Director Of Engineering

Responsibilities :

·      You will manage a team of backend engineers to deliver a valuable and delightful product for our users.

·      You will be responsible for liaising with external stakeholders such as product, acquisition and retention teams to come up with a charter for a certain vertical(game), and then execute on it. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge tech stack and keep it current.

·      You will be responsible for setting the correct set of processes in engineering that help you get very high efficiency in the organisation.

·      You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines.

·      You would need to demonstrate an ability to stay objective while creating an appropriate decision-making framework for the entire organisation.

·      You will believe in measure-ability of the success of the tech stack and processes adopted.

Requirements:

·      B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

·      10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in management role.

·      Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.

·      Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies

·      Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership

·      Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.

·      Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.

·      Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment

·      A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.

·      Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.

·      Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.

·      Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams.

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Eligibility

Company Introduction

Location: Bengaluru or Gurgaon

Salary: Market rate

We need immediate Joiners

 1.1             Designation

Engineer, Sr Engineer, Lead and Staff
1.2             Role

Responsible for the software architecture, design, development, testing and documentation for projects. Develop a good understanding of requirements, translate to user stories and tasks, develop the requirements, unit and integration testing and ensuring product quality as per internal and customer’s quality requirements

   Responsibilities and Key Result Areas

Primarily responsible for the following:

• Responsible for defining, designing, and implementing common cloud  based EMS for Radisys network elements.
• Expected to create innovative solutions in conjunction system architects.
• Key technology themes include cloudification and virtualization knowledge, understanding of building the common platform systems for porting applications.
• Experienced all phases of product life cycle including requirements, design, coding, and testing
• Exposure to software/system Architecture principles and ability to work as part of a team to solve complex technical problems
• Experience in good implementation practices including good design documentation, code reviews, build processes, test automation and debugging skills.
• Knowledge on source control management and system operations. Knowledge on Modeling using higher level design tools is desirable
• Experienced of working in agile scrum teams and understanding of the process to convert the EPICs to user stories and tasks.     
• Skill Sets:    

• Development experience in embedded systems, Linux, and real-time OS environments.
• Experience in virtualization and containerization of Carrier network functions using tools like –

Openstack, Kubernetes, HELM charts, Open source Message bus, opensource DB like - Mongo, Redis etc.

• Experience in design and implementation of CNFs using Microservices architecture
• Must have worked in the design and development of Telecom EMS/NMS with RAN/FTTH solution is a must.
• Experience with OSS/BSS Integration and deployment in production system
• Hands-on experience in large scale design for EMS and NMS for service based applications, OSS and BSS
• Must have worked in building EMS System Architecture, designs, specifications for service provisioning, OAM and configuration, FCAPS functionality, provisioning and configuration of network elements
• Experience with developing Mirco-services in a container, orchestration, CI/CD based environment
• Experience on any one of the scripting language - Python, Perl, TCL, shell scripting
• Knowledge of a Cloud and software automation tools/framework (chef, puppet, ansible, PowerShell etc)
• Experience in protocols (SNMP/MIB, NETCONF/YANG, SFTP, Syslog, REST/RESTCONF, OF-CONFIG, SOAP)
• Understanding of Network Security protocols like IPSEC
• Understanding of IPv4 / IPv6
• Good programming skills  (Java, Spring Boot, GoLang, REST, Hibernate, OSGi, JPA, Ansible playbooks, Perl and Shell scripts)
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• Soft Skills
• Good communication skills (written, verbal, presentation and listening)
• Good mentoring skills
• Good demonstration skills and customer interaction
• Active team player & excellent interpersonal interactions skills in a team work environment
• Must have ability to drive and demand result from team, resolve technical conflicts
• Ability to front end big customers / operators with technical and business acumen desirable

• 5 o 12 years of industry experience in EMS and cloud technologies
• Graduate/Post graduate in Computer Science / Electronics Engineering in the relevant field

• Take the microservices architecture to the next level of scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability. 
• Build, deploy & run multi-homed systems that work in multiple regions and cloud providers. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, fulfillment/allocation, pricing, maps & routing, fleet positioning, payments, fraud prevention etc 
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable 
• Write high-quality code that is modular, functional and testable; Establish the best coding practices 
• Formally mentor junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting 
• Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture 
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment 
• Operationalize releases by partnering with Tech operations on capacity planning and operability of the product

Experience:

• of years  - 10+ years
• Type of experience - software design, development & architecture
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Contribution to open-source software, tech blogs, talking at tech conferences, etc. 

Educational Qualifications:

○  Must have - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred  

Key competencies:

•  Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs. 
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. 
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation, consensus etc. 
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL 
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB, etc 
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc) 
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc 
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc. 
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures. 
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 

• 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.

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)

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We are looking for an Engineering Head to join our founding team and drive the vision and architecture for scaling KahaniBox to 100M+ monthly users.

You will:

• Recruit and manage world-class engineering talent both in India and abroad.
• Lead the development of our content creation engine, recommendation engine, and content insight engine. 
• Prototype and implement new product ideas and initiatives around increasing revenue, user retention, content consumption, etc.
• Implement and continuously improve processes for high-velocity engineering, including DevOps, testing, CI/CD, PRs, etc.
• Keep technical debt under control by reinforcing and evolving our engineering culture, which values code reviews, high test coverage, and adequate documentation.

You have:

• 7+ years of engineering experience in scaling, optimizing, and rewriting significant systems. Bonus points for gaming/media-tech experience.
• 3+ years of team management experience. 
• Strong team-building and empowering skills - you excel in hiring and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Exceptional competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP.
• Experience with at least one Cloud Providers: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience in building data pipelines and implementing event-driven architectures.
• Strong bias to ship early and iterate quickly with data.
• Intermediate understanding of Machine Learning.