Engineering Lead for one of the Fortune 500 firms | Hyderabad

About Vyapar:

We are a technology and innovation company in the fintech space, delivering business accounting software to Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). With more than 5 Million users across 140 countries, we are one of the fastest growing companies in this space. We take the complexity out of invoicing, inventory management & accounting, making it so simple, such that small businesses can spend less time on manual bookkeeping and spend more time focusing on areas of business that matter.

 

Role Summary:

Vyapar's Engineering team builds the technology platform that eases and digitizes our customers' bookkeeping and enables the transition of cumbersome accounting data from general bookkeeping to a digitized always available resource. We work on areas such as building massive-scale web and mobile applications, engaging user-interfaces, big-data analytics, mobile apps, accounting workflows , inventory-management etc. We are a small focused technology team where each individual has a huge impact. You will have the opportunity to be part of this rapidly growing team and gain exposure to all the parts of a comprehensive fintech platform.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.

 

• Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.

 

Desired Skills And Requirements

• Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility. Ability to architect, design and code yourself. Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications. Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database.) Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.

 

• Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality. Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools. You will need to plan, coordinate and oversee the technical and engineering activities of your team. You will be responsible for planning engineering projects and overseeing the efficient running of projects, including providing supervision and guidance to other engineers.

 

Qualification:

• You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer-science.

 

• Total of 9+ years' experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large scale applications and 2 + years' experience in team management

 

• Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Hire and lead a team of Software Engineers in designing and building innovative solutions to disrupt Logistics industry using Technology
• Collaborate with Engineers and other Software Development Managers to ensure timely deliveries
• Partner with Product Managers to ensure bug-free delivery to satisfy and delight the customers
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work
• Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to management
REQUISITES/PREREQUISITES:
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
•At least 7+ years of relevant experience which includes
a. 3+ years of experience in managing a team of 5+ Software Engineers
b. 4+ years of Software Development experience as an individual contributor
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven track record of shipping complex software solutions through an agile methodology
•Ability to deep dive into the problems in order to help your team make the right technical decisions
•Proven track record of developing the career of your direct reports
•Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
•Strong verbal and written communication skills
•Proven abilities in managing through ambiguous situations

Job Description – Solutions Architect
A Solutions Architect is responsible for validating the logical models, ensuring standards, driving consolidation of redundant data, and enforcing the strategic vision through data models. The Architect role has an in-depth understanding of both our business capabilities and how it aligns to our enterprise data models. Partners with Enterprise Architecture to consult on and develop domain models. Consults with project teams and functional units on the design of important projects or services. consults with business leadership on the design of systems and projects. May consult with leadership on emerging technologies.
To be successful as a solution architect, you should be able to integrate any updated specifications and requirements into the systems architecture. An outstanding solution architect should be able to explain complex problems to management in layman’s terms.

Responsibilities:
Building and integrating information systems to meet the company’s needs.
Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
E2E accountability of solution design across multiple products, integrations and technologies that deliver successful business outcomes which meet reliability, availability, serviceability needs.
Experience working with the latest emerging tehnolgies and Programming Languages like - Java, .Net, MERN Stack, MEAN Stack, Angular, React, VueJS, NodeJS, Block Chain, GoLang, ML, Data Science related areas, etc
Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions
Resolving technical problems as they arise.
Providing supervision and guidance to development teams.
Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.
Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets.
Work closely with Information Technology professionals within the company to ensure hardware is available for projects and working properly
Propose and establish framework for necessary contributions from various departments
Account for possible project challenges on constraints including, risks, time, resources, and scope

Would prefer someone from Edutech. Under minimal supervision, the candidate is responsible for software architecture, design, development, testing, and debugging of new software and producing significant enhancements to existing software.
Conducts complex business process analysis, needs assessments and participates in design sessions with business and developers in order to align information technology solutions with business initiatives.
Undertakes complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge in software design and development Essential Duties and Responsibilities Interacts with product owners, Business Analysts, business partners and developers to envision, model and design technology solutions to solve business problems.

6+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on management
experience.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, High-scale / High-traffic applications is a
MUST
• Experience with AWS is mandatory while SOA/Micro services with Node.js and Golang is a
plus.
• Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building
productive engineering teams.
• Been actively involved in setting product strategy.
• Entrepreneurial drive and have hands-on experience in creating products which solves
user’s problems
Golang, NodeJs, Java, C/C++,  PHP, Docker, ReactJs, JQuery,  Spring, Hibernate, Redis,  Kafka, RabbitMq, MySQL,  Hadoop, MongoDB,AWS ECS, CodePipeline, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EMR, AWS DocDB, AWS ElasticSearch ,Git, Perforce , Junit, Jasmine, Mocha

As a tech lead, you will be responsible for the architecture, design, and development of one of the Digbihealth products across Mobile, Care Dashboard, and research product surfaces. You will work closely with the product team in delivering experience and outcomes that consistently engage, enrich the care and user experience. You will be responsible for the Micro services, orchestration modules, and also for code and adaptable design quality.

The 2018 Forbes Indonesia Choice Award winner and Galen Growth’s 2018 Most

Innovative HealthTech Startup in Asia. Ours is a secure health-tech platform with a mission to

simplifying access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one mobile application.

 

Key Job Responsibilities:

• He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and

business roadmap.

• He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and

build roadmaps

• Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

• Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional

teams.

• Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both

platforms

• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics

and integrity.

 

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 10+ years experience
• Experince in performance appraisal and people management.
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,

popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST

Express etc

• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

  Questions

  1. How many years of Techno-managerial experience do you have? 
  2. How many performance review cycles did you do?
  3. What is the size of the team that you've managed?

   

   

   

We are looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to join our engineering team. As a manager, you will lead a team participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle: scoping, design, coding, testing, implementation and support. You will help hire, train, mentor and lead a team of highly capable engineers. You will also help in the development of

Ours is a scalable microservices platform and geospatially-aware applications across multiple industries and form-factors. In this role, you must be able to multitask, quickly
adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable
code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult and complex problems. You take
pride and ownership in your work as well as the overall contributions of your team. You must also have the ability to take a system-wide understanding, recognize use of system
components and disparate technologies and be able to diagnose and debug components
across an entire system. Your ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and verbal) is key, as is being a self-starter.

Primary Responsibilities:

● Build, train, mentor and lead a cross-functional agile team

● Help design, architect and develop advanced software solutions supporting multiple

projects and initiatives in a dynamic agile environment

● Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition,

development of functional specifications, and design

● Wok in close collaboration with Scrum masters, Technical Product Manager and

Stakeholders within the team and function to co-own the deliverables

● Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required

● Establish and lead best practices in software engineering

● Mentor and grow new employees on your team

● End to end feature development with a team size of 8-10 Dev & QA engineers across

levels.

Requirements:

● Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field

● 10+ years of software development experience using both Frontend and Backend

technologies like - React.js/Angular.js, along with GoLang/Java/Python, or another object-oriented programming language

● 3+ years as an engineering lead or manager

● Experience with cloud technologies (AWS) and containerization (Docker/EKS) and Microservices

● Experience with SAFe Agile is preferred

Note: Role is full stack with more inclination to backend side.

Responsibilities And Scope • You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 10-15 top notch engineers. • You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team • Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback. • Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening. • Our world-class software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way. You are their default mentor. • You work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace • You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions • You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment • Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations Must Have • Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you. • Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up. • Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems • Strong object oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces • Superior project management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience of delivering high quality projects on time • Above 9 years of experience with technology depth as well as good people skills • A BE/BTech in Computer Science or some equivalent academic stance. Nice To Have • Able to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly, and provide longer term vision and motivation. • Great people skills to closely work with other teams. Product Management, Business Development, and Operations, all need your expertise to ensure superior solutions match our scale of operations. • Very high technical competence, strong technical background with track record of individual technical accomplishments – Ability to play the role of the architect for the team