Engineering Manager - AO at retail tech start-up · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 5 - 12 years · ₹35L - ₹70L / yr · Posted 6 Jul 2022

Engineering Manager
Bengaluru
Work Type: Full Time
We're building E-commerce, Fintech & Supply Chain stacks for Indian Retail & heads down focused on solving the hard, industry-defining challenges. If you love the first principle approach, freedom to build & own your outcomes, It is the place! Welcoming all entrepreneurial minds to BUILD & blitz scale with us!
Responsibilities:
- Work with other our leaders to design and drive the plan for the company's vision.
- Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with our recruiting team.
- Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
- Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability and simplicity.
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of our engineering management team.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline (Tier I colleges preferable).
- A track record of leading productive engineering teams.
- Successfully recruited great people to your teams.
- The ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
- The desire to encourage a healthy work environment that's both supportive and challenging.
- A genuine excitement to help engineers develop new skills and advance in their careers.
- Enough technical sense to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions.
- 7+ years of relevant engineering and hands-on technical management experience.
- Previous experience at good tech startups/product companies.
- Strong hands-on experience in full stack development and architecture using NodeJS, MVC, microservices, UI & UX (React), ORM tool (Sequelize), CICD tools (Git, Jenkins, AWS).
- Excellent knowledge of RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Cache, Linux based systems.
About the company
Founded by ex-Flipkart leadership and IIT alumni, Arzooo is a vertical focused e-commerce startup, digitising the Consumer Electronics value chain in India.
It started as a B2B platform empowering thousands of Consumer Durables stores with the best of pricing & product selection through its e-commerce stack and also creating a very efficient supply chain infrastructure across tier-2,3,4 towns in India. The recent foray into fintech has enabled us to empower Indian retail with a low cost, digital-first Credit alternative, which is unlocking immense scale for us
We are the largest e-comm player in India in the Electronics domain, and scaling fast towards capturing this multi-billion opportunity. With a presence in 300+ cities, we're now building a direct to consumer platform on top of our existing network of thousands of Durables stores. Through the direct to consumer platform we're taking all these stores online with Live Commerce capabilities, building appliances focused shopping experience for tier-2+ India.
We're a team of 400+ with deep experience in scaling startups, and we are building this team further now.

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Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the software development function, including developers, technical leads, architects, and QA engineers.
- Define and execute the software development roadmap in alignment with the company's business strategy and growth objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications.
- Lead the development and enhancement of fintech platforms, financial applications, payment solutions, and digital financial products, as applicable.
- Drive API development, third-party integrations, banking integrations, payment gateway integrations, and other financial technology integrations.
- Establish software architecture standards, coding practices, development methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure application security, data protection, system reliability, scalability, and performance across software platforms.
- Drive the adoption of modern technologies, cloud-based solutions, DevOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee software development life cycles, sprint planning, release management, quality assurance, and production support.
- Establish engineering KPIs, monitor team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with Product, Business, Compliance, Information Security, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
- Ensure software development processes adhere to applicable regulatory requirements, security standards, internal policies, and IT governance practices.
- Manage technology budgets, external development partners, software vendors, and resource allocation.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, build a high-performing technology team, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, technical debt reduction, and improvement in software delivery efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in software development, engineering, and technology delivery, with approximately 20 years preferred.
- Significant experience in leading software development teams and managing large-scale application development initiatives.
- Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, API development, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and software engineering tools.
- Proven experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-availability applications.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, digital lending, financial services, or related technology domains is preferred.
- Understanding of financial data security, application security, regulatory compliance, and secure software development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, engineering teams, delivery timelines, and technology priorities.
- Excellent leadership, strategic planning, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person
Experience and Required Skill Sets:
1 Solid experience in software design and development using Microsoft ASP.NET framework, C#, Visual Studio, and in writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
2 5+ years of experience in WCF, WPF, VB.NET, SQL Server, JQuery, Angular 10 and above.
3 5+ years of experience in developing highly scalable REST/Web APIs
4 5+ years of experience in developing highly efficient SQL/NoSQL Queries
5 5+ years of experience in Relational and Document databases
6 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.
7 Experience in using the MVC framework, working knowledge in APIs, and Service Oriented Architecture
8 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.
9 Experience in Angular version 10 and above is required
10 Expert in SQL programming & Database Design (Stored procedure, Function, Trigger, Constraints, Replication)
11 Strong ability in HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM)
12 Development experience with data integration technologies including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
13 Expertise in programming and usage of any unit testing framework. Expertise in integration testing and continuous integration.
14 Experience working in a DevOps environment will be an added advantage.
Responsibilities:
• Ability to create complex, enterprise-transforming applications that meet and exceed client expectations.
• Responsible for the bottom line. Strong project management abilities. Ability to encourage the team to stick to timelines.
• Follow best-in-class coding practices and review the solutions vis-à-vis the requirements and technical specifications.
• Should demonstrate strong client interfacing capabilities like emails and calls with clients in the US/UK








