Director Engineering

About 6sense : The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team.

In one of the latest news,6sense Raises $125 Million in Series D Funding, Increases Valuation to $2.1 Billion https://hub.6sense.com/welcome/6sense-funding-announcement.

In the other news,6sense was named one of @Inc 's Best Workplaces for the third year in a row.

As an Engineering Manager at 6sense ,you will have the opportunity to-

• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent. 
• You will nurture an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor, while planning and supporting career development  
• You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software. 
• You will meet 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.
• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent 
• Work cross functionally with other Engineering Managers to strategize and execute on crucial business objectives along with managing upstream and downstream dependencies 
• Work with the Product Managers on project planning and roadmap 
• Apply distributed computing and map-reduce knowledge to compute, dedupe, and derive insights from billions of records daily 
• Intellectually contribute to the software, data, process, and growth of other team members 
• Participate in writing applicable patents for your ground-breaking work 
• Promote and set examples for high code quality like unit testing, good variable naming, modularity, etc. 
• Own products/features at multiple levels: code, data, metrics, reduction of support frequency, etc. 
• Ensure new features are properly tested at scale prior to release 

Required qualifications and must have skills 

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ engineers 
• 10+ years of experience in delivering software 
• BS / MS in Software Engineering or an equivalent degree 
• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

• Strong CS fundamentals in OOD, DS, Algorithms and Problem Solving for a wide variety of problem spaces and technologies
• Expert coder in any modern language such as Java, Golang or Scala.
• Experience in working with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
• Ability to leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
• Can translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability and security.
• Experience in providing leadership, career guidance, performance management, prioritization and personnel management for minimum team size of 10.
• Experience creating large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
• Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Comfortable in Windows and Linux environments.
• Comfortable with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
• Experience delivering high quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, PMD, Checkstyle, Findbugs, and Fortify etc.)
• Worked in Agile environments previously.
• Good command of development metrics, methodologies and tools.
• Will ensure timely and frequent delivery of high quality software, while adapting technical decisions to the immediate needs of the business.
• Good analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Can drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration and deployment.

• Own the product development from scratch
• Architect scalable, distributed and large-scale web and mobile solutions from scratch
• Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Manage a team of   Developers and Interns
• Boost productivity of team by guiding junior employees and setting the right path for the team

• Excellent analytical skills and understanding of computing fundamentals
• At least 5 years of work experience as a Software Developer
• Strong knowledge either of NodeJS or Python
• Experience working with AWS Serverless Technologies(Lambda, ApiGateway, Cognito, DynamoDB)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with CI/CD and automation methodologies
• .Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting-edge technologies around server-side development

Tech Lead

Duties & Responsibilities

Candidate will be responsible for the architectural design, development and continuous improvement of the software and development process. The system involves real-time quote fetching and policy issuance with a deep integration with different insurance company systems.

Work Experience & Skills

• Strong experience in architecting and developing full-stack software systems.
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience in developing complex, large scale full stack consumer-facing responsive web products.
• Must have experience in Java and at least one Web framework such as Laravel / Django / CodeIgnitor and preferably with at least one JS framework like NodeJS, AngularJS or VueJS.
• Good exposure to few middleware technology tools such as application servers (nGinx, Apache, Tomcat), message queues (Gearman, ActiveMQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka) etc..
• Experience in SOA architecture, micro services and scalable web-services (SOAP & REST) are mandatory.
• Good command & experience on database concepts like RDBMS, NoSQL, data modelling, data normalization etc.
• Prior knowledge of technical documentation techniques like UML diagrams, flow charts, sequence diagram, interaction diagrams etc. is must for the role.
• Experience with Elastic infrastructure solutions / deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mesos) and CI/CD systems such as Jenkins is required.
• Exposure to Agile & Scrum processes with experience as Scrum Master on Jira or Rally or similar tools is desired.
• Past record of handling cloud hosting services of Amazon, Google or MS Azure for engineering deployments.

Qualifications

B Tech / BE / M Tech / ME or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant fields

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Eligibility

Company Introduction

CommerceIQ is a well-funded, Series B growth stage start-up that helps consumer brands grow their business on e-commerce channels (like Amazon, Walmart) using advanced algorithms and machine learning technology. We help consumer brands win shoppers at the moment of purchase by algorithmically managing supply chain, demand forecasting, promotions and advertising spend, fraud listing detection, content optimization and other aspects that help shoppers make online purchase decisions. 

In 2020, CoVid 19 affected every business, few positively and many negatively. However, E-commerce adoption has gone through the roof and we have seen e-commerce spend grow from 15% to 25% of retail spend in just 8 weeks! (Compare this to a decade that it took to grow e-commerce adoption from 5 to 15%). This put us in a unique situation and provided a huge opportunity for us to help brands grow significantly on e-commerce channels.

At the back of strong product-market fit and a change in human behaviour due to CoVid that buoyed e-commerce, we tripled our revenue consecutively in 2019 and 2020. More than 50 consumer brands use our product to drive e-commerce growth. Our customers include named brands like Bayer Healthcare, J&J, Nestle, Hamilton Beach, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Kellogg, Kimberly Clark, Colgate, Mars, Inc. and many others.

Our focus in 2021 is to heavily invest in our engineering, product and customer success capability to bolster our product, make our customers successful and establish ourselves as a market leader in this rapidly growing market!

Roles and responsibilities :

• Manage the performance and career development of a team of engineers, and own significant parts of CIQ applications that require design, architecture, and coding (Both Frontend and Backend).
• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
• Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on high standards.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying right design patterns, review code, and deliver with speed and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Own the QA and deployment strategies for the team.
• Work‌ ‌with‌ ‌multiple‌ ‌stakeholders to understand business, prioritise and execute based on company goals and priorities.
• Be the custodian of process and SDLC best practices within the team.
• Own hiring goals for the team and hire the best.
• Delivery and tech ownership of all roadmap / tech items for the team.

What you need to succeed :

• Should have proficiency in Backend and frontend technologies along with good experience in AWS.
• Should‌ ‌be‌ ‌aware‌ ‌of‌ ‌best‌ ‌practices‌ ‌for‌ ‌Software‌ ‌development‌ .
• 6+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
• 5+ years software design, coding in Java / equivalent and a good understanding of frontend technologies.
• 1+ years of management experience in building small to medium-sized teams, demonstrating growth and a track record of successful deliveries.

Preferred Qualifications : 

• 5+ years of experience in building and working with production grade systems.
• Shipped several large-scale projects with dependencies across multiple teams.
• Built and delivered on successful cross-functional partnerships across multiple teams.
• Been actively involved in creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap.
• Actively coached, mentored and grew team members in their careers.
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to hire and build incredible engineering teams.
• Good understanding and experience in practicing SDLC best practices.
• Strong believer in innovation culture and Engineering driven ideas.
• Experience in release management and agile methodologies.