Engineering Manager

Engineering Director 

Experience: 9+ yrs. 

Location: Pune (Hybrid) 

We are seeking an Engineering Director, who operates with vision and integrity, and who will use innovative technologies that maximize productivity and help our company grow. Someone who plays an active role in development, identifying requirements and setting timelines and managing the project end to end. Exceptional leadership, communication, and project management skills. 

Technology Skills: Java/ AWS/ Microservices/ Serverless architecture/ Cloud computing/Spring boot/Spring Cloud. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Manage Engineering processes and workflows  
• Use development methodologies to prioritize, estimate, and deliver projects with increasing efficiency by leading cross-functional team 
• Define the strategic direction and contribute to the technical strategy. 
• Provide clear and concise technical guidance to engineering teams  
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements 
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies 
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development 
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind 
• Excellent project management skills 
• Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems 
• Bachelor's degree in the engineering field. 

About Intraedge: https://intraedge.com/ 

Intraedge is a Technology, Products and Learning Organization, It was founded in 2002 with offices in the US, India, Europe, Canada, and Singapore. We provide our clients with the resources and expertise to enhance business performance through technology. 

About Fluidra: https://www.fluidra.com/ 

Fluidra, a multinational group listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange, is the global leader in developing innovative products and services in the global residential and commercial market. 

• Providing technology leadership, vision, and passion to the product team.
• Working closely with the product management team and engineering team to transform customer needs into product engineering architecture and initiatives.
• Responsible for defining and implementing solid product engineering best practices and processes to guarantee results for product delivery.
• Take ownership and drive technology initiatives in the organization.
• Manage the product architecture design and reviews, review platform test automation, and DevOps Practises.
• Recruiting and mentoring a team of world-class developers.
• Provide the Delivery and Support teams with technical advice and support.

• Should have a strong technical background in product development and the complete software development life cycle.
• Coding skills are mandatory and we’re looking for someone who is technology agnostic and can jump in where needed. Our current tech stack scales across various technologies and platforms: JAVA, Ionic/Angular, IOS, Android, PHP and Python among others.

• Flexible, adaptable to the challenging pace of identifying and adopting new technologies.
• Have a strong sense of ownership and motivation to make our product successful.

• Result-oriented with a strong sense of drive and driven technology initiatives in previous jobs.

• Must have experience in building teams, identifying and mentoring talent, and working on architecting and building large-scale products.
• Must have an excellent understanding of the current web and mobile app technology landscape.
• The ideal candidate should have 12+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 8-10 years in product development. 
• Last position as an technical owner of a product engineering team with at least 15 people.
• A Bachelor’s degree or better, preferably in Computer Engineering, from a reputed college/university.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

• 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)

Location: Bangalore/Mumbai

Requirements:

• Experience in building tech platforms
• Setup SDLC processes within the team.
• Define Architecture and tech design of the system. Take strategic calls in deciding the tech stack to be used.
• Should be a hands on coder and should contribute significantly to the code base.
• Manage task allocation and delivery timelines for the team.
• Team building and hiring. Should be able to define the resource requirements and work with hiring managers to fill in the positions.
• Work closely with the product and business team to execute the vision and roadmap of the company.
• Domain expertise in Payments/Lending/Fintech is preferred.

1. Proven 9+ years of work experience in managing software development (Android/PHP) 
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
3. Highly experienced with Agile development methodologies
4. Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
5. Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job.
6. Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization.
7. Work well under pressure and be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary.
8. Ability to multi-task, work independently and demonstrate keen attention to details.
9. Team player attitude is mandatory.
10. High command in English Communication
11.  
12. Work on projects, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers.
13. Plan, lead and manage a team of Software Engineers
14. Provide leadership to the core engineering team of product development professionals, to drive all pertinent issues related to the product development life cycle.
15. Build and execute the roadmap in terms of methodologies, development processes, and team enablement to enhance productivity and efficiency.
16. Apply knowledge of software engineering, programming, technologies, processes, and methodologies to develop, maintain and support the technical solutions.
17. Analyze problems and drive long term technology solutions to evolve the product scalability, performance, reliability and supportability
18. Partner with the Products team to contribute to the product strategy and support product vision
19. Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
20. Researching and developing designs and products.

• 6+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on management experience.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience building and leading platforms is a must. Experience with SOA/Microservices with Node.js and Golang is a plus
• Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building productive engineering teams.
• Been actively involved in setting product strategy.
• Entrepreneurial drive and have hands-on experience in creating products which solve user’s problems

Must Have Experience/Attributes -
Multi-year experience in Designing & Coding Applications of a successful Online platform
Experience in Designing Distributed Applications @ Scale
Proficiency with scalability and high availability strategies for Java Services & Microservices on distributed platform
Defining solution based on the set of Non Functional Requirements - security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability
Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting expertise
Strong desire and ability to look for and adopt best practices/community driven open source framework and technologies into design deliverables
Should be obsessed with code quality, performance optimization and tools usage to improve productivity/quality
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Experience of driving activities to influence code quality and process rigor
Enthusiastically follow technology trends, software engineering best practice and technologies while enjoying the challenge of solving complex problems
Experience of working on E-commerce platform
Experience in Dockers and container orchestration on Kubernetes
Working Experience in Integration Technologies / Middleware like Kafka, Rabbit MQ , ESB
Knowledge on Cloud Ecosystem - Added Advantage