Director Of Engineering

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We are on a mission to enable businesses to build agile and accountable technology teams that can deliver results in a secure and scalable way. You will be working in one such technology team for a client based out of the US.

 

Role & responsibilities

 

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our awesome team and deliver a streamlined user experience. We want a team member who is well versed and comfortable spanning the full development lifecycle, from requirements identification and prototyping, to design and implementation. We want a team member who Leads projects and teams. Participates in and supports initiatives outside of the main area of responsibility.

 

Qualifications

• BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years Experience with at least one scripting language: JAVA, Angular, React, Ruby, Nodejs, Python, AppleScript, Unix shell, or similar
• Good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Startup mentality, high willingness to learn, and hardworking
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

Engineering Management
Apps Development
ios / Android
Mobility
Architecture - Design
Team Management 
StartUp Experience 

 

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Plum Integration activities. Plum is a rewarding and incentive infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc.).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 10 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have experience working with applications like HubSpot salesforce and other CRM.
• Should have experience in B2B integrations.
• Should have at least 10+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, with an Automate as much as possible mind set full-stack developer.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• Frameworks like React, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Integration Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. Your will report to the CTO directly.

‍ A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavor, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits.

Responsibilities
This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product stakeholders, and building and upskilling a team to aid in this.

The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and engineering planning
- Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product
initiatives and iterations.
- Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out
concepts and user flows.
- Formalize product requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

Product and system development
- Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects,
including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
- Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc.,
resulting in a robust layered architecture.
- Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill
people.
- Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through
blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

Project Management
- Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
- Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
- Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course
corrections.

Maintenance
- Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues
and performance inefficiencies.
- Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
- Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

Team Management
- Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
- Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
- Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team

Technologies Used
- Web application frameworks : Ktor, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
- Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
- Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
- Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
- Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
- Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Product Overview
- You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
- Product sectors include:
- Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry best driver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models.
- Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
- Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
- Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools include allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
- Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

Skills required:
- Software engineering experience: 7-9 years
- Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
- Exposure to consumer facing products
- Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
- Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack
- Backend engineering exposure for the last 4 year

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.

WHAT YOU'LL FOCUS ON

 

• Our tech team is the core of the platform, as a SaaS business, their contribution to the organisation is key to our success.

• The team is divided into product-led teams, focussing on the development of a new product line for Locads suite of applications for Logistics, Fulfilment and Shipping.

• The key to success in our engineering team is adaptability and flexibility, as a start-up we offer the opportunity to be involved in the full life cycle of applications, owning the challenge from start to finish.

• We deploy onto the AWS platform, however, experience in other cloud platforms and a willingness to learn are also great. 

• Our architecture is microservice-based, all greenfield and with no legacy tinkering. 

• Lead a small product focussed team of engineers, that own large development functions and not just small features. 

• Collaborating with the CTO, fellow leads, Product Owners, and Software Engineers to build software that reacts to business needs.

• Be a key input to technical specification, architecture and technical decision-making. 

• Create an innovative environment to ensure your squad is pushing the technical boundaries.

• A tech stack that covers, but isn’t limited to

  • Python

  • Django

  • Celery

  • React.js

  • AWS

  • Microservices

WHAT YOU BRING

 

• Experienced in managing a team of engineers in an agile environment

• Experience in backend engineering and preferable distributed systems.

• Proficiency in Python/Django and React.js

• Proficiency with REST APIs and comfortable with event-based communication and microservices.

• Proficiency with cloud computing services, preferable AWS.

Looking for Sr. Engineering leaders from startups and Tier 1 colleges.

12 -15 yrs. of leading product development & teams in dynamic & ambiguous work
environment with strong programming skills like Objective C, Swift and Java. Leading
continuous improvement teams to re-invent product features for mobile applications in
several domains such as secure instant messaging, secure voice & video communication,
secure e-mail, e-commerce & health science.

Develop strategic plans with regard to the technical development of
applications/software and establishes the business’s technical vision that guides all
aspects of technological development.
 Oversees the strategic deployment of the departmental resources leading to optimal
resource allocation and the smooth and successful development of applications across
theVirtual, epharmacy and CRM verticals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure and responsive architecture for all LoveLocal products

• Build highly Scalable platforms using Python, ReactJS, NodeJS, Kafka, Distributed Caching, SQL and No SQL Databases

• Take full ownership of the people related aspects of the Engineering team engagement, recruiting, retention, compensation, promotions, individual performance management and organizational structure

• Should be actively involved in hunting and recruiting new talent

• Manage the engineering pipeline at all levels from planning the product implementation with the developers, distributing and managing work of the engineering team and ensure code quality across products and services

• Should continuously plan and build for increasing scale of the product and ensure full hygiene of the tech infrastructure and code sanity

• Should be the primary point of contact of functional heads for all tech dependencies

• Take ownership of overall tech budget, reviewing expenses and planning for future costs

• Work closely with CTO and Product Head on the Tech roadmap of the organisation

• Become an integral part of the core team and be strongly aligned with the mission and values of the company

Main Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development with end-end implementation of products (Preferably in a product driven organisation)

• Minimum 3 years of experience leading a team of at least 15 developers, either as an EM or a Tech Lead

• Should have worked in a well scaled and fast paced working environment (Startups beyond Series B or a major tech organisation)

• Comfortable handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Well versed with cloud computing and infrastructure management AWS / GCP

• Has worked extensively on designing and implementing Microservices architecture

• Should have experience working with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDb, Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, etc.

• Should have experience working with Big Data streaming services such as Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ etc

• Should be highly skilled in Python and have solid exposure to JavaScript

• Should have solid exposure to Web development and have had familiarity working with Android and IOS engineers

• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices and Design Patterns

• A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree from top engineering institutes. 

This is an IC Role, not a team management role. Hence, you would have to have hands on experience with Python, GoLang, Node JS and Javascript.
Domains: Consumer, planning, Supply Chain, Logistics
Your experience would have to completely be in product based companies and startups, and NOT service companies. Salaries are flexible.

• Experience with object-oriented design and languages
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Experience architecting systems on AWS platform a strong plus
• Be able to deal with ambiguity and independently drive, design, and implement large scale software solution
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on technical projects
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Technical aptitude to quickly grasp complex technical issues and communicate directly with technical teams
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

 

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a long-term product roadmap and architecture while balancing short term commitments
• Handling the entire SDLC. 
• Own the architecture SCOT product platforms to drive business results. 
•  Be a visible leader to drive and own the architecture and design of some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry to create company wide impact 
•  Be an operational and technical leader with a passion for distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment and delivery. Accountable for solutioning, design, architecture, for the ease of evolution, quality of the systems, performance, scalability, availability characteristics, NFRs and limitations of the systems. Should be willing to be hands-on and spend time actively developing parts of the systems. 
•  Envision and develop the long-term architectural direction, with emphasis on platforms/ reusable components while adopting a nimble delivery process.
•  Establish structures and processes that ensure a high level of quality and reliability and extensibility of deliverables .
•  Drive the creation of next generation extensible web, mobile and fashion commerce platforms, security protocols, customisation and tools to support continuous scaling, internationalisation and platform extensions. 
•  Drives code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drives the architectural governance for them 
•  Set directional paths for the department for adoption of new technology stacks for solving business problems 
• Work with product management, business stakeholders and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term, long-term roadmaps and shape business directions
•  Initiate and deliver leadership training within the engineering organisation and drive the growth of leaders to create a strong leadership bench.
• Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc.
• Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines. 
• Lead by example through innovation. 
• Build and nurture a team of software developers
•  Shape team goals by developing a deep understanding of our business processes and success criteria
•  Develop and execute a long-term architecture while balancing short term commitments
•  Work closely with the team to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems
• Effectively partner with engineering and non-engineering groups across the organization to deliver on own goals
• Work closely  to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems. 
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build, and predictability of the deliverables
• Effectively partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders across the organization to co-define and deliver on goals.