Engineering Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You will be involved in directly driving application of machine learning and AI to solve various product and business problems including ML model lifecycle management with ideation, experimentation, implementation, and maintenance.

• Your responsibilities will include enabling the team in moving forward with ML/AI solutions to optimise various components across our music streaming platforms.

• Your work would be impacting millions of users the way they consume music and podcasts, it would involve solving cold start problems, understanding user personas, optimising ranking and improving recommendations for serving relevant content to users.

• We are looking for a seasoned engineer to orchestrate our recommendations and discovery projects and also be involved in tech management within the team.

• The team of talented, passionate people in which you’ll work will include ML engineers and data scientists.

• You’ll be reporting directly to the head of the engineering and will be

instrumental in discussing and explaining the progress to top management and other stake holders.

• You’ll be expected to have regular conversations with product leads and other engineering leads to understand the requirements, and also similar and more frequent conversation with your own team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A machine learning software engineer with a passion for working on exciting, user impacting product and business problems

• Stay updated with latest research in machine learning esp. recommender systems and audio signals

• Have taken scalable ML services to production, maintained and managed their lifecycle

• Good understanding of foundational mathematics associated with machine learning such as statistics, linear algebra, optimization, probabilistic models

Minimum Qualifications

• 13+ years of industry experience doing applied machine learning

• 5+ years of experience in tech team management

• Fluent in one or more object oriented languages like Python, C++, Java

• Knowledgeable about core CS concepts such as common data structures an algorithms

• Comfortable conducting design and code reviews

• Comfortable in formalising a product or business problem as a ML problem

• Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field

• Industry experience with large scale recommendation and ranking systems

• Experience in managing team of 10-15 engineers

• Hands on experience with Spark, Hive, Flask, Tensorflow, XGBoost, Airflow

7+ YOE in IT / Software Development and Services Industry

B.Tech/BE, Bachelor in Tech domain from Tier 1 College / Univesity

MBA or Masters from Top B schools or Tier 1 College / Univesity

Preferred with work experience in software frameworks, technologies, and programming languages.

• Develop and implement operational strategies: Develop and implement operational strategies to ensure the smooth functioning of the organization. This includes developing policies and procedures, managing resources, and monitoring performance metrics.

• Lead project teams: ensure the successful completion of projects within the allotted time and budget. This involves planning, organizing, and controlling project activities, as well as communicating with stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met.

• Manage resources: managing the resources required for both day-to-day operations and project delivery. This includes budgeting, resource allocation, and procurement of materials and services.

• Analyze data to identify areas for improvement and to make informed decisions regarding operational and project-related issues. This involves using data analysis tools and techniques to collect, organize, and interpret data.

• Ensure compliance ensures that the organization is compliant with legal and regulatory requirements. This includes implementing policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• Build relationships and maintain relationships with stakeholders and employees. This involves effective communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.

• Develop and mentor team members developing and mentoring team members to enhance their skills and knowledge. This includes providing training, coaching, and feedback to team members to ensure they are equipped to perform their roles effectively.

• Work with departmental heads, managers, and other stakeholders to develop team goals and delegate tasks to the appropriate team member.

• Create and communicate a clear list of expectations and goals for team members to follow.

• Offer emotional support to project team members and make people feel valued.

• Maintain frequent communication to offer encouragement, amend tasks, and provide updates on goal progress.

• Implement incentives to keep the team motivated and focused on their daily tasks and project goals.

• Provide frequent feedback on employee performance, address weaknesses or inefficiencies, and offer support to improve skill gaps.

• Nurture collaboration amongst team members, Create a workspace that encourages creativity and innovation to get the most out of the team, and Quickly and effectively resolve team conflicts.

Basic Qualifications:

Education: A bachelor's degree/ master's degree or higher. administration, management, engineering, or operations management is often required.

B.Tech/BE, Bachelor in Tech domain from Tier 1 or 2 College / Univesity

MBA or Masters from Top B schools or Tier 1 College / Univesity

Experience: 7-10 years of relevant work experience in operations management, project management, or a related field is required.

Preferred with work experience in software frameworks, technologies, and programming languages.

Basic Skills:

• Team Management

• Communication

• Listening

• Conflict Resolution

• Team Leadership

• Organizational skills

• Critical Thinking

• Time Management

Job location:

Kolkata (Work from Office)

• Hire kick-ass engineers and coordinate their training and onboarding with our HR team
• Guide and mentor the engineering team, setting the bar for good programming skills through personal example
• Work with the Project Management team to manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines
• Prepare and manage the engineering department’s budget
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Track, report and improve execution metrics for your group.
• Deliver superior economics by making strategic investments in automation, analytics and machine learning.
• Work with our security team to assure Cloud environments are secure and compliant.
• Implement engineering processes under the guidance of the CTO. 
• Lead technical resolution of priority incidents, facilitate post-incident evaluations and ensure permanent closure of incidents.
• Design, experiment, and implement processes to increase the overall productivity of geographically distributed teams by tracking the relevant metrics
• Make an impact on overall tech culture and make collaboration across teams very effective to reach important business goals.

• Experience as a director of engineering or similar senior-level position
• 10+ years working in a technological role with 2+ years managing 20 or more engineers
• A seasoned leader who has unlimited energy to influence and daring to take initiatives and risks.
• A programmer who is a role model.
• Excellent project management skills
• High personal drive; results oriented; makes things happen
• Supremely tech savvy, able to wear multiple hats such as being an awesome programmer, application developer, technical architect, database designer.
• Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment (i.e. DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, etc.).
• Must be knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective in building close working relationships with others
• Innovative and creative and adaptive to new environment
• Ability to absorb professional knowledge quickly and develop skills.
• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies.
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals with creative approach to work.
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management.
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Engineering Manager (Bangalore, Remote option available) 8+ years of experience 

Zepto (www.zeptonow.com)

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 65-80 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

The EM role would involve team management

Interview Process:

1. Discussion on past experience and problem discussion based on projects done
2. Low level design
3. High level design

(One of the rounds will test scenario management via case study since it’s a managerial role) 

What You will do Everyday?

• 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 top noch 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

Your Superpowers

• B.E/B.Tech or any other similar qualification with experience as a tech leader and people manager for at least 8+ years.
• Experience of managing teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Experience with building, developing and coaching teams of best technical talent in the Industry.
• Experience with managing diverse teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup.
• Experience with new open source technologies and their adoption into product development etc.
• Experience with new open source technologies and their adoption into product.

We are looking for a coding Engineering Manager based in Chennai. This is a new role within the growing Engineering function, where you will be responsible for leading a team of talented professionals, assisting them to deliver complex technical solutions across a range of teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable directing, planning and coordinating the team, as well as developing overall concepts for new and existing products and processes. Reporting into the Head of Engineering for our Chennai team, this role is integral to the successful growth of the team as well as wider company performance. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

Play the role of a servant leader in helping the team to excel in the areas of ownership and help to continuously raise the bar on performance.

Perform your responsibilities through delegation, empowerment and influence aimed at delivering long term outcomes for the team and business.

Build, manage and grow one or more engineering team(s), foster Agile practices and continuous improvement, enable engineers to build, test, deliver and operate high-level software products across the company

A hands-on technical approach to management, leveraging your software engineering experience to assist product needs and build

Work with our Product, DevOps, and Data Science functions on articulating roadmaps & ensure a high quality and timely implementation to support our mission and help eliminate identity fraud

Join a mission-orientated company, solving real-world fraud and identity based challenges

Facilitate career growth and success for all team members.

What You’ll Bring:

6+ years of demonstrated deep technical design and programming skills (in individual capacity) designing and delivering enterprise grade distributed systems in the following tooling; Web applications (Java/PHP/.NET/Python) or Mobile applications (SDK, Android/iOS)

2+ years prior experience managing one or more Agile engineering team(s); contributing to a track record of building complex and technical products, ideally within a start-up or fast scaling environment

Track record of having managed performance cycles of engineers of varying experience levels directly reporting to you.

Experience with building software with Agility and in conformity to security standards.

Willingness to “roll-up your sleeves and get your hands dirty” when required

Experience delivering and operating complex software solutions - understanding the end-to-end needs of what is involved within this process.

‍You will be responsible for architecting and developing features on the application end to end. You will be responsible for the functional/technical track of the project. Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes.

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• Work on the front-end with ReactJS.
• Designing and developing APIs for the front-end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages).

‍An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• Education - B.Tech/MCA or equivalent.
• Overall 10 to 12 years of experience.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS,  MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Columnar DBs
• Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks, React, AngularJS.
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API using Node or Lambda or python.
• Good understanding of ELK, Kafka, Redis and CDN .
• Worked on serverless technologies  and good understanding of CMS.
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Good understanding of AWS and its technologies.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach and should be hands on coding guru
• Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a product.
• Experience with Scaling SAAS products and ability to design from scratch.
• Ability to manage a small team of 5 -10 Developers/QA Engineers and guide them on the design and coding best practices.

‍You will work with a top-notch tech team, working closely with the architect and engineering head.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Overall leadership for all technical functions including product strategy implementation and server releases

Experience: 5 years and above 

Qualification: B. Tech from a reputed institute

Expertise in Core Java (Multithreading, Collections, etc.) and am comfortable with Unix, Oracle PL/SQL with a sound understanding of the complete SDLC process

Design Patterns, Algorithms, Data structures, OOP concepts & OO Design principles

Have done extensive work in software development

Project Management exposure is an added advantage for this candidate

JS, Jquery and CSS exposure of minimum 1.5 yrs

Candidates from gaming industry are preferred