Engineering Head

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

● Ability to deep dive hands on into coding, building scalable architecture and backend

infrastructure

● Strong knowledge of “how to scale” a product, Dev ops, (Docker/ Kubernetes), Messaging

queues, Testing, Database design, Security Log management system

● Extremely hands-on in coding along with a strong interest in leading a team.

● Knowledge of tech stack, which in our case is Node.js/GraphQL/TypeScript for API

development, PostgreSQL, AWS, Python for data processing.

● Proven technical experience of 4-10 years of work-ex coupled with a strategic growth mindset

Responsibilities

● Lead the software design, architecture, development, debugging, documentation, testing,

deployment, maintenance and improvement efforts

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Establish the roadmap and architecture based on the latest proven technologies and Hora’s

needs

● Manage, lead and mentor other engineers and demonstrate best engineering practices with the

team

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Lead the team to follow our software development process including writing unit tests,

performing code reviews, doing daily standups, setting OKRs and milestones, etc.

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Excellent experience in coding including the ability to write well-crafted, well-tested, readable,

maintainable code

● Develop backend code for mobile applications and internal web tools

● Develop APIs for the mobile platform

● Own, innovate and maintain the backend infrastructure

● Code using cutting-edge tools in close collaboration with our Machine Learning team

● Stay on top of state-of-the-art technologies and apply them

● Collaborate with teams and share knowledge via tech talks and promote tech and engineering

best practices within the team

Minimum Qualifications

● B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent

practical experience

● 4-10 years of relevant work experience in system design, algorithms, data structures, scalability,

DevOps, security and testing

● Demonstrated experience in delivering reliable, scalable, performant, and secure web-based

systems and services in production

● Experience working with three or more from the following: web application development,

Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems,

machine learning, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems,

security for software development.

● Strong experience in system design, scalability, DevOps, security and testing

● Strong and proven passion for code quality

● Knowledge of a wide-range of front and back-end technologies.



Experience with any of the following technologies is particularly desirable: TypeScript,

GraphQL, node.js, Python, Go, Java, HTML/CSS, React, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kafka,

Spark, ElasticSearch, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, Git. ○

Experience in writing backend code with modern languages and frameworks

(JavaScript/node.js or Python/Django)

● Strong relational database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)

● Experience in API development for mobile/web

● Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management,

concurrency

Preferred Qualifications (Added advantage)

● Excellent written communication, verbal communication, and presentation skills

● Competitive programming experience

● Familiarity with data science and/or machine learning, experience in credit and risk models,

NLP and network analysis expertise

● Experience of working on fintech products

● Experience in managing a distributed set of engineers/developers

Personal Attributes

● Self-guided missile

● Enjoys finding novel solutions to hard technical problems

● Optimistic team player

● A hard-working, humble disposition - we are looking for doers who think, and thinkers who

do.

● Enjoys hands-on, day-to-day work while having a bigger picture view of the goals to

accomplish.

● Strong sense of ethics and integrity.

● Desire to make a strong impact on the lives of millions through their work