nothing, test everything. Proactively reach out to customers to get feedback about their product experience and make changes to your copy for ease of use.
• Set the tone of content in collaboration with the Creative (Marketing) Team.

What you will need 

Must-haves  

• 3 - 5 years of relevant writing experience.
• A portfolio of UX writing samples.
• The ability to convey a lot very simply. 
• A can-do attitude and the ability to use the independence slice offers to your advantage. 

Good to have

• The ability to write with localisation in mind.
• Prior start-up experience with a young consumer brand. 

Important: 

• Please ensure your portfolio links are embedded in your resume. Resumes without portfolio links will automatically be rejected. 
• In case you’re shortlisted, we may ask you to take a short assignment. We promise to keep it fun. Please apply only if you’re okay with this part of the application process. 

Life at slice:

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period. 
• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependants. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise. 
• Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule. 
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.    
• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.  
• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding. 
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.
• We believe in equality. Period.

              At slice, we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any characteristic protected by the applicable law.

              We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner  consistent with the applicable law. Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodate qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job

application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Come join our crew!  

About Us

Meet slice - the simplest way to pay!

We are a one-stop payment app for all your spending needs. Our goal is to make money management simpler & faster for you. We provide an easy & transparent app to help our members transact seamlessly using card or UPI and manage all their spends at one place. We have 12Mn+ registered members with an average age of 27, making us a market leader for the Gen-Z and millennials.  

Oh, btw, our users get up to 2% cashback on all card spends and enjoy new offers every week with spark. They can also scan & pay in a flash and easily send money to friends using slice UPI. 

We are backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

• Selling the company's diabetes management plans through outbound calls to a set of pre generated leads
• Managing relationship with onboarded customers and taking feedback and resolving customer queries
• Receiving in-bound calls from the customer and helping them to understand Oxyjon’s plans and offerings
• Being the second point of contact for partner doctors and hospitals and visiting them when required, to resolve their queries
• Understanding customers’ requirements from the product standpoint and developing an in depth understanding of the healthcare eco-system

Desired Candidate Profile

• A decent understanding of the sales and customer acquisition processes
• Good social skills with ability to understand customer needs and develop relationships with people
• Past experience in successfully closing sales deals remotely is a must
• Must be open to move around in NCR and meet doctors
• Past experience of 3-5 years in similar roles either with healthcare start-ups or in a similar role in related or other industries
• Fluency in English and Hindi is a must
• Must at least be a graduate in any stream from a reputed university
• Person must be proficient in using internet and tools such as Microsoft word and Microsoft Excel    

Primary Duties

• Build a broad knowledge across various systems and processes via knowledge transfer and capture any missing information on the wiki

• Gather software requirements by talking to various stakeholders and document them

• Implement software solutions after discussing the requirements and taking direction from the Technical lead and talking to other colleagues within and outside the team

• Provide necessary effort and time estimates for tasks to aid scheduling and prioritization

• Provide necessary 3rd line support to the Operations teams including software fixes as needed

• Work on any BAU development activity including on-boarding new data sets and delivering new markets into the system

• Work with external vendors from time to time to gather necessary requirements for new data or changes to existing data specifications

• Maintain pro-active communication with relevant stakeholders and keep them updated on progress

General

• Any other duties commensurate with the post holder’s position and seniority; and
• All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 4+ years’ experience of programming in Java.
• 4+ years’ experience working with SQL including complex queries, stored procedures, views, database design and solid understanding of database concepts (preferably SQL Server)
• Experience of both Linux and Windows environments, scripting and tools
• Willing to carry out operational data tasks alongside developing new solutions
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of work
• Excellent communication skills

Beneficial

• Experience working with Cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Experience in handling financial data sets and familiarity with financial instruments (equities, futures, FX)
• Experience working with data pipelines and building ETL solutions
• Experience working with tools like Flink, Kafka and Tableau

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Educated to degree (or equivalent) level or higher.
• A degree with mathematical and computing content (e.g. Computer Science, Maths, Physics)

Job Requirements/Responsibilities :

- Participate as a team member in all phases of software development lifecycle.

- Coordinating with the team on individual responsibilities and roadblocks.

- Perform design, development and testing on individual tasks

- Managing initiatives on UI/UX work

- Transparently share the challenges & feedback.

- Participate in integrated testing of product/ package.

- Designing a modern highly responsive web-based enterprise application component user interface.

- Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

- Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.

- Learn and understand user interactions.

- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

- Coordinating with various teams working on distinct layers.

- Providing technical assistance to the other teammates.

- Keep compliance with Quality Systems and Procedure

• Has a thorough understanding of UX methodology and lifecycle across key channels and platforms. 
• Customer-focused, with experience using design research methods to uncover customer insights  
• Effectively operates within an iterative design team, managing UX  responsibilities against defined milestones and plan with little day-to-day oversight.
• Knowledge of key channels and platforms, with experience in areas of mobile, portable, dedicated, web, or native mobile design.
• Curiosity and commitment to testing new ideas and innovating to drive business results.
• Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator.
• Mastery of design tools such as Sketch, Invision, and Framer.
• Experience with resources such as; pattern library, repositories, and internal communication tools.  
• General awareness of technology mediums (Javascript, HTML/CSS, Obj-C, platform UIs, etc.) including differences between them.
• A dazzling online portfolio demonstrating your strong craft and collaborative process.