Business Development Intern

Location: Pune

Required Skills : Scala, Python, Data Engineering, AWS, Cassandra/AstraDB, Athena, EMR, Spark/Snowflake

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

As a Principal Engineer / Architect you will be responsible for creating a technical strategy and coordinating the designs for meeting the needs of Toast’s largest restaurant brands. You will partner with Product Managers to develop the technology roadmap that enables enterprise customers to leverage the power of Toast. You will also work closely with technical leaders and implementation teams across the organization to deliver robust, scalable solutions with integrations to customers’ external systems.

As the engineering leader on the Pricing & Funds Management team, you will be responsible for evolving our Funds Management platform (processing >$150B in annual GPV) to meet Toast’s growing needs across the world by both delivering best-in-class customer facing Fintech products and foundational capabilities that enable partner teams to accelerate their products time-to-market & scale.

If you’re a technical leader or a solutions architect, experienced with enterprise SaaS, passionate about customer value, and a great collaborator, read on! 

About this roll*:

• Design mission critical platform components at scale to ensure Toast’s Funds Management platform accurately distributes funds to beneficial party in a timely manner
• Develop an expert understanding of Toast’s payments processing platform & adjacent products to enable funds flows across Toast’s financial product suite in a seamless manner
• Document solution design, write & review code, test and rollout solutions to production, capturing & actioning customer feedback to iteratively enhance customer experience
• Collaborate with peers to optimise for solution design performance, flexibility and scalable, including enablement of multi-product & engineering teams on a common framework & platform
• Partner with UX, Product Management, QA and adjacent engineering teams to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing

Do you have the right ingredients*?

• Strong technologist with 12+ years experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions. Experience with a broad set of technologies that includes those used at Toast - tiered web applications, microservices, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin and data analytics
• Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale Fintech platforms
• Strong interpersonal skills and a proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
• Experience shipping iterative value using agile or lean software delivery methods. 
• Experience of tackling complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed 
• Experience building payments & Fintech products, with at least 10+ years in the payments industry

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community.

We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Business Development Executive with a minimum of 5 years of experience in IT sales to join our team. This role is crucial in driving business growth, establishing and nurturing client relationships, and expanding our footprint in the competitive USA IT market.

Responsibilities:

1. Conduct in-depth research to identify potential clients, industry trends, and market opportunities in the USA IT sector.
2. Develop and implement lead generation strategies, which may include cold calling, targeted email campaigns, networking, and leveraging professional networks.
3. Establish and maintain relationships with C-level executives, IT decision-makers, and key stakeholders to understand their IT needs and challenges.
4. Articulate the value proposition of our IT products and services to potential clients, addressing how our solutions can address their specific business objectives.
5. Create and customize compelling proposals and presentations tailored to clients needs and objectives.
6. Skilfully negotiate terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring win-win outcomes for both the client and our organization.
7. Identify and collaborate with strategic partners and vendors to enhance our IT product and service offerings and expand our market reach.
8. Meet and exceed revenue and sales targets, driving business growth and market share within the USA IT sector.
9. Gather and provide valuable insights and feedback to shape the development of IT solutions and influence marketing strategies.
10. Maintain accurate records of sales activities, track performance against objectives, and generate regular reports to senior management.
11. Stay updated on emerging IT trends, products, and technologies, and continually enhance product knowledge.

 Qualifications and Skills:

1. Bachelor's degree in business, IT, or any field.
2. A minimum of 5 years of successful business development and IT sales experience in the USA market.
3. Comprehensive understanding of IT products, solutions, and services.
4. Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
5. Proven track record in closing complex IT sales deals in a competitive market.
6. Results-driven with a demonstrated passion for IT sales.
7. Strong project management and organizational skills.
8. Proficiency in CRM software and sales analytics.
9. Positive attitude, resilience, and adaptability in a dynamic business environment.

About Apexon:

Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 17 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation. Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving our clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We focus on three broad areas of digital services: User Experience (UI/UX, Commerce); Engineering (QE/Automation, Cloud, Product/Platform); and Data (Foundation, Analytics, and AI/ML), and have deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences.

Apexon is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital.

To know more about us please visit: https://www.apexon.com/

About the role:

• Experience: 7+ years of experience building modern web applications working in the fullstack
• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript with a thorough understanding of React.js or Vue.js and their core principles preferred
• Implementing RESTful APIs using .Net/C# preferred with experience with .Net Core, .Net 5 or 6 a bonus!
• Experience with SQL and relational database design with MS SQL Server experience is added advantage
• Experience with NoSQL/document database technologies
• Experience writing automated unit tests in the full stack environment
• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Familiarity with modern front-end and backend build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Experience with modern responsive web application design & development Familiarity with Node.js
• Experience with microservice architecture
• Experience using Git version control
• Experience with VS Code, Visual Studio, or other relevant development tools
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile principles
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
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Required skill set:

• Candidate must be good in JavaScript and have experience in at least one modern JavaScript framework such as Vue/Angular/React. But must be willing to work in Vue/React.
• Must have experience in .NET Framework. Good to have experience in .NET Core/.NET 5/6/7. But must be willing and capable enough to learn .NET Core.
• Should be able to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Must be good in programming concepts such as OOPS, Unit Tests, Web API, SQL, etc

JD mentioned below:

• Hands on Experience with Microsoft Power Automate Flows & Desktop versions. Experience in developing and delivering MS365 solutions based on Microsoft and Cloud best practices.
• Modelling and developing out robotic processes using Microsoft Power Automate and Azure Form Recognizer during the project development stage.
• Experience in Azure Form Recogniser
• Hands-on experience in developing, improving, and supporting RPA programs with data integrity standards.
• Proficiency in one or more system level programming languages (C#, Java, Python, Angular 12 etc.) and a willingness to learn new languages.
• Understanding data structures and follows coding best practices, e.g. naming conventions, error handling, logging, and commenting.
• Good knowledge on end to end automation analysis and feasibility.
• Ability to perform feasibility of automating business processes.
• Ability to solve a problem using critical thinking, including assessment of existing process to determine feasibility of Automation and the ability to break down business problems into logical tasks .
• Ability to perform code readability to understand how the code is implemented and documented ability to understand the dependencies for the code to run.

 Preferred Skills:

• Microsoft Power Automate certification will be an added advantage.
• Must be able to perform administration of Power Automate in Admin Centre .
• Must have hands-on experience and troubleshooting knowledge in Power Automate. Functional knowledge of Agile development and RPA development lifecycle management principles.
• Hands-on at least one other RPA Tools Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Ui Path etc..
• Must be able to communicate and work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
• Must be capable of taking initiative, with a firm understanding of the final goal to be achieved.
• Must be an excellent team player possesses strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Able to handle confidential and sensitive company information

Required Candidate profile

Perks and Benefits 

Must Have Experience/Attributes -
Multi-year experience in Designing & Coding Applications of a successful Online platform
Experience in Designing Distributed Applications @ Scale
Proficiency with scalability and high availability strategies for Java Services & Microservices on distributed platform
Defining solution based on the set of Non Functional Requirements - security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability
Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting expertise
Strong desire and ability to look for and adopt best practices/community driven open source framework and technologies into design deliverables
Should be obsessed with code quality, performance optimization and tools usage to improve productivity/quality
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Experience of driving activities to influence code quality and process rigor
Enthusiastically follow technology trends, software engineering best practice and technologies while enjoying the challenge of solving complex problems
Experience of working on E-commerce platform
Experience in Dockers and container orchestration on Kubernetes
Working Experience in Integration Technologies / Middleware like Kafka, Rabbit MQ , ESB
Knowledge on Cloud Ecosystem - Added Advantage