QA Engineer

Requirements:

• Excellent communication, planning, and coordination skills.

• 10+ years of experience in a marketing role (preferably B2B).

• Strong understanding of digital marketing (PPC, SEO, analytics).

• Ability to independently manage marketing activities with high ownership.

• Proficiency in tools: Google Ads, Analytics, Search Console, MS Office, CRM systems.

• Understanding of website platforms (WordPress, CMS tools).

• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram marketing.

• Knowledge of email marketing tools or automation platforms.

• Creative thinking and copywriting ability.

• Google certifications are an added advantage.

Job Title: Chief of Staff (AI & Data-Driven Strategy) 

Company: StarApps Studio 

Experience: 4-6 years 

Location:Pune (On-site) 

About StarApps Studio 

StarApps Studio is a fast-growing Shopify app development company building high-impact ecommerce SaaS products for global merchants. We operate in a high-ownership, fast-execution environment where data, clarity, and speed matter.

Role Overview 

We are looking for a highly analytical and operational Chief of Staff to serve as the right-hand strategic partner to our founders and leadership team. This role is a force multiplier—you will drive executive execution, improve high-level decision-making, and lead strategic initiatives across the company. This requires strong analytical thinking, AI fluency, and the operational rigor to turn visionary ideas into measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Strategy & Alignment: Act as a strategic partner to founders by managing business priorities and driving key organizational deliverables.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Own the execution of high-impact cross-functional initiatives across Product, Growth, Support, and Operations.
• Business Intelligence: Build dashboards, trackers, and comprehensive reports to empower data-backed leadership decision-making.
• AI & Operational Excellence: Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, automation, analytics) to aggressively optimize workflows and scale internal productivity.
• Operating Rhythm: Drive the cadence of leadership by preparing strategic meeting agendas, synthesizing notes, and ensuring relentless closure on action items.
• Market & Product Strategy: Conduct deep-dive market, competitor, and product research within the Shopify and SaaS ecosystem to inform strategic direction.
• Stakeholder Management: Drive seamless communication and alignment between internal teams and external partners.
• Trusted Advisor: Maintain strict confidentiality and high ownership while handling ambiguous, complex business challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Chief of Staff, Operations Associate, Strategy Consultant, or in a similar strategic role.
• Strong data-driven mindset with proven experience using Excel/Google Sheets, dashboards, and reporting tools.
• High proficiency with AI tools like ChatGPT, Notion AI, automation workflows, and prompt-based productivity.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills paired with strong stakeholder management abilities.
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced startup environment, taking high ownership of outcomes.
• Elite organizational skills, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to multitask seamlessly across competing priorities.
• Experience in ecommerce, SaaS, the Shopify ecosystem, or tech startups is a strong advantage.
• Comfortable working directly with founders and independently solving ambiguous, unstructured problems.

What We Offer

• Direct exposure to startup leadership and strategic decision-making.
• A high-impact role with a significant ownership and growth trajectory.
• The opportunity to work at the cutting-edge intersection of AI, ecommerce, and product execution.
• Competitive compensation with performance-driven growth opportunities.

We are seeking a highly skilled React JS Developer with exceptional DOM manipulation expertise and real-time data handling experience to join our team. You'll be building and optimizing high-performance user interfaces for stock market trading applications where milliseconds matter and data flows continuously.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, understands the intricacies of browser performance, and has hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time data streaming architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Core Development

• Advanced DOM Operations: Implement complex, performance-optimized DOM manipulations for real-time trading interfaces
• Real-time Data Management: Build robust WebSocket connections and handle high-frequency data streams with minimal latency
• Performance Engineering: Create lightning-fast, scalable front-end applications that process thousands of market updates per second
• Custom Component Architecture: Design and build reusable, high-performance React components optimized for trading workflows

Collaboration & Integration

• Work closely with traders, quants, and backend developers to translate complex trading requirements into intuitive interfaces
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers and product managers to create responsive, trader-focused experiences
• Integrate with real-time market data APIs and trading execution systems

Technical Excellence

• Implement sophisticated data visualizations and interactive charts using libraries like Chartjs, TradingView, or custom D3.js solutions
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness across multiple devices and screen sizes
• Debug and resolve complex performance issues, particularly in real-time data processing and rendering
• Maintain high-quality code through reviews, testing, and comprehensive documentation

Required Skills & Experience

React & JavaScript Mastery

• 5+ years of professional React.js development with deep understanding of React internals, hooks, and advanced patterns
• Expert-level JavaScript (ES6+) with strong proficiency in asynchronous programming, closures, and memory management
• Advanced HTML5 & CSS3 skills with focus on performance and cross-browser compatibility

Real-time & Performance Expertise

• Proven experience with WebSockets and real-time data streaming protocols
• Strong DOM manipulation skills - direct DOM access, virtual scrolling, efficient updates, and performance optimization
• RESTful API integration with experience in handling high-frequency data feeds
• Browser performance optimization - understanding of rendering pipeline, memory management, and profiling tools

Development Tools & Practices

• Proficiency with modern build tools: Webpack, Babel, Vite, or similar
• Experience with Git version control and collaborative development workflows
• Agile/Scrum development environment experience
• Understanding of testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)

Financial Data Visualization

• Experience with financial charting libraries: Chartjs, TradingView, D3.js, or custom visualization solutions
• Understanding of market data structures, order books, and trading terminology
• Knowledge of data streaming optimization techniques for financial applications

Nice-to-Have Skills

Domain Expertise

• Prior experience in stock market, trading, or financial services - understanding of trading workflows, order management, risk systems
• Algorithmic trading knowledge or exposure to quantitative trading systems
• Financial market understanding - equities, derivatives, commodities

Technical Plus Points

• Backend development experience with GoLang, Python, or Node.js
• Database knowledge: SQL, NoSQL, time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)
• Cloud platform experience: AWS, Azure, GCP for deploying scalable applications
• Message queue systems: Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS for real-time data processing
• Microservices architecture understanding and API design principles

Advanced Skills

• Service Worker implementation for offline-first applications
• Progressive Web App (PWA) development
• Mobile-first responsive design expertise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
• 5+ years of professional React.js development with demonstrable experience in performance-critical applications
• Portfolio or examples of complex real-time applications you've built
• Financial services experience strongly preferred

Why You'll Love Working Here

We're a team that hustles—plain and simple. But we also believe life outside work matters. No cubicles, no suits—just great people doing great work in a space built for comfort and creativity.

What We Offer

💰 Competitive salary – Get paid what you're worth

🌴 Generous paid time off – Recharge and come back sharper

🌍 Work with the best – Collaborate with top-tier global talent

✈️ Adventure together – Annual offsites (mostly outside India) and regular team outings

🎯 Performance rewards – Multiple bonuses for those who go above and beyond

🏥 Health covered – Comprehensive insurance so you're always protected

⚡ Fun, not just work – On-site sports, games, and a lively workspace

🧠 Learn and lead – Regular knowledge-sharing sessions led by your peers

📚 Annual Education Stipend – Take any external course, bootcamp, or certification that makes you better at your craft

🏋️ Stay fit – Gym memberships with equal employer contribution to keep you at your best

🚚 Relocation support – Smooth move? We've got your back

🏆 Friendly competition – Work challenges and extracurricular contests to keep things exciting

We work hard, play hard, and grow together. Join us.

What you'll do:

• Work closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, test, and continually improve scalable frontend and backend services.
• Develop products using agile methods and tools.
• Develop commercial-grade software that is user-friendly and suitable for a global audience.
• Plan, create, and execute (manual and automated) tests.
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Staying up to date with current technologies and providing insights on cutting-edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors.
• Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.

Skills you bring to the table:

• Fluency in any one of JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Should have built large scalable enterprise applications from scratch.
• Strong experience in architectural patterns, High-level designs.
• Experience in NoSQL and SQL DBs.
• You have a knack for launching and iterating on products quickly with quality and efficiency
• Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently
• True love for technology and what you do
• Maniacal attention to detail
• 3+ years of experience

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced developer to be a part of our growing team. You will be working here to create, design and develop software for both web and mobile applications using Node js.

Skills to be required:

1. To design, develop and maintain Scalable web applications using node js.
2. Collaborate with front-end developers on the integrations of elements.
3. To write Reusable, testable and efficient code.
4. working closely with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side
5. Implement security and data protection measures.
6. Perform code reviews, debug and improve applications for performance.

 Responsibilities:

1. Proven experience for 2-4 years of experience as a Node.js Developer
2. Proficiency with front-end technologies like HTML,CSS, Javascript and React js
3. Experience with RESTful API Development
4. Knowledge of database systems like MongoDB and Mysql
5. Understanding of code versioning tools like Git
6. Strong problem solving, communication skills and team work abilities.

Roles and responsibilities:

- Audit the current Information Security system and procedures and do a Gap analysis

- Identify immediate potential Information Security Risks and manage remediation tasks through to closure

- Create an Information Security Compliance Roadmap and execute end-to-end compliance initiatives by that roadmap

- Design high-quality test plans and direct Data/Information security control test activities

- Continuously improve Octro Data/Information security control framework

- Maintain handbook pages and procedures related to Information security compliance

- Identify opportunities for Information security compliance control automation, execute them and then maintain

- Provide actionable and constructive advisement to cross-functional teams, including driving remediation activities for high and select moderate-risk Observations across all Octro departments

- Design, develop, and deploy scripts to automate continuous control monitoring, administrative tasks and metric reporting for all security compliance programs

- Direct and support external audits as and when necessary

Requirements

- A minimum of 6-8 years' experience working with Data/Information Security Compliance programs

- Detailed knowledge of common information security management frameworks, regulatory requirements and applicable standards such as: ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI etc.

About Octro Inc :

We are one of the fastest-growing mobile gaming companies around, a technology-driven organization at heart, and take pride in the platforms we create.

Founded in 2006 with a mission to create productivity applications for Mobile Devices. After pioneering one of the first mobile Voice-over-IP infrastructures called OctroTalk, the company ventured into building mobile gaming platforms. Sequoia Capital has invested in Octro. The funding was announced in June 2014.

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Hood has recently raised $3.2Mn seed funding and is backed by top VCs, 16+ unicorn founders including Vijay Shekhar Sharma - PayTM CEO, Ritesh Agarwal- OYO CEO, Kunal Shah - Cred CEO and outstanding management team.

• 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

• BS/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 one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK
• 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
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.