Business Development Associate

Introduction

About Us:

Mercari is a Japan-based C2C marketplace company founded in 2013 with the mission to “Create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” From being the first tech unicorn from Japan before its IPO in 2018 we have come a long way towards becoming a global player and continuously and diligently work towards our transformation journey with a strong focus on our mission.

Since its inception, Mercari Group has worked to grow its services, investing in both our people and technology. Over time Mercari has expanded from being the top player in the C2C marketplace in Japan to new geographies like the U.S. We have also successfully launched new businesses such as Merpay, which is a mobile payment service platform with a vision to create a society where anyone can realize their dreams through a new ecosystem centered not only on payment service but also on credit. Today, Mercari Group is made up of multiple subsidiary businesses including logistics, B2C platform, blockchain, and sports team management.

For our services to be utilized by people worldwide; however, there is still a mountain of work ahead of us. This endeavor naturally requires the capability of the best talent and minds, and that is exactly the reason for us to launch the India Center of Excellence. With your help, we will continue to take on the world stage and strive to grow into a successful global tech company.

Our Culture:

To achieve our mission at Mercari, our organization and each of our employees share the same values and perspectives. Our individual guidelines for action are defined by our four values: Go Bold, All for One, Be a Pro and Move Fast. Our organization is also shaped by our four foundations: Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Trust & Openness, and Well-being for Performance. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and something we want to preserve throughout our organization. We invite you to read the Mercari Culture Doc which summarizes the behaviors and mindset shared by Mercari and its employees. We continue to build an environment where all of our members of diverse backgrounds are accepted and recognized, and where they can thrive while holding dear to Mercari’s culture.

Work Responsibilities

• Machine learning engineers working in the Recommendation domain develop the functions and services of the marketplace app Mercari through the development and maintenance of machine learning systems like Recommender systems while leveraging necessary infrastructure and companywide platform tools. 
• Mercari is actively applying advanced machine learning technology to provide a more convenient, safer, and more enjoyable marketplace. Machine learning engineers use the cloud and Kubernetes to operate and improve machine learning systems.

Bold Challenges

• We are looking for people who are interested in our services, mission, and values, and want to work where engineers can go bold, use the latest technology, make autonomous decisions, and take on challenges at a rapid pace.
• Develop and optimize machine learning algorithms and models to enhance recommendation system to improve discovery experience of users
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and product stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, and implement features that improve user engagement
• Conduct data analysis and experimentation with large-scale data sets to identify patterns, trends, and insights that drive the refinement of recommendation algorithms
• Utilize machine learning frameworks and libraries to deploy scalable and efficient recommendation solutions.
• Monitor system performance and conduct A/B testing to evaluate the effectiveness of features.
• Continuously research and stay updated on advancements in AI/machine learning techniques and recommend innovative approaches to enhance recommendation capabilities.

Minimum Requirements:

• Over 5-9 years of professional experience in end-to-end development of large-scale ML systems in production
• Strong experience demonstrating development and delivery of end-to-end machine learning solutions starting from experimentation to deploying models, including backend engineering and MLOps, in large scale production systems.
• Experience using common machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas)
• Deep understanding of machine learning and software engineering fundamentals
• Basic knowledge and skills related to monitoring system, logging, and common operations in production environment
• Communication skills to carry out projects in collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders

Preferred skills:

• Experience developing Recommender systems utilizing large-scale data sets
• Basic knowledge of enterprise search systems and related stacks (e.g. ELK)
• Functional development and bug fixing skills necessary to improve system performance and reliability
• Experience with technology such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
• Microservice development and operation experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Utilizing deep learning models/LLMs in production
• Experience in publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Employment Status

Full-time

Office

Bangalore

Hybrid workstyle

• We believe in high performance and professionalism. We work from office for 2 days/week and work from home 3 days/week
• To build a strong & highly-engaged organization in India, we highly encourage everyone to work from our Bangalore office, especially during the initial office setup phase
• We will continue to review and update the policy to address future organizational needs

Work Hours

• Full flextime (no core time)

*Flexible to choose working hours other than team common meetings

Media

Owned Media

• Mercari Engineering Portal
• AI at Mercari portal
• Mercan - Introduces the people that make Mercari
• Mercari US Blog

Related Articles

• Development Platforms and Platformers: On Rising to the Global Standard Ken Wakasa, Mercari CTO | mercan
• “I'm Not a Talented Engineer” Insists the Member-Turned-Manager Revamping Our Internal CS Tool | mercan
• Personalize to globalize:How Mercari is reshaping their app, their company, and the world | mercan
• The Providers of the Safe and Secure Mercari Experience: The TnS Team, Introduced by Its Members! | mercan

Role: PHP Developer

Exp: 2-3 Years

Budget: 40-50k INR Per Month 

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 to 3 years of experience in PHP development.
• Proficient in CodeIgniter 3 & 4 frameworks.
• Strong expertise in JQuery, JavaScript, and MySQL.
• Experience in handling server management and related configurations.
• Knowledge of Payment Gateway integrations and ensuring secure transactions.
• Understanding of Ubuntu server environments and deployment.
• Experience in developing and consuming REST APIs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.

• Enterprise Network Implementation for Global Enterprise customers.
• Extensive experience in a network implementation environment gained in an ISP or telco or enterprise environment.
• Good technical knowledge and practical experience of BGP, OSPF routing protocols & switching technology.
• Conversant in best practices appropriate to network design and security.
• Understanding of hardware and software performance and scaling limitations.
• Network implementation, and management using Cisco Routers & switches ( Nexus & Catalyst), Juniper M and T series routers, and Aruba Wireless.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – confidence and professionalism both in working with multinational project teams and with clients on various levels of the organisation, from technical audiences to senior management
• Analytical and critical thinking; innovative problem-solving capability for complex customer requirements
• Ability to work under pressure from both customers and internal stakeholders and produce solution designs that are deliverable

Experience:
• A minimum of 4 years’ total experience in the areas of Networking and Telecommunications technologies
• At least 2 years’ experience in dealing with large, corporate customers in a technical solution Implementation profile.

Overview

Adesso India specialises in optimization of core business processes for organizations. Our focus is on providing state-of-the-art solutions that streamline operations and elevate productivity to new heights.

Comprised of a team of industry experts and experienced technology professionals, we ensure that our software development and implementations are reliable, robust, and seamlessly integrated with the latest technologies. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and skills, we empower businesses to achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer with expertise in C#, MS-SQL, and RESTful API development. As a Mid-Senior Backend Developer, you will play a vital role in designing, building, and maintaining robust backend systems to support our applications. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex backend services, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive successful project delivery.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using C# and MS-SQL.

Create and manage efficient RESTful APIs to enable seamless integration with frontend applications.

Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure effective communication and alignment on project requirements.

Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize backend applications for maximum performance, reliability, and scalability.

Document code and workflows, adhering to best practices and coding standards.

Requirements:

Minimum of 4-6 years of experience in backend development, with strong expertise in C# and MS-SQL.

Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications.

Strong knowledge of database design, querying, and optimization with MS-SQL.

Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have:

Experience working with Content Management Systems (CMS), especially Optimizely.

Familiarity with web development concepts and integration with frontend framework

Knowledge of agile methodologies and working in cross-functional, collaborative teams.

Skills & Requirements

C#, MS-SQL, RESTful API development, Backend services, Database design, Querying, Optimization, Debugging, Troubleshooting, Scalability, CMS, Optimizely, Web development, Frontend integration, Agile methodologies, Collaboration.

Job Overview:

All Time Design is looking for a results-driven Business Development Executive who are actively seeking for new business opportunities, engage and build relationships with potential customers. You will provide complete and appropriate solutions for every potential customer

to boost top-line revenue growth, customer acquisition levels, and profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Qualify leads from marketing campaigns as sales opportunities
• Contact potential prospects through cold calls and emails
• Present our company to potential prospects
• Identify prospect's needs and suggest appropriate products/services
• Build long-term trusting relationships with prospects
• Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
• Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) customers and Sales Manager
• Report to the Sales Manager on sales results

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Sales Lead / Sales Development Representative / Sales Account Executive or similar role
• Hands-on experience with multiple sales prospecting techniques like cold calling, cold emailing and social outreach.
• Track record of achieving sales quotas
• Experience working with a CRM
• Fair understanding of sales performance metrics
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to deliver engaging presentations

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹20,000.00 - ₹50,000.00 per month

Supplemental Pay:

• Commission pay

Shift:

• Rotational shift

Person should be with degree in B.E/ B. Tech in Mech./ Electronics/ Electrical/ Production with 2-year prior experience in sales. Must have DL can drive his two-wheeler/4 wheeler for a sales call.

Experience in IIOT sales preferred.  

1. Basic understanding of Consultative and technical Sales, and IIoT(Industry 4.0)
2. Sales prospecting in the Manufacturing Industry and prior experience in sales for Industrial consumables/ M/c Tools/ software/ Industrial projects will be preferable.
3. Qualification of the prospects and visit /meeting for Sales Process movement.
4. Coordination with Presale for solutions and technical proposal making.
5. Building and enhancing the Pipeline of Qualified Prospects for Digital Transformation initiatives/ OEE/ CBMS/ Utility monitoring etc.
6. Working and ensuring to achieve revenue targets on a quarterly/yearly basis.
7. Capable of discussing with CXO for Meetings requests for commercial qualification of the opportunity.
8. Open for Travel.

Global Quality Assurance Testing Services Department is looking for Quality Assurance Tester who has expertise with web-based, mobile and client server application testing.

As a Quality Assurance Tester individual will heavily interface and work very closely with Development Team, Project Management Office and business users. Position requires coordination, analytical and problem-solving skills, risks mitigation and assurance timely deliverables with best possible quality. Individual will be responsible to analyze business and technical specification, test cases creation, test cases execution and defects identification.

As a Quality Assurance Tester, individual will be responsible to provide wide range of testing services including test cases creation and execution, and performing different types of testing (Functional, System, Integration, Regression, multi-Browser)

The individual will be responsible to gather and analyze test data in support of business cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements. This will include writing test plan strategies and test procedures documents as well as test cases for positive and negative scenarios. The Quality Assurance Tester will apply proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate IT processes through careful testing in order to maximize the benefit of business investments in IT initiatives.  The candidate will establish and utilize quality assurance best practices, methodologies and approaches for all projects. Time management, communication (verbal/written) skills and previous testing experience is preferred.

Position requires attendance on various meetings, conference calls, walkthrough sessions and representing Global QA Testing Services Department. The position will report directly into Offshore Quality Lead.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Analyze user requirements, functional specification and create detailed level test cases for new online products and features projects
• Hands on experience in designing and developing test automation scripts using selenium and JAVA.
• Documents, tracks, and communicates test results, analysis, and unresolved problems.
• Knowledge of test processes and defect life cycle. 
• Defects identification, escalation and root cause analysis and review
• Experience with carrying out different type of testing such as, functional, regression, cross-Browser and system testing
• Ability to identify set of test cases that will be a good fit for automation and scope out automation coverage for a particular project.
• Execution of Selenium automation scripts during regression testing cycles
• Producing statistical reports on test phase execution.
• Providing recommendation to management towards continues quality assurance improvements
• Supporting production implementation testing activities on weekends when it’s required 

Qualifications & Requirements:

• At minimum 7-8 years Quality Assurance experience and minimum 5 years in automation testing.  
• Experience in automation testing (Selenium & Java)
• Minimum 3 project work experience on Open Source (PHP/MySQL) application
• Minimum 1 project work experience on Mobile or Client Server application
• Ability to create comprehensive test cases and test plans
• Ability to conduct requirements review for business requirements and functional requirements documents
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a high pressure delivery oriented team environment
• Willing to work with a distributed international team
• Great communication (verbal/written) skills
• Must be good team player
• Must be aware and accustomed to work with software development culture and ethics.

Data Platform engineering at Uber is looking for a strong Technical Lead (Level 5a Engineer) who has built high quality platforms and services that can operate at scale. 5a Engineer at Uber exhibits following qualities: 

• Demonstrate tech expertise › Demonstrate technical skills to go very deep or broad in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leverageable solutions. 
• Execute large scale projects › Define, plan and execute complex and impactful projects. You communicate the vision to peers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across teams › Domain resource to engineers outside your team and help them leverage the right solutions. Facilitate technical discussions and drive to a consensus.
• Coach engineers › Coach and mentor less experienced engineers and deeply invest in their learning and success. You give and solicit feedback, both positive and negative, to others you work with to help improve the entire team.
• Tech leadership › Lead the effort to define the best practices in your immediate team, and help the broader organization establish better technical or business processes.

What You’ll Do

• Build a scalable, reliable, operable and performant data analytics platform for Uber’s engineers, data scientists, products and operations teams.
• Work alongside the pioneers of big data systems such as Hive, Yarn, Spark, Presto, Kafka, Flink to build out a highly reliable, performant, easy to use software system for Uber’s planet scale of data. 
• Become proficient of multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale, service while building these capabilities for Uber's engineers and operation folks.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years experience in building large scale products, data platforms, distributed systems in a high caliber environment.
• Architecture: Identify and solve major architectural problems by going deep in your field or broad across different teams. Extend, improve, or, when needed, build solutions to address architectural gaps or technical debt.
• Software Engineering/Programming: Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable and reusable. advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Java, Python, Go, and Scala.
• Data Engineering: Expertise in one of the big data analytics technologies we currently use such as Apache Hadoop (HDFS and YARN), Apache Hive, Impala, Drill, Spark, Tez, Presto, Calcite, Parquet, Arrow etc. Under the hood experience with similar systems such as Vertica, Apache Impala, Drill, Google Borg, Google BigQuery, Amazon EMR, Amazon RedShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos etc.
• Execution & Results: You tackle large technical projects/problems that are not clearly defined. You anticipate roadblocks and have strategies to de-risk timelines. You orchestrate work that spans multiple teams and keep your stakeholders informed.
• A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others’ candid feedback for continuous improvement.
• Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.