Director Engineering - Java and GoLang

Job Title: Inside Sales (ROW)

Company: Bhanzu (Formerly Exploring Infinities)

Location: Onsite

Type: Full-time

Work Schedule: 6 days/week

About Bhanzu

Bhanzu is an innovative ed-tech company on a mission to shape the future of learning. We believe in empowering students worldwide with accessible, high-quality education. As we expand globally, we’re seeking passionate, driven professionals who share our vision for revolutionizing education.

Position Overview

We are looking for a proactive and results-oriented Business Development Specialist to help us grow our presence across global markets. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving our international business strategy, building strong client relationships, promoting Bhanzu’s educational offerings, and converting leads into loyal customers.

Responsibilities

• Client Relationship Building: Engage potential clients across international markets, utilizing outbound calls, email, WhatsApp, and other communication channels.
• Lead Conversion: Understand client needs, effectively present course offerings, and convert qualified leads into customers with customized solutions.
• Database Management: Create, manage, and update a client database within the CRM system for accurate and organized record-keeping.
• Product Knowledge: Gain a thorough understanding of Bhanzu’s courses, constantly updating your knowledge to improve customer engagement and sales strategies.
• Customer Communication: Respond to callback requests, handle inquiries, and maintain effective communication with potential clients.
• CRM Utilization: Use customer relationship management (CRM) software and other tools for efficient lead and client management.

Requirements

• Experience: Exposure in business development, international sales, or client relationship management, preferably in an ed-tech or related industry.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively in a global context.
• Tech Requirements: A laptop, Android phone, reliable power backup, and a high-speed internet connection (minimum 25 MBPS Wi-Fi speed).
• Work Environment: Comfortable working in a dynamic startup environment with the ability to meet targets under pressure.

Why Bhanzu?

At Bhanzu, you’ll work with a passionate team in a fast-paced environment where your contributions will directly impact our growth and success. We’re committed to fostering a supportive, innovative, and flexible work culture that prioritizes both individual growth and teamwork.

Apply Now: If you’re excited about making a difference in the education sector and ready to bring your expertise to Bhanzu, we’d love to hear from you!

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 6+ years of experience delivering enterprise-wide technical projects. 2-3 years of experience of which should have been spent managing, growing and retaining talent within teams
• Hands-on experience programming with RESTful APIs, Python, deployment and run time environments like Docker, Kubernetes
• Hands on front end experience in HTML, Javascript, React, and CSS.

• Deeper understanding of the network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
• Ability to solve complex integration and product questions, looking at issues analytically.
• Organize team’s scrums, and prepare roadmap for dev tools
• Track integration success and ensure deadlines are met. Provide input to a scalable technical integration and account management process.

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience with other degrees.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Experience leading multi engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, multi-task, and perform under pressure, possessing a high level of energy, efficiency, and flexibility.
• Excellent business writing, presentation and communication skills.

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of overall development experience.
• Very good understanding of core Javascript concepts.
• 3 years of React Native experience for iOS and/or Android.
• Extensive knowledge about mobile app development.
• This includes the whole process from the first line of code to publishing in the store(s).
• Some understanding of the build process involved with iOS and Android.
• Comfortable with basic design concepts and flex ui.
• Great attention to code quality & coding standards.
• Good grasp of architectural principles and patterns.
• Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript.
• Very good communication skills in English.

As a presales manager, you will work closely across various verticals such as product development, engineering, sales and marketing, and project teams/customer relations to understand internal product and service capabilities. Build marketing and sales collaterals showcasing the company’s offerings and capabilities

Role will also include understanding the customer’s needs and building suitable solutions, working closely with engineering, delivery, and sales teams.  You will also be required to actively understand customer preferences and predict future needs for product development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engagement with the customers and understanding of their needs and putting together solutions (products and services) that are aligned with the customers’ demands. 
• Responsible for supporting the business development team in putting together compelling proposals in response to RFPs.
• Responsible for bringing in industry/vertical specific expertise into building the solution and validating technical solutions from the service delivery team.
• Coordinating with 3rd party service providers and integrating their solution components into the overall proposals.
• Plan sales strategies in response to market and competitors’

actions.

• Work in sync with the product development team and develop

sustainable and commercially viable products.

• Understand customer needs and make sales presentations.
• Liaise with the marketing team to undertake demand-generating

activities such as trade shows, exhibitions or customer workshops.

• Prepare sales proposals and train sales representatives/executives

from time to time.

• Preparation of presentations about the products or services with their value proposition articulated for the usage of the sales team.
• Creation of marketing concepts and responding to customers’ RFPs and RFI’s for our local and global sales teams.
• Use domain expertise to articulate customer requirements appropriately to product and development teams
• Prepare and deliver solution-based product presentations and

demonstrations to customers.

• Execute on customer proof of concepts (POCs).
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to present to an audience from C-Level to End User, clearly articulate the value Profile products will bring to an organization, gain trusted advisor respect, and help influence, make well-executed systems presentations and clearly articulate the product’s value.

• Minimum 2 years experience on MEAN Stack
• Extensive hands-on experience in Node JS/Express/Hapi JS, Moleculer and NoSQL DBs (Mongodb and Redis are preferred)
• Strong coding and designing skills
• Working understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment concepts and tools such as (Gitlab CI/CD), Development tools (Git), Application Servers (nginx, Apache)
• Experience in consuming and developing secure RESTful API/web-services
• Comfortable using Unix / Linux machines from command prompt
• As a full-stack architect in the team, you'll bring your ideas to life on a technology stack of Node JS and NoSQL Databases among others.
• We are looking for tech geeks who are hands-on and in love with building scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products.
• You must be an excellent problem solver with passion to self-learn and implement backend technologies
• You would be responsible for the architecture design, code review and technology build and deployment activities of web/mobile applications.
• Own the product development from scratch - Architect scalable, distributed and large scale web and mobile solutions from scratch
• You would be responsible for writing SRS and require strong technical writing and communication skills
• You would be responsible for managing and mentoring your team members and help them advance in their learning and career goals
• Ensure test driven development (TDD) methodologies are deployed to execute project
• Define and ensure right coding practices
• Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Lead web development efforts, including hiring, mentoring and advising peers

Responsibilities :-

- Advocating for good user experience across our platform by representing the users in product strategy and roadmap discussions

- Identifying the best UX methods and tools to use, depending on project constraints

- Prototyping solutions to solve complex problems

- Contributing to our growing design system of patterns in an effort to cultivate a cohesive look, feel, and user experience at all customer touch points

- Sharing and reviewing your designs based on peer feedback, research, and testing

Requirements:

- Bachelor/Masters in Design, HCI, Psychology or any other related field

- 6-7 years of experience in designing desktop and/or mobile applications

- Previous experience owning and executing on UX designs through collaborative decision making with front-end developers, engineers, researchers, content strategists, and other disciplines

- A deep understanding of the end-to-end iterative UX process, including personas, scenarios, wire-framing, content modelling, prototyping, user research, and design systems

- Empathy and advocacy for users, in all areas of work

- Experience using prototyping tools, as well as fundamental knowledge of front-end technologies to understand the constraints of the design

- Extraordinary UI design abilities that can be demonstrated through current projects.

- Figma experience is a must

- Hands-on experience with Sketch, Invision, Photoshop (or equivalent softwares) is an added to bonus

-Experience of working in Fintech is a huge bonus

-Experience of working at any consumer app is an added bonus

Who we are

ixigo is an AI-based travel app that helps millions of users plan and book their trips every day. Launched in 2007, ixigo is proud to have built numerous industry-first AI-innovations over the last decade. With pre-emptive help from ixigo at every touch-point of their journey, 150 million Indians are now making smarter travel decisions every year. ixigo uses Artificial Intelligence for deal discovery, personalized recommendations, dynamic marketing, airfare predictions, train delay information, PNR confirmation status, infrastructure cost optimization, business intelligence and providing fully-automated customer service over chat and voice. This makes ixigo a lean, tech-intensive and capital-efficient travel business, serving millions of travelers with a team size of under 200. Founded in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo’s investors include Sequoia Capital India, Fosun RZ Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax.

Role & Responsibility

As a Backend Developer, You will be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development. You will be working closely with Tech, Design and Quality team to build and launch the product.

• Code, develop, design and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Design, implement and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills & Qualifications:

• At least an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, preferably from IITs/Top RECs
• 2-5 years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups
• Extensive experience in a Java server-side software design and development
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• Experience with e-business/e-commerce applications and business environment is a must
• Any experience with internet companies or the travel industry will be a plus

Must have

• Good understanding of Java/J2EE and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of data structures and designing for performance, scalability and availability Knowledge in MongoDB and Web services
• Extensive use of Instruments and Shark to detect memory leaks and for performance optimization
• Good grasp of algorithms, memory management, and multithreaded programming
• Good to have - Python, NodeJS, Mysql, Redis, ElasticSearchGreat people skills!
• Able to fit in well within an informal startup environment and to provide hands-on management
• The high energy level and untiring commitment to drive oneself & the team towards goals

Compensation: Commensurate to skills & experience; comparable to the best in the industry.

Culture: ixigo is proud to have built an entrepreneurial culture that has become a folk-lore in the startup ecosystem. One in every four ixigems has gone on to build successful startups and companies. Our cultural values of integrity, empathy, ingenuity, awesomeness, and resilience have stood the tests of time and we’ve built a fun, flexible and creative work environment that is driven by people with a high degree of ownership. You will get to work with some of the smartest folks in the Indian startup ecosystem, and solve some of the toughest problems for the next billion users by using bleeding-edge technologies. Oh, and we have an awesome “play” area, great chai/coffee, free lunches (yes, they exist!) and a workspace you will fall in love with.