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We’re Hiring: Operations Specialist (Startup | High Ownership Role)

If you thrive in fast-moving environments, love bringing order to chaos, and enjoy seeing ideas turn into execution — this role is for you.

We’re a growing startup looking for an exceptional Operations Specialist who can wear multiple hats, think independently, and play a critical role in keeping the business running smoothly. This is not a narrow, siloed role — it’s a high-ownership, build-as-you-go opportunity.

Why this role is exciting

• You’ll work at the core of the business, close to key decisions and priorities
• You’ll help build and refine processes from scratch
• You’ll gain exposure across operations, hiring, client coordination, and growth
• You’ll develop a rare, end-to-end understanding of how a startup scales
• Your work will have clear, visible impact every day

What you’ll do

• Manage day-to-day operational and administrative work
• Coordinate with clients, vendors, and internal teams to ensure smooth project execution
• Track incoming AI consulting and AI development projects, compile and shortlist opportunities, and manage follow-ups
• Schedule meetings, calls, and follow-ups — ensuring nothing slips through the cracks
• Support hiring, onboarding, and general team operations
• Keep all public-facing profiles (LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.) updated and professional
• Contribute to social media management — posting updates, sharing content, and managing engagement across LinkedIn, Instagram, and other platforms
• Monitor engagement, comments, and messages, and surface insights or opportunities

Who will thrive here

• You’re highly organized but comfortable operating in ambiguity
• You take ownership and follow through without constant supervision
• You communicate clearly and proactively
• You’re good at juggling priorities and switching contexts
• You’re curious, resourceful, and eager to learn
• You’re comfortable representing a brand online with clarity and professionalism
• Bonus: You have prior startup, operations or social media experience
• Added advantage: Project management experience and experience working with Notion, Jira and similar project management tools

This role is perfect for you if…

• You want to grow with a startup, not just work in one
• You enjoy being the connective tissue across teams and workstreams
• You’re excited by responsibility and fast learning curves
• You want your work to be visible, valued, and impactful

If this sounds like the kind of challenge that excites you rather than intimidates you — we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us build and scale something meaningful.

Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of Core Java (J2SE) and J2EE technologies.
• Hands-on experience with RESTful services and API design is a must.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture is a must.
• Knowledge of design patterns is a must.
• Strong knowledge of Exception handling and logging mechanism is a must.
• Agile scrum participation experience. Work experience with several agile teams on an application built with microservices and event-based architectures to be deployed in hybrid (on-prem/cloud) environments.
• Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM framework like JPA/Hibernate.
• Experience in managing the Source Code Base through Version Control tools like SVN, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  

Responsibilities

● Be a hands-on engineer, ensure frameworks/infrastructure built is well designed,

scalable & are of high quality.

● Build and/or operate platforms that are highly available, elastic, scalable, operable and

observable.

● Build/Adapt and implement tools that empower the TI AI engineering teams to

self-manage the infrastructure and services owned by them.

● You will identify, articulate, and lead various long-term tech vision, strategies,

cross-cutting initiatives and architecture redesigns.

● Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of TI AI.

● Document your work and decision-making processes, and lead presentations and

discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand.

● Available for on-call during emergencies to handle and resolve problems in a quick and

efficient manner.

Requirements

● 2+ years of Hands-on experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with AWS and

Kubernetes or similar infrastructure platforms. (preferably AWS)

● Hands-on with DevOps principles and practices ( Everything-as-a-code, CI/CD, Test

everything, proactive monitoring etc).

● Experience in building and operating distributed systems.

● Understanding of operating systems, virtualization, containerization and networks

preferable

● Hands-on coding on any of the languages like Python or GoLang.

● Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit testing, code reviews, and

design documentation.

● Strong debugging and problem-solving skills Curiosity about how things work and love to

share that knowledge with others.

Benefits :

● Work with a world class team working on a very forward looking problem

● Competitive Pay

● Flat hierarchy

● Health insurance for the family

• Should have strong experience in working Configuration Management area, with tools preferably, TFSVC, TFS vNext OR GIT, SVN, Jenkins
• Strong working experience in tools related to Application Lifecycle Management, like Microsoft TFS
• Should have hands-on working experience in CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment) practices
• Strong be expertise in handling software builds & release mgmt. activities in Dotnet based environment / Java environment
• Strong skills in Perl or PowerShell or in any other scripting/automation/programming language
• Should have exposure to various build environments like dotNet, Java
• Should have experience with writing build scripts, automation of daily/nightly builds & deployment
• Good knowledge in Merging /Branching concepts.
• Good understanding of product life cycle management"
• Shall be very good technically; possess systems mindset and good problem-solving abilities
• Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented
• Self-starter and quick learner and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Can play a key role in the team
• Strong team player with a “can-do” attitude
• Ability to handle conflicts
• Ability to stay focused on the target in an ambiguous situation
• Good communication and documentation skills"

• Assist in the formulation of strategies to build a lasting digital connection with consumers
• Plan and monitor the ongoing company presence on social media (Twitter, Facebook etc.)
• Launch optimized online adverts through Google Adwords, Facebook etc. to increase company and brand awareness
• Be actively involved in SEO efforts (keyword, image optimization etc.)
• Prepare online newsletters and promotional emails and organize their distribution through various channels
• Provide creative ideas for content marketing and update website
• Collaborate with designers to improve user experience
• Measure performance of digital marketing efforts using a variety of Web analytics tools (Google Analytics, WebTrends etc.)
• Acquire insight in online marketing trends and keep strategies up-to-date
• Maintain partnerships with media agencies and vendors

➢    Expert in React JS with about 4 years of experience

➢    Experience in using libraries like D3, Material UI, style sheets and theme management

➢    Should be able to understand requirements & design, develop efficient React JS Code, should have used tools to automate the test and deployment to production

➢    Should have good knowledge on REST APIs, Error handling and writing Unit and Integration Tests

➢    Knowledge of Java is desirable

Responsibilities

➢    Understand the Visual Designs, Functional Requirements and come up with the design/components needed to build the user interface.

➢    Work with Visual Designers to understand the graphic design patterns, themes, and implement in a structured way in the product front end

➢    Work with server side microservices team to develop the JSON contracts

➢    Develop efficient React JS code to implement these requirements

➢    Automate the testing and deployment of these components to production

ABOUT US:

Magic Crate is an innovative early childhood learning company that is a pioneer and market leader in the area of discovery kits for young children. Magic Crate was set up in early 2014 by young parents from IIT, IIM, NID and Georgia Tech as a subscription service that delivers activity boxes based on fresh new themes to their customers doorsteps each month. The activities, based on science, arts, games & role play, are designed by a multi- disciplinary team of early childhood experts and specialist designers. The carefully curated activities cleverly merge educational outcomes with hours of fun and laughter for young children. 

Magic Crate is a dynamic company growing fast, and we are looking for energised and ambitious people to join us on that journey.

What this means is at this stage you will be core - influencing all aspects of development. Working with us you will enjoy a fast-paced environment with opportunities to help grow the business, and your own professional career.

ROLE:

As a Business Development Associate at Magic Crate, you will be joining the core team  responsible for helping to shape the company’s growth narrative. Working closely with the Team Lead’s your role will be to help deliver sales growth by developing and executing sales strategy developed.

The perfect candidate will be systematic and organised, a proven closer of any sales in any sector, with a flair for creatively communicating innovative new services which benefit a wide variety of customers, who are parents of children of different age groups.

WHAT'S ON OFFER:

• Competitive salary with an attractive incentives which is performance based.
• A strong appraisal and promotion policy.

WHAT'S INVOLVED:

• New Customer Acquisition - Focus on converting fresh, warm leads into confirmed orders. 
• Contacting,Promoting and selling our innovative products to Customers. 
• Able to negotiate and close Sales in routine situations.
• Renewal Team - Focused on extending existing subscriptions or renewing expired subscriptions. 
• Follow-up on the customers. 
• Developing existing and new customer relationships. 
• Meeting agreed upon Sales targets and Sales Objectives. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Explain the customer on the product, its features, benefits and discuss special promotional offers available. 
• A typical day will require a maximum of 60 to 70 calls, depending on your Targets achieved. 
• Our Customers are parents of children between the age group of 2 to 13 Years.
• Talk to new customers, follow up on past customer orders for tracking and checking on reports. 
• A regular day involves making 4 to 5 subscription sales.  

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS: 

• Strong Communication skills with Multilinguistic skills.
• Strong Interpersonal skills, motivating and achieving.
• Passionate about a career in Sales.
• An influencer with consummate negotiation skills.
• Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection. 
• Charismatic team player.
• A high degree of self-motivation and Ambition.