Farm Associate -Agronomy(Pune)

Role Objective

Build and manage a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient supplier ecosystem for customised and premium furniture, while ensuring consistent quality, lead-time adherence, and strong commercial competitiveness across categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard OEM partners across furniture categories including Sofas, Beds, Dining, Storage, and Accent Furniture.
• Build a diversified and balanced supplier portfolio to reduce concentration risk while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
• Develop long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors, including exclusivity arrangements where relevant.
• Drive supplier capability development across quality, finishing standards, compliance, and scalability.
• Own end-to-end costing, pricing, and commercial negotiations with vendors.
• Deliver cost optimisation through material optimisation, process improvements, volume leverage, and alternate sourcing.
• Lead annual rate negotiations, cost resets, and contract renewals.
• Work closely with Category, Design, and Product teams to enable New Product Development (NPD).
• Ensure sourcing feasibility for design-led, customised, and make-to-order products.
• Define, implement, and enforce supplier SLAs covering quality standards, lead times, and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with Vendor Managers and QC teams to ensure On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
• Review vendor performance regularly and drive corrective actions and improvement plans.
• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks related to capacity constraints, supplier dependency, and raw material volatility.
• Partner with Finance on contracts, payment terms, and commercial governance.

Success Metrics (KPIs)

• Cost savings and margin improvement (CM1 / Gross Margin)
• Supplier OTIF and lead-time adherence
• Quality acceptance rate and defect reduction
• Reduction in supplier concentration and dependency risk
• New supplier onboarding, capability building, and scalability metrics

Ideal Profile

• 6–10 years of experience in furniture sourcing, manufacturing, or category operations.
• Strong understanding of furniture materials, production processes, and finishing standards.
• Proven expertise in vendor negotiations, cost management, and supplier development.
• Experience in customised or make-to-order manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a hands-on execution mindset.

What We Offer

• High-impact role influencing margins, supply reliability, and product quality
• Opportunity to build and scale a strategic supplier ecosystem
• Cross-functional exposure across sourcing, design, manufacturing, and finance

Job Description: Senior Full Stack Java Developer

Timings: 2 p.m – 11 p.m

Employment: Full-time (Hybrid)

Overview: We are hiring two exceptional India-based Lead Developers to work as core members of U.S. based Agile teams. These individuals will own the technical implementation of critical features across customer-facing and associate-facing applications. This is a hands-on technical role, with at least 50% of time spent actively writing code or performing engineering tasks, while also guiding the rest of the team in execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the senior technical contributor in a cross-border team focused on Loyalty, Mobile App, CRM, and Customer Pickup.

• Own software design, development, testing, and delivery for cloud-native microservices and web components.

• Lead and guide code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure best practices across development.

• Work closely with American product, architecture, and Development Manager teams to break down epics, refine stories, and estimate work. • Mentor India-based junior developers and enforce engineering best practices in a collaborative, remote-first culture.

• Proactively communicate blockers, design decisions, and progress across global teams.

• Write clean, testable, scalable code with strong observability and resilience patterns.

• Integrate with Salesforce, internal APIs, SQL/NoSQL systems, and customer data platforms.

Required Experience & Skills:

• 8-10 years of hands-on development experience.

• Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API development, SQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server), and front-end frameworks (React/Angular). • Experience working within an Agile environment alongside U.S.-based product managers, development managers, and designers.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and unit/integration testing skills.

• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, source control (Git), containerization (Docker), and modern deployment patterns.

• Excellent communication and proactive problem-solving in a remote-first environment.

• Prior experience working in an offshore/onshore model is highly preferred. 

Responsibilities:

• Work with product managers to find solutions to critical problems, face internal customers, and create requirements.
• Triage and fix critical issues that arise in the field that affect our core product.
• Manage git repositories, pull requests, and review code.
• Communicate properly & promptly with all stakeholders.
• Build a proof-of-concept for new products from scratch.
• Optimize, clean up, and comment on the existing codebase.

Requirements:

• Must have 5-8 years of hands-on engineering experience.
• Must be an expert in JavaScript/Typescript with ES6+ features, Node.js, ReactJS, and Redux
• Must be an expert in HTML5 CSS3 SASS, and Webpack.
• You are proficient with RESTful API design and implementation using Node.js.0
• Proficiency in relational (MySQL, Cloud Spanner etc. ) and non-relational (MongoDB, Google Cloud Firestore etc. ) databases.
• Must be an expert in data structure and creating highly optimized algorithms.
• Should have a working knowledge of GCP services like App Engine, CloudSQL, Compute Engine etc.
• Should have a working understanding of microservices patterns, serverless design, and event-based architecture.
• Willingness to learn new programming languages, frameworks, and paradigms.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Presentable personality and ability to handle clients confidently
• Open to stretch and working in a start-up/ed-tech environment
• Immediate joining required
• Age: Below 32 years

Benefits to Highlight for Candidates:

• Be part of a fast-growing ed-tech company with a positive and unique culture (refer to our LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and website for more details).
• Attractive incentive structure based on performance.
• No field sales (door-to-door). Leads are provided to counselors to connect with clients.
• Significant career growth opportunities, with high performers moving into team management roles within 1-2 years.
• Flexibility for relocation to other offices (Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai) based on tenure and performance.

What you need to have:

• Masters certification in CT-P101, P102, P103
• Masters certification in Cramer control, Extron, AMX
• In-depth knowledge of BiAmp, Boss, Crestron and BSS Programming
• In-depth knowledge of VC Integration
• Understanding of AMX/CRESTRON programming cause/effect impact on overall audiovisual systems.
• Extensive knowledge of RS232/422/485 and IP-based control protocol products.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with flexibility in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong customer service orientation, excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to work cooperatively with others in a team-oriented environment.
• 8+ years of programming experience in AMX/CRESTRON control system source code and touch panel interface with deep working knowledge of Biamp, Lutron, Extrom, Plasmas and Projectors, AMX/Crestron, and others.
• CTS and other industry certifications will be an add-on.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying the different bugs in new & existing product lines by following the company's processes.
• Isolating bugs i.e. finding steps to reproduce for identified bugs.
• Compiling the bugs in a database or in given documents with a precise description of the encountered issues so they can be easily identified and reproduced.
• Respecting the planning and the deadlines.
• Follow-up of the versions from scratch to end of project.
• Maintain and develop the existing Automation suites (API/UI)

What we're looking for?

• At least 2 year of experience in software testing
• Ability to work and coordinate with the team on projects
• Knowledge and hands on experience in QA methodologies and tools is preferred
• Strong analytical and observation skills
• Enthusiastic and highly organised
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable with at least one of Java, Javascript, Ruby
• Worked on UI automation using Selenium Webdriver. Preferably WebdriverIO/Protractor/Puppeteer
• Familiar with API automation using either Postman/Restassured
• Working knowledge of Jmeter or similar Performance testing tool is a plus

Essential Skills:

• 8 years experience delivering highly available web/mobile applications including 1-3 years as Senior/Lead developer. Prior experience in retail domain is a plus
• 3 years of experience working with distributed teams
• Deep knowledge of UI Libraries / Frameworks, API (REST), API Management and building scalable and high performance Web APIs
• Must have experience building websites using Javascript and Java technologies (e.g. Typescript, Spring Boot). Search Engine and Native App development experience is a plus.
• AWS Serverless Cloud native services experience with Lambda functions, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway etc
• Strong knowledge of Caching frameworks, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL data stores, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Passionate about enabling next generation experiences
• Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and cloud based infrastructure

ROLE DESCRIPTIPON:

• Develop omni-channel digital solutions leveraging serverless and micro services in a cloud based platform to develop backend services.
• Design high/low level solutions, contribute towards architecture and technical roadmap
• Lead technical implementation/delivery.
• Host/Lead technical discussions
• Champion software development best practices, test driven development, CI and CD
• Build cloud native and highly cost efficient solutions
• Innovate, Unlearn and Disrupt. Research next generation frameworks and technologies. Embrace change.