Engineering Manager

Requirements

• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, Javascript (React.js), XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• 8 - 10 years of overall experience including 3+ years in mentoring & leading a high-performance team
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Have a strong understanding and appreciation for design first thinking and quality of user experience
• Be well-versed in sprint estimation, planning, tracking, change management and delivery, with prior experience of Agile-based development environments
• Strong command on vanilla/core JavaScript
• Knowledge of UI optimisations and performance.
• Deeper understanding of Chrome Dev Tools. Should understand the nuances of the timeline for perf monitoring.
• Deeper understanding of network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
• Good communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CSS fundamentals

About Navi

Navi is one of the fastest growing financial services companies in India providing Personal & Home Loans, Insurance and Mutual Funds with a digital first approach. At Navi, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.

Founders: Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal

Know what makes you a “Navi_ite” :

1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment

• Passionate about Navi’s mission and vision
• Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership
• Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities

2.Obsession with high quality results

• Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes
• Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work
• Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards

3.Resilience and Adaptability

• Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances, showing resilience and agility

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and develop new, end-to-end financial product experiences in BFSI domain for Retail Consumers
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering teams across multiple product teams to drive buy-in on new product
• Experiences and engineering frameworks.
• Work closely with your’s and other engineering teams with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0→1 integrations with an appetite to quickly scale from 1→n across products.
• Recruit and build an entirely new engineering team and move fast in converting new ideas to product.
• Collaborating with Product,Design, Leadership and other functions, while maintaining high product quality and reliability.
• Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational.
• Excellence as products mature.

What You’ll Need :

• 10+ years of overall experience with 3+ years of Engineering Management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates(frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies. Good software engineering methodology- meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.
• Exceptional technical skills in backend with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands-on approach to lead from the front when the situation calls for it.
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server,DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity)while designing and implementing services
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Expertise and interest in growing teams-interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members

Future Scope of joining Navi :

• Navi’s future, and hence your future, is boundless. We want to start with reimagining the BFSI industry to a tech-forward, customer centric sector.
• For your personal future, at NAVI, the impact and dedication you bring forth with your work is what matters the most.If you show enthusiasm and dedication, promotions, team-jumps and vertical changes are all easily within your reach, as is exponential career growth.

Who will be my Stakeholders :

• Our customers come first. they will be your priority, always.
• Your team members will be passionate, responsible, outspoken and innovative. - Your managers will be there to guide you through any problems you may face. They will show you the way, but you will have to walk to the path.
• Your leaders will live and breathe to ensure that Navi runs smoothly, your customers are happy, and that every employee working in Navi grows as a professional

Other Perks :

• Hyper-growth opportunities
• Flexibility to move across business domains
• Unlimited leaves.
• Satisfaction of building something from scratch and driving it till the end

We are looking for an ambitious Co-founder and CTO to join and support our growth at Spacenos. The Person we are looking for will fill an entrepreneurial C-Level role and will enrich our team with the product development and delivery skills.

Skills Required

• 3+ years of experience as a technology leader. 
• Skilled in Java, ReactJs, Firebase, Google Cloud.
• Applied knowledge of Cloud Security, AWS, Machine Learning, AI and Tensorflow.
• Strong communication and team management skills. 
• Excellent resource handling and understanding of scaling principles. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and understand technological roadmap
• Develop feature rollout systems and processes
• Hire and manage outside/contracted engineering talent
• Structure and lead teams, individuals, and cross-functional relationships in a way that ensures productivity and communication.
• Collaborate with other teams to optimize user experience of products.
• Drive modern engineering principles and practices by implementing relevant techniques, processes, and best practices
• Clearly articulate plans and projects to both senior level executives and more junior team members.

Spacenos is the fastest-growing start-up which is innovating in the finance, edtech and marketing domain since 2015 and won multiple awards and recognitions from more than 40+ MNCs and Fortune 500 companies. Our Clients are based out of the U.S.A and Australia. We are funded & Supported by Government of Karnataka, Angel Investors and International Grants.

1. Apply for your CV and past work to be reviewed.
2. Receive a telephonic interview or assessment upon filling the final step form.

3. Receive offer letter if selected.

Our hiring process takes less than 24 hours from the time you receive the Final Step form.

Validity: Up to Dec 2023

- Apply soon, the earliest applicant would be preferred over the late applicants.

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the founding team of KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

• Product Development: Partner with the founder & product team to create a product roadmap. Play a key role in influencing customer journey, experience & specs (requirements) with UX designer. Develop front end & back end systems and product. 
• Project Management: Ensure product development roadmap timelines are achieved in a timely way with the right quality with progress being reported daily. 
• Technology Excellence: Ensure that products have best in class performance on technology driven aspects (load times, latencies, uptimes, etc.). 
• Hiring & Developing: Hire junior engineers, divide project workloads & mentor them to continuously improve.
• Continuous Improvement: Establish intake mechanism to convert user feedback into actionable upgrades in product design, track feature improvements & their progress and create rapid improvement cycles. 

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who – 

• Has 4+ years of experience in a digital product company
• Should have managed teams before & can attract talent
• Has experience in front end & back end technologies across web & app development
• Has studied computer science or engineering with at least a B.Tech or B.E degree
• Preferably is skilled in at least one performing art or is a hobbyist
• Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
• Moves fast to launch & fix issues 
• Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

Roles and Responsibility :

- This position requires you to lead and manage the whole engineering team.

- Manage your OKRs, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.

- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

- Architect & design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Lead multiple modules, third party integrations and business partners integration.

- Taking architectural decisions, defining high level and low level design.

- Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent and more to be shared via email.

Skills you are expected to have :

- Hands-on experience in advanced Golang, Python, PHP, Reactjs, React Native PWA, Javascript, AWS Cloud Services.

- Deep understanding of technologies, high level design, low level design in a secure, scalable and available set-up.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Hands-on experience in system design, architecture or developing distributed systems.

- Should be good in writing code keeping scalability, flexibility and monitoring at center.

- Good understanding of source control tools GIT, Jira and Bitbucket, code reviews etc.

- Preferable experience in Django and Laravel frameworks, but not limited to these only.

- Experience in the development of robust and scalable Rest APIs and APIs testing tools such as postman etc.

- Experience in micro service-based development would be a plus.

- Experience in queuing systems such as rabbitMQ, Active MQ would be a plus.

- Experience in AWS cloud services.

- Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipeline.

- Good analytical and communication skills.

- Candidates from the fintech domain would be preferred (Payments/ Banking/ Wallets/ Insurance/ Financial Markets).

About Us :

- We are a consumer lending fintech start-up on a mission to provide Fair Finance to Everyone. We have raised $15 million in debt and equity funding from leading angels that have previously backed Ola, Oyo, Myntra, Uniphore and 1mg as well as marquee NBFCs.

- Our loans are originated in partnership with 1000+ merchants who are present in over 80 cities -

- Leading healthcare chains: Indra IVF, Partha Dental, VLCC

- Home improvements: Asian Paints, Design Cafe, @home by Nilkamal

- Education : upGrad, Toppr, Board Infinity, Career Point, Bansal Learning, Miles Education E-Bikes - Ampere, Hero Electric, Lectrix, Benlng

- Our founding team has worked at fintech companies in London where they won a Banking Technology Award for Best Mobile Initiative as well as Indian FinTechs such as Coverfox and Liquiloans.

- The team has extensive experience in credit, investment banking and vendor management. They have graduated from London Business School, Northwestern University (USA), and attained the CFA charter.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19.
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
• Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
• Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
• Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
• Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

Qualification

B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)

‍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.

• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers
• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers

• Strong object oriented concepts. Experience in structure object oriented modelling with preferred expertise in using tools like Enterprise Architect or similar. Experience in working with TOGAF standards is preferred.
• Experience in architecting the technical scale and scope of high volume, scalable enterprise software solutions including logical and physical landscape requirements with specific attention to design, development, and deployment strategies
• Capability to adapt, learn and work with multiple technology platforms. 
• Knowledge in Application Security including Information security principles & realization, OWASP & PCI DSS Compliance ( Security Design & Technology Skills )
• In depth knowledge and experience in large scale database management, data modelling and database design in RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Experience in recommending and implementing DevOps tools for enterprise projects.
• Capability to evaluate tools, technologies and processes, including assessing their strategic benefit in the solution.
• Willingness to work hands-on with engineers to review, troubleshoot coding problems quickly and efficiently.
• Expertise in following technologies – ASP.Net MVC, Web API, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, ASP.Net Identity, REST
• Experience in implementing various application deployment models and monitoring the server infrastructure using industry standard tools.
• Experience in docker based deployment models.
• Experience in architecting, developing and deploying cloud based (One or more among AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) enterprise solutions.
• Experience in designing and developing micro-services based applications. 
• Experience in designing and developing solutions with TDD (Test Driven Development)