Development Manager / Technical Lead - Java

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 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