Head of Public Relations

At Shipthis, we work to build a better future and make meaningful changes in the freight forwarding industry. Our team members aren't just employees. We are comprised of bright, skilled professionals with a single straightforward goal—to Evolve Freight forwarders towards Digitalized operations, enhance efficiency, and drive lasting change.

As a company, we're just the right size for every person to take initiative and make things happen. Join us in reshaping the future of logistics and be part of a journey where your contributions make a tangible difference.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

JOB DESCRIPTION

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the frontend of Shipthis's suite of SaaS products
• Drive the implementation of new technologies and architect frontend solutions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Work closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs and data between the front and back end.
• Define and enforce coding standards, guidelines, and best practices for the team, ensuring high code quality and performance.
• Actively participate in planning and strategy discussions, contributing to technical decisions that influence the product roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues, ensuring the stability and performance of the system in production environments.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and product managers to shape the user experience, ensuring that complex data workflows are intuitive and accessible.
• Mentor and guide junior developers within the team, providing code reviews and feedback to ensure quality and best practices are followed.
• Stay current with industry trends and developments, recommending tools, libraries, and processes to improve the frontend development workflow.

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years of experience in frontend development with a solid track record of delivering successful web applications.
• Experience leading frontend teams or working as a senior developer in a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular 12+), along with a strong understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven ability to architect scalable frontend solutions for large, complex web applications.
• Experience with performance optimization techniques, code-splitting, lazy loading, and browser rendering behavior.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Jest, Jasmine, or Cypress).
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of web development principles, including responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
• Knowledge of backend / ionic apps for android/iOS
• A strong portfolio of previous frontend work that demonstrates technical depth and design skills.

We welcome candidates

• Who is Immediate Joining
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

JOB SYNOPSIS:

• Job Role: Frontend Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Job type: Full-time, permanent
• Experience (2-3) years
• Industry Type: Software Product
• Functional Area: Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Manage and respond to leads generated through digital marketing channels promptly, ensuring timely follow-up and effective lead nurturing.

• Develop and implement sales strategies to effectively engage and convert leads into customers. Collaborate with the sales team to refine and optimize the sales process.

•  Understand customer requirements, pain points, and business objectives to provide tailored IT service solutions. Conduct effective Build and maintain strong relationships with prospective and existing customers through regular communication, providing exceptional customer service, and acting as a trusted advisor.

• Manage sales pipeline effectively, tracking and updating lead status, activities, and progress using CRM systems. Provide accurate sales forecasts and reports to management.

• Stay updated with industry trends, competitors, and market dynamics related to IT services. Identify new business opportunities and target markets to expand customer base.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and delivery teams, to ensure a seamless customer experience and successful project implementation.

• Negotiate contracts, terms, and pricing in accordance with company guidelines. Close deals and achieve assigned sales targets and quotas.

• Proficiency in using CRM systems especially HubSpot and sales tools to manage leads, pipeline, and sales activities.

 Demonstrate a strong understanding of international markets and the ability to adapt communication styles and sales approaches to different cultural backgrounds. Possess cultural intelligence to effectively navigate cross-cultural interactions, understand customer preferences, and respect cultural values and norms. Show sensitivity and adaptability when engaging with customers from diverse backgrounds, ensuring a high level of cultural competence in all interactions.

• Track sales metrics, prepare reports, and provide accurate sales forecasts to the management team.

Requirements:

• Proven 4+ years of experience in sales, preferably in the IT service industry, with a strong track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.

• Extensive global market knowledge and a successful history of selling IT services to international clients.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Knowledge of the IT services industry and market trends.

• Significant exposure to various technology stacks across the Digital landscape, Next Gen. Technologies (AI/ML, Blockchain, IoT) UX, Mobility, Platform Development, e-commerce, Cloud Ops, etc. 

Job brief

We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist to lead a technical team and help us gain

useful insight out of raw data.

Lead Data Scientist responsibilities include managing the data science team, planning

projects and building analytics models. You should have a strong problem-solving ability

and a knack for statistical analysis. If you’re also able to align our data products with our

business goals, we’d like to meet you.

Your ultimate goal will be to help improve our products and business decisions by

making the most out of our data.

Responsibilities

● Conceive, plan and prioritize data projects

● Ensure data quality and integrity

● Interpret and analyze data problems

● Build analytic systems and predictive models

● Align data projects with organizational goals

● Lead data mining and collection procedures

● Test performance of data-driven products

● Visualize data and create reports

● Build and manage a team of data scientists and data engineers

Requirements

● Proven experience as a Data Scientist or similar role

● Solid understanding of machine learning

● Knowledge of data management and visualization techniques

● A knack for statistical analysis and predictive modeling

● Good knowledge of R, Python and MATLAB

● Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

● Strong organizational and leadership skills

● Excellent communication skills

● A business mindset

● Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or similar field

● Familiar with emerging/cutting edge, open source, data science/machine learning

libraries/big data platforms

1. Developing Dashboards as per leadership requirements to analyze the gap in sales performance

2. Transform high volumes of complex data into advanced analytic solutions.

3. Maintaining & updating Multiple large databases in structured format for ready to use in Excel Creating

multi-level dashboards with slicer, conditional report as per region wise access

4. Collaborated with various departments to improve the quality of data and reporting.

5. Performed data analysis and designed reports as per departmental needs.

6. Provide strong reporting and analytical information support to management team

7. Perform Day to Day Analysis of MIS Reporting & generating Sales Data reports on periodic basis.

8. Reports/dashboard generation & Publishing– Daily / Weekly / Monthly.

9. Monthly / Quarterly Revenue MIS as per Pan India Sales.

10. Analyzing Budget Vs Actual performance and finding the gaps to increase the sales

11. Generate and Publish Management reports in an accurate and timely manner.

12. Preparing,analyzing & tracking monthly Sales forecasting, Sale Trend Analysis and sharing the same with leadership ( Store Wise , SKU Wise & Category Wise)

13. Supporting Senior management team & other department heads with in-depth analysis

14. Generate both periodic and ad hoc reports as needed.

15. Analyse business information to identify process improvements for increasing business efficiency and

effectiveness.

16. Analyze Stock Availability & Fill Rate in Stores highlight low Stock low fill rate SKU`s in store

17. Preparing & Analyze Customer Bounce Report share with sales and logistic team

18. Help to identify any areas for process improvements.

19. Conduct Business Process analysis and identify critical issues and gaps .

20. Coordinating with Operations and other support groups.

21. Sales target setting across territories.

22. Analyzing the budget spend and trends for products across channels.

23. Design & implement sales expense/allowance module for all levels of field force.

24. Handling Sales Expenses & Cost Variance of Expenses (pre-month & estimates of expenses).

25. Activity Expense/Allowance, Advance, campaign expense.

26. Coordination with marketing & dispatch department for various inputs to field force.

27. Handling Sales Force Automation (SFA) Software for online reporting system for Sales Force Effectiveness.

28. Preparation of Creative Charts as per Analysis.

29. Preparation of Power Point Presentation as per MIS & Important Reports.

Roles/Responsibilities:

 Own a team of 15-20 Developers and QAs at various levels

 Provide continuous feedback, training and make sure team is working on their full

    potential at all time

 Review the architecture/design of a product/module/feature and provide feedback

 Architect, design and/or hands-on code the critical portion of a

   product/module/feature

 Mentor the tech-leads on architecting the product to deliver on-time

Jobs Skills required:

 Strong tech background of working in product company

 Understanding of various backend and frontend technologies and its core concepts

 Ability to understand the business problems and solve it with innovative tech

    solutions

 Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills in super changing environment

• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages
• Develop technical interfaces, specifications, and architecture
• Develop client displays and user interfaces
• Assist software personnel in handling project-related work and other requirements
• Coordinate with other software professionals and developers
• Familiarity with the.NET framework (Like DotNet Core, MVC), SQL Server, and design/architectural patterns.
• 2+ years of development experience using C# .NET
• Knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, .NET) and HTML5/CSS3
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

•   At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Should Have experience leading a team.
•   Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
•   Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
•   Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
•   Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.

Opportunity

Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

•   Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
•   Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
•   Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.

Roles and Responsibility :

- This position requires you to lead and manage the whole engineering team.

- Manage your OKRs, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.

- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

- Architect & design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Lead multiple modules, third party integrations and business partners integration.

- Taking architectural decisions, defining high level and low level design.

- Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent and more to be shared via email.

Skills you are expected to have :

- Hands-on experience in advanced Golang, Python, PHP, Reactjs, React Native PWA, Javascript, AWS Cloud Services.

- Deep understanding of technologies, high level design, low level design in a secure, scalable and available set-up.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Hands-on experience in system design, architecture or developing distributed systems.

- Should be good in writing code keeping scalability, flexibility and monitoring at center.

- Good understanding of source control tools GIT, Jira and Bitbucket, code reviews etc.

- Preferable experience in Django and Laravel frameworks, but not limited to these only.

- Experience in the development of robust and scalable Rest APIs and APIs testing tools such as postman etc.

- Experience in micro service-based development would be a plus.

- Experience in queuing systems such as rabbitMQ, Active MQ would be a plus.

- Experience in AWS cloud services.

- Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipeline.

- Good analytical and communication skills.

- Candidates from the fintech domain would be preferred (Payments/ Banking/ Wallets/ Insurance/ Financial Markets).

About Us :

- We are a consumer lending fintech start-up on a mission to provide Fair Finance to Everyone. We have raised $15 million in debt and equity funding from leading angels that have previously backed Ola, Oyo, Myntra, Uniphore and 1mg as well as marquee NBFCs.

- Our loans are originated in partnership with 1000+ merchants who are present in over 80 cities -

- Leading healthcare chains: Indra IVF, Partha Dental, VLCC

- Home improvements: Asian Paints, Design Cafe, @home by Nilkamal

- Education : upGrad, Toppr, Board Infinity, Career Point, Bansal Learning, Miles Education E-Bikes - Ampere, Hero Electric, Lectrix, Benlng

- Our founding team has worked at fintech companies in London where they won a Banking Technology Award for Best Mobile Initiative as well as Indian FinTechs such as Coverfox and Liquiloans.

- The team has extensive experience in credit, investment banking and vendor management. They have graduated from London Business School, Northwestern University (USA), and attained the CFA charter.

About Us:

Varivas is a community that allows users to create, support, and recommend content. The mission of Varivas is to give community freedom, ease, and complete control of their content.

Varivas is an early-stage startup looking for its first few members.

 https://www.varivas.community/

Become part of a core team of an upcoming startup building an exciting product from scratch.

Your Responsibilities:

• Write scalable backend code and audit existing backend code for sanity, performance and security
• Design and implementation of on-demand scalable, and performant applications.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools for various test automation frameworks
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Achieve repeatability, fast recovery, best practices, and delegate proper ownership permissions to teams
• Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion for better cost and efficiency
• Collaborate with and assist QA in performing load tests and assessing performance optimization
• writing and maintaining the DevOps processes in tools such as confluence

We are looking for someone who is:

• Ready to take complete ownership of the whole infra at Varivas
• Has previous experience in building and maintaining live production app
• You have an eye for detail.
• You’re a problem solver and a perpetual learner.
• You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Good Problem-solving skills and troubleshooting
• Build high-performing web and native applications that are robust and easy to maintain

Our Current DevOps stack:

• Github/bitbucket
• Azure cloud storage
• MongoDB Atlas
• JIRA
• Selenium, cypress test automation
• Heroku/digital ocean
• GoDaddy
• Google Analytics/search console
• SendGrid
• sentry.io
• hotjar

What we can offer:

• Payment for work done (of course 🙂)
• Remote work from anywhere
• part time or full time engagement
• Complete flexibility of working hours
• Complete freedom and ownership of your work
• No meetings, standups, or daily status group calls. (We prefer asynchronous communication like slack)

• Create and maintain new hire and personnel files and enter them into Human Resources Information Systems.
• Assist with orientation of new employees.
• Ensure accurate maintenance of all employee records and files (e.g., interview documents, ).
• Support processing and maintenance of payroll records in accordance with policies and procedures, as necessary.
• Generate Human Resources data reports as necessary Answer phone calls and record messages.
• Create and type office correspondence using computer.
• Serve as Human Resources subject matter expert and participate on project teams.
• Day to day operations of the HR function
• End to End Recruitment process like Sourcing of candidates from job portals, taking care of interview and selection process.
• HR Administration (eg. leave management, employee database, salary inputs, training history cards)

• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Must be self-motivated with a strong sense of urgency
• Ability to handle multiple priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail and adhering to deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written
• Able to create a positive employee experience so that people want to join and stay with the organisation
• Sound judgment and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with MS Office/Excel/Outlook