Business development associate

Role Description:

Do you like to get people’s attention with visuals? 

At Astra, we're looking for a graphic designer who likes to show off their creative flair and communicate to the world with their designs. This role will be dynamic, including understanding the design needs, developing visual concepts, and revising feedback-based designs.

About us:

Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India-based company. Backed by Techstars, Astra offers a Pentest Platform, which emulates hacker behavior & helps organizations become proactively secure.

Astra's Pentest Platform helps organizations proactively uncover vulnerabilities in their applications and comply with various security standards. The Pentest Platform has uncovered 100,000+ vulnerabilities in customer applications. Astra's Website Protection suite stops one million+ threats on its customers' web applications daily. To offer a homogenous experience to its customers, Astra Security incorporates cutting-edge solutions that are easy to comprehend and tailor-made to suit any business requirement.

The company has earned several accolades, including ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security, one of the top 50 emerging cybersecurity companies at ‘Emerge 50’ by NASSCOM, the French Tech Ticket under which Astra Security got rewarded by the President of France under the La French Tech program. In 2021, Astra Security was also named as a CyberTech100 company. Astra is a trusted security partner to well-known brands like Vodafone, Lynas, Kotak Securities, Unilever, NIIT, TEDx, Muthoot, Ford, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• ​Work with the marketing team to understand the requirements & conceptualize them into designs.
• Designing landing page wireframes & elements 
• Creating feature banner images & infographics for the blog
• Designing e-books & brochures
• Designing Social Media creatives (Images, GIFs, and carousels) 
• Designing email newsletters & header images
• Designing product mockups & social creatives for product features
• Editing live-action videos (Adding intro, outro, title cards, sections, & animations)
• Creating short, engaging animated videos for social media/YouTube
• Creating mobile responsive designs for landing pages
• Design branded presentation themes for the sales/marketing teams to use
• Work with the marketing and frontend developer on the feedback shared and amend design changes.
• Work & come up with design guidelines for the brand

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Requirements for the role:

• 1-4 years of graphic design experience in B2B SaaS marketing
• Effective communication skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of design principles, processes, aesthetics, typography, imagery, and color theory.
• Someone who's friendly, collaborative, comfortable with receiving direction, working autonomously, and eager to learn.
• Willingness to work in a remote setup
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Adobe (Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, & Premier Pro), Canva, and Spline/Sketch. 
• Project management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• A degree in Design, Fine Arts, or a related field is a plus.

Benefits of joining the Astra squad:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise cloud security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains
• Open and supportive culture

•SaaS platform, and from a marketing background preferable.

• Conducting market research to identify selling possibilities and evaluate customer needs.

• Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through calling, networking and social media.

• Designing and implementing marketing plans for the company products.

• Answering to client queries about product specifications and uses.

• Develop relationships with existing customers and keeping touch with them.

• Work with other team members to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Find new business opportunities and customers.

• Contact potential customers to showcase company products or services.

• Use of social media like LinkedIn, after connecting to customers dropping emails like an introductory template or a pdf, scheduling demos and sending proposals and sales.

 •Preferred: Females

Job Description

Wissen Technology is now hiring for a Java Developer - Mumbai/Bangalore with hands-on experience in Core Java, multi-threading, algorithms, data structure and SQL skills.

We are solving complex technical problems in the financial industry and need talented software engineers to join our mission and be a part of a global software development team.

A brilliant opportunity to become a part of a highly motivated and expert team which has made a mark as a high-end technical consulting.

Required Skills:

• Exp. - 3 to 10 years.
• Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above,Spring.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for financial domain. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database.
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development.
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets.
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.

About Wissen Technology:

Wissen Technology is a niche global consulting and solutions company that brings unparalleled domain expertise in Banking and Finance, Telecom and Startups. Wissen Technology is a part of Wissen Group and was established in the year 2015. Wissen has offices in the US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada, with best-in-class infrastructure and development facilities. Wissen has successfully delivered projects worth $1 Billion for more than 25 of the Fortune 500 companies. The Wissen Group overall includes more than 4000 highly skilled professionals.

Wissen Technology provides exceptional value in mission critical projects for its clients, through thought leadership, ownership, and assured on-time deliveries that are always ‘first time right’.

Our team consists of 1200+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.

Wissen Technology offers an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.

We have been certified as a Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years (2020-2022) and voted as the Top 20 AI/ML vendor by CIO Insider.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop and maintain software applications using Java programming language

Write well-designed, testable, efficient code

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize and execute tasks in a timely manner

Troubleshoot and debug software issues

Ensure software quality by performing thorough testing and code reviews

Keep up-to-date with new technologies and programming languages

Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, and deploying software

Document software development processes, procedures and code changes

Provide technical guidance to team members

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Minimum of 3 years of experience in Java development

Strong knowledge of Java programming language and related frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.)

Proficient in using development tools (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.)

Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc.)

Familiarity with software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.)

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

Strong communication and teamwork skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience with microservices architecture

Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)

Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)

Experience with DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Responsibilities: 

• Work with an open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks. 
• Work directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products.  
• Build reusable iOS software components for the platform.  

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.   
• Work on bug fixing to improve application performance and shipping new features as required 
   

  Requirements:  

• Experience with iOS Design patterns, memory management, REST web-services and JSON Parsing. Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform 
•  Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features 

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance  
• Can integrate apps with backend and 3rd party API’s. 
• Good programming skills in Objective-C/Swift and extensive knowledge of Apples SDKs and frameworks like Core Data, Core Graphics, Foundation, UIKit, etc.  
• Have published one or more applications in an iOS App Store. 

• Knowledge of iOS App Store deployment process. 

• Languages: Javascript, Typescript, CSS
• Framework: React 17, knowledge of React hooks is important and knowledge about react context and redux is required too
• Packages manager: npm, yarn
• Knowledge of REST and GraphQL
• Control version: Git
• Hosting & deployment: AWS Amplify
• The automation UI was written in Vue therefore knowing about Vue may be a plus

How many hours are they expected to work? 

• - Full time position ( 40+ hours a week) 
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What hours should they work?

•  - Prefer 9-5 EST but there is wiggle room
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Will there be nights and weekends? 

• - Nights and weekends are not scheduled, however we are looking for someone that takes pride in their work and will lean in to hit a deadline or to fix a bug if it has a significant impact on the platform.
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Should they be expected to lead?

• - Yes, you should be expected to lead and to communicate/ cooperate with other devs as a team. Some coding might be alone but the hope of the app is that it all works seamlessly together and to ensure that there needs to be communication among all devs front end and back end. 
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Who will they report to?

• - They will report to Product OwnerRob and Product ManagerJulietta daily for standups and well as pushing tasks through the appropriate structure of review, QA, and production. 
• They will also report and check in with Client SuccessCourtney as we look to make the app have a seamless customer experience and customer value. The goal of Attribute should be to try and give as much value as quickly and easily as possible.

Will they work alone or in a team?

• In some spots they might be expected to work alone and on a separate sprint from others, however, everything needs to tie in and work together, because of that the developer must be team oriented in both development and problem solving.
• Additionally, there will be times that they should expect to work with people who are not particularly tech savvy ( ie. sales, marketing, customer success etc.) to collaborate on a specific feature to produce the best thing for the product.

Accountability

• The developer is both accountable for their code and the code of the team. They should take care and responsibility in the work that is done and if there are problems with the code in QA or production work as diligently as possible to fix that problem ( whether it is their code directly or not).
• As part of this all code will be attached from Github to Jira for developers to constantly upload their commits to Jira tasks
• A mistake is completely fine and expected, bugs are to be expected. What is asked is that you report it as soon as possible and are honest about it so that we can move forward in resolving it as soon as possible.

Customer, Usability, and Value Focused

• The end user of our product will be marketing professionals/head of marketing. At all times the developers need to take this into account and spend time thinking of the ease and the use cases that people will utilize their code or features in real life versus what is a way to make something work but in a vacuum. 

Quality focused

• Pushing out code is awesome, but if the code has a ton of bugs and does not do the required action that is practical for the user then it does not matter. We want a developer who is Quality focused and also hold their other developers accountable.

Focused on the whole 

• When producing a feature it is easy to sometime get sucked into how that features works in a vacuum. The developers need to be able to work together and understand the software architecture as a whole in order to make whatever feature they are working on be able to work with the other features that are built within the app ( and will be built or are on the roadmap for the future).

Creativity and Experimentation

• Developers are expected to work within structures, however, they are always encouraged to take time to think of creative solutions and to collaborate on new features or ways of making the product better.

Unfeathered, Honest, Respectful Communication

• Every developer should feel free to speak their mind in a respectful manner to other developers as well as anyone else in the entirety of the company. Any opinion, thought, or perspective will be listened to and valued. 

Next Man or Woman Up Mentality

• Never should anyone on the team defer a problem and say “ thats not my fault or problem”. We are one unit and one company. One problem is everyone's problem and should lean in to the “next man up philosophy” if you have the time and can help to fix the problem and bring it to a solution you should be willing to.

Upward Mobility and Vesting Opportunity

• This position will allow for upward mobility, increased responsibility, and for people who constantly go above and beyond an opportunity to vest into and own equity in the company

Essential Job Functions:

1. Implement application components and systems according to department standards and guidelines.
2. Work with product and designers to translate requirements into accurate representations for the web.
3. Analyze, design, code, debug, and test business applications.
4. Code reviews in accordance with team processes/standards.
5. Understand and work with data in varying degrees of complexity and scale.
6. Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner.
7. Provide assistance to testers and support personnel as needed to determine system problems.
8. Resolve problems involved with integrating new technologies with systems.

* Essential functions are the basic job duties that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.  The function is considered essential if the reason the position exists is to perform that function.

Supportive Job Functions:

1. Remain knowledgeable of new emerging technologies and their impact on internal systems.
2. Available to work on call when needed.
3. Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management.

*These tasks do not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act definition of essential job functions and usually equal 5% or less of time spent.  However, these tasks still constitute important performance aspects of the job.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

1. Experience using Python, JavaScript, and React.
2. Experience with web services and RESTful APIs.
3. Experience in cloud infrastructure
4. Experience with Sql and NoSql databases
5. Familiarity with modern CI/CD methods
6. Ability to organize, prioritize, and handle multiple assignments on a daily basis.
7. Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills
8. Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of clients and staff.
9. Must be able to work flexible hours on-site and remote.
10. Must be able to coordinate with other staff and provide technological leadership.
11. Ability to work in a complex, dynamic team environment with minimal supervision.
12. Must possess good organizational skills.

Education, Experience, and Certification:

1. Associate’s or bachelor’s degree preferred (Computer Science, Engineer, etc.), but equivalent work experience in a technology related area may substitute.
2. 5+ years relevant experience, required. *
3. Experience using version control daily in a developer environment.
4. Experience with Python, JavaScript, and React is required.
5. Experience using rapid development frameworks like Django or Flask.
6. Experience using front end build tools.