Customer Support Specialist

Job Details

- Job Title: SDE-3

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 5-8 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Role & Responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer - 3, Backend Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in architecting, designing, and delivering robust backend systems that power our platform. You will lead by example, driving technical excellence and mentoring peers while solving complex engineering problems. This position offers the opportunity to work with a highly motivated team in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership-

• Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and maintainable backend systems using Java and related frameworks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Review code and ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and security guidelines.

System Architecture and Design-

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and frontend engineers, to translate business requirements into efficient technical solutions.
• Own the architecture of core modules and contribute to overall platform scalability and reliability.
• Advocate for and implement microservices architecture, ensuring modularity and reusability.

Problem Solving and Optimization-

• Analyze and resolve complex system issues, ensuring high availability and performance of the platform.
• Optimize database queries and design scalable data storage solutions.
• Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively identify and mitigate issues.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement-

• Stay updated on emerging backend technologies and incorporate relevant advancements into our systems.
• Identify and drive initiatives to improve codebase quality, deployment processes, and team productivity.
• Contribute to an advocate for a DevOps culture, supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Collaboration and Communication-

• Act as a liaison between the backend team and other technical and non-technical teams, ensuring smooth communication and alignment.
• Document system designs, APIs, and workflows to maintain clarity and knowledge transfer across the team.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Java Backend Engineer.
• Must have 5+ years of backend development with strong focus on Java (Spring / Spring Boot)
• Must have been SDE-2 for at least 2.5 years
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, multithreading, and async programming
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and Redis/Memcached
• Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

About the company

Extramarks is a leading educational - technology company, creating student-friendly digital learning solutions and keeping pace with globalization and technology in education. We have been in the market for the last 13 years operating different verticals PAN India. We provide education learning techniques across India, Singapore, Kuwait, UAE and South Africa. We at Extramarks are looking for Customer Relations Executives tasked with leading a team of executives and maintaining fruitful relations with our existing customers. The priority is to assist the organization to acquire new customers, and to maintain a good relationship with our existing ones. This means effective business development and customer relations executives are in massive demand in nearly every job sector there is including business to business, business to customer and even non –profit organizations.

About the role

The role being offered is Customer Relations Executive for B2C segment. As a Customer relations executive, you will be required to maintain continuous contacts with our existing customers and ensure the highest level of Engagement score.

Location

Noida, India

Roles and responsibilities

1. Keep abreast with Extramarks latest offerings and best practices
2. Ensure smooth onboarding of the user/customer, and tell them about the features of the product for better engagement of the Customer
3. Maintain and strengthen relationship with existing customers
4. Collaborate with the support team (technical and academic) to address customer queries
5. Conducting in-depth needs assessments to better understand each customer’s requirements to ensure highest satisfaction and Higher Utlization of the Application
6. Prompting clients to upgrade their existing packages and to purchase additional offerings.
7. Harnessing relationships to generate leads from referrals to maximize our profits.
8. Ensuring a good renewal rate of the subscribed packages
9. Retain customers who raised an issue for refund/cancellation

Selection process

There are two rounds for the selection process:

➢ PI - 1st Round

➢ PI - 2nd Round

Expectation

• B.E. / B.Tech, MBA, PGDM, Or Any Graduate/Post Graduate
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Strong analytical and research skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience in sales and marketing
• Ability to think creatively and strategically
• Strong leadership and team management abilities
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to identify opportunities
• Knowledge of the AR/VR industry and technologies
• Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

##** Includes investments**## We are ready to raise Pre-Seed funds.

Managing software delivery operations for AI projects. The job requires managing the delivery process by gathering customer requirements and working with the engineering team to manage the delivery process. Requires experience in managing hi-tech software project operations management experience.

• Working experience on Python or Java Selenium, POM, TestNG, Maven, Web application automation, Eggplant scriptingJIRA, Maven, Eclipse.
• Expertise in automating the manual tasks with Batch - Shell scripting, API framework development, Automation framework migration
• Functional expertise on Eclipse - Java, TestNG,Maven, Web application automation, Senstalk
• Exposure to the applications launched on the Linux platforms.
• The role expects overall strong exp in Web Testing, DB test, and API Test areas.
• Strong knowledge of Scripting and Framework (Selenium Webdriver, Appium and API)

This position is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case. 

Reporting to: PMO Lead

Job Location: Delhi NCR / Jaipur / Chennai

Experience Required: 10+ years

What You’ll Do

• Strong experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on time, on-schedule and within budget close
• Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance
• Strong experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall
• Strong experience on documentation – Confluence or similar tools.
• Define and document project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents
• Effectively communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Addressing issues, flag risks and jointly determine mitigation approaches.
• Experience in implementing complex applications with multiple work-streams across geographically distributed teams (Onshore/Offshore model).
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors or Masters Degree (preferred) in Business / Computer Science / Engineering / MBA
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Good listening skills.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Proficiency in MS Excel / Google Sheets, Google Slides / MS PowerPoint
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 

Good to have:

• PMP Certification / CSM Certification
• A background in hands-on software development
• A startup experience