Engineering Manager
Job Description
What is the role?
Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Plum Integration activities. Plum is a rewarding and incentive infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.
Key Responsibilities
- Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
- Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
- Architect systems for scale and stability.
- Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
- Code reviews and feedback.
- Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
- Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc.).
What are we looking for?
- Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 10 indirect developers.
- Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
- Should have experience working with applications like HubSpot salesforce and other CRM.
- Should have experience in B2B integrations.
- Should have at least 10+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
- Should be extremely hands-on, with an Automate as much as possible mind set full-stack developer.
- Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
- Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
- Technical proficiency
- Frameworks like React, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL
- Databases technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
- Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
- System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
- Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.
Whom will you work with?
You will lead the Plum Integration Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. Your will report to the CTO directly.
What can you look for?
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Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead multiple agile/scrum teams of top-notch engineers to own, drive & deliver critical parts of our products.
- Work closely with Software Developer to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Ensure timely delivery of projects with high quality.
- Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
- Oversee architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
- Architecting and engineering solutions which can meet the requirement of unknown customer buying off the shelf products
- Engage with product management teams to drive the functionality, usability, and other non-functional requirements
- Ensure on-time launches by managing design, development, and integration efforts according to a standard or customized project plan
- Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.
- Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long-term vision.
- Be responsible for mentoring and developing front line managers and engineers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- 10+ years of work experience in software development and 5+ years as a leadership role.
- Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies.
- Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.
- Deep understanding of JAVA, Spring boot, Hibernate.
- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
- Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
- Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.
- Strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.
- Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience. Engaging and influencing peers and executives.
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.
- Being a strong leader, team player, mentor, and people manager.
Location
- Pune
- Hyderabad
What you will do:
- Customer Oriented: Being obsessed with providing the highest quality product and experience to the customer.
- A Go-Getter: Being a highly driven individual who goes that extra mile to deliver an outstanding product to the business team.
- Analytical and a Problem Solver: Understanding the needs and requirements and accordingly conceptualizing and designing solutions for the problems.
- Data Driven: Maintaining a track record of data driven decision making
- Adaptable: Demonstrating the ability to work in a fast paced and hyper-growth environment where the requirements are constantly changing.
- A Technology Geek: Being fanatical about technology and always on the look-out for newer and better ways of building solutions
- A Team Builder: Being a thoughtful interviewer/ mentor who constantly raises the bar for excellence. Mentoring and coaching tech talent to become tomorrow’s leaders, ensuring each new hire be significantly better than the team to raise the collective bar.
- A Visionary: Complementing product and design leadership with finding the right solution to the problems company is trying to solve for tomorrow.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Aligning our cross-functional teams to design and develop products aligned with our ambitions and strategy.
What you need to have:
- Good to have Bachelors/ Masters in Computer Science or a related field from IITs/ NITs/ BITS Pilani or other premium institutes
- 7 + years of overall experience with 2 to 5 years of people management experience as an Engineering / Software Development Manager
- Experience with managing people and projects is a must
- Expertise in J2EE server technologies
- Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis, javascript, ajax etc.
- Experience with high performance websites catering to high daily traffic is a plus
- Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
- Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
- 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
- Some of the technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices Architecture, Python, Rest/gRPC, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, ReactJS, React Native, Kubernetes
About Company
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. 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.
Engineering Manager
Requirements:
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
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).
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.
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in
management role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
● Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.
● Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Managing small to medium teams with a focus on performance and talent retention
- Participate in creation and execution of product and technology roadmap with stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product managers and other leads/architects for building and delivering projects
- Ownership of front-end and back-end development work carried out with reusability, scalability, and testability of the projects
- Hire and mentor junior team members and coordinate their training
- Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
- Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment and stay compliant with security regulations
- Monitor reliability and performance of all customer-facing and internal projects
- Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
Requirements
- Work experience as an engineering manager or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
- Experience in the Fintech space
- Extensive experience with cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and server-side technologies (Java preferred)
- Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
- Good understanding of SDLC using agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban / SAFe)
- Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
- Excellent project management skills
- BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a growing team of Engineers to help them build and maintain our products, effectively work on the right things at the right time and help them grow as better engineers along the way. A solid engineering as well as a management background is a must and you should have prior experience running an engineering team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead agile development and project planning
- Lead technical architecture discussion and quality code delivery
- Work with the engineering team, QA and Product teams to effectively run the product road map
- Keep everyone in the company informed on your team’s progress
- Work with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track it through to resolution
- Helping set and fulfill the engineering hiring plan for the team, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing
- Help implement effective engineering processes and policies
- Improve release process and managing bug/feature backlog
Requirements:
- 2+ years of engineering team management experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Should have worked on at least one of these programming languages (Python/Ruby/NodeJs)
- Excellent knowledge of best-practices and coding patterns
- You are proficient at reading and writing code and have built, shipped and maintained software
- You have experience in managing, coaching software developers to help them level up
- You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills and can communicate within your team and across teams
- You have good project management skills and can lead, keep track of and prioritize between multiple projects
- You are detail oriented and care about the quality of work that gets shipped
- You have been actively learning and keeping up with the industry both in terms of software development and product
- You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
- Engineering degree is must (B.E. CS preferred)
- 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)