Sales Manager

Strong MERN / Frontend Developer Profile

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience in software development using MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js)

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have 1+ years of frontend development experience with React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+);

Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have experience with Next.js (SSR/SSG, API routes, Server Actions)

Mandatory (Experience 4): Hands-on experience in building RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.js

Mandatory (Experience 5): Experience writing unit test cases using Mocha, Chai, Jest (or similar), and working in Agile/Scrum environments

Preferred

Preferred (Experience) – Exposure to GCP/AWS/DevOps and cloud-native development

Preferred (Educataion) – B.E /B.Tech /BCA

Company Description

Appiness Interactive Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore-based product development and UX firm that specializes in digital services for startups to fortune-500s. We work closely with our clients to create a comprehensive soul for their brand in the online world, engaged through multiple platforms of digital media. Our team is young, passionate, and aggressive, not afraid to think out of the box or tread the un-trodden path in order to deliver the best results for our clients. We pride ourselves on Practical Creativity where the idea is only as good as the returns it fetches for our clients.

Role Objective

To drive revenue growth by converting qualified leads, acquiring new clients, and contributing to brand-building initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

● Identify and develop new business opportunities

● Convert qualified leads into clients through meetings and presentations

● Understand client requirements and propose tailored solutions

● Prepare proposals, pricing, and commercial discussions

● Negotiate contracts and close deals

● Build and maintain strong client relationships

● Collaborate with marketing on campaigns and brand positioning

● Represent the company at events, meetings, and networking forums

● Maintain sales pipeline and provide regular reports

● Analyze market trends, competitors, and customer insights

● Support strategic partnerships and long-term growth initiatives

Required Skills & Qualifications

● Strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills

● Experience in B2B sales (IT/Digital preferred)

● Strategic thinking and relationship management

● Ability to work independently with revenue targets

● Proficiency in CRM and proposal tools

KPIs

● Revenue and deal closures

● Conversion rate from qualified leads

● Client acquisition and retention

About us:

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 8300+ 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: 

We're looking to on-board an enthusiastic Customer Success Specialist who loves delighting customers. The role requires hand-holding customers during on-boarding and making them Astra-nauts (yes, that's what we call our customers & team members!) who are well versed with Astra's platform. 

The role will also require collaboration with our sales, security and marketing team. We're a cyber security company with CTOs, engineering leaders & CISOs as our ICP, hence we'll prefer candidates who come with some understanding of principles of computer science.  

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring a smooth customer on-boarding
• Championing product adoption
• Maintaining high NPS
• Ensuring renewals of the accounts assigned to you
• Understanding customer requirements and translating them into deliverables.
• You will be attending to customer emails and phone calls on a daily basis
• You will be looking after stakeholder management between various teams and customers.
• Experience working with brand image and promoting value through customer experience
• Building a rapport with the customers
• You will be up-selling and cross-selling complementary Astra products
• You will be ensuring timely delivery by communicating across teams
• Diligently maintain customer success platform

Requirements for this role:

• 1-3 years of experience in customer success
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical knowledge required to work in a cyber security organization’s customer-facing role
• Ability to build rapport with the stakeholders
• Willingness to work in a remote setup

Benefits of joining the Astra Squad:

• Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
• Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
• Revel in our open, growth-centric ambiance; it's like a digital playground.
• Dive deep into the captivating world of cybersecurity.
• And yes, get ready for some unforgettable workcations—think Chikmagalur & Jim Corbett.

Primary Responsibilities:

Developer for IT Regulatory team, work with the development manager and key stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop moderately complex technical solutions.

Work collaboratively with the team to support existing functionality and build, implement, and support new solutions.

Draft and review technical diagrams, specifications documents and required project documentation.

Conduct code reviews of other developers.

Share experience and knowledge with the team to improve productivity & delivery timelines.

Continuously seek ways to improve our existing architecture, advises on complex code deficiencies, provides systemic proposals, and promote efficiencies where necessary.

Job Requirements:

Undergraduate degree in computer science or technology discipline

5+ years of Core Java Development experience & Integration Technologies (Spring, MQ, JSON, XML, SOAP).

Experience writing SQL queries (DB2, Snowflake).

Crystal reports/Excel Writer/Aspose.

Working knowledge of scripting languages (Perl, Unix Shell, Python).

Experience working with source code repositories (Bitbucket, GitHub)

JavaScript, Angular is a plus.

Sound understanding of Object-Oriented Design & Programming, Enterprise Architecture Patterns and GoF design.

A flexible, tenacious team player with a positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills, able to build collaborative relationships with globally distributed teams.

Strong analytical and design skills with attention to detail.

Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills; Able to communicate with different stakeholders effectively.

Experience developing technical solutions in Investment Management industry.

Understanding of portfolio accounting concepts and trade lifecycle

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and passionate Senior Software Engineer - Data Science to analyze large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve our company. We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights.

In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research.

Your goal will be to help our company analyze trends to make better decisions. Without knowledge of how the software works, data scientists might have difficulty in work. Apart from experience in developing R and Python, they must know modern approaches to software development and their impact. DevOps continuous integration and deployment, experience in cloud computing are everyday skills to manage and process data.

Responsibilities :

Adapting and enhancing machine learning techniques based on physical intuition about the domain Design sampling methodology, prepare data, including data cleaning, univariate analysis, missing value imputation, , identify appropriate analytic and statistical methodology, develop predictive models and document process and results Lead projects both as a principal investigator and project manager, responsible for meeting project requirements on schedule and on budget Coordinate and lead efforts to innovate by deriving insights from heterogeneous sets of data generated by our suite of Aerospace products Support and mentor data scientists Maintain and work with our data pipeline that transfers and processes several terabytes of data using Spark, Scala, Python, Apache Kafka, Pig/Hive & Impala Work directly with application teams/partners (internal clients such as Xbox, Skype, Office) to understand their offerings/domain and help them become successful with data so they can run controlled experiments (a/b testing) Understand the data generated by experiments, and producing actionable, trustworthy conclusions from them Apply data analysis, data mining and data processing to present data clearly and develop experiments (ab testing) Work with development team to build tools for data logging and repeatable data tasks tol accelerate and automate data scientist duties

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics or other technical field. PhD preferred 4 to 7 years of experience in data mining, data modeling, and reporting 3+ years of experience working with large data sets or do large scale quantitative analysis Expert SQL scripting required Development experience in one of the following: Scala, Java, Python, Perl, PHP, C++ or C# Experience working with Hadoop, Pig/Hive, Spark, MapReduce Ability to drive projects Basic understanding of statistics – hypothesis testing, p-values, confidence intervals, regression, classification, and optimization are core lingo Analysis - Should be able to perform Exploratory Data Analysis and get actionable insights from the data, with impressive visualization. Modeling - Should be familiar with ML concepts and algorithms; understanding of the internals and pros/cons of models is required. Strong algorithmic problem-solving skills Experience manipulating large data sets through statistical software (ex. R, SAS) or other methods Superior verbal, visual and written communication skills to educate and work with cross functional teams on controlled experiments Experimentation design or A/B testing experience is preferred. Experince in team management.

• Fluent English Required, and able to provide well-articulated and reasoned explanations for when and why to apply software design patterns.

• Experience of 3 to 5 years developing using MEAN Stack

• Strong development experience using Node.JS, Express, Angularjs and Mongodb

• Experience in UX, CSS, LESS/SASS, Git, Gulp

• Agile development background is required

• Test Driven Development experience

• Cloud deployment experience is preferred, working with Google, AWS, Jenkins, Docker