Business Development Manager

Job Description:

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Store Manager to oversee daily operations at our retail locations. The Store Manager will be responsible for ensuring the store operates efficiently, meeting sales targets, delivering exceptional customer service, and managing staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily store operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Manage and lead a team of sales associates, setting goals and providing coaching to ensure targets are met.
• Maintain high standards of customer service, addressing customer concerns and feedback.
• Monitor inventory levels, order stock, and manage product displays.
• Analyze sales data and prepare reports for senior management.
• Implement promotional activities and sales strategies to drive revenue.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies, health and safety regulations, and local laws.
• Conduct regular store audits and ensure the store's appearance is up to company standards.
• Handle store budgets, payroll, and scheduling efficiently.
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Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Retail Management, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Store Manager or in a similar retail management role.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication and organizational abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work under pressure.
• Proficiency in MS Office and retail management software.
• Flexibility to work in different shifts, including weekends.
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Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in retail sales or customer service.

Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.

You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
• End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
• Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.

Nice to have's (but not required):

• Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
• Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure

The core objective of this project is to upgrade the Dance School website, developed on the Wix platform, to include advanced features and functionalities that cater to both our users and administrative team.

• Professional Dashboard Development:
• Redesign and enhance the existing benchmark tool to a more professional standard. This includes improving the UI/UX design, functionality, and integration within the website.

Engagement Type:

• Mode of Work: Remote
• Shift Time: 6 AM to 3 PM IST

This Role Requires:

• Minimum Exp Required: 3 Years
• Wix Platform Expertise: The developer should have a strong understanding of the Wix platform, including its capabilities, limitations, and best practices for customization.

Interview Rounds:

• Technical and HR Technical Round - Ask questions on the previous work experience.
• HR - Behavioural and cultural fit.

Our Engineering Team 

Keka Engineering Team follows modern engineering practices and works with latest stack. Refactoring is central to our philosophy to evolve the design, maintain code consistency and adapt to dynamic business needs. We believe in DevOps practices, there is no fixed release cycle; our CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, blue-green deployment and other related practices gives us flexibility to deploy multiple times a day (if required). Our Engineering team is made up of small cohesive teams embracing Agile; working on focus areas to deliver awesome experiences to our Customers. Keka Engineering Team works on complex technical challenges, learns & adapts and most importantly; we have fun along the way.  

As a Mobile developer you are required to work with a team of architects, and developers to create mobile applications.

·       Design and build applications for the iOS platform

·       Ensure the performance, quality, and knowledge of best practices

·       Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

·       Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·       Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

·       Working knowledge of the general mobile orientation, architecture, trends, and emerging technologies.

·       Solid understanding of the full mobile application development life cycle.

·       Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

·       Self-starter having the ability to independently acquire the knowledge required in succeeding his job.

·       Good communication skills. Should be able to discuss requirement for stake holders like, Product Owner and other Business stakeholders

·       Proficient with Swift 5 & above

·       Strong understanding of MVVM Architecture and should be able to demonstrate working experience

·       Strong knowledge of Design patterns

·       Strong with Auto layout and Storyboard for proficient user interface creation

·       Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

·       Experience with Online/Offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

·       Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

·       Knowledge of UX standards

·       Should have experience with Unit Testing

·       Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

·       Review code, follow best practices for coding guidelines

·       Proficient with writing reusable code

·       Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications, social media integration, and integration of analytics

·       Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·       Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git / SVN, Swift Package Manager, Cocoa Pods)

·       Familiarity with continuous integration

·       Knowledge of Appstore Deployment process/norms

·       Good knowledge of Certificate and Profile creations

·       Good knowledge of distribution builds for testing over TestFlight or similar distribution tools.

Position: Solutions Engineer

As an APAC Solutions Engineer, you will be an integral player on the Sales team in positioning, demonstrating, and developing creative solutions for key customers and prospects. You will be the trusted solutions advisor for our customers by creating solutions that align with the NextBillion.ai technology stack.

Reporting to the VP of Sales and Customer Success, you will be the primary technical interface between our sales prospects and the Product and Engineering team.

We are looking for a Maps and Locations-Based Services expert with excellent technical, communication, organisational, and customer-facing skills. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• In partnership with sales personnel, marshal prospects through the sales cycle by providing professional technical, integration, and development support.
• Work closely with our sales prospects in APAC to identify and solve their most critical business problems with a deep understanding of the NextBillion.ai architecture and feature set.
• Articulate customer requirements and solutions to different technical and non-technical stakeholders so as to enable successful execution of the engineering work.
• Organise and lead product-related webinars and training sessions.
• In coordination with sales personnel, assist in the response to all technical details in RFIs/RFPs
• Continually assess prospect and customer feedback as well as industry trends in providing feedback to product teams
• Support sales and customer success teams in onboarding newly signed customers into the post-sales support process
• A small amount of travel is required for prospect and customer meetings.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 6+ years experience in technical consulting, solutions engineering or product management. 
• Prior experience with proprietary as well as open-source map products and tools, such as maps from HERE, TomTom and OSM, and supporting toolsets such as  QGIS.
• Adept and agile in working with a variety of frameworks and programming languages both frontend and backend e.g. JavaScript, Node.js,  Python, Angular, React, Rust, Go
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs and service endpoints for both design and implementation
• Experience with using cloud native services from popular hosting providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. 
• Understanding of common development practices, ticketing systems, and revision control systems using `git`i.e. Gitlab/Github, ClickUp/JIRA

Beneficial/Nice-to-Haves: (optional)

• Industry experience in mobility services, fleet management, logistics/last-mile delivery, and/or connected car service
• Some prior experience with data science and/or machine learning teams.

ABOUT NBAI

NextBillion.ai is a first-ever decentralised, customizable, and tailored map stack focused on the transportation/logistics industry. NextBillion.ai helps solve highly complex transportation and operational challenges. Every customer, use case, and geography is different, and NextBillion.ai is able to integrate these differences directly into their mapping environment.

NextBillion.ai provides last-mile delivery, telematics, food delivery, automotive, and ride-hail with location tools and API's that help them adopt an AI-first approach. NextBillion.ai is customizable to be hyper-local and pinpoint accurate for difficult to solve enterprise use cases.

Nextbillion.ai was founded in January 2020 by Ajay Bulusu, Gaurav Bubna and Shaolin Zheng. They were formerly part of the map team at Grab, a multinational ride-hailing and food delivery company. 

Skill Requirements:

• At least 3 to 9 years experience of using .NET development
• Experience in using ASP.NET or .Net Core for developing Windows, Web applications
• A good understanding of WPF, WCF, XAML, MVVM, MVC, Design Patterns
• A good understanding of T-SQL, MS SQL
• A solid understanding of OOP principles
• A good understanding of N-tier and N-layered architecture
• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Experience in working effectively as part of a team
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Inter-personal skills
• A flexible approach and ability to adapt
• Ability to work under own initiative