Sales Interns

Job Summary

 To lead, develop, and implement strategic branding initiatives to position the organization as the preferred choice for IIT JEE/NEET/Foundation coaching. The Branding Head will drive all aspects of brand development, student connect campaigns, and enrollment-focused communication to improve brand recall, trust, and student acquisition

Essential Job Responsibilities:

1. Brand Strategy & Development

• Define and evolve the brand vision, mission, values, and tone for all verticals: IIT-JEE, NEET, Foundation (6th–10th).
• Establish a consistent brand identity across online and offline platforms.
• Position the brand as a student-focused, result-oriented, and trustworthy coaching institute.

2. Student-Centric Branding Campaigns

• Design innovative campaigns that resonate with students and parents across age groups (8th–10th Std.).
• Leverage motivational storytelling, academic success journeys, and relatable role models.
• Initiate emotional branding that connects with aspirational goals of students and parental trust.

3. School & Foundation Branding Initiatives

• Create and execute specific campaigns targeting middle school (Class 8–10) students.
• Build early engagement through:
• Science and Math quizzes
• Aptitude contests
• Scholarship tests
• Career guidance workshops (with branding recall)
• Collaborate with schools to conduct co-branded events and seminars.

4. Digital & Social Media Branding

• Develop and oversee digital content strategies (videos, reels, shorts, student testimonials).
• Optimize brand presence across Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and education portals.
• Run targeted digital campaigns for enrollment and lead generation.
• Monitor online sentiment, reviews, and competitor analysis to fine-tune campaigns.

5. Offline Branding & Visibility

• Plan and execute Out of Home OOH (hoardings, bus shelters, railway stations), flyers, brochures, newspaper ads aligned with enrollment season.
• Design institute branding elements – reception visuals, student success walls, classrooms, etc.
• Organize branded student events like felicitation ceremonies, toppers' meet, exam strategy sessions.

6. Enrollment-Driven Campaigns

• Design admission season campaigns highlighting USPs, results, scholarships, early bird offers.
• Collaborate with the admission team to understand lead quality and campaign impact.
• Drive brand support for franchisee centers for localized enrollment campaigns.

7. Internal Branding & Culture Building

• Ensure faculty, counselors, and staff represent brand values in communication.
• Develop internal brand guides, training, and behavior manuals.

8. Partnerships & PR

• Build partnerships with schools, education influencers, media agencies, and test preparation platforms.
• Create press releases, media coverage, and influencer tie-ups for building credibility.

Key Performance Indicators

• Growth in brand awareness and unaided brand recall.
• Increase in student enrollment inquiries and conversions from branding campaigns.
• Engagement rates on social media and digital platforms.
• Number of schools and partner institutions engaged.
• Cost per lead (CPL) and return on ad spend metrics.
• Visibility metrics (e.g., OOH impressions, campaign reach).
• Brand health metrics (NPS, student/parent trust perception surveys).

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.

What we are looking for:

• 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

Positions-QA

Alteast 5-7 years of experience in testing customer facing popular web based apps is required.

Must know UI / API Automation. Have to be very good in Selenium.

Python experience is preferable.

Must have experience in leading QA for testing projects.

Certified tester ( CSTE / ISEB ) preferable.

High energy individuals with can-do attitude, and eagerness to learn new technologies.

Must be familiar agile development practices.

Familiarity with Web application testing is required.

       Experience in testing and automating of web applications or Enterprise level applications will be added plus.

Roles & Responsibilities :

·        To lead team from front to all the software developers including Interns at b+m India office

·        To upgrade and guide to the entire software developers team with technical solutions and updated technologies from time to time .

·        Participate in the complete lifecycle of projects from inception to deployment to value delivery.

·        Developing best practices to ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope of work.

·        Create a project Management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective. Developing and monitoring project plans, project schedules, working hours and ensuring project deadlines are met.

·        Escalate all obstacles that cannot be dealt with promptly that could result in project delays.

·        Communicate project status and key issues to stakeholders on a regular basis.

·        Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of multiple projects (if needed).

·        Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

·        Delegate project tasks based on requirement to the team members' ,  individual strengths, skill sets, and as per their experience levels.

·        Attend seminars and training as required improve & maintain proficiency (if needed).

·        Perform other software development related duties like,

     Software development in C# with MS Visual Studio, Developing and designing GUIs in WPF.

     Source code development for libraries (.dll), e.g. for data exchange

     Creating standard interfaces via web service and OPC UA

    Connecting MS SQL database systems for secure data transfer.

Creating VR and AR applications in Unity

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will

• Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs

• Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.

• You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
• You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
• You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
• You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
• We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
• Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
• Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!

Requirements:

• 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
• Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
• Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
• Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless

Perks

• Opportunity to start from scratch
• Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
• Young and dynamic team
• Offsites
• Regular game and hangout sessions every week

Designation: Senior iOS Developer

Qualification: BCA/BTECH/BSCIT/BE/MCA/MTECH/MSCIT/ ME with relevant skills and interest may apply.

Salary: 30000 – 50000 per month

Experience: 3+ Years

Location: Mahape, Navi Mumbai (Work from Home for Next 4-5 months post that It can be working from office but people who just want to work from home are also welcome)

Job Profile/Description:

a) 3+ years of experience in Native iOS Application development.

b) Experience on iOS, iPhone SDK, Objective-C/Swift, Xcode & Interface Builder, MacOS,

Auto-layout, Autoresing.

c) Experience with Core Data, SQLite, Location Based Services added advantage.

d) Understanding of building App that utilizes web-services to tie applications to server-side APIs,

via REST and SOAP.

e) Experience with the implementation of third-party libraries and API.

f) Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging

technologies.

g) Should be aware of platform-independent mobile application development trends/ tools

h) Experience in developing enterprise mobility is desirable

i) Good interpersonal skills, for effective communication with business and development teams

j) Proven track record of successful and timely project delivery

k) Well Conversant on iOS along with other mobile platform for Mobile Application

l) Development and integration.

m) Should have executed at least three projects from start to finish in iOS

n) The position requires an expert understanding of complex, multi-phased projects and the

o) Understanding of apple design principles and interface guidelines.

P) Experience in uploading iOS apps on the App Store.

q) Candidate should be Quality and cost-driven with strong oral and written communication,

interpersonal skills.

r) Motivated to learn and implement new processes and technologies.

s) Candidate must have the ability to perform under a stringent timeline.

t) Should be a good Team player and team mentoring.

u) Contain good knowledge of different iPhone and iPad devices screen resolutions.

v) Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.

w) Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools (such as Instruments and Shark,

depending on project needs)

x) Knowledge of Flutter will be nice to have

Only applicants who are available full time for a minimum duration of 1 year can apply.