Engineering Manager

Job Title: HR

Department: People & Culture (HR)

Location: Surat / Ahmedabad (On-site)

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Company

We are an AI-driven nutrition platform on a mission to make healthier eating and living effortless. Our technology translates ingredients and dishes into reliable nutrition profiles, personalizing recommendations based on individual goals, contexts, and preferences — across home cooking, daily routines, and restaurant ordering.

Our stack includes Flutter mobile apps, a Python/Django API, real-time data services, and ML models for tagging, ranking, and predictions. We’re building a delightful, safe, and scalable experience that helps users choose better meals and track progress — with strong privacy, quality, and performance standards.

Role Summary

As the HR Lead, you will own and build HR end-to-end — from talent acquisition and employer branding to performance management, compensation, compliance, employee engagement, and HR analytics.

This is a hands-on role suited for a builder who can set up scalable People Operations processes in a fast-moving product startup.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding

• Manage full-cycle hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, QA, and Operations.
• Create structured hiring workflows — JDs, sourcing plans, scorecards, and interview loops.
• Build an employer branding playbook (careers page, social content, referral program, and events).

People Operations & Experience

• Design onboarding/offboarding experiences (pre-boarding, day-1, 30/60/90 plans, exit interviews).
• Implement and manage HRIS/ATS systems, attendance, asset management, and documentation.
• Drive engagement through town halls, recognition programs, wellness initiatives, and surveys.

Performance, Growth & Rewards

• Implement OKRs and quarterly performance reviews with competency matrices.
• Partner with leadership on compensation benchmarking, offer structures, and ESOP administration.
• Identify learning needs and plan L&D initiatives, mentorships, and manager enablement programs.

Policies, Compliance & Risk (India)

• Draft and maintain HR policies (Code of Conduct, Hybrid Work, Leave, IT/Security, Travel).
• Ensure statutory compliance: POSH (ICC setup), PF/ESI/PT, Shops & Establishments, Gratuity.
• Oversee payroll inputs, proof collection, and all employment letters (Offer, Probation, Confirmation).
• Manage vendor contracts (background checks, insurance, wellness) and maintain data privacy practices.

Culture & Communication

• Foster a respectful, inclusive culture; manage grievance and disciplinary procedures fairly.
• Keep leadership informed through concise updates, backed by HR data and insights.

Required Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of HR/People Ops experience in high-growth startups or product companies.
• Proven track record in setting up recruitment pipelines and HR processes from scratch.
• Strong understanding of Indian HR compliance: POSH, S&E, PF/ESI/PT, Payroll, Gratuity.
• Hands-on experience with HRIS/ATS tools, dashboards, and data analysis.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and confidentiality handling skills.

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Experience hiring for tech roles (Flutter, Python/Django, Data/ML, DevOps).
• Exposure to ESOPs, IP, and confidentiality agreements.
• Experience in health-tech/food-tech or privacy-sensitive domains.
• Background in change management and organization scaling (20→100+ employees).

KPIs / Success Metrics (First 6–12 Months)

• Time-to-hire: ≤ 35 days | Offer acceptance rate: ≥ 80%
• Onboarding NPS: ≥ 8/10 | 90-day retention: ≥ 95%
• Compliance: 100% statutory readiness, zero payroll errors
• Performance: Timely quarterly reviews with actionable OKRs
• Engagement: Improved eNPS and measurable L&D participation

Ways of Working

• Process-light, outcome-focused: Clear SLAs for hiring and employee requests.
• Data-driven: Dashboards for hiring funnel, attrition, headcount, and cost per hire.
• Documentation-first: Maintain policy wikis, templates, and checklists.
• Partner closely with Founders, Engineering, and Finance, ensuring proactive communication.

Strong Software Engineer fullstack profile using NodeJS / Python and React

Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 6+ YOE in Software Development using Python OR NodeJS (For backend) & React (For frontend)

Mandatory (Core Skills 1): Must have strong experience in working on Typescript

Mandatory (Core Skills 2): Must have experience in message based systems like Kafka, RabbitMq, Redis

Mandatory (Core Skills 3): Databases - PostgreSQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB

Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies Only

Mandatory (Education) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes (Top 7 IITs, Top 5 NITs, IIIT Bangalore, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Allahabad, MNNIT, IIT Dhanbad, BITS Pilani). Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top-tier product companies

Mandatory (Note) : This role is a hybrid role (2 days WFO)

Way2DreamJobs is building a premium cloud mentorship ecosystem focused on real-world Microsoft Azure and Modern Workplace skills.

We are inviting experienced Azure professionals to collaborate as founding weekend mentors for a remote mentorship program.

This is not a traditional full-time job. It is a flexible mentor collaboration model designed for working IT professionals who want to share real enterprise experience.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct weekend mentorship sessions

• Guide learners through practical Azure scenarios

• Support hands-on lab oriented learning

Ideal Profile:

• 4+ years Azure infrastructure experience

• Exposure to Microsoft Intune or M365 device management preferred

• Comfortable guiding professionals in live sessions

Benefits:

• Remote weekend engagement

• Build industry mentor brand authority

• Paid mentorship collaboration (structure discussed during call)

Requirements:

 You have designed, refactored, re-architected, deprecated and/or implemented a webapp from start to finish.

 CSS and its pre-processors like SASS/LESS.

 Excellent command over web fundamentals

 Good understanding and experience in building a React app.

 Exceptional coding skills in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/ES6

 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

 Familiarity with benchmarking and optimization techniques

 Eye for animation and understanding of motion principles.

 Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM methodologies

 Experience in DevOps - AWS, S3, API Gateway, CI/CD

 Native development experience in React Native (Android and iOS)

 Experience in NodeJs

Additional Full-stack Skills Would Be a Huge Bonus:

 Experience with Mongo DB, Redis, Firebase, NodeJs and its framework/ libraries like Express.

 Experience with PostgreSQL.

 Experience in NoSQL (CouchDB, Cloudant, MongoDB) datastores.

 Experience in building (secure) RESTful services and MVC patterns.

 Experience in coding & hosting on GitHub.

Desired Skills and Experience

CSS,JavaScript,React.js

What you need to have:

• Developing and maintaining dynamic websites and web applications
• Ensure foolproof performance of the deliverable
• Coordinate with co-developers and other related departments.
• Experience own and work on end to end on an application.
• Set Milestones and deadline.
• Fine-tuning and resolve performance issues
• Mentor colleagues and code walk through.

Must have Skills:

PHP, OOP, codeigniter, Jquery, MySQL

Location: Job Location : Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road.