Senior Academic Counsellor

LOCATION = MUMBAI, CHENNAI AND BHUBANESHWAR

We are looking for field sales agents with an entrepreneurial mindset, who will play a vital role in acquiring and activating travel agents. This is a very roll-up-your-sleeves role - you will have to knock on doors, pick up the phone, or do whatever it takes to acquire travel agents.

Responsibilities:

• Acquire and activate travel agents through various channels like office visits, telephone, email, social networks, events & meetings.
• Establish, grow, and maintain commercial ties with travel agents both current and potential in the designated territory to attract new partners for our services.
• Create a sales funnel, identify the right leads, define long-term goals, and engage in strategic business planning.
• Align sales activities with the tele-sales team, product, marketing, and customer success team.
• Build an in-depth understanding of our products and give demos or solve product queries to convert agents.
• Attend road shows, trade fairs, and other travel industry events.
• Maintain and analyze data.
• Stay updated on industry insights and opportunities for strategic planning and growth.

Requirements:

• At least 4 years of sales experience in the travel industry
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build relationships
• Prior experience in acquiring travel agents or in visas or insurance is a big plus
• Proficient with using CRMs and Google Sheets
• Ability to handle pressure

Responsibilities:

● Develop and maintain front-end dependencies/codebase.

● Building responsive and elegant mobile & desktop web applications

● Good to have experience of one or more relevant languages (Python, Ruby, Node.js etc.)

● Work closely with the product manager, designer & development team to collaborate to develop the best in class web applications.

● Optimisation of the website as per industry trends.

● Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.

Skills:

● Hands on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript

● Experience in modern web development technologies and techniques, including HTML5, CSS3.

● Experience in any of the frameworks: ReactJs/ Angular / VueJs.

● Experience in translating design mockups and prototypes into frontend applications.

● Experience in effective componentization/abstraction during design translation.

● Experience in effective state management strategies like redux and hooks to scale application better.

● Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets (e.g., images, fonts) to a browser or device (e.g.,lazy loading assets, using CDNs caching, compression, etc)

● Understands how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches as needed, respectful of customer's device limits etc).

● Good understanding and hands on with PWA (AMP is good to have).

● Good knowledge of version control systems.

● Good understanding of any of the following frontend frameworks, bootstrap, material-UI, semantic-UI.

● Ability to provide deliverables within specified deadlines with a quality bar.

● Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

● Highly motivated, self-driven, self-learner

● Experience in flutter is good to have.

We are seeking an experienced MERN Stack Team Leader to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a team of developers in designing, developing, testing, and deploying web applications using the MERN stack. The MERN Stack Team Leader will be responsible for ensuring that the team meets project deadlines, stays within budget, and produces high-quality code that meets the client's requirements. This position requires strong leadership skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a team of developers and oversee the development of web applications using the MERN stack
• Assign tasks to team members and ensure that they are completed on time and within budget
• Participate in the design, development, and testing of web applications using the MERN stack
• Collaborate with clients to gather requirements and ensure that their needs are met
• Ensure that the team follows best practices in software development, code review, and testing
• Identify and mitigate project risks
• Communicate project status to stakeholders and management
• Mentor and coach team members to help them grow and develop their skills
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 4 years of experience in web development using the MERN stack
• At least 8 yr experience in Development
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously

If you have a passion for leading a team of developers to build cutting-edge web applications using the MERN stack, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

This is a fully remote opportunity

About Us:

We at Ascendeum provide Data and AdTech strategy consultation to businesses worldwide. We started our journey with private funding and has been operating profitably since 2015. We are a lean team of 50+ highly productive and smart people spread across various parts of India who have been consistently delivering intelligent solutions that enable enterprise-level websites and apps to maximize their digital advertising returns.

Job Details:

We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Engineer who holds a passion to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back- end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.

Job Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team
• members.
• Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Solid experience specializing in developing and managing back-end systems for enterprise-grade applications.
• Strong command on Python and databases such as MySQL.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming
• techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

We are looking for HTML Integrators, responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating themes and plugins. This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen, the color and font choices, and so on).

The candidate should have a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. Experience with the responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred. Also, an understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Good command on PSD to HTML conversion.
• Good Exposure on HTML, CSS and Photoshop
• Having knowledge on JQuery, wordpress & bootstrap will be an added advantage
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Requirements:

• Good exposure on Photoshop, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Wordpress and Jquery
• Hands on experience with markup languages
• Good exposure on "PSD to HTML conversion"
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer / Information Science (BE / BTech) or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) Experience:
• Two to five years general software engineering experience
• Experience in web development using the Ruby on Rails web application framework
• At least two years of Ruby on Rails programming experience
• Thorough understanding of the philosophy and design of Ruby on Rails
• Desktop publishing skills: HTML5, xHTML, CSS

Knowledge of:

• JavaScript and JavaScript libraries: jQuery, Plugins etc.
• Unix and Linux systems
• Relational databases: SQL, etc.
• Frameworks: Active record, etc.
• Servers: Nginx, Mongrel, Webrick
• Performance management using New Relic, Web Page Test tools
• SEO rules, minification, rails asset pipelines
• REST APIs and their usage

Highly preferred experience:

• Ability to work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS services
• NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Memcached, CouchDB
• Git, SVN
• Proactive and resourceful person who achieves tasks with minimal oversight
• Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in parallel