Development Manager / Technical Lead - Java at Extramarks · Noida, Delhi, Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Faridabad · 5 - 8 years · ₹27L - ₹40L / yr · Profitable · Posted 10 Nov 2021
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Spring BootExtramarks Education India Private Limited
Extramarks is leading the Education Technology sector in India by providing 360⁰ education support to learners through new age digital education solutions. These solutions are used by schools in class room for imparting education and by students at home to make learning easy and effective. Keeping pace with globalization and technology in education, Extramarks empowers young learners to step in with the latest technology and have anytime-anywhere access to quality learning. In a very short period, Extramarks has become extremely popular among schools and students. More than 8000 schools use digital learning and technology solutions of Extramarks across India, Singapore, Kuwait, UAE and South Africa.
Extramarks Learning App allows students to learn at home at their own pace and space and provides complete educational support eliminating the need of a tutor. The three pronged pedagogical approach of Learn, Practice and Test ensures better learning outcomes for students. All concepts are first explained in an easy to learn manner with the help of rich media then the students are allowed to practice the concept. Virtual Practicing modules and Q&A allow the retention of knowledge that is tested on a robust teaching platform to identify the learning gaps.
Extramarks is currently in the process of scaling up rapidly and is looking to hire for the position of Sr. Development Manager, to be an experienced professional with unique skill who stretches from strategy to execution. Extramarks is driving student learning through data driven techniques by providing personalized learning recommendations to the students. Apart from such customer facing innovations, we are also implementing internal operational excellence solutions through similar data driven approaches. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join Extramarks and help change the face of education in India.
Job Description:
- Drive high performance in the Engineering team, with a relentless focus on agile methodologies and continuous innovation in processes, work practices and tooling.
- Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure solutions are maintainable, modular, and of high code-quality.
- Manage the program releases and collaborate with Architects for bringing new practices and making right technical choices for the system.
- Build a strong, progressive engineering culture that values diversity, trust, efficiency, technical ownership, and accountability.
- Able to lead the development cycle and ensure delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimised for performance and built to scale.
Required Skills:
- Extensive experience in managing teams building high-volume and highly complex consumer software products.
- Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing product experience.
- Deep understanding and prior hands-on experience of back-end technologies like Java based microservices & system design architecture with Spring / Spring boot frameworks, hibernate & SQL OR NoSQL databases. (e.g. MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Good understanding of Java Memory Management, Garbage Collection, Multithreading, Immutability & concurrency programming.
- Expertise in effective planning and prioritization of projects to create an environment where randomization is either absent or extremely minimized.
- Able to break complex projects into modules and propose effective solutions in view of capabilities of existing platforms and infrastructure.
Desired Skills:
- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services.
- Experience with high performance & high scale applications.
- Good knowledge of multiple data storage systems
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Extramarks Education India Private Limited
Extramarks is leading the Education Technology sector in India by providing 360⁰ education support to learners through new age digital education solutions. These solutions are used by schools in class room for imparting education and by students at home to make learning easy and effective. Keeping pace with globalization and technology in education, Extramarks empowers young learners to step in with the latest technology and have anytime-anywhere access to quality learning. In a very short period, Extramarks has become extremely popular among schools and students. More than 8000 schools use digital learning and technology solutions of Extramarks across India, Singapore, Kuwait, UAE and South Africa.
Extramarks Learning App allows students to learn at home at their own pace and space and provides complete educational support eliminating the need of a tutor. The three pronged pedagogical approach of Learn, Practice and Test ensures better learning outcomes for students. All concepts are first explained in an easy to learn manner with the help of rich media then the students are allowed to practice the concept. Virtual Practicing modules and Q&A allow the retention of knowledge that is tested on a robust teaching platform to identify the learning gaps.
Extramarks is currently in the process of scaling up rapidly the entire technology workforce, by hiring experienced professionals with unique skill who stretches from strategy to execution. Extramarks is driving student learning through data driven techniques by providing personalized learning recommendations to the students. Apart from such customer facing innovations, we are also implementing internal operational excellence solutions through similar data driven approaches. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join Extramarks and help change the face of education in India.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the software development function, including developers, technical leads, architects, and QA engineers.
- Define and execute the software development roadmap in alignment with the company's business strategy and growth objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications.
- Lead the development and enhancement of fintech platforms, financial applications, payment solutions, and digital financial products, as applicable.
- Drive API development, third-party integrations, banking integrations, payment gateway integrations, and other financial technology integrations.
- Establish software architecture standards, coding practices, development methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure application security, data protection, system reliability, scalability, and performance across software platforms.
- Drive the adoption of modern technologies, cloud-based solutions, DevOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee software development life cycles, sprint planning, release management, quality assurance, and production support.
- Establish engineering KPIs, monitor team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with Product, Business, Compliance, Information Security, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
- Ensure software development processes adhere to applicable regulatory requirements, security standards, internal policies, and IT governance practices.
- Manage technology budgets, external development partners, software vendors, and resource allocation.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, build a high-performing technology team, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, technical debt reduction, and improvement in software delivery efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in software development, engineering, and technology delivery, with approximately 20 years preferred.
- Significant experience in leading software development teams and managing large-scale application development initiatives.
- Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, API development, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and software engineering tools.
- Proven experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-availability applications.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, digital lending, financial services, or related technology domains is preferred.
- Understanding of financial data security, application security, regulatory compliance, and secure software development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, engineering teams, delivery timelines, and technology priorities.
- Excellent leadership, strategic planning, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person
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