Engineering Head
Key Responsibilities
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Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure and responsive architecture for all LoveLocal products
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Build highly Scalable platforms using Python, ReactJS, NodeJS, Kafka, Distributed Caching, SQL and No SQL Databases
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Take full ownership of the people related aspects of the Engineering team engagement, recruiting, retention, compensation, promotions, individual performance management and organizational structure
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Should be actively involved in hunting and recruiting new talent
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Manage the engineering pipeline at all levels from planning the product implementation with the developers, distributing and managing work of the engineering team and ensure code quality across products and services
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Should continuously plan and build for increasing scale of the product and ensure full hygiene of the tech infrastructure and code sanity
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Should be the primary point of contact of functional heads for all tech dependencies
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Take ownership of overall tech budget, reviewing expenses and planning for future costs
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Work closely with CTO and Product Head on the Tech roadmap of the organisation
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Become an integral part of the core team and be strongly aligned with the mission and values of the company
Main Qualifications
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8+ years of experience in Software Development with end-end implementation of products (Preferably in a product driven organisation)
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Minimum 3 years of experience leading a team of at least 15 developers, either as an EM or a Tech Lead
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Should have worked in a well scaled and fast paced working environment (Startups beyond Series B or a major tech organisation)
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Comfortable handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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Well versed with cloud computing and infrastructure management AWS / GCP
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Has worked extensively on designing and implementing Microservices architecture
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Should have experience working with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDb, Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, etc.
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Should have experience working with Big Data streaming services such as Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ etc
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Should be highly skilled in Python and have solid exposure to JavaScript
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Should have solid exposure to Web development and have had familiarity working with Android and IOS engineers
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Excellent understanding of software engineering practices and Design Patterns
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A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree from top engineering institutes.
