Content Lead

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 30+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity

To join the security team engaging with multiple clients, helping them with end to end security audits, also research about new topics and vulnerabilities to be added to the scanner, present it in conferences.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like: 

• Skills - Application Penetration Testing (Web, iOS and Android), experience with IoT testing, source code audits.
• Technology Stack: AWS, GCP, Objective C, Java, Python
• Responsibilities: Engage with clients for scoping call, perform security audits, remediation call with clients to patch the issues, research on new technologies/vulnerabilities

Minimum Requirements

• Should have 1-2 years of full-time experience in security or show something that proves experience doesn’t matter
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Strong grasp of fundamentals of information security
• Self-taught learner willing to read and keep up-to-date on technological changes and how they could be used
• Can accurately define an issue and create detailed Proof-of-concept and write-up of the findings.
• Provide appropriate remediation and mitigations of the identified vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Security assessment of web/mobile/cloud application on various platforms
• Focusing on Mobile Application Security
• Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
• Develop and interpret security standards and guides
• Automation of security test cases
• Understand and explain the results with impact on business and compliance status
• Continuously learning and training on latest tools and technique

Work Expectations

Within 2 months

Training on processes, security workflow

Within 3 months

Pentesting web, mobile, API endpoints

Within 1 year

Research and publish whitepapers, contribute to the Appknox Scanner

Personality traits we really admire:-

• A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humour, is an added advantage.
• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follow timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process -

• Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation; HR
• Round 2 - Technical Interview with security team members
• Round 3 - Technical Interview with the CTO and Team Lead
• Round 4 - HR Round

Compensation

• As per Industry Standards

Why Join Us:-

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to train and develop our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first-hand.

• Content writing for various social media platforms, primarily LinkedIn and Twitter.
• Writing and editing articles and success stories, conducting interviews as necessary.
• Generating, researching, and pitching ideas for content
• Asking effective questions and developing rapport/trust with story subjects.
• Storyboarding: understanding the effectiveness and appropriateness of story assets (text, images, audio, video) and combining them to build a robust story.
• Converting conversation pointers into a strong storyline.
• Creating content marketing strategies from scratch and taking ownership on end-to-end execution.
• Visual, audio and video content creation experience; Know how of basic video editing, photo editing tools
• Well-developed eye/ear for best practices in each format of content.
• Work closely with core team and regular interaction with founder.

• Understanding of story fundamentals (effective character, trajectory, hook, authenticity/details and calls-to-action)
• Keen sense of storytelling (what makes a story interesting from the audience’s perspective)
• Stellar writing skills and sense of conveying more in less words.
• Familiarity with tech lingo & Games
• LinkedIn & Twitter native writing style.
• Confidence in picking up conversation with story subjects (students, founders, CXOs, investors, other stakeholders)
• Street smart (gives equal weightage to hard work and smart work)
• Self-learning and self-initiating attitude with attention to detail.

• Past experience in Gaming industry. (Internship/full-time)
• Know how of Airtable, Notion, G Suite, Canva, and a few no-code tools.
• Experience in cold mailing, cold reach out copywriting.
• Strong hold on any one social media platform: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube.
• Know how of scaling a social media handle from 1 to 100 and starting from 0 to 1.

• You’ll be working in a fast paced startup with a small team.
• You’ll be scaling experiments, operations from 1 to 10.
• You’ll experience Content led growth.
• We are a well funded start-up with renowned investors.
• We’re tackling a big problem with an even bigger potential to become a launchpad for the global game industry.
• Not to forget, we go on workations, our first one was in Himachal Pradesh in 2021 🏔 second in Bangalore in April’22 🏖 and well, next is a surprise!

This role comes with:

✔️ Competitive Salary

✔️ Annual Bonus

✔️ Flexible Leave Policy: We don't track leaves!

91 Springboard, Jhandewalan, New Delhi

• 5+ years’ experience in customer focused product management in a technical product, end-to-end implementation and deployment within cloud systems.
• Must have experience in SaaS applications.
• Must have knowledge of Angular 8+, Azure, HTML CSS, JQuery, JavaScript ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server 2012/2014+ etc.
• Should have sound knowledge of Object-Oriented (OOPS) concepts.
• Must have experience in end-to-end product ownership and project management.
• Good experience in Relational Database Management Systems, Database design and Normalization.
• Hands-on experience in design, development, and debugging of systems.
• Object-Oriented Design (OOD) to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Experience managing multiple clients with strong knowledge of Agile/SCRUM processes.
• Hands-on experience in DevOps and Azure functions.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Working on and at times leading the full software development lifecycle of systems

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development, web technologies.
• Works with the product development team on the validation and verification process.
• Coordinate with the sales team to promote the product. 
• Experience of going through a full product lifecycle, integrating internal and external customer feedback into product requirements, managing change requests, driving prioritization and pre- / post-launch execution.
• Define product tasks and resource requirements.
• Analysis of systems, considering reliability, systems risks and code.
• Create technical and feature roadmaps along with release planning, sprint goals, and grooming of both technical and business functions.
• Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to meet expected deliverables.
• Experience in maintaining the document of application functionality.
• Excellent understanding of process management, improvement practices, operation services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand both functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into tasks that can be worked upon individually or in a team.
• Use your skills in programming and system design to develop robust and scalable software.
• Perform POCs and build solutions that require integration with other systems.
• Provide estimations for a Sprint or Tasks, and share inputs in design and architectural choices.
• Work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to all phases of SDLC.
• Maintain minimal yet essential engineering documentation to complement the product.
• Collaborate with engineers, product, and business teams as part of Agile delivery.
• Perform code reviews and provide guidance to the team in building software and following the defined process.
• Carry an ownership attitude when working on any solution.

Requirements

• Strong at problem-solving using Java 8 and above.
• Good understanding of SDLC using agile methodologies iterative development.
• Basic skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are desired.
• Hands-on knowledge of using Spring Boot or Quarkus for building Microservices or API driven solutions.
• Good knowledge of SQL and experience in using any RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Understanding or exposure to Cloud-Native development using AWS is an added advantage.
• Any experience in working on projects built using Microservice architecture, esp if using React and Java with Docker is an added advantage.

Senior Infrastructure Professional

Role:

10+ years(approx) of experience project managing and delivering technical solutions.

Experience in networking, compute infrastructure (servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers), and architecting/developing/maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.

Experience in one of the following: Networking, DevOps, Security, Compute/Storage, Hadoop, Kubernetes

Cloud certification.

7 years of experience demonstrating technical client service.

Experience in one or more of the following: Software development, managing large-scale Windows/Linux environments, network design and deployment, database(s), storage systems. Experience with networking and system design of load balancers, firewalls, and VPN in architecting, developing and/or maintaining production-grade systems.

Customer-facing migration experience, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.

Excellent communication, presentation and problem solving skills.

Accomplishment Set 

Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 

Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.

Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.

Highly organised and efficient.

Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Education, Experience, etc.

Is Education over-rated? Yes. We believe so.

However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for a graduate degree in engineering who is tech enthusiast. 

Comfortable working in an all-hands start-up environment - owning a project, wearing many hats to get the job done, attention to detail and strong follow-through..

Strong work ethic, a track record of high productivity and sales achievement.

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

Company Profile

Prescinto is a VC funded SaaS company in the renewable energy space enabling digital transformation for customers across the globe.

Prescinto provides solutions to improve power generation for Renewable energy power plants by identifying areas of underperformance and lost generation opportunities through patent pending methodologies; systematically addressing these through an automated workflow system to improve power generation for our customers.

 This is achieved by leveraging the IoT and Analytics platform built to collect high frequency data from distributed renewable energy assets and the comprehensive data lake.

 Roles & Responsibilities

 You are responsible for understanding the product architecture and Design laid out by the Architect and Develop product features in alignment with the architecture.

Product is built on Microsoft stack with Angular 11, .NET and data residing in MS SQL Server and InfluxDB, mobile application built on Flutter and data lake deployed on Azure environment. It extensively uses multi-threading for parallel processing, stored procedures for data access and leverages time-series database for storing high frequency equipment data.

In this role, you should be able to work independently as well as work with vendor and junior members to collaboratively build the features and take them to production. You need to be both a big picture thinker and in-depth problem solver, your knowledge and skills are both broad and deep.

Do you take pride in building customer centric functionalities with an eye on performance? Are you remembered for the quality of your code? This position is for you.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of Product development experience of which at least 2 years should comprise of working independently with minimal supervision and guidance
• Experience with at least one full cycle development of product features from requirements to Production deployment to Post production support is critical
• Excellent Programming Skills using C#, WPF, MVVM, Winforms, .NET Framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), ASP.net web api, SQL Server, Store Procedure, Triggers
• Solid Understanding of Multi-Threading and Parallel Programming
• Excellent understanding of Windows Operating System Internals (Process, Threads, Memory Management).
• Clear understanding of OOP and OOAD
• Excellent application debugging skills using Visual Studio Debugger
• Strong knowledge in design patterns, data structures and algorithms
• Experienced in developing Windows desktop applications
• Ability to work independently and be self-driven
• Should have knowledge on code repositories like SVN, GitHub etc and Agile tools like JIRA
• Should have excellent communication skills, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Have working experience in Test-driven Development and Test Automation experience in third party control like DevExpress, Telerik WPF controls
• Experience building a SaaS product preferable
• Startup experience preferable

• 4+ years of work experience
• Build intuition of the product as a whole
• Gather requirements from stakeholders, derive problem statements and plan design engagements. Also, proactively launch efforts to improve different aspects of the product
• Conduct research to understand real world practices and usage behaviours employing suitable methods and accessories
• Analyse findings, derive meaningful and actionable insights from research
• Create functions, features and formulate optimised task flows to solve business problems and cater to user needs in collaboration with other stakeholders
• Interpret the solution on to an interface using the principles of digital psychology, visual design and interaction design for web or/and mobile
• Present design propositions and solutions to stakeholders using wireframes, mock-ups or high fidelity prototypes, receive feedback, advocate for best practices and iterate based on feedback
• Decipher usage pattern with the help of analytics and iterate design to be more efficient
• Cultivate efficient frameworks and practices for the enrichment of the team and contribute for the improvement of design system

• Experienced and well versed in conducting different methods of research and usability testing
• Good knowledge and understanding of design principles, interaction design standards and UI patterns for web and mobile
• In depth understanding of the elements of a design system 
• Great aptitude for solving complex business problems

• Design specialisations - Illustration, motion design, graphic design, data visualisation, service design
• Domain specialisations - E-comm & B-B 
• Cross-functional skills - Technological