
Engineering Manager - Back End
at Series D funded supply chain management company
Engineering Manager – Backend
Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?
Series D funded supply chain startup.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
- Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
- Exposure to consumer facing products
- Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
- Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack
Technologies Used
- Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
- Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
- Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
- Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
- Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
- Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture
Roles and Responsibilities
This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product
stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:
Business and product alignment and planning
- Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
- Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
- Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.
- Product and system development
- Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
- Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
- Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
- Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.
- Project Management
- Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
- Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
- Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.
- Maintenance
- Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
- Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
- Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.
- Team Management
- Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
- Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
- Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.
Product Overview
You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors
include:
- Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
- Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
- Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
- Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
- Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

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Mode of Work : 3 days from Office
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- Design, develop, and maintain low-latency, high-performance enterprise applications using Core Java (Java 5.0 and above).
- Implement and integrate APIs using Spring Framework and Apache CXF.
- Build microservices-based architecture for scalable and distributed systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for high/low-level design, development, and deployment of software solutions.
- Optimize performance through efficient multithreading, memory management, and algorithm design.
- Ensure best coding practices, conduct code reviews, and perform unit/integration testing.
- Work with RDBMS (preferably Sybase) for backend data integration.
- Analyze complex business problems and deliver innovative technology solutions in the financial/trading domain.
- Work in Unix/Linux environments for deployment and troubleshooting.
What would make you a good fit?
- You’re both relentless and kind, and don’t see these as being mutually exclusive
- You have a self-directed learning style, an insatiable curiosity, and a hands-on execution mindset
- You have deep experience working with product and engineering teams to launch backend services that power end-user applications
- You have deep experience in Python and the related tools and frameworks
- You have deep experience working with large datasets and relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL
- You have experience with microservices architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes
- You continuously raise the bar on development practices such as code quality tools, unit testing coverage, build tools, etc.
- You obsess about correctness, DRY development, reducing cognitive complexity, and performance
- You have excellent writing and speaking skills with a talent for applying technical solutions to customer problem statements
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building RESTful services
- 2+ years of experience in Django Rest Framework, Flask, and/or FastAPI
- 3+ years of experience with SQL and Postgres to manage and analyze data
- Expert level skills using a debugging tool and developing unit tests
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture
- Prior startup experience and enjoy taking on difficult challenges and broad responsibilities
- Track-record of delivering reliable and scalable RESTful services from requirements to production
- You’ve partnered with devops to deliver high-performant backend solutions to production
- You naturally think quantitatively about problems and work backward from a customer outcome
What’ll make you stand out (but not required)
- Terraform and AWS experience
- Experience creating technical design documents
- You have a strong connection to finance teams or closely related domains, the challenges they face, and deep appreciation for their aspirations
Good Programming Skills in C, C++, C#/Java, (good to have)
- Exposure to Scripting Languages like Ruby, Python
- Knowledge in version control- Git and/or Subversion
- Exposure to debugging tools like gdb, valgrind
- IDE tools like Eclipse
- Exposure to network programming with TCP, UDP
- Good debugging skills
- Exposure to Multi-threaded programming
- Strong knowledge in Data Structures & Algorithms
Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST services, PostgreSQL
Experience with Elastic Search or any NoSQL DB is preferable
Building highly-scalable and secure payments platform
Primary owners of one or more components of the platform and will drive innovation in
your area of ownership
Working with various product teams gathering requirements and adding capabilities
Working with some of the smartest people in the industry and will have ample opportunity to learn and grow
Using cutting-edge cryptography to secure payments beyond industry standards
Deriving actionable insights by mining TBs of data
Building a low-level infrastructure that aims to push the boundaries of network
performance
Participating actively in recruitment and nurturing of engineers as awesome as you
What do we look for?
Review and influence new evolving design, architecture, standards and methods with
stability, maintainability, and scale in mind
Identify patterns and provide solutions to class of problems
Research, evaluate and socialize new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system
Be able to multitask, prioritize and handle dependencies with minimal oversight
From a technology perspective, you should have the knowledge and/or experience in a
reasonably sized subset of the following ( the more, the merrier!! )
Worked on one or more large scale java applications
Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability
Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions
Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services
In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation and GC
Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc..
Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers
Great ability to mentor and train other team members
Job Description:
We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Responsibilities:
- Writing reusable, testable and efficient code.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
- Implementation of security and data protection.
- Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
Skills And Qualifications:
- Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack).
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project).
- Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers and environments.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
- Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Strong unit test and debugging skills.
Software engineering - Bengaluru and remote
Description:
Building products at BiCSoM is about turning dreams and ideas into lovable technology and design solutions. As a mindful member of the BiCSoM team you will create rule-breaking backend systems for mobile applications and websites using Php, Laravel, Lumen, MySQL, PostgresSQL and AuroraDB. Large number of people across the globe use our products everyday, we take pride in wearing ‘Made with love in India’ on our sleeves.
Requirements:
What are we looking for?
- We expect you to have your domain knowledge of Php, MySQL, AuroraDB, PostgresSQL, Laravel, Lumen, REST APIs and AWS based scalable backend development
- There are few skills which you need to have from get-go:
- You are a problem solver, polite and someone who values team members and customers
- You respect time and understand, lost time never comes back
- You have the ability to explain your algorithms and solutions and understand how to ask questions with respect to mobile app development and web development scenarios
- You are a smart and energetic talent from engineering and computer science background
- Based on the situations you can contribute individually or work with team and make work productive and fun
- In terms of day to day work, for 4-5 years you should have done the following:
- At least 8 to 10 live projects in Laravel, Lumen
- Handled team of 2 to 3 developers on Php
- Thorough understanding of MVC framework in Php using Laravel and Lumen
- Writing backend code with SOLID principle
- Unit testing of your code with Travis CLI
- Hands on experience with MySQL and PostgresSQL
- Rock solid understanding of Blade template engine
- Collaborative development with BitBucket or GIT and handling of code merge conflicts
- Documenting backend code and APIs using Swagger
- Expert Knowledge of code deployment on AWS is a must
- Knowledge of NoSQL will be an added advantage
- Expert in Linux, and understanding of Ubuntu OS
Other information:
- Work location: Bengaluru city and Remote
- Working days - 6 days a week
Welcome to BiCSoM careers:
BiCSoM Technologies Private Limited is committed to breakthrough innovation and success for its team members. From our mindful culture of compassion and wisdom to passionate customer success philosophy, this is one awesome place to work! So come and experience what it takes to build digital products which are loved by millions of users across the globe. You will find speed, agility, fun and supportive culture where we are responsible for each other’s success.
- BiCSoM is a registered startup under the Startup India initiative of Government of India and a DIPP registered MSME
- BiCSoM was recognized as one of the top AR/VR startups in India in 2018 in DCB Bank innovation carnival
● Responsible for developing high end web applications in various areas related to
SAAS (Software as a service)
● Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry
developments and trends
● Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish
objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user
experience
● Liaise with developers, designers and customer success teams to identify new
features
● Should have experience to integrate & customize third party plugins
● Knowledge of SaaS or e-commerce industry will be preferred
Required Skills:
● 5-7 years’ experience as a Sr. Web Developer in developing web applications
● Strong experience in PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Rest APIs, Ajax & jQuery
● Good exposure in Payment Gateway process
● Should have good exposure in Server Setup, AWS Console, Digital Ocean,
Handling DNS and Linux/Ubuntu command line
● Fluency or good understanding of Nodejs & MongoDB will be preferred
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process such as design,
development and deployment
● Familiarity with front-end languages like HTML, JavaScript and CSS
● Strong understanding of the web development and programming techniques and tools
● Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement
● Excellent analytical and time management skills
● Excellent communication and problem-solving attitude
● Familiarity with SaaS Products is a plus
● Degree from IT/Computer Science background is preferred

Job Description
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Responsibilities
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, Nodejs and CSS3
- Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors, such as LESS and SASS
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Good Understanding of Mysql database.
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
- Data migration, transformation, and scripting
- Setup and administration of backups
- Outputting data in different formats







