Technical support specialist

Responsibilities

• Identify potential customers from amongst a bunch of leads
• Qualify leads from different marketing campaigns as viable sales opportunities
• Contact prospects via emails and cold calls
• Present the company to prospective clients
• Identify client requirements and suggest them with suitable products/services
• Come up with customised product solutions that will help boost customer satisfaction
• Establish long-term relationships with the clients
• Seek new business opportunities in the market proactively
• Keep updated about latest business trends

Requirements

• B.Tech in C.S, I.T, Marketing or related field
• Proven 2+ years of experience as a Business Development Representative, Account Executive or similar job role
• Prior working experience in SaaS startup is must.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Impressive communication skills
• Extensive experience with various sales techniques
• Proven record of achieving sales quotas
• Hands-on experience with CRM software like Zoho, Sales Navigator.
• Familiarity with MS Office - Excel in particular
• Sound knowledge of sales performance metrics
• Should be a Team Player
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Ability to deliver convincing presentations
• Good leadership skills

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
• 10 to 20 years of experience in software development
• Hands-on experience designing and building B2B or B2C products
• 3+ years architecting SaaS/Web based customer facing products, leading engineering teams as software/technical architect
• Experiences of engineering practices such as code refactoring, microservices, design and enterprise integration patterns, test and design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application and infrastructure security
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Experience building event driven systems and working with message queues/topics
• Broad working experience across multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth experience in one or more of the following: .Net, Java, Scala or Go-lang
• Hands-on experience with relational databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL and document stores like Elasticsearch or MongoDB
• Hands-on experience with Big Data processing technologies like Hadoop/Spark is a plus
• Hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Agile software development process

• Python knowledge: object-oriented programming: inheritance, abstract classes, dataclass, dependency injection, design patterns: comand-query, repository, adapter, hexagonal architecture, swagger/Open API, flask, connexion
• Experience on AWS services: lambda, ecs, sqs, s3, dynamodb, auroradb
• Experience with following libraries boto3, behave, pytest, moto, localstack, docker
• Basic knowledge about terraform, gitlab ci
• Experience with SQL DB

About Shankar Mahadevan Academy 

Founded by Indian singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan, this 11-year old music academy has pioneered online music education for Indian music. Shankar Mahadevan Academy has brought music to over 10,000 students in over 88 countries with more than 3,00,000 virtual classes.  With its mission “Joy of Music”, the Academy has also brought music to the underprivileged and the underserved with its various non-profit initiatives.  

Website: www.shankarmahadevanacademy.com

Shankar Mahadevan Academy is inviting passionate growth and outreach professionals to join our Admissions team. 

At Shankar Mahadevan Academy you will be a part of a dynamic and entrepreneurial team that works at the crossroads of arts, education and technology. Your career at Shankar Mahadevan Academy will contribute to spreading music and Indian arts, while you get an opportunity to learn all aspects of growing an online business for a globally recognised brand. 

The ideal candidate will have strong spoken and written communication skills, have 6 months - 3 years of experience with B2C sales, and be able to handle 70-80 cold calls per day. 

About the role 

• Work hours: 6 days a week, including weekends. U.S. Shift (7:00 - 4:00 p.m.) OR India Shift (12:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.) 
• Work location: Located off MG Road, Easy access to Trinity Circle Metro Station
• Work from Office only, no work from home/ Hybrid model 
• Benefits: Health Insurance and PF cover 
• We follow a culture of fun, engagement and growth with emphasis on work-life balance and healthy living. You also get fruits, activities every week, regular team outings and learning opportunities 

Goals / What you will do 

• Acquire new customers by handling inbound and outbound calls, and walk-in inquiries 
• Actively generate leads and seek out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media 
• Possess a strong understanding of our products, and showcase our value to our customers in the form of counseling 
• Gather market and student information and provide feedback on buying trends and competitive advantages
• Representing SMA at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations

Skills required / Must-haves for the role 

• 6 months to 3 years of work experience in B2C sales 
• Good spoken and written communication in English with good listening skills 
• Team player who likes to work with like-minded people 
• Good at objection handling and sales closure 
• Multi-language skills added advantage 
• Willing to pick up new skills 

Desired candidates must have 3-7 years of experience as NodeJs Developer.

If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

Tech Stack :

ANGULARJS, NODEJS, REQUIREJS, EXPRESSJS, HTML5, CSS3, JAVASCRIPT, AJAX, REST API, JQUERY, POSTGRESQL/MYSQL, MVC FRAMEWORK, MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications
• 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
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Able to understand and create Documentation according to Client requirement.

Requirements:

• Ability to write clean, commented and maintainable code.
• Basic understanding of microservices.
• Basic understanding in designing, architecting, developing enterprise class products and solutions.
• Basic understanding of MVC frameworks.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Basic understanding data migration, transformation, and scripting.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Basic understanding of a back-end programming concepts.
• Basic understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Proper understanding of OOPS concepts.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Understanding of startup culture.
• Good team player, Quick learner.