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Senior Web Backend Developer

 Company Overview:

It is a US based startup founded in 2018 to build an edge data platform for the autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a data center) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured (images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation. It is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.

The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and development.

Role:

This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.

This role involves:

1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.

 What we are looking for:

1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.

Good to have:

1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a startup environment.

• Build and execute social media strategy through competitive research, platform determination, benchmarking, messaging and audience identification
• Generate, edit, publish and share daily content (original text, images, video or HTML) that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action
• Set up and optimize company pages within each platform to increase the visibility of company’s social content
• Moderate all user-generated content in line with the moderation policy for each community
• Create editorial calendars and syndication schedules
• Continuously improve by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
• Collaborate with other departments (customer relations, sales etc) to manage reputation, identify key players and coordinate actions

Roles & responsibilities

• Learn & understand our products/services, and our current/ prospective clients well.
• Understand client pain points, requirements and correlate our solutions and client requirements.
• Source new sales opportunities through outbound reach, cold emails, chats or phone calls, or anything to reach out to prospective customers.
• Respond, engage and qualify inbound leads and inquiries.
• Engage current users to expand awareness, educate, ask for referrals, identify new opportunities.
• Execute planned sales activities and develop a target list of high potential new customers.
• Resolve client complaints regarding sales and services.
• Achieve monthly & quarterly targets.
• Perform effective online demos to prospects.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with the internal engineering team to provide the best product/ solution to the client.

Desired Candidate Profile: -

• Candidates should have 0- 2 years of sales experience, (solution sales approach) preferably in a high-tech environment and/ or Internet technology environment.
• Consistent track record of success in closing business, and creating and managing a pipeline of opportunities.
• Highly motivated and professional with excellent communication skills.
• Highly confident and goal-oriented.
• Ability to communicate with senior-level management
• Good leadership and team working skills.
• Must possess the highest level of ethics and integrity.