Engineer Manager (ROR)

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

 

• Software Engineering
  • Should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming languages they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance

• Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

 

Engineering Manager – Backend

 

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

 

Series D funded supply chain startup.

 

Requirements

 

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 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

 

Technologies Used

 

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, 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

 

Roles and 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 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 business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

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 bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• 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 including 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.

Roles and Responsibilities

● Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution. ● Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions ● Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time ● Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions ● Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them. ● Drives people to solve engineering challenges ● Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams ● Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and internal/external clients as necessary. ● Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them ● Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards ● Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates

 

 

Experience &   Skills

● Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML. ● Must have experience in cloud computing ● Operates independently with almost no oversight ● Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints. ● Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks ● Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership ● Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary ● 12+ years of experience in product driven organization ● A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
• Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
• At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
• Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

 Job Location - Bangalore

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* 3+ years of experience with web development building good quality production software
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* Gained good knowledge of working with APIs and performance optimisation to identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
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An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

 Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require
frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
 Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
 Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API
developer frameworks.

About Instamojo Instamojo is India's fastest growing on-demand payments and e-commerce platform that enables over 6,00,000 SMEs to build, manage and grow their business online. A trusted partner for SMEs in India, Instamojo's insightful tools are poised to enable small entrepreneurs to minimize costs and grow their business. It is a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs that caters to their diverse business needs by leveraging technology, data and design. Instamojo has acquired 10% of digitally active MSMEs and powers 1 out of 100 to control 30% of their annual turnover through its flagship link-payments and online store products. In addition to link-based payments, Instamojo plans to offer e-commerce enabling services, cataloguing, compliance, lending, logistics, promotions via third-party providers. Founded in 2012 by Sampad Swain, Akash Gehani and Aditya Sengupta, Instamojo raised Pre-Series B funding from AnyPay a Japanese payments firm. In November 2014, the company raised USD 2.6 million in Series A funding from Kalaari Capital, Blume Ventures, 500Startups and others. Prior to this, it had raised approximately USD 500,000 from 500 Startups, Blume Ventures and angel investors Rajan Anandan, Sunil Kalra, Dave McClure, Rob de Heus, Thijs Gitmans among others. Instamojo at a glance:  Caters to 6,00,000 SMEs.  Instamojo has acquired 10% of the digitally-active SMEs in India and controls 30% of their annual turnover. It aims to extend its wallet share to 70% by 2019.  The company aims to increase its target merchant base 400% and target 1 MN small and medium businesses by 2018.  Instamojo turned EBITDA positive in July 2017 and has witnessed a 10-15% month-on-month growth.  With demonetization, Instamojo added 3000 SMEs daily to the platform, which was 15x higher than daily average.  Digital Transactions performed on Instamojo's platform have grown by over 178 % in the last year alone.
We are building consumer internet space, payment processing, e-commerce and/or enterprise. SAAS products. Undergraduate (or higher) degree in computer science/engineering. You have an excellent grasp over theoretical and applied computer science.
Job Description
Responsibilities  You can take responsibility of large sized projects.  You can take full responsibility of one or more core modules and/or technical verticals / libraries / frameworks / components.  This will include design and architecture, evaluating and deciding which framework/language/data store/tools to us, preparing roadmaps and timely delivery.  You understand the business impact of your decisions.  You will review code and ensure that implementations are testable, performant, scalable, documented and secure.  You will work closely with product, design, revenue, platform and growth teams.  You can take responsibility of large sized projects involving inter-departmental stakeholders.  You can take full responsibility of one or more core modules and/or technical verticals / libraries / frameworks / components.  Payment processing framework capable of supporting multiple payment methods (cards, netbanking, UPI, wallets, etc.) with one or more payment method supported across multiple payment gateways.  This will include design and architecture, evaluating and deciding which framework/language/data store/tools to us, preparing roadmaps and timely delivery.  You will drive engineering best practices, recruit other engineers, lead and manage teams, conduct performance reviews and mentor other engineers.  You will review code and ensure that implementations are testable, performant, scalable, documented and secure.  You will work closely with product, design, revenue, platform and growth teams.
Requirements  3-5 Years of Experience in software engineering.
 5-10 years of industry experience in software engineering building consumer internet space, payment processing, e-commerce and/or enterprise SAAS products.  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 3+ years relevant work experience.  Undergraduate (or higher) degree in computer science/engineering.  You have an excellent grasp over theoretical and applied computer science.  You have excellent problem solving and analytical skills.  You should be able to identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and design/architect improvements.  Experience with working on PCI compliant infrastructure.  You should be able to build at this engineering level Store builder (products with multi-level variants (colour, size, etc.), SKUs, discounts) and shopping cart.  Highly concurrent double entry accounting system.  You have excellent problem solving and analytical skills.  You should be able to identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and design/architect improvements.  Good hold on data structures and algorithms.  Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interface.
Desired Skills and Experience Python, Golang, Java, Ruby on Rails, Django

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