International Sales Executive

Job Title: Node.js / AI Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: Remote

Company: Mercer Talent Enterprise

Company Overview:Mercer Talent Enterprise is a leading provider of talent management solutions, dedicated to helping organizations optimize their workforce. We foster a collaborative and innovative work environment where our team members can thrive and contribute to our mission of enhancing talent strategies for our clients.

Position Overview:We are looking for a skilled Node.js / AI Engineer to join our Lighthouse Tech Team. This role is focused on application development, where you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying intelligent, AI-powered applications. You will leverage your expertise in Node.js and modern AI technologies to build sophisticated systems that feature Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js.
• Design, build, and integrate AI-powered features into our core applications.
• Implement and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to ensure accurate and context-aware responses.
• Develop and orchestrate autonomous AI agents to automate complex tasks and workflows.
• Work with third-party LLM APIs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and open-source models, fine-tuning and adapting them for specific use cases.
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to define application requirements and deliver high-quality, AI-driven solutions.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of AI-powered applications.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend application development with a strong focus on Node.js.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI-related development, including building applications that integrate with Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Demonstrable experience developing AI agents and implementing RAG patterns.
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and libraries relevant to application development (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate) is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Professional development opportunities.

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

• . Strong knowledge of Splunk architecture, components, and deployment models (standalone, distributed, or clustered)
• Hands-on experience with Splunk forwarders, search processing, and index clustering
• Proficiency in writing SPL (Search Processing Language) queries and creating dashboards
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems and basic scripting (e.g., Bash, Python)
• Understanding of networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, syslog)

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud on servers or virtual environments.
• Configure indexing and search head clusters for data collection and search functionalities.
• Deploy universal or heavy forwarders to collect data from various sources and send it to the Splunk environment
• Configure data inputs (e.g., syslogs, snmp, file monitoring) and outputs (e.g., storage, dashboards)
• Identify and onboard data sources such as logs, metrics, and events.
• Use regular expressions or predefined methods to extract fields from raw data
• Configure props.conf and transforms.conf for data parsing and enrichment.
• Create and manage indexes to organize and control data storage.
• Configure roles and users with appropriate permissions using role-based access control (RBAC).
• Integrate Splunk with external authentication systems like LDAP, SAML, or Active Directory
• Monitor user activities and changes to the Splunk environment
• Optimize Splunk for better search performance and resource utilization
• Regularly monitor the status of indexers, search heads, and forwarders
• Configure backups for configurations and indexed data
• Diagnose and resolve issues like data ingestion failures, search slowness, or system errors.
• Install and manage apps and add-ons from Splunkbase or custom-built solutions.
• Create python scripts for automation and advanced data processing.
• Integrate Splunk with ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow), monitoring tools, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Use Splunk's REST API for automation and custom integrations
• Good to have Splunk Core Certified Admin certification

Splunk Development and Administration

• Build and optimize complex SPL (Search Processing Language) queries for dashboards, reports, and alerts.
• Develop and manage Splunk apps and add-ons, including custom Python scripts for data ingestion and enrichment.
• Onboard and validate data sources in Splunk, ensuring proper parsing, indexing, and field extractions.

 carrying out keyword research using software to optimise web content

• tracking metrics such as organic traffic, conversion rates and time spent on page using platforms such as Google Analytics

• monitoring and reporting on search trends and SEO performance

• Analysing websites and social media pages to make recommendations for improvement

• performing competitor analysis to identify content gaps and areas for improvement in website design

• staying up to date with new SEO, social media and digital marketing industry trends, tools and practices, which are constantly changing

• using Excel spreadsheets to compile reports

• implementing link-building strategies

• making suggestions for SEO-friendly content creation

• providing keyword insights and SEO advice for other teams within the organisation

• optimising webpages for mobile devices.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹10,000.00 - ₹15,000.00 per month

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Maintain clean coding practices
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Supporting product owners as required
• Providing support to the testing team during testing phases of the projects
• Contributing to solution proposals as required
• Creating work effort estimates as required
• Mentor, train on the best practices junior software associates and other team members.

Key Competencies (Functional):

• Proven experience as an app developer.
• Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
• Extensive experience with iOS Frameworks such as Core Data and Core Animation.
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines.
• Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.
• Knowledge of C-based libraries.
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.
• Experience with continuous integration.

60 Decibels is a tech-powered impact measurement company that makes it easy to listen to the people who matter most. We've been in business as an independent entity since early 2019, when we spun out of the global Impact Investor Acumen.

We believe that the best way to understand social impact is by talking to the people experiencing that impact. It sounds obvious when you say it, but that is not the typical practice for many impact investors, corporations and foundations working to create social change. 

We collect social impact data directly from beneficiaries (customers / employees / suppliers) using our network of 1000+ trained research assistants in 75+ countries. We do it quickly and without the fuss typically associated with measuring social impact. Our research assistants speak directly to customers to understand their lived experience; and our team turns all this data into benchmarked social performance reports, with accompanying insights, to help our clients demonstrate and improve social performance. 

By making impact measurement simple, scalable, and comparable, we not only enable organizations to improve their products and services; we also help transform what it means to credibly measure impact, ensuring that the voices of those who matter most are always part of the story.

About the role: 

You’ll be an early engineer in a newly formed engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for you to learn, build, demonstrate, and subsequently own diverse components of our tech stack and evolve as we scale our business. As a core engineer in a small team, the role demands a high degree of self-drive and ownership, on a path to achieving outsized impact.

Your Primary Responsibility Will Be:

To Advance Our Integrated Data Capture And Insights Platform (Ruby/React/PostgreSQL) And Associated Tooling (Python)

Specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Work with a diverse multidisciplinary team across Engineering, Product & Operations, to translate product specs into clean, functional, production-ready code.
• Participate actively in defining of the systems architecture vision to better support our team’s needs
• Grow our technical capacity by mentoring other engineers and interviewing candidates
• Collaborate with team members to identify systems, practices & technologies that suit our needs the best
• Seek, learn, adopt and advocate industry best practices. Contribute towards the engineering culture
• Troubleshooting coding problems quickly and efficiently to ensure a productive workplace

About You: First and foremost, you bring compassion and dedication to this work because it matters to you.

You are a pragmatic and product-driven engineer who is interested in solving user problems and delivering value while taking into account tradeoffs between Business and Tech. You have a bias towards action: you get your hands dirty and actively tackle problems in a way that leads to the best outcomes and brings teams together. You successfully balance flexibility and rigour, using informed judgment to make decisions. You model critical thinking and introspection, taking strategic risks and growing from mistakes. You are decisive and bold, have a growth mindset, are an excellent communicator, and know the value of being a part of an effective team

Minimum Qualification:

• At least 4+ years of experience in software engineering building SaaS platforms, products and APIs
• At least 1+ years in your current role as a senior engineer
• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails (primary) and Python (additional)
• Strong proficiency in data modelling, RDBMS (Postgres preferred) and NoSQL databases.
• Proficient in software design, modularity, testability and software quality
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

Additional desired qualifications:

• Preferred prior experience in the following stack: Python, Ruby On Rails, React, Postgres, AWS
• Experience in working on natural language processing, and ML for text and audio.
• Fast self-learner, with aptitude and interest in learn new technologies, languages & frameworks
• Experience working on data-pipelines, and data transformation systems.
• Experience setting up, managing and ensuring best practices on public clouds like AWS, GCP, or Azure (we use AWS)

Working with 60 Decibels

We are a fun, international and highly-motivated team who believes that team members should have the opportunity to expand their skills and career in a supportive environment. We offer a competitive salary, the opportunity to work flexibly and in a fun, supportive working environment. If this sounds like the role for you, get in touch!

60 Decibels is deeply committed to having a workplace that is inclusive and anti-discriminatory. We believe that our team must embody the compassion, listening, and sense of shared humanity that is so central to our goal as an organization. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

As a growing company, we are building towards a more universally accessible workplace for our employees. At this time, we do use some cloud-based technologies that are not compatible with screen readers and other assistive devices. We would be happy to discuss accessibility at 60 Decibels in greater depth during the recruitment process.

 About our team and our culture: we are a fun and hardworking global team that is full of smart, mission-driven folks who combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a commitment to make a positive change in the world.  

We consistently hear from our clients that the best thing about 60 Decibels is the people. To get a feel for our slightly nerdy, not-take-ourselves-too-seriously vibe, check out our monthly newsletter, The Volume.

Compensation: 60 Decibels offers a competitive salary and benefits package and the opportunity to work in a flexible, fun and supportive environment. The salary range will be adjusted according to costs of living in our country offices. 

Extra Perks: We have an unlimited leave policy and 12 monthly recharge days, on the first Friday of each month. We are a globally distributed team and we give team members opportunities to cross-pollinate and visit our different offices. 

Want to get to know us a little better?

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> Visit our website at 60decibels.com.

> Read about our team values here. 

• Work with developers to build out CI/CD pipelines, enable self-service build tools and reusable deployment jobs. Find, explore, and advocate for new technologies for enterprise use.
• Automate the provisioning of environments
• Promote new DevOps tools to simplify the build process and entire Continuous Delivery.
• Manage a Continuous Integration and Deployment environment.
• Coordinate and scale the evolving build and cloud deployment systems across all product development teams.
• Work independently, with, and across teams. Establishing smooth running. environments are paramount to your success, and happiness
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the[1]box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

Technical Skills

• Experience with AWS multi-region/multi-AZ deployed systems, auto-scaling of EC2 instances, CloudFormation, ELBs, VPCs, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, S3, Route53, RDS, IAM roles, security groups, cloud watch
• Experience in Data Visualization and Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana
• Experienced in Build and CI/CD/CT technologies like GitHub, Chef, Artifactory, Hudson/Jenkins
• Experience with log collection, filter creation, and analysis, builds, and performance monitoring/tuning of infrastructure.
• Automate the provisioning of environments pulling strings with Puppet, cooking up some recipes with Chef, or through Ansible, and the deployment of those environments using containers, like Docker or Rocket: (have at least some configuration management tool through some version control).

Qualifications:

• B.E/ B.Tech/ M.C.A in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 60% in Graduation and Post-Graduation.
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Competencies -
• Experience in testing Web Based applications and APIs
1. Understanding of HTTP Fundamentals - HTTP Verbs/Cookies/Caching
2. Understanding of Rest Based APIs.
3. Experience with complex software features, and build effective test plans
• Experience in automating Rest Based APIs using frameworks like RestAssured
• Experience in automating UI Tests preferably using Selenium and Java
• Exposure to Distributed Load Testing using Jmeter
• Strong skills in Java and TestNG
• Understanding of Maven
• Experience with SQL
• Exposure to Jenkins/git
• Strong Logical Reasoning
• Exposure to AWS
• Strong Communication Skills - Able to express clearly and confidently
• High enthusiasm and zeal to learn and adapt to changing situations

What Else?
Ours is a young and dynamic team which is looks to excel in every work item they lay their hands on. Regular beer hangouts, brainstorming sessions and challenging conversations would be a part of your regular day at work