Director of 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.