Engineering Head

Key Responsibilities:

·        Build a clear product vision and define the roadmap aligned with company goals.

·        Drive the product lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond.

·        Conduct market research, competitor analysis and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities.

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams — engineering, design, sales and marketing — to deliver high-quality products on time.

·        Prioritize features based on business value and customer impact.

·        Define product requirements (PRDs, user stories) and manage sprint planning.

·        Monitor product performance metrics and continuously optimize for improvement.

·        Work closely with stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and successful go-to-market execution.

Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies.

We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. The ideal candidate will be passionate about an operations role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product, and will also believe that automation is a key component to operating large-scale systems.

6-Month Accomplishments

• Familiarize with poshmark tech stack and functional requirements.
• Get comfortable with automation tools/frameworks used within cloudops organization and deployment processes associated with.
• Gain in depth knowledge related to related product functionality and infrastructure required for it.
• Start Contributing by working on small to medium scale projects.
• Understand and follow on call rotation as a secondary to get familiarized with the on call process.

12+ Month Accomplishments

• Execute projects related to comms functionality, independently, with little guidance from lead.
• Create meaningful alerts and dashboards for various sub-system involved in targeted infrastructure.
• Identify gaps in infrastructure and suggest improvements or work on it.
• Get involved in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services.
• Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications.
• Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth.
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Desired Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Systems Engineering/Site Reliability Operations role is required, ideally in a startup or fast-growing company.
• 5+ years in a UNIX-based large-scale web operations role.
• 5+ years of experience in doing 24/7 support for large scale production environments.
• Battle-proven, real-life experience in running a large scale production operation.
• Experience working on cloud-based infrastructure e.g AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, configuration management with Ansible, systems monitoring and alerting with tools such as Nagios, New Relic, Graphite.
• Experience scripting/coding
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools.

Technologies we use:

• Ruby, JavaScript, NodeJs, Tomcat, Nginx, HaProxy
• MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, etc.)
• Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and other DevOps tools.

• Develop and implement sales strategies for IT staff augmentation and consulting services.
• Identify and engage with potential clients, including IT firms, enterprises, and startups.
• Build and maintain long-term client relationships with hiring managers, procurement teams
• Understand client requirements for contract, contract-to-hire, and full-time IT staffing.
• Work closely with the recruitment team to ensure the timely delivery of qualified IT professionals.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing, and service agreements in line with business goals.
• Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and emerging IT staffing needs.
• Maintain an up-to-date sales pipeline, providing reports on revenue forecasts and client engagement.

Strong knowledge in Laravel.

● Should be having excellent development expertise in programming PHP, AJAX, OOPS Concept, Architecture, MySql, Normalization, JavaScript/Jquery and MVC architecture with a commitment to performance and efficiency.

● Workwith frontend technologies including Vue.js/ Nuxt js (basic knowledge) or React.

● Thorough knowledge of languages Java script, HTML5, CSS3, Object Oriented programming and design patterns.

Stackera is a leading software consultancy seeking creative and skilled developers to join our fast-growing team. Our mission is to design and develop technology that improves the lives of its users while providing an exceptionally high level of service to our fintech clients.

We are looking for developers who want to be part of a fast-paced, dynamic environment, where everyone's opinions and efforts are valued. We hire outstanding professionals and give them the opportunity to thrive in a collaborative atmosphere that values learning, growth, and hard work.

If you have the desire to be a part of an exciting, challenging, and rapidly-growing software development consultancy, and if you are passionate about software development and creating the finest in fintech read below.

• Work as part of a team to build React Native iOS / Android applications
• Architect, build, and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel-perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party APIs.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to the Apple and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.
• Work as part of a team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and a designer.
• Complete two-week sprints, and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily stand-ups.
• Assist with building estimates.
• Interface with clients via Flock, Slack, Zoom, and email.
• Track your time throughout the day.
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Trello, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Be part of a community of React Native developers who share knowledge and help each other as problems arise. Follow Stackera's detailed development process

Requirements:

• 1+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to the general process.
• Ability to identify with the goals of our clients and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• English skills (ability to effectively communicate via written and spoken English).
• A passion for software development. It's not just your career, it's also your hobby. You're constantly striving to learn new things and improve. You follow industry news, regularly tinker with new technologies, and read books and blogs to keep your skills current.
• You work well within a team environment and enjoy working in the office with your colleagues.

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in a similar SDET role.
• Demonstrated experience in test framework design, development and having a strong QA mindset.
• Proficiency in any open source Automation Frameworks
• Hands-on experience with tools like JIRA or similar other tools.
• Define test strategies, analyse test results and validate the functionality. work with development, and product to gather test requirements, assess risk areas and convert these to test cases.
• Addition of new capabilities and features Test Cycle Management in the automation framework which is used by the entire QA team for test automation.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
• Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
• Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
• Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
• Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
• Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
• Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
• Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
• Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
• Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
• Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
  • Java, Spring Boot, Go
  • Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
  • Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
  • Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
  • Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
  • Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.

• Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
• Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
• Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
• Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.