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About Milaap:

Milaap is India’s largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes, especially healthcare and related needs. Constantly endeavouring to make it easier for people to raise money online for the causes that matter to them, the platform enables lay-people to raise funds for personal causes and emergencies, especially for tertiary healthcare like Cancer care, organ transplants, and accidents, for education and for community-related causes they care about.

Milaap community of funders come from over 130 countries across the world and have contributed over INR 440 Cr from 150,000+ projects across India. Over the last eight years, Milaap has become a preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India.

Responsibilities :

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers and other developers

Required Skills :

• 2-4 years of overall software development experience
• 1+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
• Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
• Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
• Strong foundation in Database ( SQL / Postgres )
• Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud-based infrastructure (Heroku/AWS)
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture

It will be good if you also have:

• Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during a high growth phase
• Practical experience with building scalable, high availability and high-performance systems
• Hands-on background with agile development practices including test driven development and scrums
• Contributed to open source projects on Github
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools

Interested candidates can send in their resume and cover letter to secareers@milaap.org with the subject line 'Ruby on Rails Developer'

Milaap is India’s (and arguably Asia’s) largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes. Our mission is to make it easier for people to raise money online for the needs and causes that matter to them, their loved ones, their neighbourhood and a larger community.

Our community of donors and fundraisers come from 130+ countries across the world and have raised over INR 200 Crores for nearly 100,000 unique campaigns and projects across India. Over the last six years, Milaap has become the preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India.

Our work at the intersection of consumer internet and social good, has received the backing of investors globally such as Government of Singapore, Khosla Impact, Jungle Ventures, Unitus, Toivo Annus (co-founder of Skype) to name a few, and recognition from: The Economic Times - Top 5 Social Enterprises of 2014, 2015 and Forbes 30 Under 30, among others.

The Role: BD Associate

We are looking for the right candidate to execute our field marketing activities and initiatives with our Existing Hospital partners. This is an exciting opportunity to grow medical crowdfunding market in India with a partnership-driven approach. The BD team currently manages over 60 healthcare partnerships across 8 major cities. We are looking for an ideal candidate to work as a part of the BD team who will primarily focus on day to day campaign sourcing and coordination with the objective of significantly scaling our existing partnerships and playing a key role in the company’s bottom line.

Responsibilities :

• Meet Hospital Co-ordinators, Social Workers, Counsellors, Billing Teams daily with the objective of sourcing campaigns and meet/exceed designated monthly targets from the allocated accounts.
• Post introduction by the hospital contact, introduce Milaap to the patient/kin, understand the need and the consent, followed by information gathering for the campaign set up
• Explain terms and conditions and collect consent as well as photographs
• Report and coordinate with RM & CM for setting up the campaign
• Source and provide updates on ongoing campaigns
• Provide market feedback to the company leadership regarding competitive offerings, customer needs

Skills :

• 1+ years of full-time work experience in a client-facing, sales role. Experience within Healthcare is a plus.
• Excellent people skills - comfort in speaking to people of all backgrounds.
• Target oriented, self-starter. Aggressive in independently sourcing campaigns and driving them to closure
• Interpersonal skills and ability to manage relationships and get things done.
• Proficient in written and spoken English + Local language. Ability to communicate with native efficiency in Hindi. Knowing any other native Indian language is a huge positive.
• Min Qualification: Bachelor’s degree
• Ability and willingness to travel locally up to 80% of the time. Own 2-wheeler is a must.

This role is a contract based for the tenure of 6 months. if Interested, please share the profile with us at bdhiring@milaap.org with the subject preferred location. For example, if you are a candidate from Hyderabad " BD Associate - Hyderabad".

The Milaap team is a huge enabler of great ideas. So, if you’re looking for an empowering work environment where you are limited only by your own capacity and nothing else, write in!

Milaap is India's largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes. We are committed to doing all we can to make it extremely easy for people to raise money online for the causes that matter to them most. How we make our users feel is at the heart of what we do and why we do it. Milaap uses innovative approaches to ensure ease-of-use for fundraising individuals and building trust for donors and we believe that video is a critical tool that helps us achieve that. We are looking for someone talented and driven with none to 1 year of experience to create ground-breaking and high impact work. Someone who believes that video is the future of social media and get us highly engaging videos to share stories with the world.

Responsibilities :

• Responsible for Script and editing videos at Milaap as part of the marketing & communication and donor engagement
• Working closely with the social media team to shortlist relevant stories
• Video editing to optimize larger pieces for shorter, social-focused posts
• Understand elements of mobile-first videos -- shareable, engaging and emotionally resonant video for social media platforms
• While the final decisions on content and message will be decided by consensus, you will have complete creative and artistic freedom

Required skill-sets :

• Fluent language and communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with the marketing team to understand requirements
• Language Skills: English and (Telugu or Tamil).
• An understanding of how to engage the audience on social media with relevant and insightful content
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently while maintaining high attention to detail
• Execute projects with excellence adhering to deadlines
• Up to date and proficient with industry-leading software and technologies (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc.)
• Video shoot, handling of video and audio recording equipment is a huge plus

Why work with Milaap?

• Want to do what you love – creating powerful videos on issues you want the world to know about, while also contributing to a fantastic cause. Wouldn't it be great to have your creativity actually make an impact or help an organization improve the life of its community?
• At Milaap, we are building a global community of do-gooders from India. Our users come from over 120 countries across the world. 
• You'll have the opportunity to apply your skills and passion to actually change people’s lives. 
• An experience to work in a diverse and young team. Median age - 28 years, 50% of women, people from 12 states across India. 

Here's your shot at changing the world. Be part of something revolutionary! Interested? You can share your profile along with the links to the previous work to vecareers@milaap.org