Engineering Lead

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background, with at least 6+ years of expertise in software development, architecture, and team leadership. As the Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the technical direction of our software development team, architecting robust solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products.

Key Responsibilities:

·   Architect and lead the development of scalable, high-performance web applications utilizing Node.js / Javascript and MySQL with good to have experience in Angular.

·   Provide technical leadership and guidance to the software development team, overseeing backend and frontend development efforts.

·   Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, establish project timelines, and align software development strategies with business objectives.

·   Drive the implementation of best practices in software engineering, including code quality standards, unit testing, code reviews, and CI/CD processes.

·   Mentor and coach engineering team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

·   Lead technical discussions, identify opportunities for innovation, and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance our product offerings.

·   Analyze system architecture and design, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability of our software solutions.

·   Partner with stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize features, and deliver impactful solutions that meet customer needs.

·   Lead by example, demonstrating a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.

Qualifications:

·      Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

·      Proven track record as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role within software development.

·      Proficiency in JavaScript, with expertise in Node.js.

·      Experience working with technologies such as Redis, GraphQL, Messaging Brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ, Integrating third party APIs

·      Experience in architecting and developing high-load, scalable web applications using modern frontend and backend technologies.

·      Strong proficiency in RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.

·      Demonstrated expertise in database design, optimization, and management, particularly with MySQL.

·      Familiarity with frontend technologies such as Angular desirable.

·      Experience with Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.

·      Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

·      Experience with modern development tools and technologies, including Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

If you possess the requisite skills and are passionate about driving innovation in the HR tech industry, we invite you to join our team at Akrivia HCM

Extramarks Education India Private Limited

Extramarks is leading the Education Technology sector in India by providing 360⁰ education support to learners through new age digital education solutions. These solutions are used by schools in class room for imparting education and by students at home to make learning easy and effective. Keeping pace with globalization and technology in education, Extramarks empowers young learners to step in with the latest technology and have anytime-anywhere access to quality learning. In a very short period, Extramarks has become extremely popular among schools and students. More than 8000 schools use digital learning and technology solutions of Extramarks across India, Singapore, Kuwait, UAE and South Africa.

Extramarks Learning App allows students to learn at home at their own pace and space and provides complete educational support eliminating the need of a tutor. The three pronged pedagogical approach of Learn, Practice and Test ensures better learning outcomes for students. All concepts are first explained in an easy to learn manner with the help of rich media then the students are allowed to practice the concept. Virtual Practicing modules and Q&A allow the retention of knowledge that is tested on a robust teaching platform to identify the learning gaps.

Extramarks is currently in the process of scaling up rapidly and is looking to hire for the position of Sr. Development Manager, to be an experienced professional with unique skill who stretches from strategy to execution. Extramarks is driving student learning through data driven techniques by providing personalized learning recommendations to the students. Apart from such customer facing innovations, we are also implementing internal operational excellence solutions through similar data driven approaches. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join Extramarks and help change the face of education in India.

Job Description:

- Drive high performance in the Engineering team, with a relentless focus on agile methodologies and continuous innovation in processes, work practices and tooling.

- Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure solutions are maintainable, modular, and of high code-quality.

- Manage the program releases and collaborate with Architects for bringing new practices and making right technical choices for the system.

- Build a strong, progressive engineering culture that values diversity, trust, efficiency, technical ownership, and accountability.

- Able to lead the development cycle and ensure delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimised for performance and built to scale.

Required Skills:

- Extensive experience in managing teams building high-volume and highly complex consumer software products.

- Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing product experience.

- Deep understanding and prior hands-on experience of back-end technologies like Java based microservices & system design architecture with Spring / Spring boot frameworks, hibernate & SQL OR NoSQL databases. (e.g. MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra).

- Good understanding of Java Memory Management, Garbage Collection, Multithreading, Immutability & concurrency programming.

- Expertise in effective planning and prioritization of projects to create an environment where randomization is either absent or extremely minimized.

- Able to break complex projects into modules and propose effective solutions in view of capabilities of existing platforms and infrastructure.

Desired Skills:

- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services.

- Experience with high performance & high scale applications.

- Good knowledge of multiple data storage systems

Hi

About the Co.-

Our Client aims to be the country’s first food platform that brings together digital-first brands, experiences and retail destinations that will influence and shape the narrative around food amongst India’s most discerning consumers.

The company's first brand, was launched earlier this year. Best known for its namesake restaurant in Mumbai, It now offers a range of fresh and packaged food products and FMCG range available through multiple digital platforms, marketplaces, its own D2C platform and leading modern trade and gourmet stores in India.

What you’ll be doing?

• Design and develop new, engaging, fast, end-to-end product experiences led by a content to commerce approach for our consumers as part of India’s biggest venture in the omnichannel gourmet food space.

• Work closely with your's and other engineering teams (SAP, PoS, OMS etc) with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0 to 1 integrations with an appetite to quickly scale from 1 to n across products.

• Work cross-functionally across multiple teams to drive buy-in on new product experiences and engineering frameworks.

• Recruit and build an entirely new engineering team and move fast in converting new ideas to product collaborating with Product, Design, Leadership and other functions, while maintaining high product quality and reliability.

• Complete responsibility for leading a team of application and front-end / Back-end engineers to drive product experiences in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational excellence as products mature.

• Coaching, mentoring managers and Architects in the team. Good team management skills with ability to multitask, strong problem solving and analytical skills.

What you’ll bring?

• 9+ years of overall experience with 5+ years of digital engineering management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates (frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies.

• Experience building high performance websites and mobile apps with scalable architecture. Experience in building headless magento preferred.

• Ability to bring in software engineering life cycle best practices - meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing, security and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.

• Exceptional technical skills with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands on approach to lead from the front.

• Ability to think and analyse both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services.

• Exceptional design and architectural skills.

• Expertise and interest in growing teams- interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members.

• Great management and team development skills: ability to set roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and honest feedback, help team members grow in their careers, and deliver results.

• Passionate, entrepreneurial, technically hands-on with a love for 0 to 1 and delivering premium experiences for our customers.

Why work with us?

• You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.

• You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.

• You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.

• You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike

Regards

Team Merito

BullSpree– India’s First Financial Market Fantasy Gaming Platform- is disrupting the way India understands Stock market and empowering wealth creation opportunities for millions of users.

Responsibilities: Bull spree is looking for a rockstar VP Engineering, who has hands-on experience architecting and designing e-commerce, scalable web & mobile platforms from ground up. The candidate will be the top technical leader who would work closely with founders on technical requirements, design & development based on agile methodologies, supervises software development projects with contracting vendors and hires and develops in-house team for long-term roadmap execution.

In this role, you will design and develop scalable fantasy game mobile application platforms using the latest technologies. You will own product quality and overall customer experience. You will also propose technical solutions to product/service problems while refining, designing and implementing software components in line with technical requirements.

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in computer engineering or equivalent form Top Tier Institute
• 4 – 8 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on Cloud
• Proficiency developing ReSTful APIs, mobile libraries, Android OS, App Development language (PHP/Kotlin/Java/ JavaScript or equivalent)
• Knowledge of Cloud Services, Containers, databases and Message queues (Kafka / RabbitMQ) highly preferable
• Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Spinnaker, SonarQube) and best practices
• Good understanding of database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra etc.
• Sound debugging skills with ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts
  
  

• Strong experience working with multi cloud (AWS/GCP/AZURE), Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform
• Good understanding of observatory tools and logging
• Enthusiasm for open-source contribution
• Previous experience working in an environment with microservices
• Experience in distributed and big data technologies
  
  

Founded in 2020 by Harsh Dhanawat and Dharmil Bavishi, BullSpree is always working on its mission to

‘Make India empower while investing’. The fantasy gaming ecosystem in India is accelerating at 12.5% CAGR and is currently valued at 20,000 crores. Having secured recent funding, we are looking to expand our core engineering team and foster the vision

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a growing team of Engineers to help them build and maintain our products, effectively work on the right things at the right time and help them grow as better engineers along the way. A solid engineering as well as a management background is a must and you should have prior experience running an engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead agile development and project planning
• Lead technical architecture discussion and quality code delivery
• Work with the engineering team, QA and Product teams to effectively run the product road map
• Keep everyone in the company informed on your team’s progress
• Work with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track it through to resolution
• Helping set and fulfill the engineering hiring plan for the team, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing
• Help implement effective engineering processes and policies
• Improve release process and managing bug/feature backlog

Requirements:

• 2+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Should have worked on at least one of these programming languages (Python/Ruby/NodeJs)
• Excellent knowledge of best-practices and coding patterns
• You are proficient at reading and writing code and have built, shipped and maintained software
• You have experience in managing, coaching software developers to help them level up
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills and can communicate within your team and across teams
• You have good project management skills and can lead, keep track of and prioritize between multiple projects
• You are detail oriented and care about the quality of work that gets shipped
• You have been actively learning and keeping up with the industry both in terms of software development and product
• You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
• Engineering degree is must (B.E. CS preferred)

1. Proven 9+ years of work experience in managing software development (Android/PHP) 
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
3. Highly experienced with Agile development methodologies
4. Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
5. Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job.
6. Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization.
7. Work well under pressure and be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary.
8. Ability to multi-task, work independently and demonstrate keen attention to details.
9. Team player attitude is mandatory.
10. High command in English Communication
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12. Work on projects, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers.
13. Plan, lead and manage a team of Software Engineers
14. Provide leadership to the core engineering team of product development professionals, to drive all pertinent issues related to the product development life cycle.
15. Build and execute the roadmap in terms of methodologies, development processes, and team enablement to enhance productivity and efficiency.
16. Apply knowledge of software engineering, programming, technologies, processes, and methodologies to develop, maintain and support the technical solutions.
17. Analyze problems and drive long term technology solutions to evolve the product scalability, performance, reliability and supportability
18. Partner with the Products team to contribute to the product strategy and support product vision
19. Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
20. Researching and developing designs and products.

• Quick & Excellent Problem solving skills for complex & large scale problems
• Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies
• Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction
• Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases
• Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.
• Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions
• Deep understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems with experience & expertise in a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases
• Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures the Principle architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles.
• Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5 years
• Must have worked in a small setup (either a startup or a small & reasonably independent team)
• 8+ years of overall experience
• B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required