Business Development Manager (BDM)

Location: Remote

Availability: Weekends only – especially Sundays

Compensation: Unpaid (Volunteer-based)

Cause: Supporting underprivileged children through education, mentorship & empowerment

Are you passionate about making a real difference in your community?

Unessa Foundation invites compassionate and committed individuals to join us as Weekend Volunteers in Vadodara.

What You'll Do:

• Spend quality time interacting and engaging with underprivileged children
• Support in basic learning activities, fun games, storytelling, and mentorship
• Help organize Sunday educational or creative sessions

Why Volunteer With Us?

• Gain hands-on experience working in the social impact space.
• Gain friendships and build relationships for a lifetime.
• Develop leadership, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Be part of a mission to uplift young lives and give them a brighter future.

Ideal Candidate:

• Available on Sundays (minimum 3 hours commitment)
• Passionate about children’s education and welfare
• Friendly, reliable, and eager to learn

Job Description:  

Responsibilities: 

• Completing all tasks set by the supervisor and assisting wherever possible.  
• Observing existing strategies, techniques of coding, debugging, testing and adopting to the same 
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure 
• Ability to work in a team. 
• Good observation skills and a willingness to learn. 

Skills: 

• Proficiency in data structures and algorithms 
• Good problem solving and analytical thinking skills 
• Knowledge of Linux systems 
• Python coding knowledge 
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming 
• Good verbal and written communication skills.  

Requisition Raised by:  

Engineering Director 

Skills:-

Javascript, HTML, CSS, Angular.

Responsibilities: -

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.

• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to
front-end requests.

• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.

• Designing customer-facing UI and Front-end services for various business
processes.

• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and
efficient code.

• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and
storage solutions.

• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.

• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as
preparing reports.

• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and
technologies.

• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Front-end development.

Required Skills and Professional Expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.

• Proven hands-on- experience on Software Development.

• At least one year of experience in Angular js.

• Hands-on-experience in designing application using  Angular js, HTML, CSS, Javascript.

• Profound insights of Angular (Class loading, Memory Management,
Transaction Management etc.)

• Experience in developing Web applications using at least one popular web
framework (MVC)

• Experience with test-driven development.

• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

• Strong experience in building UI and Backend process, APIs using PHP and CI technology stack
• Excellent knowledge and experience of CodeIgniter CI
• Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and Bootstrap
• Good knowledge and experience in MySQL
• Good experience in the build and deployment process

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Laravel, and CodeIgniter.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.

What will we be building together?

1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.

Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.

What will you be driving with the team?

To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.

Your core responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
• Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
• Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
• Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 6 month+ experience in software development.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Whom you will be sharing your workday with?

We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are: 

• We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.