Java Developer

Strong UX Researcher Profile

Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 3+ YOE hands-on UX Research / User Research for B2C Products

Mandatory (Experience 2) - Should have hands-on experience in User Research, Persona's, User Stories, Work-Flows, and Usability Testing

Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have worked on both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies

Mandatory (Portfolio) - Portfolio showcasing UX Research works for Good B2C Apps / Website / Product Companies

Mandatory (CTC) - The CTC breakup offered will be 80% fixed, and 20% variable, as per Company policy.

Preferred

Preferred (Company) - Product Company

About us:

Hiver offers teams the simplest way to provide outstanding and personalized customer service. As a customer service solution built on Gmail, Hiver is intuitive, super easy to learn, and delightful to use. Hiver is used by thousands of teams at some of the best-known companies in the world to provide attentive, empathetic, and human service to their customers at scale. We’re a top-rated product on G2 and rank very highly on customer satisfaction. 

At Hiver, we obsess about being world-class at everything we do. Our product is loved by our customers, our content engages a very wide audience, our customer service is one of the highest rated in the industry, and our sales team is as driven about doing right by our customers as they are by hitting their numbers. We’re profitably run and are backed by notable investors. K1 Capital led our most recent round of $27 million. Before that, we raised from Kalaari Capital, Kae Capital, and Citrix Startup Accelerator. 

Opportunity:

We are looking for a QA Engineer whose key goals would be to drive software quality and reduce risks in our releases. This would involve doing both functional tests as well as building the automated tests for our CI systems. Expect lots of challenges and high levels of ownership and autonomy. Come up with testing procedures to validate functional, system, and performance requirements for new features Ensuring the quality of releases for the features by running the test cases and reporting them Write and maintain automated test suites for functional and performance testing Keep the manual test cases updatedParticipate in the product feature design and specification with Product Managers, UX engineers, and developers

What We are looking for?

• 2+ years of total experience in a QA role.
• Should be able to write quality test cases on the problem statement.
• 1+ years of experience in QA automation with any of the Selenium, Playwright or Webdriver.io etc.
• Knowledge of at least one high-level programming language like Python, Javascript, Java etc.
• Hands-on experience with Code version control systems like Git.
• Work with the Customer Support team to reproduce customer problems and provide solutions to customers.

Good to have skills?

• Experience with RESTful API testing tools like Postman and performance testing tools like JMeter.
• Hands-on experience with Build and Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins.
• Experience working with Linux/Unix platforms and security aspects of testing is a plus.

The candidate would be responsible for ascertaining the working of various asset classes basis

market research (both primary and secondary)– with focus being on retail centric development.

Key asset classes that would be covered are- retail, offices, hospitality, warehousing and

residences.

1. Market research report – primary survey, secondary survey, data collation by self/agency

2. Viability study – Rent /income benchmarking

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Market Research – Retail centric development predominantly. Would also include hospitality,

commercial developments, warehousing, residences, helping certain retail brands to enter macro

and micro.

Market Research- non operational assets : To undertake

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City Analysis

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Site / Project Analysis

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Catchment Analysis (Demographics)

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Retailer Trading Density Analysis

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Competition Benchmarking

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Best Use Analysis on the site / project

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Feasibility Assumptions & Monitoring

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Proposals, IM, Reports & Presentations

Market Research- Operational assets:

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Catchment Analysis

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HN1 – Data

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Catchment Profiling –Demographics/ Psychographics (The candidate would be expected to be

hands on in the beginning – and later create a template for the local teamplate to follow for

periodic data update)

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No of House hold

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Income

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Age

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Occupation /Education

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Understand the attitude/ loyalty -Tools/ Resource

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Brand affinity

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Shopping Habits

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Cultural Influences

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Understanding competitions and profiling the activations conducted by them

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Problems/ Opportunities

a) Relative to Market

b) Relative to consumption

c) Relative to Centre/competition

d) Relative to retailers/ customers relationship

Development:

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Business Development with Investors, Developers, Retailers & Landowners

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Site / Project Analysis

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Proposals & Presentations

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Research Analysis

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Design Development Process Management

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Tenant Mix Process Management

General Business Development:

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International Relationship Initiations (new partners, vendors, suppliers)3

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Draw up project proposals

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Engage with prospective clients for appointment closure

Managerial

1. Analytical abilities

2. Logical / practical / time conscious – able to plan and work to deadlines.

3. Good presentation skills

4. Ability to adhere to timetables and meet deadlines

5. Initiative, drive and judgement

6. Drive decision making

Behavioural

1. Good communication skills

2. Strong team player

3. Ability to work as a team as well as independently

4. Ability to handle confidential information

5. Integrity

6. POSITIONREQUIREMENTS

Level of Education

B.Arch

M. Arch- Urban Planning or any other relevant/equivalent field

Experience

5+ years of experience in research and business development

7. COMPETENCIES

Functional

MS Office- proficient in MS Power point and Excel

• Can write reliable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and clean code.
• Design and/or contribute to client-side and server-side architecture.
• Well versed with fundamentals of REST.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Knowledge of one or more front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML / CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, Typescript) JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Redux, Vue.js)
• Knowledge of one or more back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python, Go, Node.js and frameworks like SpringBoot, .NET Core) 
• Well versed with fundamentals of database design.
• Familiarity with databases - RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres & NoSQL like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
• Well versed with one or more cloud platforms like - AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation & Terraform & deployment tools like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions.
• Unit testing tools like Junit, Mockito, Chai, Mocha, Jest

We are looking for an Android Developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams.

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• BE/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject 
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Proven working experience in Android app development and have published at least 5 original Android apps
• Experience with integrating various Android SDKs
• Knowledge of developing own Android SDKs for distribution to other developers
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• Know how to build android applications and integrate APIs/SDKs
• Know how to create android SDKs
• Have built and launched atleast 5 android apps
• Ability to build complex apps on Android

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!

Job Description

• Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry; researching and analyzing sales options.
• Sells products by establishing contact and developing relationships with prospects; recommending solutions.
• Maintains relationships with clients by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new opportunities; recommending profit and service improvements.
• Identifies product improvements or new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

• Team Handling.

Skills Required:

• Strong communication
• Strong marketing skills including negotiation and convincing
• Good oral/written/interpersonal/presentation skills.
• Possesses an energetic, outgoing and friendly demeanor.