Distinguished Engineer

About the Role 

Hey there! Are you a mastermind looking for your next big challenge? If so, we want you to join our team as our VP of Engineering! We're looking for someone who's driven, experienced, and ready to lead the charge for our tech products and solutions. As the VP, you will manage a team of developers, identify new technologies and implement them to drive business results. 

But it's not all about tech - you'll also be working closely with our core team to make sure we're meeting the needs of the market. Basically, you'll be a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to our tech and make sure we're always ahead of the game. So, if you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact, hit us up! 

We can't wait to see what you bring to the table. 

What You'll Do 

• Lead the development team and ensure projects are completed smoothly and on  schedule 

• Stay ahead of the game by finding and using new technologies to boost the business 

• Work hand in hand with the core team to figure out their needs and keep our products on point with the market trends 

• Keep our products high-quality, scalable, and secure 

Develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget 

• Brainstorm and plan the company's tech strategy with the CTO and other important leaders 

• Keep up to date with the latest tech trends and find new growth opportunities 

• Give the development team technical guidance and be a mentor to them 

What You'll Bring 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field 

• A 8+ years of experience leading software development teams, with a track record of delivering complex products 

• Technical know-how and experience with the latest software development tech 

• Proven experience in identifying and implementing new technologies to drive business  results 

• Experience handling the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that come with working in a startup environment 

• Ace leadership, communication, and teamwork skills 

• Self-starter with loads of drive and a desire to make things happen 

What we would also love to see 

• Understand the mobile development landscape especially Android and iOS 

• Hands-On experience with API based development 

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead one of our key product engineering teams. This role will report directly to the VP of Engineering and will be responsible for successful execution of the company's business mission through development of cutting-edge software products and solutions.

• As an owner of the product you will be required to plan and execute the product road map and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.
• You will have to collaborate with Product Management and Implementation teams and build a commercially successful product.
• You will be responsible to recruit & lead a team of highly skilled software engineers and provide strong hands on engineering leadership.
• Requirement deep technical knowledge in Software Product Engineering using Amazon Web Services,Java 8 Java/J2EE, Node.js, React.js, fullstack, NosqlDB, mongodb, cassandra, neo4j, elastic search, kibana, elk, kafka, redis, docker, kubernetes, Amazon Web Services ,Architecture Concepts,Design PatternsData Structures & Algorithms,Distributed Computing,Multi-threading,AWS,Docker,Kubernetes, apache, solr, activemq, rabbitmq, spark, scala, sqoop, hbase, hive, websocket, webcrawler, springboot, etc. is a must.

• 16+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 5+ years as an engineering leader in a software product company.
• Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit high performance talent
• High technical credibility - ability to audit technical decisions and push for the best solution to a problem.
• Experience building E2E Application right from backend database to persistent layer.
• Experience UI technologies Angular, react.js, Node.js or fullstack environment will be preferred.
• Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, Dynamodb, etc.)
• Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash.
• Experience in developing Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology.
• Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc.
• SaaS cloud-based platform exposure.
• Experience on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Ownership E2E design development and also quality enterprise product/application deliverable exposure
• A track record of setting and achieving high standards
• Strong understanding of modern technology architecture
• Key Programming Skills: Java, J2EE with cutting edge technologies
• Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the founding team of KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

• Product Development: Partner with the founder & product team to create a product roadmap. Play a key role in influencing customer journey, experience & specs (requirements) with UX designer. Develop front end & back end systems and product. 
• Project Management: Ensure product development roadmap timelines are achieved in a timely way with the right quality with progress being reported daily. 
• Technology Excellence: Ensure that products have best in class performance on technology driven aspects (load times, latencies, uptimes, etc.). 
• Hiring & Developing: Hire junior engineers, divide project workloads & mentor them to continuously improve.
• Continuous Improvement: Establish intake mechanism to convert user feedback into actionable upgrades in product design, track feature improvements & their progress and create rapid improvement cycles. 

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who – 

• Has 4+ years of experience in a digital product company
• Should have managed teams before & can attract talent
• Has experience in front end & back end technologies across web & app development
• Has studied computer science or engineering with at least a B.Tech or B.E degree
• Preferably is skilled in at least one performing art or is a hobbyist
• Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
• Moves fast to launch & fix issues 
• Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

Amagi is a SaaS platform that lets every content owner deliver their content to consumers anytime, anywhere, to any device. Amagi helps bring entertainment to hundreds of millions of consumers leading the transformation in media consumption. We believe in a connected ecosystem bringing content owners, distribution platforms, consumers and advertisers together to create great experiences.

Amagi grew by 136% last year and is on its way to double itself again this year. The market leader in FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV), it delivers more than 500 media brands to 1500+ end points and is growing exponentially.

At Amagi, our Billing Platform is key to our continued growth. The success of our products is dependent on the success of our billing platform and its ability to provide scalable, reliable and intuitive experiences to our customers, partners and internal stakeholders.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help us lead the efforts of building our billing platform and related process automation solutions. The ideal candidate would be responsible for the successful delivery of a scalable and flexible billing platform and workflows related to accounts receivable and accounts payable.

Role reporting into: Engineering Director - Enterprise Platforms

Individuals reporting into this role: Senior Architect, Staff Software Engineer, Software Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Lead the core Engineering activities in an Agile model
• Participate in the overall design and development discussions
• Work closely with the Product Management team to establish product and engineering roadmaps.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to the team and ensure they follow sound engineering practices
• Demonstrate accountability towards intended business outcomes, by working with product management and other functional teams.
• Lead the billing, account receivables and account payables automation and workflows implementation.

Person Specification:

• 10+ years of overall SDLC experience with 6+ years of experience managing cloud application/platform engineering teams.
• Hands-on with at least of one cloud of the platforms, AWS or GCP
• Experience developing the usage/subscription based billing for SaaS products.
• Exposure to design and development of microservices optimized for scalability and speed
• Experience developing the horizontally scalable distributed systems, streaming data pipelines
• Hands-on experience of implementation of highly available, low latency and robust cloud services.
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Knowledge of finance processes
• Strong in CS fundamentals (object oriented analysis, data structures, algorithms)
• Salesforce sales and revenue cloud knowledge
• NetSuite, Salesforce, Freshdesk integration experience
• Working experience with any of the enterprise cloud platforms or applications.

Advertising at our client is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on our clients portal and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies.The Supply Quality organization in Bangalore has the charter to solve optimization problems for ad programs to ensure high-quality ad-impressions. We develop advanced algorithms and systems to optimize performance for our advertisers and publishers. We are focused on solving a wide variety of problems in computational advertising like traffic quality prediction (robot and fraud detection), Security forensics and research, Viewability prediction, Brand Safety and experimentation. Our team includes experts in the areas of distributed computing, machine learning, statistics, optimization, text mining, information theory and big data systems.

The Supply Quality infrastructure(SQI) team builds large-scale real-time transactional solutions, batch and stream processing systems, internet scale crawling solutions and storage infrastructure. We process bid requests in the orders of tens of billions per day with our real-time, batch and stream processing systems. To handle data at this scale, we use cutting-edge open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Redis etc.. We are not tied to one technology. Instead, we use what is best suited for the purpose. All of our systems tend to be loosely coupled, communicating using synchronous and asynchronous messaging, leading to a classic distributed processing architecture. All our systems need to also implement complex machine learning and optimization algorithms at scale. 

We are looking for a talented Engineering Manager to lead a new big-data engineering initiative within SQI. The team will own building highly available, efficient and low latency internet scale infrastructure including web-scale crawler, contextual processing and classification systems that will be used across multiple advertising use cases. As a leader of the team, you will be responsible to evolve the charter of the team, work with stakeholders to set goals and deliver them. To succeed, you need to demonstrate sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of engineering excelllence towards delivering cutting-edge solutions that materially improve customer experience.


Primary responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements.
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Job Role : Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams committed to building the innovative products
• Work effectively cross-functionally to drive change and influence product and process decisions.
• Help to shape thinking around designing scalable products and business processes/programs to support KlearNow rapid growth.
• Be both a deep technical leader and a thoughtful people manager.
• Champion engineering excellence, establishing business metrics, and drive continuous operational improvement.

Minimum Qualification

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Overall 10+ years of Software engineering background.  
• 5+ years of management experience -Team Management: Lead a team of 6 – 8
• 3+ years of experience growing and managing multi-team organizations.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in core programming languages such as, Java, Python, go, SQL

Preferred Qualification

• Proven track record of creating and managing high performing teams.
• Experience with logistics domain
• Interest in people and organizations.
• Demonstrate creative problem solving and analytical skills.

If you wish to know more on the opportunity and like to pursue this further, then I would suggest that you share your updated CV and suggest a good time when we could connect.

About Company

KlearNow is pioneering “Logistics as a Service” (LaaS) by creating the industry’s first fully cloud-based digital network that can be used across the entire array of supply chain participants to simplify the transit of goods worldwide.

• KlearNow transforms outdated B2B logistics processes—simplifying lives.
• KlearNow turns daunting logistics paperwork into powerful information to move more goods through customs and drayage with just a few clicks.
• Its smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) AI-powered platform eliminates wasted time and money, reduces costs, and enhances customer experiences by enabling new levels of visibility, productivity, and collaboration.

We are headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, California with locations in India, Canada, UK. This year we will be expanding to multiple countries.

Why us

KlearNow is operational and a certified Customs Business provider in US, Canada and UK with plans to grow in many more markets in near future.  Be a part of a rapidly growing company where you will have the opportunity to extend our leadership position and fast-track innovation behind AI-powered intelligent supply chain solutions.

Over and above the core customs clearance solution, KlearNow is also providing consolidated freight visibility, data and document management and intra-port activity for efficient Drayage.

To know more about KlearNow, please visit our website https://www.klearnow.com/">https://www.klearnow.com/ 

As KlearNow grows, we’re looking for an Engineering Leader who is passionate about people growth and organizational development. This is a unique opportunity to help build the products and practices that will support KlearNow growth over the next round of funding. In this role, you will reimagine enterprise logistics software and build global products that enable KlearNow expand in Americas, Europe and Asia.