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Wanna Make Travel Awesome? (And Score Some Equity While You're At It?)

We're Journey, a travel startup and our first product is travel eSIMs. Forget fumbling with SIM cards at airports – we're all about seamless connectivity, so travellers can focus on exploring, not stressing about data at such affordable rates. We believe we have built one of the best eSIM tech out there and product performance is superior. 

Now, India is calling, and we need YOU to lead the charge!

This ain't an average corporate gig. We're looking for an entrepreneur, hustler, a networker, a deal-maker extraordinaire to blow up our presence in India. You'll be the face of Journey eSIM in India.This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our company in a dynamic and rapidly growing market. You will have the autonomy to build the business from the ground up, forge strategic partnerships, and establish our brand as a leader in the travel eSIM space.

Responsibilities:

Develop and execute a comprehensive business development strategy for India:

• Conduct thorough market research to identify key trends, opportunities, and challenges in the Indian travel industry.
• Define clear goals, objectives, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for business growth.
• Develop and implement tactical plans to achieve targets, including sales strategies, marketing initiatives, and partnership programs.

Identify and build strategic partnerships:

• Identify, target, and establish relationships with key players in the travel industry, including travel agents, online travel agencies (OTAs), tour operators, and travel technology providers.
• Negotiate and secure mutually beneficial partnership agreements that drive customer acquisition, revenue growth, and brand awareness.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with partners to ensure long-term collaboration and success.

Explore new business opportunities:

• Continuously explore new avenues for growth and partnerships within the travel industry and related verticals like insurance, banking etc. 
• Identify potential opportunities to expand our product offerings or target new customer segments.
• Analyze and evaluate the feasibility of new business ventures and make recommendations to the leadership team.

Represent the company at industry events:

• Attend relevant industry conferences, trade shows, and networking events to promote our brand and generate leads.
• Build relationships with industry professionals and stay abreast of the latest trends and developments.

Manage and track business performance:

• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress towards goals and identify areas for improvement.
• Prepare regular reports on business performance, including sales figures, partnership activities, and market insights.
• Analyze data to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges, and make recommendations for adjustments to the business strategy.

Marketing & Operations:

• Work with designers to drive engagement on social media and Instagram and  increase brand awareness and engagement.
• Create compelling content across various social media platforms.
• Manage and optimize Shopify store, including product listings, inventory, and customer service.
• Plan and execute email marketing campaigns to nurture leads and drive sales.
• Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure campaign effectiveness.

Build and manage a high-performing team (future responsibility):

• As the business grows, you will be responsible for building and managing a team of business development professionals.
• Recruit, train, and mentor team members to ensure they have the skills and knowledge to succeed.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance.

Qualifications:

• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent negotiation and closing skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Proficiency in English and Hindi (or other relevant regional languages).
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, or a related field.
• Tech-savvy and comfortable with digital tools and platforms.

Bonus Points:

Existing network of contacts in the Indian travel industry.

What You'll Do:

• First 15 Days: Immerse yourself in the Indian travel market, conduct extensive research, and map out key players and potential partners. Start building relationships with travel agents and OTAs.
• First 30 Days: Secure initial partnerships and pilot programs. Refine your business development strategy based on early learnings.
• First 45 Days: Achieve significant traction in customer acquisition and revenue generation. Begin exploring new business opportunities and expanding your network.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to earn equity in a high-growth startup.
• Be part of a dynamic and innovative team.
• Make a real impact on the company's success in India.
• Significant career growth potential as you will lead the India business.

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

What You Will be Doing

• Writing articles for the Merkle Science blog about breaking cybercrime news, regulatory updates and recent investigations conducted by our intelligence team.
• Developing and sharing daily content for company social media channels.
• Drafting and distributing company announcements and service updates.
• Compiling content for quarterly reports using data and research from our intelligence team.
• Identifying and acquiring content syndication agreements with relevant online media channels.
• Monitoring content marketing performance using website, blog, social media and SEO analytics tools.
• Creating presentation materials for sales, education and thought leadership events and engagements.
• Suggesting improvements to content marketing activities.
• Proposing new topics for reports and articles.

What Your Background Might Look Like

• Native-level English (both written and spoken)
• More than five years of journalism or content marketing experience.
• Prior experience working at an enterprise technology company in a content marketing role or a fast-paced newsroom or marketing agency environment is desirable.
• Prior knowledge and experience/interest in one or more of the following domains is preferred: financial services, cybersecurity, regulatory technology, blockchain and cryptocurrency
• Experience working with or for international companies and individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds

What Personal Traits You Will Need to Succeed in This Role?

• Great at writing - able to create compelling content with minimal direction based on thorough research and rigorous self-editing
• Self-starter - able to work remotely and independently while maintaining high energy and motivation
• Creative problem solver, results-driven and self-motivated
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise workload and use time effectively especially when juggling multiple deadlines
• Ability to handle changing requirements and unforeseen challenges rapidly and positively

Who We Are and What We Do

Merkle Science provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions for cryptoasset service providers, financial institutions and government agencies to detect, investigate and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities. Merkle Science is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Bangalore and Tokyo and backed by Digital Currency Group, Kenetic, SGInnovate and LuneX.

Merkle Science is currently searching for an experienced Content Marketing professional to help boost the firm’s inbound marketing and thought leadership activities.

What You Will be Doing

• Writing articles for the Merkle Science blog about breaking cybercrime news, regulatory updates and recent investigations conducted by our intelligence team.
• Developing and sharing daily content for company social media channels.
• Drafting and distributing company announcements and service updates.
• Compiling content for quarterly reports using data and research from our intelligence team.
• Identifying and acquiring content syndication agreements with relevant online media channels.
• Monitoring content marketing performance using website, blog, social media and SEO analytics tools.
• Creating presentation materials for sales, education and thought leadership events and engagements.
• Suggesting improvements to content marketing activities.
• Proposing new topics for reports and articles.

What Your Background Might Look Like

• Native-level English (both written and spoken)
• More than five years of journalism or content marketing experience.
• Prior experience working at an enterprise technology company in a content marketing role or a fast-paced newsroom or marketing agency environment is desirable.
• Prior knowledge and experience/interest in one or more of the following domains is preferred: financial services, cybersecurity, regulatory technology, blockchain and cryptocurrency
• Experience working with or for international companies and individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds

What Personal Traits You Will Need to Succeed in This Role?

• Great at writing - able to create compelling content with minimal direction based on thorough research and rigorous self-editing
• Self-starter - able to work remotely and independently while maintaining high energy and motivation
• Creative problem solver, results-driven and self-motivated
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise workload and use time effectively especially when juggling multiple deadlines
• Ability to handle changing requirements and unforeseen challenges rapidly and positively

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Experience writing code in Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and C# 
• Experience using SQL to update and retrieve data
• Experience in front-end or back-end software development for UNIX or LINUX
• Experience with .Net and AngularJS / React / Vue frameworks
• Experience with database management and security a plus
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills

Job Description-

We are looking for a React Native Lead interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities

Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms. Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms. Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native. Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things. Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality. Transition existing React web apps to React Native.

Skills

Firm grasp of the JavaScript {​{​and TypeScript or ClojureScript}​}​ language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax Knowledge of {​{​functional or object-oriented}​}​ programming Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle {​{​Android Studio, IntelliJ}​}​ Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage Experience with automated testing suites, like {​{​Jest or Mocha}​}​

What You Will Be Doing:

• Create highly responsive B2C web-app using a wide range of open source frontend and backend technology.
• Create single page applications using a wide range of javascript & cutting edge libraries/frameworks.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle of a project, including development, unit testing, system testing and change management.
• Research technical issues and provides recommendations to enhance JavaScript products.
• Manage/Lead a team of 10+ javascript fullstack developers to handle a wide range of projects across different products.
• Code reviews, Overall project estimations, Estimation reviews, Project planning.
• Interact with stakeholders for the development requirements gathering.
• Layout a technical career growth plan for the team members.
• Working with multiple projects.

 What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferably from IIT,NIT & other premier institutes.
• Rockstar Javascript developer, who appreciates the intricacies of JS as well as passionate to follow new trends in JS.
• Experience with product companies.
• 9-12 yrs of software development on advanced JavaScript stack (Native Javascript, Asynchronous Request Handling, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, etc).
• 2-4 yrs of experience in leading and mentoring a team. 
• In-depth knowledge in ReactJS & NodeJS
• Proficiency in any other modern web frameworks will be a plus.
• A solid knowledge of advanced data structures & algorithms.
• Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals & object-oriented design.
• Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to tackle those.
• Must possess a track record of building Single Page responsive UI.
• Experience with Databases such as NoSQL and any RDBMS will be a plus.
• Experience with transport protocols such as TCP, HTTP & WebSocket.
• Expressing and appreciating design patterns is a real addition.
• Critical of coding practices and development methodologies.

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• Design and plan how test automation will be used within the company, you will then need to execute the plan.
• Test simple to moderately complex application components based on functional requirements in production and dev environments.
• Work closely with the development team to identify, report, and troubleshoot defects; verify problem fixes in a detailed, efficient, and timely manner
• Conduct end-to-end testing to ensure deliverables meet requirements and expectations
• Perform SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data.
• Detects and tracks software defects and inconsistencies and reports them to development and project management teams.
• Working with product owners and developers to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features
• Work both individually and as part of a team.

 TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• 4 years of experience testing solutions in object-oriented design and web applications developed using Python, Django, and Web API. Strong working knowledge of architecture and GUI usability.
• 4-year experience using selenium
• Minimum 1 year of experience in database testing with the ability to understand, write and execute SQL queries.
• A good understanding of software fundamentals including software design, algorithm development, data structures, code modularity, and maintainability.
• Ability to understand and approach projects in a logical and systematic manner so testing is detailed, thorough, and accurate.
• Experience with scripting experience is nice-to-have.
• Ability to communicate well and comfort in working with multiple internal and external teams.

PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/related field or relevant work experience
• Minimum 3 years of software testing experience through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases, and test procedures
• Ability to teach yourself new technologies, processes, and products at a fast pace.