Customer support Executive

Role & Responsibilities:

• Strong Microsoft Dynamics CRM product experience, ideally with CRM 2016 or 365.
• Have been involved in the delivery of at least five Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects.
• 4+ Years of custom development experience in Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365.
• 3+ Years of experience in .NET, C#, ASP.NET & JavaScript programming.
• Proven experience in consulting on software products, business analysis &requirements gathering.
• Proficiency in developing plug-in & workflow assemblies.
• Experienced in developing .NET web services & web API applications.
• Understanding of SQL Server 2016. Able to customize CRM forms, views, workflows, business rules, charts, & dashboards.
• Knowledge of CRM usage in Browsers, Outlook, Tablet & Mobile Applications.
• Knowledge of Power Automate and Azure is a plus but not mandatory.
• Hands on experience with Team Foundation Server. Responsibility :
• Implementing & extending Dynamics CRM software & inspiring its use within the business environment, advising on best practices to ensure its features are utilized to their fullest.

Khoros, formerly known as Lithium + Spredfast, is the leading customer engagement platform providing Social Media Marketing, Care and Monitoring Solutions. Khoros Customer Engagement Platform is built to turn siloed knowledge into enterprise value, and customers into contributors. By connecting consumer insights across all departments, Khoros gives companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs and accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation. With 2,000+ customers, including 52 of the Interbrand 100. Khoros has ten offices globally and powers approximately 500 million digital interactions every day. From social media to online communities and messaging to digital customer care, Khoros helps companies authentically connect with customers throughout their journey.

We’re looking to add a Software Engineer II to an already awesome engineering team for Community. You will be responsible for building and maintaining multiple SaaS applications in the social media space. You will work in small, cross-functional teams and love delivering value to our customers through shipping code. We deploy as often as we can and would love you to deploy to production beginning day one.

• Develop high-quality code to implement features that help analytics 
• Write unit tests for all new code 
• Improve code quality by applying solid design principles 
• Perform code reviews 
• Exhibit end-to-end ownership of a feature/task/bug 
• Work closely with Engineering Manager and Lead Engineer to suggest and implement architectural / design changes 
• Work closely with Product manager, Product Design team to ideate and build feature enhancements

• A Graduate in Computer Science or equivalent degree
• Experienced in building enterprise grade products for minimum of 2 years, that are highly scalable
• Experienced with building Frontend Applications and well versed with Javascript/ReactJS Design patterns, Object Oriented JS, including DOM Manipulation
• Familiarity with Rest API frameworks and patterns 
• Well versed with one or more of these technologies: 
• Frontend: Frameworks - ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, Apollo 
• CSS, TypeScript, Bootstrap, ESLint 
• Unit Testing Frameworks - Jest
• Programming Languages: Java
• Backend: DropWizard, Spring Boot etc
• Storage: MySQL
• Someone who understands git, pull requests and good software development practices 

• Knowledge of one or more of the following:
• GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL
• Familiarity with Build Systems like Jenkins, AWS Services (EC2, CloudFormation) 
• An engineer who writes testable and modular code
• Someone who understands git, pull requests and good software development practices
• Basic understanding of social media domain

• Programming is not just about writing code, it is about solving user’s problems
• Engineering is about creating meaningful user experience
• Autonomy is awesome and technology will shape the future

Awesome Culture

• Performance Driven
• Flexible Working hours

Great Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision insurance
• Gym Allowance
• Well stocked Pantry
• Commute and leave allowance
• Generous leave policy

Competitive Compensation

• Among the best in industry
• Annual bonus

Equal employment opportunity

• Our employment practises 

The Role

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring all projects are delivered using a ‘best-practice’ project delivery approach and are delivered within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality.

Deliver high-quality shippable products as per the scope of the program. He/She will understand the key requirements and scope of the project working with the Product Owner and Business stakeholders.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Understand how the product works and how it is used by customers.
• Apply strong engineering principles to drive the development and delivery of the Hotfix and minor release. This role has the ultimate responsibility to manage customer satisfaction and team engagement.
• Technically hands-on and support and guide the team members in solutions to customers and driving the best engineering practices for developing software.
• Implement the Agile frameworks in its entirety in the capacity as a flow manager. Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed and provide timely feedback.
• Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to the Project Steering Committee as per the schedule and agreed-upon metrics. Track progress and review project tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals.
• Timely Interaction with customers on/ off-site to troubleshoot issues, suggests workarounds.
• Should be able to guide/work with the technical team for quicker resolutions and achieve productivity goals for the team.
• Should be able to drive initiatives for productivity and ticket resolution quality improvement.
• Work on providing innovative ideas to improve ticket closure quality.
• Should suggest functionality in the platform to provide ways to improve turn around time for tickets
• Should drive and provide efficient ways for resolution/fixes of common issues across the customers.
• Propose ways to reduce overall tickets, operational efficiencies, and features for product to reduce the support tickets
• Should suggest better implementation for product based on usage on Production
• Should be able to suggest/implement the optimum process for a ticket raised to fix on PROD cycle
• Propose optimum process across departments at interfacing points, do regular ticket analysis and fine-tune the process
• Work on increasing supportability to product, Lead on RED account working with various departments/stakeholders.
• Ensuring Ticket Hygiene with Goal of SLA adherence. Problem and backlog management
• Contribute to knowledge base articles for both customer and internal staff to reduce troubleshooting time and drive faster issue resolution.
• Own large customers for day to day interactions with customers as required. Ensure SLAs are adhered to the accounts
• Ensure successful transition from SE, have regular connection with customers team management and attrition management.

People Management & Recruitment:

• Recruit and manage the team - Coach and Mentor the team members on career growth including performance management discussions. Be the evangelist for a high-performance culture
• Responsible for Resource planning & Optimization driving with utilization to timely deliverables.
• Should engage the team with team building and motivational activities.

What You Bring to the Team:

• 5-7years of solid experience in software product development. Should be in a manager role for at least 4+ years.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Computers Engineering or equivalent degree in Computer Science
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organisational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality 
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 
• SCRUM, APM and other agile certificates will be nice to have

Technical Ability:

• Should have experience in transitioning projects (Development and Maintenance).
• Past experience in Building and Managing high-performance teams.
• Exposure to the SAP Platform
• Strong Working Experience in JIRA
• Should have prior development background along with current support role.
• Strong and proven background with experience in Troubleshooting on the Mobile platform
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong orientation towards Technical and functional aspects of the product.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to prioritize the backlog.
• Understanding of customer support processes and tools.

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to brainstorm and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure the quality of code is up to the highest standard of readability, conciseness, efficiency, modularity, and extensibility.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Must-haves

• At least 3 years of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Familiar with design tools and convert them to actual code (HTML+CSS+JavaScript)
• Mastery in DOM Manipulation (including Jquery) and understand components, CTAs.
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Well-versed in standard frontend framework (ex. ReactJS)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services.