Engineering Lead

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As a Technical Program Manager you will be responsible for coordinating and driving to completion tech initiatives that span multiple teams (dashboard, web-app scanner, new scanners etc.). This role required a strong Business analytics background and a solid understanding of Golang/Python and Typescript to lead the engineering team on such initiatives

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders directly. During the first 6 months of your role, you will be closely orchestrating and leading the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective Tech Lead/Principal SDEs.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise:

• Specialize as the go-to person for one or more technologies and take initiative to learn new ones.
• Design and implement medium to large-sized features while reducing the system’s tech debt.
• Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Be hands-on with writing code, contributing a good amount of time with development tasks as required.
• Be like Yoda - the wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.

Project Management:

• Lead and manage the full project lifecycle along with the Tech leads & engineers in ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, monitor progress, and report on project status to stakeholders.
• Own and improve SDLC best practices across the organization.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Effectively communicate project goals, timelines, and expectations to cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with development teams, product managers, leadership and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful project outcomes.
• Coordinate team members providing effective feedback and moderating discussions.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies.
• Handle unexpected challenges with resilience and adaptability.

Ownership and Operations:

• Own the production operation, ensuring timely delivery of technical projects and monitoring system performance.
• Evolve the architecture to support future requirements and define its SLAs.

Leadership and Management:

• Act as an Engineering Manager when required, providing leadership and guidance to the team.
• Manage the team members’ career, expectations, performance, and level of happiness.
• Define the right processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.

Impact and Evolution:

• Make an impact on the whole tech organization/product engineer teams.
• Lead the 0->1 journey of upcoming products in the platform along with respective Tech Lead/Principal SDEs.

Quarterly Co-working:

• You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in Program Management
• Strong product & program management background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable
• Strong organizational skill with the ability to prioritize and execute tasks across multiple projects with tight deadlines, aggressive goals, and ambiguity.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of Golang, Python, TypeScript are preferred
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Certification in Project Management (e.g., PMP) is a plus.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead and grow a world-class Ad Engineering team through mentorship and guidance and career development

Lead partnerships with Product Engineering, define interfaces with 3rd party direct integrators, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to scale the Ad Platform

Collaborate with other Engineering and Product teams to ensure high degree of alignment, ruthless prioritization, timely releases of features in support of critical company initiatives

Constantly strive to improve the efficiency of our existing systems while pursuing transformative technologies that impacts the Platform’s performance

Work closely with Recruiting to expand the team, including sourcing candidates,

interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events and on-boarding new employees

Develop and drive long-term strategies around utilizing ecosystem, including the Ads system as/when relevant

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field

4+ years experience leading and managing teams within an engineering organization

2+ years leading and managing Ad Systems

Superb communication and interpersonal skills

Excellent presentation skills

Responsibilities :

·      You will manage a team of backend engineers to deliver a valuable and delightful product for our users.

·      You will be responsible for liaising with external stakeholders such as product, acquisition and retention teams to come up with a charter for a certain vertical(game), and then execute on it. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge tech stack and keep it current.

·      You will be responsible for setting the correct set of processes in engineering that help you get very high efficiency in the organisation.

·      You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines.

·      You would need to demonstrate an ability to stay objective while creating an appropriate decision-making framework for the entire organisation.

·      You will believe in measure-ability of the success of the tech stack and processes adopted.

Requirements:

·      B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

·      10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in management role.

·      Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.

·      Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies

·      Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership

·      Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.

·      Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.

·      Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment

·      A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.

·      Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.

·      Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.

·      Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams.

F5 is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience in building FIPS-ready cryptography-based security solutions at scale. You will participate in the design and implementation of F5’s Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications. Your work includes, but not limited to, design, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging of security services of F5’s platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with architects and business leaders to understand the requirements for providing FIPS-ready cryptography-based security services for F5’s platform, design solutions, and implement them
• You will develop software for identity related security foundations of Volterra platform - Identity Management, Key Management, Secure Bootstrapping, Authentication, Authorization, Secrets Management, etc.
• You will perform necessary compliance tasks – including building and executing the test suites – required for making systems and libraries ready for FIPS
• You will vet various open source and closed source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system
• Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple domain areas, providing mentorship to other team member
• Demonstrate leadership by taking responsibility and ownership of software components and deliver a complete product satisfying functional, scale, performance and manageability requirements
• Hands-on coding in multiple languages while considering performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 12+ years of software engineering and development experience
• Hands on experience with multiple computer programming languages such as Golang (must), C++, Python, Java
• Hands-on experience with FIPS 140-2 and CMVP
• Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases
• Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
• Good understanding of security concepts like IPSec/TLS, PKI, SAML/OAuth, Key management, etc.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.) is a plus
• Working knowledge of Virtualization technologies like KVM, Docker etc.
• Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills

The Angel Broking Story

Incorporated in 1987, Angel Broking Limited is one of the largest independent full-service retail broking houses in India committed to providing accurate and widespread data for every online share trader. Angel Broking is considered as a home to the independent database on the web covering the Indian online brokerage industry. Our experience of over two decades has helped us to integrate our knowledge and expertise in the broking industry with the technology we provide to our retail clients through various platforms.

We are a technology-led financial services company providing broking and advisory services, margin funding, loans against shares (through one of our Subsidiaries, AFPL) and financial products distribution to our clients under the brand “Angel Broking”. Our broking and allied services are offered through (i) our online and digital platforms, and (ii) our network of over 15,000 Authorised Persons (the “Authorised Persons”), as of Sep 30, 2021.

We have a team of highly skilled technology and finance professionals and are currently looking for highly motivated field experts to be part of our high-energy team.

Role: Product Manager

What will you do

As Product Manager, you will play a key role in our journey to make trading & investing easily accessible and affordable to all millennials. You will be conceptualizing and executing ideas that create values for traders as well. The job will involve understanding traders & investors requirements, creating workflows, and coordinating with design, engineering, marketing & operation teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define, understand & identify key success metrics.
• Track and analyze performance and constantly identify improvements to drive maximum usage and achieve business objectives
• Design & own product roadmap. Ensure steady execution of product life cycle processes from idea to final launch
• Collaborate with design team and guide their investments for research, prototyping, experimentation, and overall design thinking
• Collaborate with Data Analytics team and guide their investments in data analysis for a high impact conversational, prediction, and personalization strategy
• Coordinate with internal business verticals to collect requirements and convert them into clear actionable items
• Manage daily interaction with the tech team to clear their doubts if any in the requirements documents.
• Own features and experiments end-to-end, including writing product specs, creating wireframes, driving cross-functional execution, making thoughtful product decisions along the way, and sharing insights and results throughout the company.
• Gather, review, and interpret qualitative & quantitative data to uncover new product insights.
• Ability to drive PAT, DAT & UAT along with QA team
• Take product ownership through the entire development cycle, from concept, design and development, through to launch and achieving business impact
• Ability to take initiative and address something hands-on, you persevere when others give up.

What we are looking for

• Engineering and / Management degree from a Tier 1 institution.
• We are looking for developer turned Product Manager with 1-6 years of experience in Product Management. (Preferably 1+ years of Hands of Application development (in Java / C++ / or any other programing language))
• Experience in the B2C/B2B segment
• Data-driven decision-making ability
• Sharp User Research skills - conducting Usability Testing, User interviews, Card Sorting & A/B Testing
• Obsession with the mission to improve customer experience
• Prior experience in understanding & working with APIs driven businesses and leading B2C mobile applications.
• Ability to conceptualize, manage and prioritise tasks
• Excellent Stakeholder management skills
• Amazing verbal and written communication skills
  
  

What you get :

• Chance to play a pivotal role in building the next-gen fintech product
• Top tier scale from Day 1 - related battle scars / glory
• Work with other world class talent ( ex Amazon, Uber, Google, Walmart Labs)
• Still be based out anywhere you wish - You can Work from Anywhere #WFA}

If you are #superpumped about the role, we would love to connect with you! APPLY NOW

Advertising at our client is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on our clients portal and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies.The Supply Quality organization in Bangalore has the charter to solve optimization problems for ad programs to ensure high-quality ad-impressions. We develop advanced algorithms and systems to optimize performance for our advertisers and publishers. We are focused on solving a wide variety of problems in computational advertising like traffic quality prediction (robot and fraud detection), Security forensics and research, Viewability prediction, Brand Safety and experimentation. Our team includes experts in the areas of distributed computing, machine learning, statistics, optimization, text mining, information theory and big data systems.

The Supply Quality infrastructure(SQI) team builds large-scale real-time transactional solutions, batch and stream processing systems, internet scale crawling solutions and storage infrastructure. We process bid requests in the orders of tens of billions per day with our real-time, batch and stream processing systems. To handle data at this scale, we use cutting-edge open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Redis etc.. We are not tied to one technology. Instead, we use what is best suited for the purpose. All of our systems tend to be loosely coupled, communicating using synchronous and asynchronous messaging, leading to a classic distributed processing architecture. All our systems need to also implement complex machine learning and optimization algorithms at scale. 

We are looking for a talented Engineering Manager to lead a new big-data engineering initiative within SQI. The team will own building highly available, efficient and low latency internet scale infrastructure including web-scale crawler, contextual processing and classification systems that will be used across multiple advertising use cases. As a leader of the team, you will be responsible to evolve the charter of the team, work with stakeholders to set goals and deliver them. To succeed, you need to demonstrate sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of engineering excelllence towards delivering cutting-edge solutions that materially improve customer experience.


Primary responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements.
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers