Engineering Lead - Ahmedabad

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with at least 12 years of experience managing the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical projects or programs. You will ensure that technical projects are completed within agreed-upon timelines, budgets, and quality standards, and shall play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of complex technical projects and programs.

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Skills Required

• 12+ years experience with development background and excellent communication skills
• Should have strong project management and people skills along with technology skills (primarily web based application development, but can be any)
• Program Planning: Define the scope and objectives of the program and develop a detailed project plan, including schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Risk Management: Manage program risks, develops mitigation plans, and communicates risk status to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that program objectives are aligned with business goals and objectives.
• Communication: Communicate program status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management.
• Project Management: Manage the day-to-day \ activities of the project team, ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that the program meets the required quality standards.
• Resource Management: Manage program resources, including staffing, budget, and equipment.
• Change Management: Manage changes to the program scope, schedule, and budget and ensures that stakeholders are informed and aligned with the changes.
• Technical Expertise: You will have the strong technical expertise to understand the technical aspects of the program and provide guidance to the project team.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate program performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. You must be able to build and maintain strong relationships with team members and stakeholders to ensure the project's success.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Supervise, plan, and manage the stages of product development, approving the product at each stage.
• For maximum efficiency, create detailed project plans at each stage of product development.
• Maintain a steady flow of ideas and solutions during product development initiatives in order to introduce innovation and improve operational efficiency.
• Keep track of key metrics and create reports to communicate development progress to senior management, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work with a variety of teams, such as software architects, software engineers, system engineers, developers, and product teams.
• Determine cross-team dependencies and include them in the program planning process.
• Determine how to solve technical problems by diagnosing them and suggesting potential solutions.
• Ensure that product development and delivery can be completed within the product budget and timeframe.
• Oversee the product deployment process and, if necessary, assist with the integration process.
• Make necessary changes to product development processes based on performance metrics.
• Stay current on the latest developments in our product category and industry.
• Ensure complete compliance with industry standards by documenting all processes and adjusting them as needed.
• Manage project escalations and assist in the formation of project teams as needed.
• Maintain and implement project plans within the organization necessary technical programs to assist product management teams.

Experience: 12+Years

Location: Hyderabad

• Hire kick-ass engineers and coordinate their training and onboarding with our HR team
• Guide and mentor the engineering team, setting the bar for good programming skills through personal example
• Work with the Project Management team to manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines
• Prepare and manage the engineering department’s budget
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Track, report and improve execution metrics for your group.
• Deliver superior economics by making strategic investments in automation, analytics and machine learning.
• Work with our security team to assure Cloud environments are secure and compliant.
• Implement engineering processes under the guidance of the CTO. 
• Lead technical resolution of priority incidents, facilitate post-incident evaluations and ensure permanent closure of incidents.
• Design, experiment, and implement processes to increase the overall productivity of geographically distributed teams by tracking the relevant metrics
• Make an impact on overall tech culture and make collaboration across teams very effective to reach important business goals.

• Experience as a director of engineering or similar senior-level position
• 10+ years working in a technological role with 2+ years managing 20 or more engineers
• A seasoned leader who has unlimited energy to influence and daring to take initiatives and risks.
• A programmer who is a role model.
• Excellent project management skills
• High personal drive; results oriented; makes things happen
• Supremely tech savvy, able to wear multiple hats such as being an awesome programmer, application developer, technical architect, database designer.
• Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment (i.e. DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, etc.).
• Must be knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective in building close working relationships with others
• Innovative and creative and adaptive to new environment
• Ability to absorb professional knowledge quickly and develop skills.
• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies.
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals with creative approach to work.
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management.
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Our client is the fastest growing company in the space of student mobility in Asia Pacific as per Financial times.

More about them

- Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing).

- Helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, nonstandardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.

- Leading student housing platform globally, with 1M+ student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities.

- Growing rapidly and targeting $400M in annual gross bookings value by 2022.

We, r, are looking to hire an Director Engineering , who is a thought leader,and a world-class engineer who has a proven record of creating an impact on businessand engineering with little or no help. You will own the technology vision andsignificantly contribute to building the engineering team and culture. You will partner wiith Engineering Manager 2
the product and business teams to understand product features and specifications,translate them into high-level and low-level designs, thereby facilitating the team in building mission critical applications.


Key responsibilities
To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design
concepts.
Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
Work closely with Product managers, designers, and the business team to
implement solutions.
Maintain a very high standard of product quality, ensuring a delightful experience for users.
Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.

Technical Skills
1)4+ years of experience, working with web technologies and building scalable and distributed software products and infrastructure
2)Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production toscaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures
3)Sound knowledge of design patterns and practices for writing clean, linted,maintainable, and reusable code
4)Experience in working with both backend and frontend web technologies
5)Experience with infrastructure deployment and maintenance
6)Keeps an eye on new platform and ecosystem changes

Regards
Team Merito

About Company

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Engineering Manager 

Requirements:

Education - B.Tech/MCA or equivalent.

Overall 10 to 12 years of experience.

Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.

Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Columnar DBs

Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks, React, AngularJS.

Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API using Node or Lambda or python.

Good understanding of ELK, Kafka, Redis and CDN.

Worked on serverless technologies and good understanding of CMS.

Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.

Good understanding of AWS and its technologies.

Should be innovative and communicative in approach and should be hands on coding guru

Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a product.

Experience with Scaling SAAS products and ability to design from scratch.

Ability to manage a small team of 5 -10 Developers/QA Engineers and guide them on the design and coding best practices

Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.

Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.

Work on the front-end with ReactJS.

Designing and developing APIs for the front-end to consume.

Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.

Meeting both technical and consumer needs.

Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages).

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

Roles and Responsibility :

- This position requires you to lead and manage the whole engineering team.

- Manage your OKRs, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.

- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

- Architect & design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Lead multiple modules, third party integrations and business partners integration.

- Taking architectural decisions, defining high level and low level design.

- Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent and more to be shared via email.

Skills you are expected to have :

- Hands-on experience in advanced Golang, Python, PHP, Reactjs, React Native PWA, Javascript, AWS Cloud Services.

- Deep understanding of technologies, high level design, low level design in a secure, scalable and available set-up.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Hands-on experience in system design, architecture or developing distributed systems.

- Should be good in writing code keeping scalability, flexibility and monitoring at center.

- Good understanding of source control tools GIT, Jira and Bitbucket, code reviews etc.

- Preferable experience in Django and Laravel frameworks, but not limited to these only.

- Experience in the development of robust and scalable Rest APIs and APIs testing tools such as postman etc.

- Experience in micro service-based development would be a plus.

- Experience in queuing systems such as rabbitMQ, Active MQ would be a plus.

- Experience in AWS cloud services.

- Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipeline.

- Good analytical and communication skills.

- Candidates from the fintech domain would be preferred (Payments/ Banking/ Wallets/ Insurance/ Financial Markets).

About Us :

- We are a consumer lending fintech start-up on a mission to provide Fair Finance to Everyone. We have raised $15 million in debt and equity funding from leading angels that have previously backed Ola, Oyo, Myntra, Uniphore and 1mg as well as marquee NBFCs.

- Our loans are originated in partnership with 1000+ merchants who are present in over 80 cities -

- Leading healthcare chains: Indra IVF, Partha Dental, VLCC

- Home improvements: Asian Paints, Design Cafe, @home by Nilkamal

- Education : upGrad, Toppr, Board Infinity, Career Point, Bansal Learning, Miles Education E-Bikes - Ampere, Hero Electric, Lectrix, Benlng

- Our founding team has worked at fintech companies in London where they won a Banking Technology Award for Best Mobile Initiative as well as Indian FinTechs such as Coverfox and Liquiloans.

- The team has extensive experience in credit, investment banking and vendor management. They have graduated from London Business School, Northwestern University (USA), and attained the CFA charter.

About Meatigo

We’re transforming the way in which Indians Eat Meat!

 Meatigo is the leader in the online gourmet meat and delicatessen grocery space and we are proud to be one of the most innovative companies in the food retail space. Since 2016, we’ve worked towards transforming the way Indians eat meat by offering fresher, safer, responsibly sourced, sustainable and more nutritious meat products.

Backed by a team of people, with over 35 years of experience in meat processing & meat products, Meatigo boasts of an unrivalled expertise in cold-chain management, sourcing, manpower training and quality control. We follow an end-to-end business based on the hub and spoke model that starts from procuring the fresh produce to processing, storage and delivery. We currently deliver orders within 120 minutes across 8 Cities (and counting!)

For more details, do check out https://cutshort.io/shadmin/www.meatigo.com%20">www.meatigo.com

About The Role

At Meatigo, we're redefining the future of on-demand meat delivery. We're building a small team of incredibly talented programmers and developers to enable us to achieve our vision of connecting customers to better meat from Meatigo.

 We are looking for a leader to launch and grow our Meatigo Tech Team. 

 You will be responsible for building the next version of the Meatigo Consumer Website, Consumer App, Internal Apps as well as integration into other platforms. As we gear up for the next level of growth at Meatigo, you'll lead star engineers, designers, and operators in a fastgrowing dynamic environment. This role will be based out of Gurgaon, but you will speak with customers. stakeholders and teams all across India to understand their unique needs. The role demands a mix of entrepreneurship, cross-functional collaboration, and well-honed product judgement.

Job Description: (Tech Lead)

This role is for a person to lead the development project for an ecommerce application. The person should have a total work experience of 10-12 years in the IT  industry. 

Educational Requirements:

∙ Bachelor's / Master's Degree in the Computer Engg/Computer Science from reputed engineering college.

∙ Prince 2, PMP or other Project Management certification is preferable.

∙ AWS certified Developer - Associate or Sys Ops Administrator Associate is preferred.

Project Management experience:

∙ Managed at least 3 full cycle development projects with team size of 5 including himself successfully.

∙ Used Project Management tool Jira or Slack.

∙ Good knowledge of testing and Software quality.

∙ Hands on experience on container set up and cloud deployments.

∙ Understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery.

∙ A leader who inspires confidence and works as a team player.

∙ Hungry for learning.

Technology Skills and Experience

∙ Knowledge and use of CentOS and Tomcat.

∙ Knowledge and use of React.Js, Node.JS

∙ Knowledge and use of Bash, server side scripting

∙ Knowledge and use of Java Springboot

∙ Hands-on high level and detailed design knowledge and experience. ∙ Hands on development in Java using Java SDK 

∙ Experience with a UI framework like Bootstrap/Material design etc. ∙ Experienced in developing componentized UIs.

∙ Working knowledge of HTML5/java script/CSS/Typescript is must. ∙ Working experience of NodeJs

∙ Developed web services APIs and consumption [REST/SOAP]. ∙ Good knowledge of the use of MVC/MVVM patterns

∙ Working with Caching layers like Redis.

∙ Knowledge and use of ERMs/ORMs preferable.

∙ Experience of reverse proxies like Nginx/HA Proxy etc.

∙ TDD & BDD, the use of tools like Karma/Mocha/Jasmine is required. ∙ Application performance and scalability enhancement.

∙ Knowledge of loosely coupled design.

∙ Security aspects in design and development of applications.

Database

∙ At least 7 years’ experience with RDMS like MySQL Database, table design, normalization, and database performance.

∙ Able to write stored procedures and their debugging.(Optional)

∙ DB installation, maintenance and turning (the latter is optional)

Cloud

∙ Hands on knowledge of AWS cloud based development, deployment and support.

∙ Hands on experience of using Docker containers on the AWS platform. Knowledge of Kubernetes.

∙ Hands on experience in Server Management and AWS instances.

Tools Knowledge and Skills

∙ Used Gitlab

∙ Used Selenium or UFT/Silk or other testing tool.

∙ Used Jira, Slack or Trello

∙ Used Nagios (optional)

Salary:

∙ INR 20-30 Lakhs inclusive of all allowances.

Location:

∙ Gurgaon, Haryana

Joining:

∙ Preferably by 15 June 2021 but latest by 01 July 2021