Channel Sales Manager

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Acquire and activate travel agents through various channels like office visits, telephone, email, social networks, events & meetings.

• Establish, grow, and maintain commercial ties with travel agents—both current and potential —in the designated territory to attract new partners for our services.

• Create a sales funnel, identify the right leads, define long-term goals, and engage in strategic business planning.

• Align sales activities with tele-sales team, product, marketing, and customer success team.

• Build in-depth understand of our products and give demos or solve product queries to convert agents.

Experience and Skills you MUST have:

• At least 4 years sales experience in the travel industry

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Prior experience in acquiring travel agents or in visas or insurance is a big plus

• Proficient with using CRMs and google sheets

Company Overview:

Propel is an innovative and fast-growing software development company specializing in designing and building enterprise applications. Our commitment to excellence and passion for technology has positioned us as a leader in our domain.  

We are searching for a talented Senior Architect to join our dynamic team and lead our efforts in scaling and optimizing our software solutions. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Diverse Architectural Expertise: Drive solutions using various architectures, including SOA, Enterprise application, Microservices, event-driven, and distributed systems. Utilize experience in big data systems like Spark, Hadoop, and Cassandra to model and design distributed architectures. 
• Comprehensive Cloud Mastery: Demonstrate expertise in cloud architectures (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) across platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Lead legacy system migration to these cloud infrastructures. 
• Containerization & Orchestration Excellence: Design highly scalable applications using Docker containers, optimizing with Kubernetes orchestration. 
• Solution Development: Lead the end-to-end solutioning process, from proof of concept to implementation, tackling complex business challenges with innovative technical solutions. 
• Data Management & Security: Oversee the creation and management of data pipelines using strategies like ETL, ELT, and CDC in various modes. Design data warehouses, ensuring security for Data at Rest and Data in Transit. Implement data encryption strategies utilizing algorithms like AES, DES, MD5, and SHA1. Ensure secure access through identity platforms like ADFS, Auth0, and Okta, along with Single Sign-on and Single Sign-Off integrations. 
• Compliance & Standards: Architect and design solutions ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA and GDPR. Advocate for and ensure adherence to best practices in development and DevOps, encompassing project management tools, version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, static code analyzers, and more. 
• Version Control & Collaboration Tools: Ensure best practices in utilizing software version control systems and software delivery platforms, enhancing team collaboration and project tracking. 
• Business Alignment: Engage proactively with stakeholders and product managers to define and translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment and value delivery. 

Technical Skillset: 

• Web Technologies: J2EE, Servlets, DotNet, Python, HTML5, CSS5, ReactJS, TypeScript, Javascript, Bootstrap, Node.JS, Express JS, JSON, XML 
• Frameworks: Spring Framework, DotNet Core, Flask, Angular OR ReactJS 
• Languages: C#, Java, Python, Scala (Expertise in any 3, familiarity with others)
• Testing Tools: Selenium, Cypress, JMeter, Gatling 
• Databases: MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch 
• Distributed Systems: Apache Spark, Hadoop, or any others 
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, DockerHub, Kubernetes 
• Identity Platforms: ADFS, Auth0, Okta 
• Web/ App Servers: Nginx, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, Websphere (Anyone or more) 
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google (Anyone or more) 
• Version Control: SVN, CVS, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket (Anyone or more) 
• Code Analysis Tools: SonarQube, Veracode 
• CI/ CD Tools: Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines 
• Build & Dependency Management: Maven, SBT, YARN, NPM, WebPack 

• Working towards organic search optimization and ROI maximisation
• Regularly performing thorough keywords research
• Identifying key SEO KPIs
• Monitoring redirects, click rate, bounce rate, and other KPIs
• Preparing and presenting reports regularly
• Identifying our buyer persona to better target identified audiences
• Identifying problems and deficiencies and implementing solutions in a timely manner
• Suggesting improvements in process and productivity optimization
• Collaborating with web developers and marketing team
• Staying up to date with the latest SEO and digital marketing trends and best practices

Desired Candidate Profile

• Core expertise in advanced SEO- including but not limited to on-page SEO, off-page SEO, brand signals, outreach & user experience
• Experience in copy & content optimization, content strategy, content marketing, content amplification, etc.
• Love for strategically a/b testing different things, collecting data, analyzing numbers, extracting insights & re-iterating the execution loop
• Understanding of basic web technologies like HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Understanding of technical SEO
• Ability to suggest action items for improvement
• Understanding of data, numbers & their significance
• Ability to make simple & complex deductions
• Ability to make sense of data to make various kinds of direct or indirect interpretations & use that data to create simple highly actionable steps

• You are a great teammate with proven capabilities working on SaaS product and a passion for writing exception code.
• You are hungry for an opportunity to join a start-up and become a member of core platform team driving the company forward.
• Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and is able to break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.
• Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems. Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed.
• Has expert knowledge in distributes systems and high-volume transactions.
• Understand the product mission, goals, and tasks and execute with the team to achieve them.
• Understand the design and architecture and build modules in accordance with it or recommend and make the necessary changes that adds more stability to our product.
• Improve the quality of our front-end code and our overall front-end user experience.
• Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions. 

• 1+ years of hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin.
• Demonstrable understanding of Design Patterns.
• Experience in Context & Dependency Injection or Spring framework, Hibernate/JPA.
• Experience in RESTful/SOAP web services in integrating with 3rd Party API Integrations.
• Proficient in SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in multi-threading and concurrency is a plus Experience in JMS messaging using Apache Zookeeper and Kafka is a plus.
• Experience in Angular is a plus. Knowledge of modern CI/CD environments: Git, Gradle, GitLab Familiarity with tools like Postman, SOAPUI, IntelliJ

• Willing to learn our tech-stack (Kotlin | CDI | Angular).
• Develop API integrations using RESTful/SOAP web services.
• Significant technical academic course work or equivalent work experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge on cloud infrastructure is a plus.

We are building for the future of work by changing the way the world looks at information and data paradigms. The Meaning Engine by India-based Needle Innovision enables building solutions by processing meaningful data out of anything stored anywhere - structured, unstructured data types, distributed, at scale and more. 

In our quest to do more, we are looking for a fantastic Java Tech Lead to join us in a hybrid setting from New Delhi. Below are some (seriously important) green flags that we are looking for from you: 

🟢 Ability to build and repeat the vision, not just work on tasks in the new phase of your career

🟢 The excitement to architect awesome products and resilient teams

🟢 Preparedness to move into enterprise-ready environments 

🟢 Build team motivation, delegate smartly and create a career path

This could be an awesome launching pad for someone who enjoys working towards big-picture goals, has a keen interest in leadership, and has a deep understanding of Java technologies.  Our teams are sustained on values of care and we offer a generous number of vacation days, the opportunity to craft your calendar with flexible schedules and very soon an insurance plan for you and your loved ones. We offer a starting salary range of 10-14LPA.

What you will do: 

• Collaborate with the client to understand problem statements and provide solutions for the same.
• Explain client requirements to the project team and plan and delegate work requirements
• Ensure the applications are released to production in the committed timeline
• Work with the QA team to ensure the code developed by the team passes the necessary quality check.
• Document application changes and development updates
• Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development team 
• .Guide and mentor junior developers and engage in regular learning activities
• Oversee development process compliance and CI activities.

What you will bring: 

• 4 years minimum detail-oriented experience as a Senior Software Engineer.
• Experience in client interactions and/or are looking forward to doing that (preferred if, you have worked in B2B application development for large enterprises 🟢)
• Prior experience of at least one large project with a few people under your belt. (🟢)
• Expert-level knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Oracle/Postgres.
• Expert-level knowledge on one or all of Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis.
• Experience in RESTful services and fundamentals of MVC architecture.
• Experience in working with and configuring web and application servers, such as Apache/Nginx/Tomcat.
• Proficient understanding of build tools, such as Maven/Gradle and code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN.
• Ability to review specifications documents and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions.

As a Java Tech Lead, you would be expected to understand business requirements, represent Needle to external stakeholders, and have experience in working in agile teams.

If leading a squad that implements digital transformation solutions at the intersection of data science and AI excites you, and if our awesome bite-sized team inspires you to be a part of our quest, we think you could be the one to help build the impact, we are looking to building here. 

Lets talk!