Business Development Executive

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector. 

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight, is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

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Preferred knowledge of IATA, GDS, Amadeus, Abacus Sabre

Job Description

Job Purpose 

We work in the latest technology, and our foundations are data structures, algorithms, strong logical reasoning, and mathematics. We are looking for very strong engineers who love coding, optimizing, and making sure their code is the most efficient possible.

You will be involved with hardcore development. If you are an assembler of code or packages from different places to build something, you may not find our team to be the right fit.

You must be someone who can build anything from the ground up. Programming language should not be any barrier for you, as you should be able to pick up any programming language or underlying technology within a week.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Core development. Ready to participate in designing, brainstorming, and development process. You must give sleepless nights to meet deadlines whenever required.

Desired Candidate Profile

Essential Skills 

• Reliable, Accountable and Trustworthy
• Ability to understand software requirements based on a wireframe/program specification
• Familiarity with GoLang / PHP / Python / Java / C / C++ / Linux Shell and Scripting / HTML / CSS / JS / Node.js is a plus
• Effective communication skills to ensure smooth coordination of tasks with Team Leader
• Knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, and PL/SQL is a plus
• Familiarity with ML, TensorFlow, and Keras is a plus
• Knowledge of web servers such as Apache, NGNIX, and the HTTP protocol is plus
• Knowledge of multi-process, threads, memory, and filesystem on Linux is desirable

-Previous experience working as a Shopify developer.

-Strong knowledge of liquid programming language
-Generate custom – tailored Shopify theme and altering pre – existing template.
-Act as Shopify expert, specializing in all facets of the ecommerce platform.
-Strong hands to Install & Customize new Shopify theme.
-Clear concept of HTML5, CSS3, javascript/Jquery.
-Knowledge in other ecommerce platforms like Magento, woocommerce, BigCommerce will be preferred.
-Strong hands to Install & Customize new Shopify theme.
-A proficiency in working with different Shopify JS APIs (storefront, AJAX Cart, Sections etc.
-Excellent troubleshooting skills.
-Good project management skills

Job Responsibilities:

- Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.

- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle: concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.

- Diagnose performance issues, fix bugs (including crashes and ANRs) to increase the functionality of the application.

- Write well designed, testable, efficient code.

- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

- Prepare and produce releases of software components

- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Desired Profile :

B.Sc. (CS or IT) + MCA/ BCA + MCA/ B.Tech. /B.E. (CS or IT) .

Experience required- 1 - 2 years

- Subject Proficient in Java/Kotlin programming

- Knowledge and experience in Flutter Framework and DART programming

- Hands on experience in using RESTful APIs

- Hands on experience in designing and developing micro-services architecture and containers

- Object oriented analysis, UML and design using common design patterns.

- Hands on experience in development IDE Android Studio, Android SDK, Firebase Test Lab

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Familiarity with push notifications

- Familiarity with IOS integration with Flutter

- Experience using GitHub or similar environment

- Complete understanding of SDLC

- Experience with Agile development

- Experience with Material Design and Android UI design principles, patterns and best practices

- Good knowledge of adding third-party libraries for Eg. Twilio

- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

Hi,

PBF details for Project Coordinator profile:

Experience: 1+

Education: BTech/BE/BCA and above, PMP Certification good to have

Responsibility:

1. To manage Mobile/Web Application Projects, Ecommerce and CMS Based Website Projects.
2. Testing of these applications
3. Ensure the projectstays under scope and under prescribed timeline 
4. Communicate with clients and ensure the gap between client and technical team is taken care of.

Must have:

1. Good oral and written communication and pleasing personality.
2. Understanding of technical requirements of mobile/web apps and websites. 

Key Result Areas: 

• Build world class Webapps for the Ola Electric ecosystem.
• Work on a full product development lifecycle from requirement gathering, product design, development, to roll out and maintenance
• Effectively collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders including product and design
• Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end 
• Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure) and code modularity, extensibility, quality
• Experience in building Websites from Scratch is a big plus

Key Skills Required: 

• Min 3+ Years in Web Application Development
• Write clean, solid and testable code while keeping the user experience fast and reliable
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, Reach, Redux 
• Proficient in Web Interface designing
• Experience in developing reusable UI components
• Deep functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services 
• Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply to E-Commerce websites.

Summary
Our Kafka developer has a combination of technical skills, communication skills and business knowledge. The developer should be able to work on multiple medium to large projects. The successful candidate will have excellent technical skills of Apache/Confluent Kafka, Enterprise Data WareHouse preferable GCP BigQuery or any equivalent Cloud EDW and also will be able to take oral and written business requirements and develop efficient code to meet set deliverables.

Must Have Skills

• Participate in the development, enhancement and maintenance of data applications both as an individual contributor and as a lead.
• Leading in the identification, isolation, resolution and communication of problems within the production environment.
• Leading developer and applying technical skills Apache/Confluent Kafka (Preferred) AWS Kinesis (Optional), Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse Google BigQuery (Preferred) or AWS RedShift or SnowFlakes (Optional)
• Design recommending best approach suited for data movement from different sources to Cloud EDW using Apache/Confluent Kafka
• Performs independent functional and technical analysis for major projects supporting several corporate initiatives.
• Communicate and Work with IT partners and user community with various levels from Sr Management to detailed developer to business SME for project definition .
• Works on multiple platforms and multiple projects concurrently.
• Performs code and unit testing for complex scope modules, and projects
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume environment (~900 Million messages)

• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, KSQL, KStream and Kafka Control center.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on AvroConverters, JsonConverters, and StringConverters.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector,  JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
• Working knowledge on Kafka Rest proxy.
• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
• Create stubs for producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.  Leverage Hadoop ecosystem knowledge to design, and develop capabilities to deliver our solutions using Spark, Scala, Python, Hive, Kafka and other things in the Hadoop ecosystem. 
• Use automation tools like provisioning using Jenkins, Udeploy or relevant technologies
• Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
• Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, Data Integration.