Director of Engineering

About One Impression

One Impression is one of the world’s largest influencer marketing platforms, working with 300+ global brands like Unilever, Nestle, and Amazon to connect with a diverse creator network. Our platform empowers brands and creators to collaborate seamlessly and scale their reach. To capture a significant share of global media ad spend, One Impression is quickly becoming the industry’s go-to influencer marketing platform.

Job Overview

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Frontend Engineer (SDE III) with over five years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.

As a Frontend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks. For this we require expertise in JS/React, and React Native.
• Experience working with REST APIsMust have a knack for developing good looking frontend apps.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Why Join One Impression?

- Be a part of one of the largest influencer marketing platforms globally, working with top brands and influencers.

- Opportunity to lead and shape a fast-growing marketplace product.

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- A collaborative and innovative work culture in a rapidly scaling company.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 6+ years of experience delivering enterprise-wide technical projects. 2-3 years of experience of which should have been spent managing, growing and retaining talent within teams
• Hands-on experience programming with RESTful APIs, Python, deployment and run time environments like Docker, Kubernetes
• Hands on front end experience in HTML, Javascript, React, and CSS.

• Deeper understanding of the network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
• Ability to solve complex integration and product questions, looking at issues analytically.
• Organize team’s scrums, and prepare roadmap for dev tools
• Track integration success and ensure deadlines are met. Provide input to a scalable technical integration and account management process.

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience with other degrees.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Experience leading multi engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, multi-task, and perform under pressure, possessing a high level of energy, efficiency, and flexibility.
• Excellent business writing, presentation and communication skills.

The Opportunity

Illumine Labs, Mumbai, is building a series of innovative digital knowledge products. These products are used for learning, education, counselling, behavioural change, etc. Some examples include e-books, counselling tools, habit-creating app, etc.

We are inviting UI-UX Designers who enjoy working with knowledge, can work with a vision, and can appreciate the technology aspects of the product - to be a part of the design & build team for assembling such digital knowledge products.

Your Role

1. Rigorous thinking-through of product goals, product concept, architecture, flows, use cases, usage conditions/ constraints, etc. (in collaboration with the project team)
2. Translating into interface designs and specifications for technology, and walkthroughs, communications, if any.
3. Early testing with the project team & users and evolving it to a working solution.
4. Collaborating with the technology team to develop a working product/ application.
5. User testing with pilot groups and documentation of usage, and response to the product. Evolving the product and supporting adoption.

What will ensure that you enjoy working in Illumine & that you succeed in the role?

• You are driven by values and a love for excellence.
• You flourish in a commitment-based environment & have a habit of keeping your word (to clients and colleagues).
• You believe that client outcomes are more important than creative flourishes.
• You can work in an environment that has hard deadlines and that will challenge & push you to go beyond what you know or are comfortable with.

Who can apply

Engineers/ Architects/ Designers (or having any other background) with at least 3-4 years of experience in designing digital products.

Work at Illumine is breakthrough, innovative & challenging. Apply only if you seek challenge (not comfort & convenience) and are committed to making a real difference through your work.

About Us

Illumine is a purpose-based organization committed to nation-building. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates closely with government/ corporate/ educational institutions to unleash their people's potential and enable the collectives to find their own solutions. Our Large-Scale Interventions lead to positive and sustainable impacts on the ground.

Over the last 20 years, Illumine has designed, developed & deployed such interventions across some of the leading businesses (SBI, Tata Steel, Asian Paints, BPCL, Aditya Birla Capital, etc.), Educational institutions (Gujarat Technological University, Biju Patnaik University, IIT Delhi, 5000 CBSE schools, etc.) impacting ~42 lakh people across India.

Recent collaborations with the Capacity Building Commission, Govt. of India have led to cognitive transformation projects with the Indian Railways (for 1 lakh citizen-facing employees), Ministry of Home Affairs, and National Police Academy (for police persons in Union Territories & Delhi). There are more such prestigious projects in the pipeline that you can be a part of.

To learn more about Illumine

1. Visit our websites: www.illumine.in | https://illuminefoundation.org/
2. Explore our ideas: https://youtube.com/illuminelabs
3. The philosophy that drives our work: https://srinivasv.com/

What you need to have:

• Storing data and ensuring that it is displayed to that user who are supposed to have access to it
• Developing business logic for systems to process in the front end
• Managing APIs resources which work across the Product Architecture
• Participating in the architecture of a system and data science analysis
• Organizing the logic of the system which runs across various tiers
• Involving in building frameworks or the architecture to make it easier to program against
• Back-end developers should have the skill for implementing algorithms and solving system related problems

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2-5 years of experience in rest api/Database design, development and architecture
• Strong programming and debugging skills with sound understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming
• PHP/ Mysql experience with hands on application delivery is a must
• Hands on experience with an API management
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous interfaces and Microservice API development is a must
• Hands-on experience with version control system like Git is desirable
• Knowledge in PHP, Codeigniter, Doctrine, MySQL, ElasticSearch, ReST endpoint development
• Implementing API management using API management software (like Apigee or others) to include API proxies mashups, rate limiting, security, analytics, monetization and developer portals
• Kafka/RabbitMQ messaging architecture notification
• Knowledge of Algorithms and data structures is also essential
• An awareness of security concerns is important, as each layer has its vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of the differences between multiple delivery platforms like mobile vs. desktop
• Basic exposure to frontend techs like HTML and CSS is desirable    

Looking for ASP.NET developers who will be able to develop and support existing applications.

o The main scope of work will include everything from back-end to client-side code, using optimal and efficient technologies, frameworks, and patterns.

o Your primary responsibilities will be to design and develop these applications. Therefore, its essential that you are skilled at problem solving, solution design, and high-quality coding.

Desired Qualification :

o BE / B.Tech (IT/CS) / MCA / MSc. (IT/CS) only

Mandatory Skills:

o Minimum 1 years of experience web application development using ASP.NET-MVC and SQL Server (no drag-n-drop coding).

o Minimum 6 months of experience in Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery

Desired Skills:

o Knowledge of Entity Framework and LINQ mandatory.

o Knowledge of Azure DevOps and Git mandatory.

o Good hand-ons experience for using VS 2019, SSMS and VS Code.

o Knowledge of MS Azure Platform will be great.

o Willing to work in every phase of SDLC (should have ability to write and test own code properly)

o Good Written and Verbal English skills

Interview Details:We will conduct an online face-to-face interview over video call (using Google Meet). Hence, the candidate must have a computer/laptop with a webcam and a good internet connection for the interview purpose. Interviews will NOT be conducted if the candidate is using a mobile phone.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹500,000.00 - ₹1,000,000.00 per year

• BackEnd Technologies:

• Technical knowledge:

• It is important to adapt to changing requirements
• Have the ability to integrate external systems

How many hours are they expected to work? 

• - Full time position ( 40+ hours a week) 
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What hours should they work?

•  - Prefer 9-5 EST but there is wiggle room
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Will there be nights and weekends? 

• - Nights and weekends are not scheduled, however we are looking for someone that takes pride in their work and will lean in to hit a deadline or to fix a bug if it has a significant impact on the platform.
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Should they be expected to lead?

• - Yes, you should be expected to lead and to communicate/ cooperate with other devs as a team. Some coding might be alone but the hope of the app is that it all works seamlessly together and to ensure that there needs to be communication among all devs front end and back end. 
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Who will they report to?

• - They will report to Product OwnerRob and Product ManagerJulietta daily for standups and well as pushing tasks through the appropriate structure of review, QA, and production. 
• They will also report and check in with Client SuccessCourtney as we look to make the app have a seamless customer experience and customer value. The goal of Attribute should be to try and give as much value as quickly and easily as possible.

Will they work alone or in a team?

• In some spots they might be expected to work alone and on a separate sprint from others, however, everything needs to tie in and work together, because of that the developer must be team oriented in both development and problem solving.
• Additionally, there will be times that they should expect to work with people who are not particularly tech savvy ( ie. sales, marketing, customer success etc.) to collaborate on a specific feature to produce the best thing for the product.

Accountability

• The developer is both accountable for their code and the code of the team. They should take care and responsibility in the work that is done and if there are problems with the code in QA or production work as diligently as possible to fix that problem ( whether it is their code directly or not).
• As part of this all code will be attached from Github to Jira for developers to constantly upload their commits to Jira tasks
• A mistake is completely fine and expected, bugs are to be expected. What is asked is that you report it as soon as possible and are honest about it so that we can move forward in resolving it as soon as possible.

Customer, Usability, and Value Focused

• The end user of our product will be marketing professionals/head of marketing. At all times the developers need to take this into account and spend time thinking of the ease and the use cases that people will utilize their code or features in real life versus what is a way to make something work but in a vacuum. 

Quality focused

• Pushing out code is awesome, but if the code has a ton of bugs and does not do the required action that is practical for the user then it does not matter. We want a developer who is Quality focused and also hold their other developers accountable.

Focused on the whole 

• When producing a feature it is easy to sometime get sucked into how that features works in a vacuum. The developers need to be able to work together and understand the software architecture as a whole in order to make whatever feature they are working on be able to work with the other features that are built within the app ( and will be built or are on the roadmap for the future).

Creativity and Experimentation

• Developers are expected to work within structures, however, they are always encouraged to take time to think of creative solutions and to collaborate on new features or ways of making the product better.

Unfeathered, Honest, Respectful Communication

• Every developer should feel free to speak their mind in a respectful manner to other developers as well as anyone else in the entirety of the company. Any opinion, thought, or perspective will be listened to and valued. 

Next Man or Woman Up Mentality

• Never should anyone on the team defer a problem and say “ thats not my fault or problem”. We are one unit and one company. One problem is everyone's problem and should lean in to the “next man up philosophy” if you have the time and can help to fix the problem and bring it to a solution you should be willing to.

Upward Mobility and Vesting Opportunity

• This position will allow for upward mobility, increased responsibility, and for people who constantly go above and beyond an opportunity to vest into and own equity in the company

• As a Manager- Business Analysis- you would be working on key problem statements to achieve given business objectives.
• As a Manager- Analyst, you will build the framework for the company’s top metrics related to sales, conversion funnels, inventory related, customer experience metrics and other input/output parameters, seller/ brand-related metrics to monitor business performance.
• Work with internal clients and provide timely solutions to both new initiatives and business as usual requests.
• Ability to conceptualize the best metrics for various problem statements to help business stakeholders achieve their objectives.

Must Haves:

• 2 to 4 years of experience in analytics.
• Should be great at SQL and Excel.
• Should be conversant with R or Python.
• Should have experience in analytics tools such as Tableau, QlikSense, PowerBI, Periscope.
• A First-principles thinker Has the ability to get to the root of problems and come up with logical, practical, and effective solutions.
• Excellent communication skills: written and verbal.

Nice To Have:

• Prior experience in the e-commerce industry.
• Experience in modeling and ML for various e-commerce use cases such as building recommendation models.
• A good understanding of databases and servers.

Key Competencies:

• Business Acumen
• Organizational collaboration
• Learning Agility
• Drive for results
• Execution excellence