Engineering Head

Job Description:

Want to help- We are looking for “Area Head” to expand our customer base and achieve sales quotas for a specific zone of our company.

Ultimately, you will ensure your area of responsibility meets and exceeds the expectations of our business objectives and contributes to our company’s success in the long run.

Responsibilities:

• Create area sales plans and quotas in alignment with business objectives
• Achieve business targets of the area for various quarters as well as the financial year
• Develop, manage and fulfillment of an efficient distribution network to improve sales performance
• Building the AffordPlan brand within the defined hospital network zone
• Maintaining strong relationships with doctors, and customers.
• Implement innovative sales techniques to increase customer satisfaction.
• Identify hiring needs, select and train new executives.
• Optimize and oversee operations to ensure efficiency
• Able to convert leads from various channels.
• Forecasting daily MIS on product performance across all branches.
• Developing, Constructing and Cooperative working relationship with the employee of the mapped branch.

Requirement:

• Proven work experience as Area Sales Manager, Territory, Zone Manager or similar senior sales role
• Minimum 4 years of experience required in B2C sales (preferring Industry - BFSI Insurance/Retail & distribution/ Telecom/Consumer Durables).
• Ability to measure and analyze key performance indicators (Profit and KPIs)
• Ability to lead and motivate a high-performance sales team.
• Strong organizational skills with a problem-solving attitude
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Availability to travel as needed

Note: This is an “Equity-linked Founding Member Role”. We are targeting a $100Bn+ Addressable Market (D2C e-commerce) enabling tremendous wealth creation for founding team members.

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We are a team of 6 but our goal is singular - to democratize discovery and user acquisition for d2c brands. We are revolutionizing e-commerce in India, one BlinggBox at a time, you can hop on board and make it a whole lot better with your passion, skills and experience.

About the Role: 

For a product that brings two worlds together, Users and D2C Brands, the need for a seamless, robust and enticing experience is the key. That’s where you and your technical experience and expertise come in. Our hunt is for a techie at heart, who has done this before and has built an app/platform which is both simple and intuitive.

We are revolutionizing e-commerce, one BlinggBox at a time, you can hop on board and make it a whole lot better with your skills and experience.

Technical Requirements:

->3 - 6 years of proven working experience in Core Flutter + Android + iOS development and deep proficiency with MySQL, Linux and JavaScript or similar languages.

->Hands on Experience with Firebase, AWS, RDMS, Git

->Relevant Backend experience: Nodejs, Postgres/MySQL Or Algorithms

->Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

->Hands-on engineering experience with modern software stacks, cloud-based platforms, and high-stakes infrastructure.

-> Previous experience of work in early-stage startups is highly preferred.

-> Demonstrated ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.

What Will You Do?

->Taking responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of product releases.
->Taking responsibility for the complete architecture of the product ->Driving the adoption of best practices & leading code reviews, design reviews, and architecture
->Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create
->Implementation of long-term technology vision for Blingg

What’s in it for you?

• Once in a lifetime opportunity to Build, Manage, Lead and Blitzscale D2C Commerce
• We are targeting a $100Bn+ Addressable Market (D2C e-commerce) enabling tremendous wealth creation for founding team members.

• Super Attractive ESOPs+ Salary

• Take the microservices architecture to the next level of scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability. 
• Build, deploy & run multi-homed systems that work in multiple regions and cloud providers. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, fulfillment/allocation, pricing, maps & routing, fleet positioning, payments, fraud prevention etc 
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable 
• Write high-quality code that is modular, functional and testable; Establish the best coding practices 
• Formally mentor junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting 
• Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture 
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment 
• Operationalize releases by partnering with Tech operations on capacity planning and operability of the product

Experience:

• of years  - 10+ years
• Type of experience - software design, development & architecture
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Contribution to open-source software, tech blogs, talking at tech conferences, etc. 

Educational Qualifications:

○  Must have - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred  

Key competencies:

•  Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs. 
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. 
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation, consensus etc. 
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL 
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB, etc 
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc) 
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc 
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc. 
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures. 
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 

About the role:

We are currently building an exciting multi-category, digital first, direct to consumer, commerce business for couple of new brands in Food & Fashion category. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our ecommerce business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking & logistics integrations.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead its development across web, mobile and in-store devices. You will be responsible to work closely with business leaders to understand the developer needs and device solutions through developer tools and services. The role incumbent will be managing a team of in-house & outsourced developers and will be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, project delivery and maintenance of systems developed in-house. The incumbent will also be driving technology innovation with integrations and external partners to fully leverage the latest solutions and technologies for servicing the organization needs. This role will report to the Director-Engineering.

Location: Mumbai based preferably. We can also consider Bangalore based candidates.

Responsibilities:

Your core responsibilities will include Technical Guidance, Execution, Delivery & Team Management. You will be working in a fast-paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business impact.

• Ownership of engineering features and components from concept, design, development & deployment
• Participate in the solution architecting, enterprise interface design and integration.
• Work with users to understand requirements, design scalable and efficient technology solutions.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with other internal teams and external partners.

• Communicate cross-functionally, collaborate with Business teams, Product managers, engineers and QA to plan, own and deliver solutions on time.
• Ensure teams follow best practices regarding coding standards, code reviews, and testing. Responsible for code quality, review & release strategy.

• Define and drive development team priorities and ensure delivery through in-house and vendor development teams.

• Keep tab of latest technology trends and leverage it for improvements/changes in current setup to increase efficiency, reduce maintenance cost and time to market.

• Publish regular reports of activities and highlight potential risks. 
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor engineering team resources.

Required Qualification, Experience & skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 6-8 years of overall developer experience with a minimum 12-18 months in the GoLang toolkit – very familiar with all the frameworks and tools needed to manage and further build an end to end ecommerce platform in GoLang
• Prior experience in managing a team of min 4-6 engineers
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging

• Experience of implementing Agile, Scrum & Iterative processes

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from Web development, Mobile app development, AWS, machine learning, large scale data platforms, service oriented architecture, distributed systems design, android platform, front-end user interfaces, databases etc.