Business Development Executive

Springer Capital is a real estate investment firm based in Chicago, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Springer engages in Capital Advisory for APAC Private Equity and Asset Management making financial investments in real estate and other sectors in US markets.

Springer seeks an Operations Intern to join the Technology side of the company. The internship can be onsite in Shanghai or conducted remotely. The start date of the internship is flexible.

Job Highlights:

As an intern for the Business Automation team, you will be focusing on researching and developing tools and workflow that automate some parts of our business automation. As business automation is important throughout the firm, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with teams across Springer.

What you will do as an intern:

Analyze business processes by working closely with other business team to understand the processes and identify areas that can be automated.

Design software solution that can automate business processes, mostly involving researching new automation tools.

Test and debug automation flows to ensure they function as intended.

Provide technical support to the business team and troubleshoot any issues that arise.

Our commitment to your development:

Overarching and detailed training materials before interns hit the desk

Interns will have group calls with the director and supervisors regularly for up-to-date and constructive feedback

Greater leadership and responsibilities will be given to interns based on work quality

Who we are looking for:

Strong experience using Excel.

Passionate about analyzing data.

Experience (preferred) with data analysis.

Research and problem-solving abilities.

About Springer:

Springer Capital focuses on raising capital and solving capital issues in the real estate private equity market. We have experience raising capital for clients across the entire capital spectrum. Client relationships are a top priority for Springer. We establish long-term relationships with investors and lenders as well as have active dialogues with private equities, family offices, pension funds, infrastructure funds, and independent sponsors across Asia. With Springer’s expertise in the housing market, we ensure all parties are aligned in land acquisitions, development, improvements, sales, and lease-up.

Technical and legal Information:

The internship enrollment period is flexible. The expected hours are 20 per week for ~3 months. Upon completion, you will receive an internship confirmation letter, or you can apply to your school for internship credit.

Some educational institutions require prior approval before the start of an internship. It is the responsibility of the student to check with their institution to be sure they meet any requirements before they accept a position.

Roles and Responsibilities:The incumbent will be:

1.) Responsible for inbound/outbound prospect calls and convert them into sales.

2.) Sell products by establishing and developing relationships with prospects.

3.) Ability to convert high revenue leads.

4.) Ability to retain customers to increase repeat business.

5.) Customer identification, call planning, account management and closing.

6.) Maintain all clients contact details in CRM system (Clients Contacts, Call Reports, Price Quotes, Email Correspondence.

7.) Develop and maintain business plans to achieve sales targets.

Desired profile:

1. Graduate in any stream. Engineering graduates preferred.

2. Experience in online / telesales / telemarketing.

3. Proficiency in spoken English is a must.

4. Familiarity with e-commerce and its components

5. Knowledge on software like Zoho CRM, Salesforce is an added advantage.

6. Highly analytical, self-driven individuals preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy services to improve the availability, ease of use/management, and visibility of 6sense systems
• Architecting, building, and scaling out our services and infrastructure
• Learning and adopting technologies that may aide in solving our challenges
• Own our systems like our Hadoop and Presto clusters, front/back-end services, build configurations, infrastructure components, deployment of services into our infrastructure, and everything in between
• Write/review/debug production code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug live production problems
• Contributing back to open-source projects if we need to add or patch functionality
• Support the overall Software Engineering team to resolve any issues they encounter

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years in a Software Engineering role or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience with Linux/Unix system administration and networking fundamentals
• Strong skills in reading code as well as writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code
• Good knowledge of Python and Java
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable services and/or service-oriented architecture
• Experience with high-availability

Bonus Requirements:

• Experience with modern configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and idempotency
• Exposure to modern build systems such as Bazel, Buck, or Pants
• Knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem (e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Presto) including deployment, scaling,
• and maintenance
• Knowledge of standard security practices
• 1+ years of experience working with Kubernetes, Docker
• Good knowledge of Javascript 

• Designing and developing interactively Adapting / Responsive web applications using best practices on ReactJs and the latest front-end technologies.

• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS, LESS / SASS.

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful APIs.

• Participate in complex technical and design decisions for ReactJs projects.

• Ensuring high performance of applications (on mobile and desktop) and providing support.

• Work closely with design teams, development teams and testing teams.

• Coordinate team deliverables assuring Quality and Completeness.

• Unit Testing.

Technical Skills:

• Highly Skilled with proven experience in React 16+ and its State Management tools like Redux, styling framework like Material UI.

• Proficient in CSS, LESS / SASS, Semantic HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code.

• Extensive experience using JavaScript/ Typescript, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, LESS/SASS, Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, Gulp, Grunt etc.

• Good Knowledge in Rest APIs/ GraphQL.

• Experience in tools such as GIT / SourceTree / Bit Bucket, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

• Should have understanding of the agile methodology

• User should have basic knowledge on tools like Figma / Adobe XD and photoshop etc.

Nice to have:

• Nice to have knowledge in Angular, NextJs.

• Nice to have knowledge in Progressive Web Application (PWA), Service Worker and Web Worker, etc.

• Best practices for Website Accessibility (WCAG)

Personal Traits:

• Strong Verbal and Written communication skills, such as meeting facilitation, presentation and documentation

• Work day-to-day with development team, QA testing team, providing expert support to each as needed and appropriate.

• Lead and Coordination experience with critical thinker and good problem-solver.

Education Qualification

• UG: B. Tech / B.E. – Computers OR PG: MCA / M. Tech