Finance Operations Specialist

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll be part of the Innovation Projects team at GradRight. This team works on third party integrations and adopting new tools/technologies to help build a cutting edge platform for the higher education space.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience as an SDE
• Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
• Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

• Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR

Overview of the role

As a Node Developer you will be collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and build performant modern web applications and services. Build high-quality web applications and services by writing clean and modular code.

Must have skills

• Overall 3-5 Years of experience in writing unit and integration tests to ensure the robustness and reliability of web applications and services.
• Measure and improve the performance of microservices. Catalyse growth within the team through code reviews and pair programming to maintain high development standards
• Investigate operational issues to find the root cause and propose improvements Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams.
• Expert level of experience in the design and development of Web Applications, and highly scalable distributed systems.
• Should have experience in development skills using the latest technologies including NodeJS(fastify framework), Microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc. Should have exposure to NoSQL and SQL development.
• Comprehensive knowledge of physical and logical data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Should possess excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and productively with globally dispersed teams.
• Build high-performance teams and Coach teams for successful career growth.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and designing schema

Desired Background

Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology

Job Description:

1. Developing the latest user-facing features using React.js.
2. Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality and responsive screens.
3. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
4. Learn and understand user interactions & Translate designs and wireframes
into high-quality code.
5. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
6. Creating servers and databases for functionality and coordinating with various
teams working on distinct layers.
7. As a MERN Stack Developer, you will be involved from conception to
completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically
impressive.

Skill Requirements:

1. Full-stack experience designing and building scalable applications end-to-end.
2. Excellent JavaScript skills and strong proficiency in React.
3. Familiarity with the MERN stacks (Mongo DB, Express.JS, React.JS, and Node.JS)
and Working experience with React, Redux, ES6.
4. Experience building backend APIs using Node JS and Express JS.
5. Experience with NoSQL databases such as Mongo DB, mongoose, aggregation
framework, and Redis.
6. Experience with Web sockets and related frameworks (e.g. Socket.IO) and
Knowledge of JSON Web Token.
7. Experience using RESTful APIs and basic Authentication Mechanisms.
8. Create and Maintain Microservices & Ability Showcase past work via live web
pages and familiarity with code versioning tool Git

• Manage sales operations in assigned district to achieve revenue goals.
• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.

A little about Flynote (http://www.flynote.in">www.flynote.in):

Flynote is an international vacation platform with a belief that the best way to plan your trip is to speak to someone who has lived there. To get this done, we work with a global community of travel enthusiasts (Flynote Fellows) who travel and experience the world on our sponsorship. We then leverage this experience to monetise their passion for travel, using Flynote’s Technology Platform to plan & book highly tailored itineraries for our holidaying customers.

Founded by IIT Kanpur-ians in 2018, we are backed by some of the largest venture capital firms in the world & labelled as one of the top 15 early stage startups in Asia.

We are looking for great talent to join as earliest members of our team and make the world travel.

Media: 

1. CNBC: http://bit.ly/2XB70FQ
2. YourStory: http://bit.ly/2ID2CTr
3. Techcrunch: https://tcrn.ch/2ICn46E

As a Social media marketing specialist your major responsibilities revolve around acquisition of travellers (leads) from social media channels such as Facebook & Instagram. This role requires you to take the ownership of the following responsibilities : 

• Research on current benchmark trends, audience preferences and then design strategies for paid acquisition via social media
• Managing a budget to be spent on social media ads
• Design and execute social media ads and align the goals of marketing, revenue and supply team
• Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies for paid acquisition 
• Measure and report performance of all marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
• Diligently infuse tracking parameters and UTMs in the campaigns. 
• Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
• Align and leverage resources from the tech team, content team, supply team and revenue team to further optimize your campaigns.
• Identify potential new audience (eg :- lookalike audience) and leverage existing customer base by running remarketing Ads.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Social Media Marketing specialist in an experience, travel or hospitality industry. 
• Worked on lead generation campaigns.
• Was involved in managing a marketing budget of 1Cr+ every month.

• Ability to present and communicate ideas and strategies.
• An ability to multitask, to work on a number of projects at once with multiple managers. 
• Facebook Blueprint Certification is preferred but not a must.