Director Engineering

Job Summary: In this position, you will manage and provide technical leadership of the product team. Leadership, communication, prioritization and a focus on excellence are essential characteristics for this role Responsibilities and Duties: - Manage (recruit, motivate, develop, strengthen) the product engineering team - Mentor and lead the engineering team as a subject matter expert for all technology and architecture related issues. - Architect, Design, Develop & Implement frameworks and application software components using Cloud and Enterprise/Open Source technologies - Be accountable for the overall technical excellence and quality of the platforms - Should be proactive and enhance existing software architecture by analyzing and identifying areas - Create and Manage technology strategy that can serve the business strategy - Low burn, highly iterative new product development and testing - 80/20 rule: effectively create low resource high impact technology solutions - Future ready: always looking to disrupt and challenge the status quo Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications: - B.E in Computer Science or equivalent with demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership - Articulates a clear technology vision that is inspiring and aligned with business needs and Experienced in articulating the business goals and cascading them down the organization appropriately so that every person in the organization is appropriately stretched to achieve outcomes - Minimum of 8 – 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering out of which 70% should be in startup companies / environment, leadership capacity and experience across variety of technology stacks (from Conception to Go-Live). Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a startup environment. - Strong experience in building and deploying Enterprise grade products - Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies - Strong experience in RDBMS & preferably worked with NoSQL & Hadoop as well and worked across multiple platforms (Front-end, Middleware) - Well versed in technologies like Angular, Core JS, Java, Python, etc.

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Job Summary
The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Job Location: Chennai
Job Summary
The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

Lowes is looking for a hands on engineering leader with experience of scaling up Adtech system

About QuestionPro:

QuestionPro is one of the leading market research platforms. We have a wide range of products in Market Research, Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Vehicle Experience. All our products are multi-tenant SAAS platforms built on the latest technologies.

Our infrastructure is spread across 6 Data Centers across the globe. The platform collects over 10Million Surveys every month. Our Customer Experience platform was named top provider in the Gartner Voice of the Customer Rankings. Ever since we launched in 2016, we have grown by over 200% YoY. All up we are on plan to hit $ 31M in 2021. We are bootstrapped and proud to get where we are without any funding or investments. 

Our operations are spread across the globe with offices in the US, Mexico, Germany, UK, UAE, and Canada. 

 

https://www.questionpro.com/blog/cx-top-provider-gartner-voc-rankings/

 

We are a bootstrapped company and proud to have not taken any funding or investment.

 

QuestionPro has a particularly exciting journey ahead, requiring a passionate individual to join our growing team. If you are a true technology craftsman and want to build cutting-edge software solutions, hit us!

 

We operate 100% remote. You will be working from any place you desire for this position.

 

Responsibilities

• Be a team player: contribute to our culture, invent new ways to address industry needs, criticize constructively, and help create a world-changing company
• Develop from the ground up a modular architecture to support a web API
• Manage all aspects of the software life cycle (Requirements gathering, Testing, Deployment, Support)
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implement security and data protection
• Build exciting applications by utilizing updated technologies and architectural design patterns 
• Ability to attract talent and build a team. 

 

Skills & Requirements

   Must-Have:   

• Passionate about creating high-quality, flexible code
• Strong understanding of REST API principles and best practices
• Expertise in Java, 
• Expertise in MySQL/Elasticsearch, Mongo or any NoSQL Database
• Proficient with Git
• Proficient with front-end technologies JavaScript, CSS & HTML
• Proficient in design patterns
• Good understanding of MVC architecture

 

   Good To Have:

 

• Python, R, Docker, Kubernetes, ES6+
• Proficiency in ReactJS
• Any experience in ML/ NLP

We are looking for a bright and exceptional Engineering Lead to join one of our Fortune 500 clients in the Fintech industry for the locations - Bangalore / Gurgaon / Hyderabad based Technology team. The role involves building complex next generation product used by the clients and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

 

Responsibilities:

• Active participation in design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects/products.
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R& D tasks.
• Work with product groups to outline project deliverables and help manage the roadmap of the R& D tasks.
• Act as a point of contact for managing and driving production defects & stability improvements to resolution.
• Tailor processes to help manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to appropriate closure.
• Engage and lead a team of highly talented technologists.

 

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 6-9 years of experience, Fintech domain is a plus.
• Demonstrated contribution to end-to-end delivery of enterprise-grade software.
• Proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA.
• Hands-on experience in enterprise application development, coupled with knowledge of frameworks & tools like/equivalent to spring, mybatis, git, gradle
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, and data modeling skills.
• Experience in cloud technologies is a plus.
• Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence.
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams.
• Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills.
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Strong communication skills.
• The ideal candidate should have strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as a demonstrated passion for technology.
• Excellent reasoning ability and good interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role as it involves interaction with business users.

About Us
upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for
working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19.
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
• Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
• Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
• Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
• Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.

 

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

 

Qualification

B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)

Job Profile - Engineering And Product role

Major Responsibilities

•  Defining the technical specifications and architecture along with overall  product infrastructure.
• Provide creative and unique solutions to accommodate for the versatility and customizations during product development.
• The role would expect you to code and/or conduct code reviews so experience in PHP, java or similar languages would be useful.
• Managing a team of engineers and developers; ensuring quality is met at every process of the development and deployment phases.
• Managing AWS servers to track/monitor/optimize resource utilization and upgrade servers when necessary.
• Ability to understand and collaborate on a complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.
• Implementation of new technologies to optimize product quality and usage.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• 10+ years of expertise working on and managing Technology teams.
• Understanding of Algorithms, data structures and standard coding practices
• Understanding of RDBMS design. Experience in writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries and optimizing queries.
• Very good understanding of collections and multithreading Framework - SpringBoot , JPA.
• Understanding of RDBMS design. Experience in writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries and optimizing queries.

 

 

 

                                                       JD – Engineering Manager Role

Responsibilities:

 

• Designed, developed and deployed cloud-native applications (we use AWS)
• Working on or leading enterprise tech products and worked with enterprise customers
• Mentor & grow / Hire Engineering Managers to lead up these individual units.
• Work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
• Set up the organisation & processes to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Well versed in Software Architecture and Design - You should be able to spot flaws in the existing architecture and design. You would help us refactor and re-architecture the code for easier and faster development.
• Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
• Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organisations.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.
• Identify, define, and coordinate the training needs of the team.
• Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback on a regular basis
• Building and maintaining data capabilities at KredX while taking care of scaling, privacy and processing aspects.
• Ability to work with external partners and vendors to integrate with KredX product
• Write blogs and other technical papers to share the lessons with community both inside and outside the company and or participates in technical events to get new knowledge to the organisation while improving brand of engineering team at KredX
• Appropriately escalate any issues/concerns that require immediate attention from other affected parties
• Always be thinking about the engineering systems and business from different angles - fraud, downtimes, scale, business direction and more

 

Requirements:

• Experience in working with large scale unstructured data, and data science
• Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Possess superb troubleshooting and problem analysis skills.
• Knowledgeable about new engineering paradigms and developments in software engineering

 

Role : Technical Deliver Manager/Technical Director Skills: Full-stack experience with one or more web development frameworks (e.g. Angular/React/Ember/etc. on the front end, Django/Rails/Node/etc. on the backend) Expertise with Python, JavaScript, and SQL WHAT A TECHNICAL DIRECTOR WILL BE DOING - From the get-go, they will work with the existing team to develop and improve the platform and infrastructure, scale the customer-facing aspects of the product, finesse the operations vertical of the business, collect and store data for analysis and presentation, and design and build applications to use this data in various ways. Helps in the planning of the existing architecture and product deliverables, as well as the design and development of entirely new projects. Most of all, will be part of a team embarking on something new, different, and impactful at Licious. INITIAL RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: Partner with our Product Management team to define product specs and build prototypes to test hypotheses Lead a team of the backend, front-end, and mobile developers to ensure delivery of a scalable stack with testing frameworks and instrumentation appropriately factored in Architect the platform for scale and handling millions of transactions with low latency and low failure rates Improving our backend infrastructure and database schema to help Licious better utilize operations and customer data (including migrations, optimizing for performance, logging events and actions, improving the reporting and job management system, and improving our internal dashboards) Creating additional internal systems to expose this data to front end applications. Building entirely new applications to extract valuable insights from existing data Improving upon existing front end applications for optimizing the customer journey Improve the operations stack in the company to manage our processing and fulfilment centers NICE TO HAVES: Expertise with Python, JavaScript, and SQL Full-stack experience with one or more web development frameworks (e.g. Angular/React/Ember/etc. on the front end, Django/Rails/Node/etc. on the backend) Knowledge of modern web development concepts (e.g. RESTful services, MVC architecture, Agile development) An understanding of Supply Chain Management Prior experience in building ERP solutions in manufacturing environments Exposure to business theory, business process development, governance processes, management, budgeting, and administrative operations