Marketing Growth Lead

Job Responsibilities

✓ Perform the role of Technical Lead on assigned projects to drive solution design (especially backend) and API services development.

✓ Be the thought leader and champion for above mentioned technologies.

✓ Drive technical analysis for new projects including planning and driving proof-of-concepts, if needed.

✓ Drive tasks related to backend development by providing architectural and technical leadership to mid-tier and database developers.

✓ Conduct peer reviews as the lead into Git to confirmed that developed code meets acceptable standards and guidelines.

✓ Work closely with the rest of the leads, mid-tier development, front-end developers, database developers, etc. to ensure end-to-end integrity of the solution being developed.

✓ Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure reuse where applicable to increase productivity and throughput.

✓ Conduct technical interview to staff open positions in the backend team.

✓ Delegate work and assignments to team members

✓ Collaborate with their team to identify and fix technical problems

✓ Analyze users' needs and then finding applications to serve them

✓ Drive assigned tasks related to SOC 2 certification and ensure compliance to defined controls for areas under lead’s purview.

✓ Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges

✓ Prepare Technical design documents which would help the team to understand the technical flow

✓ Active participation in customer calls especially discussions related to Technical/Architectural and provide inputs.

Required Experience: 

✓ Backend Lead around 14 years of experience

✓ Server less Computing Architecture

✓ NodeJS, MySQL, Jenkins, Python, GitLab Technologies

✓ Good knowledge of AWS Cloud

✓ Full cycle AWS implementation experience

✓ Project experience in development and maintenance support for AWS web service and Cloudbased implementations

✓ Experience leading teams of up to 10 + professionals

Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-moving environment 

Educational Qualifications: 

Engineering graduate or B. Tech/MCA with relevant major subjects like Computer Science

WHY JOIN QRATA

• Work with the best: Learn from leaders who have built Qrata from the ground up. Work with down-to-earth, highly experienced, and insanely ambitious colleagues.
• As the business grows, you grow: We want Qrata to be built from within. We look at you as a business leader with the potential to make an impact in the talent space for the Indian startup.
• Great Culture and Work life Balance: Wins are celebrated: We have clear and frequent processes in place for recognizing the achievements of their employees. Leadership and management style that encourages teamwork, frequent engagement, fun activities and transparent communication which is vital to creating a positive feeling in the workplace.

WHAT WE DO AND WHO WE ARE

• We started Qrata in 2016. We are a 40+ person team based out of Mumbai and Bangalore.
• We have our own platform and framework that includes pre vetting talent for accelerated hiring as well as building a composite talent profile including community references to create predictable hiring outcomes/structured learning for our talent community.
• We are building an ecosystem that connects untapped talent in India irrespective of location to realize their full potential through careers in the fastest growing start-ups around the globe from India.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR MISSION AT QRATA?

This staff member will join our diverse and passionate team, whose primary role is to ensure the digital traction needed to fuel our organization, build fierce momentum around our product through creative and effective branding, and build win-win partnerships with multiple aligned organizations. Within this team, the Content and Marketing Partner will primarily own the Communications and Digital Marketing work, while also collaborating actively on other team projects. We are looking for a passionate storyteller who can identify, curate, and amplify our impact, through stories and statistics, across various mediums.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO AT QRATA?

• Design approaches to establish and amplify Qrata’s brand presence on social channels
• Develop metrics to measure the Content and Marketing team’s reach and depth of impact
• Collaborate with design and writing teams to produce high quality content
• Provide engaging text, image and video content for social media accounts
• Be the voice between Qrata & the community, able to relay Qrata’s POV forward as well as collect actionable information from the community (+ social listening) for the organization
• Establish meaningful relationships across our communities; leverage selected influencers within the community or community leaders to trigger conversations
• Edit, proofread, and improve the content.
• Optimize content considering SEO and Google Analytics.
• Analyze web traffic metrics.
• Ensure a strong web presence on various channels.
• Generate ideas to increase customer engagement from 0 - 100. 
• Drive growth in our talent community via our product.
• Respond to comments and client queries in a timely manner

MUST HAVE’S

• Bachelor's degree in Media or Communications or Journalism or Humanities, or a related field.
• Project management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English
• Proficiency in LinkedIn,Instagram, and other social media platforms.

GOOD TO HAVE’S

• 1-2 years of relevant experience in startups or Media Houses(Digital)
• Previous experience working in early stage start-ups.

LOCATION

402 Pharma Search House, -, BG Kher Rd, Vasi Naka, Siddharth Nagar, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400018

About Blackhawk Network

Blackhawk Network (BHN) delivers branded payment solutions through the prepaid products, technologies and network that connect brands and people. We collaborate with our partners to innovate, translating market trends in branded payments to increase reach, loyalty, and revenue. We reliably execute security-minded solutions worldwide. Join us as we shape the future of global branded payments.

Overview:

BHN Rewards is a platform for marketers to send & manage global e- gift campaigns like Amazon or Visa e-gift cards. Marketers love how BHN Rewards makes it easy to deliver

gifts to hundreds and thousands of recipients. BHN Rewards is the only integrated gifting partner for the top marketing & survey platforms - SurveyMonkey, Marketo, HubSpot,

and Qualtrics. BHN Rewards has also entered into Employee rewards with our recent launch of BHN Rewards for the Microsoft Teams App.

BHN Rewards was acquired by Blackhawk Networks in August 2021, the global leader in

rewards and incentives.

At Blackhawk Network, we shape the future of global branded payments through prepaid products, technologies, and networks that connect brands and people. Our collaborative innovation and scalable, security-minded solutions help our partners to increase reach, loyalty, and revenue. We believe our future holds great things for Blackhawk Network and its partners. We believe that together, we can shape the future. Our beliefs? Win as one team, be innovative, have global excellence, and be inspiring! Blackhawk is a multi-billion dollar US-based corporation, with headquarters in Pleasanton, California, and offices in over 28 countries.

So, what are you waiting for? Shape your career and join our global network

Responsibilities

▪ Expertise in API testing and experience in working with API based applications

● Expertise and experience in designing Automation Frameworks from scratch

● Strong in Web Services Automation

● Technical expertise in building effective testing frameworks that are highly scalable and reusable. (Karatelabs.io)

● Programming Fundamentals: Proficiency in a programming language, understanding of data structures and algorithms, and knowledge of object-oriented programming principles. (Java and Javascript)

● Software Development Lifecycle: Familiarity with the software development process, agile methodologies, and version control systems.

● Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze and solve complex problems, logical reasoning, and troubleshooting skills.

● Database and Data Management: Understanding of relational databases, SQL, and data modeling concepts.

● Web Development: Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web development frameworks for building web applications.

● Communication and Collaboration: Strong communication skills, ability to work in a team, and willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Qualifications

▪ 1-2 years of experience with Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

▪ Excellent communication skills

▪ Love for learning new things - Curiosity and grasping abilities

▪ Expert coding and design skills

▪ Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Quality methodologies

▪ Experience working with agile/scrum-based teams

▪ Organized, focused on building, improving, resolving and delivering

You will:

• Be passionate about building great software products 
• Be passionate about building and leading a great software development team
• Thrive in leading innovation as well as day to day execution and problem solving in a fast paced cutting edge technology environment. 
• Be responsible for ensuring the on time, on budget and high quality delivery of digital entertainment products and cloud systems that are used by millions of consumers
• Partner with cross functional and cross cultural  teams including designers, architects, project managers, QA engineers, third party systems providers and customers to meet company business objectives
• Retain and spread organisational knowledge through documentation, best practices and training
• At all times consider how to engineer software solutions the right way for high performance and for future maintainability instead of taking shortcuts 
• Contribute to product roadmap and improvement of development methodologies 
• Be proactive and be alert for potential organisational, process and technical issues before they arise.

You have:

• Experience in recruiting, motivating, managing and retaining a high performing software engineering team that evolves and improves its knowledge over time
• Understanding of quality processes required to ensure delivery of best possible software products every release
• Hands-on development experience and ability to lead your team at a code / architecture level 
• Experience with react , Kotlin and optionally swift.
• A solid grasp of Agile software development and deployment lifecycle on multiple consumer devices, cloud services and physical servers in data centers
• Experience with Git based source code management, Continuous Integration and JIRA configuration / task management 
• Good understanding of latest internet technology stacks on both client and server side
• Good understanding of tools / best practices for integration, security, scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, logging and error handling
• Good understanding of digital media domain systems including one or more of the following: video workflow, video delivery, DRM, content management, ecommerce,  payments, data analytics and consumer device platforms
• 3 or more years of experience of managing software engineering teams
• 6 or more years of hands on enterprise / service provider grade development experience 
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time and your team’s time to get the job done at the high international quality levels that we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry

• Source, interview, and select applicants for various positions.
• Sound knowledge on Sourcing Candidates thru REDEX, Monster & various Job Sites.
• Foster long-term relationships with candidates and clients
• Sourcing from different job boards. Excellent knowledge in Boolean function & usage of various job board databases.
• Draft job descriptions, push them through all talent acquisition channels, and coordinate candidate sourcing with the same.
• Doing junior to middle-level hiring for all IT verticals.
• Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met.
• Format resumes meeting client expectations.
• Telephonic Screening of the profiles checking for Technical Fitment, Behavioural Fitment, Stability, etc.
• Utilize your innovative and effective convincing and negotiation skills to impress and attract top talent.
• Follow up with candidates and clients and maintain records of progress.

Roles & Responsibilities:.

• Good knowledge and experience in IT hiring ( Sharepoint, Web developers, Web designers, HADOOP, Software Trainers, Server Admins, Software Engineers, Application Developers, etc.)
• Ability to build strong relationships.
• Self-confidence and self-starter.
• Excellent written and oral (phone) communication skills a MUST.
• Good sense of humor.
• Skills/Qualifications: Telephone Skills, Recruiting, Interviewing Skills, People Skills, Supports Diversity, Professionalism, Organization, Judgment.

What roles and responsibilities will be performed by the selected candidate?

§ Should be able to handle all ETL Datawarehouse testing phases (Azure environment).

§ Should be able to test complex SQL scripts including Spark SQL

§ Should be able to apply business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and testing

methodology to meet the teams overall test objectives.

§ Should be able to identify business requirements including data sources, target systems, transformations

required, business rules required to be applied and existing data model from the mapping document.

§ Define Testing strategy, Test approach, Test suites and Test cases.

§ Run, test and debug ETL jobs (Azure environment).

§ Identify and track defects to closure and keep defect log.

§ Should be able to produce test result documentation that are clear and concise along with documentation of

tests performed, test coverage, test risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

§ Bringing in industry best practices in ETL Testing.

§ Should be able to test complex SQL scripts including Spark SQL

§ Should be able to test pandas data frame ETL transformations.

What is the expectation from the candidate’s current role/profile?

§ 2-5 years of experience in core ETL testing expertise with strong exposure to agile methodology.

§ Ability to apply business and functional knowledge, to define testing strategy, test approach and test case

design.

§ Should have excellent SQL skills

§ Should have worked on ETL project involving multiple layers/stages of database processing with various kinds

of sources/targets like files, Oracle, SQL Server, Webservices. Delta Lake etc…

§ Should have at least intermediate level knowledge of python scripting and pandas (Python data analysis

library).

§ Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle including the functional and non-functional test phases

§ Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills

§ The ability to work and team effectively with team and management personnel across

React Native Developers

• l React Native
• l Redux and State Management
• l Experience with OIDC/OAUTH2
• l Git and Git Flow Processes
• l JavaScript (ES6 and ES.next)
• l Unit Testing (Jest, Jasmine or similar frameworks)
• l Server Side Programming (NodeJS, Express)
• l OpenAPI Spec