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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