Business Development Associate

Job Description

WowPe is a leading fintech company revolutionizing the way businesses handle financial transactions. Our suite of innovative products includes a secure Payment Gateway for seamless online transactions, robust Payouts solutions to streamline bulk payments, and a versatile Point of Sale (POS) system for efficient in-store transactions. At WowPe, we’re dedicated to providing user-friendly, scalable, and reliable solutions that empower businesses to grow and succeed in today’s fast-paced digital economy.

We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Business Development Associate to support customer acquisition and revenue growth initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys building relationships, and has a strong interest in the fintech and payments ecosystem.

The Business Development Associate will work closely with internal teams to understand customer needs, contribute to sales strategies, and help deliver solutions that create long-term value for clients and the organization.

A Day in the Life

• Identify and connect with prospective clients through outreach, networking, and referrals.
• Support the sales pipeline by qualifying leads and scheduling discovery conversations.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and onboarding teams to craft tailored customer solutions.
• Prepare proposals, presentations, and sales materials.
• Track sales activities, maintain CRM records, and monitor pipeline health.
• Stay informed on industry trends, competitor offerings, and emerging opportunities within the payments space.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in acquiring new customers across target segments.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with prospects and partners.
• Support the development and execution of sales strategies and go-to-market plans.
• Understand client requirements and coordinate internally to deliver appropriate solutions.
• Maintain an organised approach to pipeline management and reporting.
• Conduct market research and gather competitor intelligence to support business growth.
• Contribute to achieving team revenue goals through proactive business development efforts.

Basic Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, or a related field.
• 1 - 4 years of experience in business development, sales, partnerships, or a customer-facing role.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Self-starter with a proactive and goal-oriented mindset.
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities.

JOB DETAILS:

- Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

- Industry: Ride-hailing

- Experience: 6-9 years

- Working Days: 5 days/week

- Work Mode: ONSITE

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Required Skills: Cloud & Infrastructure Operations, Kubernetes & Container Orchestration, Monitoring, Reliability & Observability, Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible etc., Strong problem-solving skills with scripting (Python/Go/Shell)

Criteria:

1.   Candidate must be from a product-based or scalable app-based start-ups company with experience handling large-scale production traffic.

2.   Minimum 6 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

3.   Candidate must have 2 years of experience as an lead (handling team of 3 to 4 members at least)

4.   Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed

5.   Candidate must have Self experience in database migration from scratch 

6.   Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

7.   Should have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

8.   Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

9.   Working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

10.   Working experience on Cloud platform -AWS

11. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation.

Description

Job Summary:

As a DevOps Engineer at company, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.

Job Responsibilities:

● Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs

● Codify our infrastructure

● Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%

● Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities

● Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes

● Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization

● Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos

Job Requirements:

● B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience

● Minimum 6 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

● Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

● Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

● Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to write scripts using any scripting language

● Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

● Comfortable working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

What’s there for you?

Company’s team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as

● 150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks Golang/ java/ node

● More than 100,000 Request per second on our edge gateways

● ~20,000 events per second on self-managed Kafka

● 100s of TB of data on self-managed databases

● 100s of real-time continuous deployment to production

● Self-managed infra supporting

● 100% OSS

Key Skills and Requirements

· Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Node.js and Express.js

· Bachelor Degree in Computer Science OR in related field B.sc - IT/ BCA /MCA/B.Tech/M.Tech

· Programming experience in Web Application development with Node.js and Express.js

· Must have experience in JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js or have extensive exposure in any MVC framework

· Expert in MySQL and Store Procedures

· Knowledge of REST API / Web API protocol

· Understanding HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, JSON, OOPs well enough

· Good to have: React Js.

· Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills

· Ability to write clear, concise, well-structured, and well-organized code

· Experience with third-party libraries and APIs(Zoho, Leadsquared, Knowlarity, Exotel, LCode, Karza, Google API, DIGIO, etc)

· Ability to identify weaknesses in existing code and improve it

Plus but not required

· A plus if you have Slide experience with Git Command lines.

· A plus if you have any experience with Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket.

· A plus if you have any experience with UI Design

· A plus if you have any experience with PHP, CodeIgniter

· A plus if you have any experience with React JS/Angular JS

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

· Work with outside data sources and APIs

· Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

· Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

 Extensive (4+ years) knowledge of web technologies and building large scale web applications​

· Strong proficiency in Java Script​

· Expertise in Object-oriented programming​

· Understanding the fully asynchronous behavior of React.js (Redux)

· Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and MVC/MVP/MVVM patterns specific​

to front- end development​

· Good in problem-solving skills​

· Good in English communication (verbal and written)

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford.

The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen.

At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

• You will get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup.
• You get to define the future of telecom infrastructure ownership and operations.
• We’re a tight-knit team where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
• Opportunity to build for the next billion users.

• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science
• Experience architecting, developing, and testing full-stack code end-to-end
• Experience working with relational & NoSQL databases
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience working with MERN Stack, performing unit/feature testing, and managing REST APIs.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of any one frontend framework/libraries like Angular/VueJs/ReactJS.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT, SVN.
• Experience in building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites with any frontend css frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind CSS.
• Build backend APIs and services that power new products that interact with Solana (or other) blockchains
• Build front-end Web3 interfaces that interact with your backend code
• Participate in design discussions with business users, web producers and engineering teams.
• Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements.
• Write clean, concise, and sustainable code.
• Team player who enjoys collaborative effort.

• Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that)
• You’re passionate about crypto, Web3
• Customer-centric and passionate about working in a small & focused team
• Previous experience building/working in telecom software or infrastructure
• Previous experience building web3 project - DeFi / Blockchain infrastructure
• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

General Accountabilities/Job Responsibilities

• Participation in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• The candidate is expected to write code himself/herself.
• The candidate is expected to write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
• Practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template
• designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
• Contributes to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
• Works closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best
• quality of product.
• There is also the opportunity to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.

Job Specifications

• BE/B. Tech. Computer Science or MCA from a reputed University.
• 3 -12 Years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
• Hands on experience in Core Java, Multithreading, RMI, Socket programing,
• JDBC, NIO, webservices and Design patterns.
• Should have Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks,
• ESB etc.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database is essential.
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive are desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Should have experience as a participant in Agile methodologies.
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a Fullstack requirement, we are purely looking out for Backend resources.

Job Responsibilities:

• Experienced in successfully delivering projects with an effort of at least 300 MM - 400 MM
• Delivering projects in Capital Market domain – either in implementation projects or in BAU support projects
• Strong grasp on project management methodologies: planning, work break down, estimation & tracking
• Knowledge on estimation techniques, risk management
• Development background on JEE based application

Desired Traits:

• Very good communication & presentation skill
• Managing different types of stakeholders
• Good leadership skill including conflict resolution and expectation management of project team

Certification:  PMP