Careers at Simplotel

Position – Content writer

A creative content writer responsible for writing website content to market the
hotels that sign up with Simplotel. The candidate will work with hotels to
understand their offering and write creative content for their website – their most
important online marketing channel. The candidate will also do keyword research
and optimize the website for SEO, write blogs for us and for our customers.

Skills required 

• Excellent written and verbal English
• Good creative writer who can write engaging content for hotels and the
  travel industry.
• Write content for blogs and for social media platforms of our company and
  for our customers
• Any bachelor’s degree (preferably Journalism & Mass Comm), with English as first language
• Knowledge and best practices for Search Engine Optimization
• Good with research for several topics to generate content
• Basic technical skills to work with blogging platforms
• Ability to manage time and hit deadlines
• Ability to work with customers – large and small
• Ability to collaborate within a team and with cross-functional departments

Location: Bangalore

Please share your updated CV on careers@simplotel.com

Position – Digital Marketing Specialist (SEO and Google Adwords)

The Digital Marketing Specialist position is based out of our head office in Bangalore and the specialist will own devising and implementing of SEO and paid marketing strategies for multiple hotel customers and help them get maximum return on investment on their spends.

Responsibilities: 

The goal of the Digital Marketing Specialist will be to ensure that our customers are getting a good ROI on their digital spends. The Specialist will

• Project Manage and ensure that we are delivering high quality digital marketing to ur customers
• Coordinate with customers to understand their business and marketing strategy.
• Devise a strategy and a plan to help them achieve that goals. Review the plan with the customers and get buy in
• Implement the plan and work with internal team mates to get parts of the plan implemented.
• Create reports on the success of the campaigns and review the performance the customer

Skills required 

• Graduate degree in Engineering or Business. MBA is a plus.
• 1 -3 years of prior Account Management and digital marketing experience required. Knowledge of SEO, Google Adwords, Display Ads, Social Media ads required. This includes ability to research keywords, identify the best ones to target
• Ability to measure and report the effectiveness of campaigns well.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills. Ability to convince internal and external stakeholders. Ability to create engaging presentations.
• Ability to create sound business cases for digital marketing
• Knowledge of analytics tools (Google Analytics, Google Adwords tools, Excel, SEM Rush, etc.).

Location: Bangalore

Please share your updated CV on careers@simplotel.com

Position – Backend Developer – Intern

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As a Back-end developer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience.

Responsibilities: 

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements

Skills required 

• Degree in Engineering/MCA with CS/IT/MECH/ECE Branch
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Hands-on experience with programming languages like Java, python, Django, SQL, MySQL.
• Working knowledge of CMS framework
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)
• Analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

Location: Bangalore

Please share your updated CV on careers@simplotel.com

Position – Front-End Web Developer (HTML/CSS/UI) – Intern

Responsibilities: 

• Build custom design enhancements for top clients
• Translation of the UI design wireframes to actual code producing visual elements of the product
• Develop new user-facing features
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI designs and UX flow
• Optimize application for speed and responsiveness

Skills required 

• Degree in Engineering/MCA with CS/IT/MECH/ECE Branch
• Deep understanding of HTML5 and CSS3
• Proficiency in CSS pre-processing tools – LESS/SASS/SCSS
• Deep understanding of web standards and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Good command on CSS frameworks like Bootstrap/Foundation and templating languages like Jinja2/Mustache/Typescript
• Basic understanding of JavaScript programming and DOM manipulation.
• Solid foundation in computer science and excellent problem-solving skills

Location: Bangalore

Please share your updated CV on careers@simplotel.com

Position – Test Engineer

If you have excellent testing and analytical skills and a passion for finding out bugs or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As a Test Engineer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience.

Responsibilities: 

• Performing Manual testing which includes, functional testing, smoke testing, sanity and compatibility testing.
• Writing Test Scenarios/Test Cases techniques and assist in preparing Test Plans
• Test and prove that the software meets major architectural requirements
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Should be fully Responsible for task that has been assigned
• Ability to review test cases created by other members
• Provide assistance in preparing test estimates
• Ability to highlight gaps on business requirement to the Technical Lead
• Develop and automate tests for software validation
• Should be able to collaborate with development team to understand, support and test the requirements

Skills required 

• 1-3 years of experience in Software Manual Testing.
• Knowledge in Testing Life Cycle
• Hands-on experience in SQL
• Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing test cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs)
• Experience working in Rest API’s
• Knowledge in Test Management tools/ Bug Tracking tools (Jira)
• Good Knowledge on Python is a plus
• Good Knowledge on automation tools like selenium.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

Location: Bangalore

Please share your updated CV on careers@simplotel.com

Position – Intern/Associate – Website/Theme Design

1. A web designer who excels at front-end design using UI/UX research, with experience working on WordPress and other similar platforms. A good candidate is preferably someone who has worked at a digital agency and is comfortable developing and managing brand websites, landing pages, emailers, search marketing display banners etc.
2. A WordPress designer who can enhance designs and the visual presentation and look of a WordPress website using graphic design tools. The designer is generally capable of using the various options and settings in a WordPress dashboard, and of using pre-made themes, pre-created plugins and graphics, editing and optimization possibilities inside WordPress. Other software such as Photoshop, Illustrator or similar alternative programs could also be creatively used. Knowledge of HTML and CSS is a plus for the candidate.
3. A WordPress designer who may function like a traditional web designer or rely more heavily on the features of WordPress to design websites. The designer may also design on Photoshop as he/she would for any other type of website, but he/she will do so with WordPress in mind. Other WordPress designers will rely on existing themes. He/She may use themes that can be easily customized through the admin panel and do most of their actual work in WordPress. He/She may or may not also edit theme files or work with developers to add additional features or functionality.

Skills required 

• 1 – 2 years of experience in Website Designing and have a Bachelor’s Degree
• Understanding a client’s creative briefs and designing the equivalent using a combination of existing templates and design customizations
• Experienced in using a template driven application (WordPress, Drupal etc.)–initial configuration, modifications, and design enhancements
• Good understanding of typography (fonts), illustration, iconography, and colour combinations
• Good graphic designing skills for creating backgrounds and other necessary creatives
• Ability to consider content, navigation, structure, and user experience issues to create aesthetic but usable designs, on the underlying platform
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS and the ability to customize the look & feel

Team norms at Simplotel:-

1. Communication-We listen actively and respond in a timely manner. We are always polite. We share honest feedback, ideas and opinions
2. Meetings-Our meetings are focused and have preset agendas. We respect time and actively participate in meetings and discussions
3. Problem solving-When in doubt, we ask for help and advice from our peers. We seek terminal solutions for the problems we face
4. Conflict-We believe that conflict of opinion is healthy for organizational growth. We try to resolve issues mutually and amicably
5. Professionalism-We accept our mistakes gracefully and try not to repeat them. We always appreciate and applaud the good work of our colleagues
6. Leadership-We inspire rather than instruct and welcome new ideas. We promote organizational growth by focusing on individual growth

Location: Bangalore

Please share your updated CV on careers@simplotel.com