Chief Technology Officer

Designation: Chief Architect

Responsibilities

• Build high quality systems and applications that solve key challenges for the customer
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand their requirements, challenges and develop potential solutions
• Proactively identify areas of improvements, come up with innovative solutions, and drive adoption
• Push boundaries on infrastructure and cost optimisation, reusability, simplicity and scalability • Own significant engineering projects end-to-end
• Sign-off on all significant architectures and technical designs regardless of front-end or back-end.
• Translate business requirements to tangible engineering deliverables
• Setup and streamline processes and introduce best practices to improve the overall efficiency and throughput of the engineering team
• Be an effective mentor and help in building capacity in the larger team, strategize and work towards helping junior engineers grow
• Stay current with latest tools, technologies, methodologies and ideas; spread the knowledge and conduct effective POCs to demonstrate applicability and benefits

Requirements

• 15+ years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and middle tier enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with large volume batch and real-time data processing applications
• Experience building enterprise SaaS applications. Strong knowledge of AWS.
• Programming Languages: Java (must have), Python (good to have)
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
• Strong in problem solving, data structures and algorithm design.
• Clear Object Oriented Design and Design Pattern concepts
• Significant experience working with non-functional requirements such as performance, security, compliance, automation etc.
• Experience developing AI-based solutions is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail

We are looking for a hands-on technical expert who has worked with multiple technology stacks and has experience architecting and building scalable cloud solutions with web and mobile frontends. 

 What will you work on?

•  Interface with clients
• Recommend tech stacks
• Define end-to-end logical and cloud-native architectures
•  Define APIs
• Integrate with 3rd party systems
• Create architectural solution prototypes
• Hands-on coding, team lead, code reviews, and problem-solving

What Makes You A Great Fit?

• 5+ years of software experience 
• Experience with architecture of technology systems having hands-on expertise in backend, and web or mobile frontend
• Solid expertise and hands-on experience in Python with Flask or Django
• Expertise on one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google App Engine)
• Expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Mongo, ElasticSearch, Redis)
• Knowledge of DevOps practices
• Chatbot, Machine Learning, Data Science/Big Data experience will be a plus
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

The job is for a full-time position at our https://goo.gl/maps/o67FWr1aedo">Pune (Viman Nagar) office. 

(Note: We are working remotely at the moment. However, once the COVID situation improves, the candidate will be expected to work from our office.)

Technology / Frame work: Angular, Ionic

 

Roles:

• Design frontend architecture.
• Provide solution for business needs.
• 9+ years of experience in modern Javascript frameworks (Angular JS, Knockout, React) and other front end technologies (HTML5, CSS 3, Bootstrap)
• Caching techniques such as Service workers to improve the front end performance.
• Experience in unit testing automation frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Protractor.
• Experience in optimization of UI for mobile & tablet devices for infinite & smooth scrolling.
• Experience in Service side rendering technologies such as Angular 10. 0, typescript, React JS.
• Experience in setting up DevOps & Continuous Delivery pipeline for front end technologies using a standard platform such as Jenkins, Puppet , Team City or IBM Urban Build.
• Code quality measurement using automated tools as well as manual code reviews for Javascript technologies
  
  

Desired/Preferred Qualifications :

 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities
• Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up like environment.
• Experience leveraging node.js frameworks such as Express.
• Experience with distributed source control management, i.e. Git

Technology: node js, DynamoDB / Mongo DB

 

Roles:

• Design & implement Backend Services.
• Able to redesign the architecture.
• Designing & implementation of application in MVC & Microservice.
• 9+ years of experience developing service-based applications using Node.js.
• Expert-level skills in developing web applications using JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
• Experience working on teams that practice BDD (Business Driven Development).
• Understanding of micro-service architecture and RESTful API integration patterns.
• Experience using Node.js for automation and leveraging NPM for package management
• Solid Object Oriented design experience, and creating and leveraging design patterns.
• Experience working in a DevOps/Continuous Delivery environment and associated toolsets (i.e. Jenkins, Puppet etc.)
  
  
  

Desired/Preferred Qualifications :

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
2. Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities
3. Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up like environment
4. Experience leveraging node.js frameworks such as Express.
5. Experience with distributed source control management, i.e. Git

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features spanning across systems in a manner that satisfies requirements of performance, scale, security and robustness
• Contribute to improvement of technology and execution processes in the company
• Collaborate in setting technology standards with technology leaders across the company
• Serve as a knowledge center on current and emerging technologies, and help train others when required
• Foster a strong technical culture by mentoring other engineers
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies, evaluate new tools

Relevant Experience and Qualifications 

• Demonstrated expertise in system-level design of large scale distributed systems on the Java stack, and experience with web services and service oriented architectures
• Solid experience with Spring (Core/Boot/Security/MVC/Data)
• Have 8 - 12  years of professional experience in software development.
• Extensive experience with modern open source systems including relational / non relational data stores and bigdata processing
• Experience with AWS stack, at least the common datastores and services 
• Experience with containerization technologies and concepts including Docker
• Basic knowledge about security concepts and secure coding
• Excellent analytical, conceptual and communication skills in spoken and written English.
• Experience leading projects developed across continents.

Great to have Experience and Qualifications 

• Knowledge of machine learning concepts, and some hands-on experience implementing machine learnt models
• Experience with infrastructure design for cloud based apps, especially AWS.
• Past experience with information and data security standards (PCI-DSS, ISO27000) very nice to have.

In a nutshell The CTO will have the extraordinary opportunity to drive the technology and solutions forward as we grow the company for scale. The person will lead multiple teams including Solution architecture, Technical Architecture, Service Management, and various Product Delivery teams. Reporting directly to the CEO, this person will be working closely with the executive management members to drive the company strategy forward. Above all the person will need excellent leadership skills to manage the largest team within the company. What you will do The role provides an opportunity to stamp an indelible footprint on complex and growing solutions. The role provides versatility from making strategic decisions to operational service management. Leading a team of smart people and working with the executive management team will allow you growth opportunity while providing enough space for bringing innovative and problem solving streak out of you. Technology is the engine that drives our growth and you would be in the driving seat. • You will guide Architecture Team to drive technology leadership, creating scalable architecture, frameworks, best practices, coding guidelines and ensuring their adherence. • You will guide the Delivery Teams to ensure reliable and quality releases • You will work with our Sales Team to ensure the right solution is provided to prospects • You will guide our clients for better solutions and you will be the technology escalation point • You will move our Testing team to Automation Testing • You will bring the best SDLC practices such as pair-programming to drive code quality • You will lead The Service Management imbibing ITIL practices for better “ilities“ • Ensure that solution architecture is reusable across products and extensible for future enhancements What you will need • Excellent leadership skills • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills • The ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects, rapidly changing priorities, and leading junior developers • Experience in at least one tech team transformation towards better SDLC practices (pair-programming, XP, Scrum, etc.) • Expertise in IT delivery towards internal and external clients • Architecture strength and passion for technology, specifically J2EE stack • Experience in product based companies, ideally e-commerce/ new age businesses preferred with experience of at least one end-to-end product life cycle • Experience in physical server management such as capacity planning, performance, availability, reliability, DR, security specifically DDoS, networking etc. • Engineering degree/ masters from a reputed institute • Can create scalable architectures, have excellent knowledge of design principles and managing non-functional requirements • Self-starter and problem-solver thinking

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