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

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.

• Responsible for managing Product Development & Support team
• Responsible for P&L of multiple accounts
• Supervise delivery and support projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Track project performance, specifically to analyse the successful completion of short and long-term goals
  Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience in RUBY ON RAILS / REACT technologies
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in customer facing role
• Solid understanding of project management and experience in waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Working experience in onshore offshore delivery model.
• Proven written /verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to hire, mentor and retain high performers
• Expertise to supervise delivery and support projects
  Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• 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 and 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
• Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office

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.

Job Role : Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams committed to building the innovative products
• Work effectively cross-functionally to drive change and influence product and process decisions.
• Help to shape thinking around designing scalable products and business processes/programs to support KlearNow rapid growth.
• Be both a deep technical leader and a thoughtful people manager.
• Champion engineering excellence, establishing business metrics, and drive continuous operational improvement.

Minimum Qualification

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Overall 10+ years of Software engineering background.  
• 5+ years of management experience -Team Management: Lead a team of 6 – 8
• 3+ years of experience growing and managing multi-team organizations.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in core programming languages such as, Java, Python, go, SQL

Preferred Qualification

• Proven track record of creating and managing high performing teams.
• Experience with logistics domain
• Interest in people and organizations.
• Demonstrate creative problem solving and analytical skills.

If you wish to know more on the opportunity and like to pursue this further, then I would suggest that you share your updated CV and suggest a good time when we could connect.

About Company

KlearNow is pioneering “Logistics as a Service” (LaaS) by creating the industry’s first fully cloud-based digital network that can be used across the entire array of supply chain participants to simplify the transit of goods worldwide.

• KlearNow transforms outdated B2B logistics processes—simplifying lives.
• KlearNow turns daunting logistics paperwork into powerful information to move more goods through customs and drayage with just a few clicks.
• Its smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) AI-powered platform eliminates wasted time and money, reduces costs, and enhances customer experiences by enabling new levels of visibility, productivity, and collaboration.

We are headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, California with locations in India, Canada, UK. This year we will be expanding to multiple countries.

Why us

KlearNow is operational and a certified Customs Business provider in US, Canada and UK with plans to grow in many more markets in near future.  Be a part of a rapidly growing company where you will have the opportunity to extend our leadership position and fast-track innovation behind AI-powered intelligent supply chain solutions.

Over and above the core customs clearance solution, KlearNow is also providing consolidated freight visibility, data and document management and intra-port activity for efficient Drayage.

To know more about KlearNow, please visit our website https://www.klearnow.com/">https://www.klearnow.com/ 

As KlearNow grows, we’re looking for an Engineering Leader who is passionate about people growth and organizational development. This is a unique opportunity to help build the products and practices that will support KlearNow growth over the next round of funding. In this role, you will reimagine enterprise logistics software and build global products that enable KlearNow expand in Americas, Europe and Asia.

‍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.