Do you love leading a team of engineers, coding up new products, and making sure that they work well together? If so, this is the job for you.
As an Engineering Manager in Unscript, you'll be responsible for managing a team of engineers who are focused on developing new products. You'll be able to apply your strong engineering background as well as your experience with large-scale development projects in the past.
You'll also be able to act as Product Owner (we know it's not your job but you'll have to do this :) ) and make sure that the team is working towards the right goals.
Being the Engineering Manager at Unscript means owning up to all things—from technical issues to product decisions—and being comfortable with taking responsibility for everything from hiring and training new hires, to making sure you get the best out of every individual.
About Us:
UnScript uses AI to create videos that were never shot. Our technology saves brands thousands of dollars spent in hiring influencers/actors, shooting videos with them. UnScript was founded by distinguished alums from IIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology. UnScript has raised two rounds of funding from global VCs with Peter Thiel(Co-founder, Paypal) and Ried Hoffman ( Co-founder, Linkedin) as investors.
Required Qualifications:
- B.Tech or higher in Computer Science from a premier institute. (We are willing to waive this requirement if you are an exceptional programmer).
- Building scalable & performant web systems with clear focus on reusable modules.
- You are comfortable in a high paced environment and can respond to urgent (and at times ambiguous) requests
- Ability to translate fuzzy business problems into technical problems & come up with design, estimates, planning, execution & deliver the solution independently.
- Knowledge in AWS or other cloud Infra.
The Team:
Unscript was started by Ritwika Chowdhury. Our team brings experience from other foremost institutions like IIT Kharagpur, Microsoft Research, IIT Bombay, IIIT, BCG etc. We are thrilled to be backed by some of the world's largest VC firms and angel investors.
About Unscript AI
Increase conversion through studio-quality AI videos in the face and voice of influencers of your choice.
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UnScript uses AI to create videos that were never shot. Our technology saves brands thousands of dollars spent in hiring influencers/actors, shooting videos with them. UnScript was founded by distinguished alums from IIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology. UnScript has raised two rounds of funding from global VCs with Peter Thiel(Co-founder, Paypal) and Ried Hoffman ( Co-founder, Linkedin) as investors.
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● Performing research and finding opportunities to utilize development best practices, forming guidelines to improve system productivity, and working on scaling and monitoring.
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REQUIREMENTS
Must haves
● Overall 4 - 8 years of product engineering experience (ideally full stack)
● 1+ years of experience of managed engineering teams that have a strong record of developing and delivering world-class products
● Experience leading teams/working in an EPD/Squad structure working closely with PM, Designers, Analysts, Engineers and QA
● Deep technical skills and expertise but lean more on leadership skills to get the job done
● Past experience with MERN/MEAN Stack along with good exposure building scalable and distributed systems using microservices
● Good grasp and understanding of technical skills (at least a few):
Front-end - HTML, CSS, React.js, Webpack, Redux, Javascript, Enzyme
Back-end - Node.js, SQL, Redis, RestAPI
● Strong communication and inter-personal skills, especially to streamline flow of information between Engineering and other teams/departments, as well as strong conflict resolution skills
● Good at creative problem solving and critical thinking to resolve issues quickly for Engineers and other teams
Good to have
● Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field
● Previous experience on recruiting engineers and coaching/mentoring them
● Experience with high and low level software development concepts such as Scaling, OOP, Loadn Balancers, Storage, Application server protocols like HTTP, Websocket, etc.
● Experience working with complex data structures and data architecture
Bonus ‘to-haves’
● Experience with a (any) set of incredible product development and task management tools (such as ClickUp, JIRA, etc)
experience in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, AngularJS, jQuery, ReactJS, JSON and Restful web
services is a MUST.
● 9+ years of experience with strong development and Problem-solving skills with Data structures,
algorithms, and system architecture and design is a MUST
● Proficiency in MySQL or any of the RDBMS tools and knowledge of NoSql databases like
MongoDB.
● Experience in AWS is a MUST.
● Experience in writing technical design of the application / reviewing and validating existing
technical design (peer-review)
● Presenting ideas for system improvements, including cost proposals
● Must have excellent debugging/troubleshooting skills.
● Ability to work in Agile methodology.
● Team leading experience is a MUST
- Bring a strong mindset to establish DevOps Culture across the organization.
- Bring better decision-making power for the betterment of culture and organization.
- Gather cloud infrastructure requirements, evaluate options and come up with solutions.
- Specifying, documenting, and developing new product features, and writing automated scripts.
- Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
- Design, implement and improve tools, frameworks, metrics, and processes along with a team
- Collaborate with multiple stockholders to bring in the best-in-class solutions for the dev teams.
- Understand the reliability of products and drive solutions to reduce MTTR and increase the high availability of platforms.
Must have skills
- At least 3 years of experience leading teams of software engineers at various levels
- 5+ years of hands-on experience on any public Cloud. We are on AWS so AWS Experience is preferred
- 3+ years of experience operating Kubernetes cluster with production-grade traffic
- Excellent with Python, Node JS, Golang, or other scripting languages
- Strong expertise in automating Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker
- Experience in infrastructure monitoring tools like NewRelic, CloudWatch, and other open-source alternatives such as ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager.
- Good understanding of Database management and reliability (Mongo, AWS RDS, etc)
- Experience with scalable networking technologies (such as Load Balancers, Firewalls), web standards (like REST APIs, web security mechanisms)
- Experience in handling centralized logging systems at scale.
- Code, Build, and Release Management using Git and modern GitOps technologies.
Good to have skills
- Understanding of Azure Cloud
- Understanding of Industry standards of Compliance and Security for infrastructure and applications.
- Knowledge of distributed Messaging/Task Queues: Kafka is a huge plus
Qualification : BE / BTech / MCA/ ME / MTech
Required Skils
● Strong experience in architecture of distributed cloud based systems using Java, Scala, Angular, Node Js like technologies.
● Strong understanding of large scale distributed architectures, microservices architecture, reactive programming paradigms, design patterns, information architecture, application development processes and practices
● Knowledge of learning domain is added advantage
● Experience in working with Open Source software is desirable
● Must be very good in java, javascript related technologies
● Experience on one or more Javascript frameworks such as JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, backbone, Angular and others.
● Should have strong understanding of transactional databases, and of multiple types of NoSQL databases like Cassandra, Elastic Search, Neo4j, and others
● Understanding of AKKA, Play framework
● Should have good DevOps working knowledge on Cloud infrastructure
● Experience in TDD/BDD is required
● Knowledge of Kafka, Azure/Google Cloud is added advantage
Good understanding of Software as a Service model preferred.
Job Description
Condé Nast has a huge global footprint across 32 countries worldwide with total monthly visitors reaching more than 550 million. We aim to inspire, inform and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ and many other leading brands.
Condé Nast has operations in America, Europe, South America and Asia. There are long-established operations in major Indian cities such as Mumbai and Chennai across many business areas.
The company is undertaking the biggest transformation in its history, driving towards expanding both its operations and its reach through diversifying the digital business models for our brands. Major areas of focus will include video and streaming platforms, increasing subscriptions and memberships, growing our events business, and ensuring we maintain a high level of standard on the products we are already proud of delivering to our customers. Migrating and consolidating to a more centralised set of technologies and capabilities that can be easily leveraged by any brand or product experience is also a top business priority.
Engineering is responsible for scaling, building, deploying websites that serve over 500 million users globally. The global engineering team includes Product Engineering, Platform Engineering and Core Engineering.
About Brand Engineering
Our mission is to build compelling and inspiring experiences across our portfolio of global brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Glamour which currently reaches over 500 million monthly users. Our goals are extremely ambitious; we are rolling out our brands into new countries and territories and pushing to serve more consumers across web, native (iOS / Android), video and social platforms.
We want you to join us as we embark on further global expansion of our brands, creation of new features to deliver our engaging content to consumers worldwide, and diversifying our revenue models. We believe in fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation, often running hundreds of a/b experiments in production every day!
You will be working alongside international colleagues across US, London, and India. Cross-functional collaboration is at the heart of what we do and you will be comfortable working in close partnership with Product, Design, UX, and Data. The Brand Engineering group works in close partnership with the Platform Engineering group to implement cross-cutting solutions that can be leveraged by the Brands to deliver robust end-to-end experiences for our consumers.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior JavaScript engineer to join our team at our Chennai/Bengaluru office.We ideally hire engineers who are comfortable across the full stack, but we know you'll have a preference about being on the front- or back-end. As long as you're happy to work on both sets of tasks – you should carry on reading!
Our tech
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Languages and Frameworks: Javascript, Node.JS, React (and React eco-system)
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APIs: GraphQL
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Data: Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
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Deployment: Docker, AWS, Kubernetes
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Source Control: Git, GitHub
How we work
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Infrastructure as Code everywhere
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Pairing. We like knowledge sharing and upskilling
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Remote friendly. We work with engineers across time zones & locations
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(Oncall - teams are responsible for their own apps)
Role and responsibilities
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Working on our collection of Node apps; we use a mix of Express, Hapi, and Fastify
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Working on our front-end apps; we use a mix of React and Next.js but as long as you have experience in at least one framework we don’t really mind
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Shipping features and services to anywhere between thousands to millions of customers per day.
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Collaboratively working with our amazing infrastructure team
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Mentoring colleagues at every level, and a willingness to be mentored by them
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Supporting your Tech Lead and Engineering Manager in technical decision making, solutionizing and estimations.
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Pairing with members of your team to identify the most optimal solution. Regularly conducting code reviews to ensure high standards of engineering quality in the code that we write.
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Working within a cross-functional team that includes designers, UX engineers, and product
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Looking at logs and monitoring metrics and responding to alerts; we use Kibana, ElasticSearch and Datadog extensively, but as long as you’re aware of how important observability is, we don’t mind what tools you may have used in the past.
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Taking part in our 24/7 “On Call” rota to troubleshoot any major operational issues out of hours. Teams are responsible for their own apps availability and reliability.
About you - Essential skills
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You have a BE / BTech or equivalent experience
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You’re a software engineer with 7-9 years of experience.
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Expert knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js, good understanding of ES9 and React.js and JavaScript testing frameworks (such as Jest, Mocha etc.)
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Good understanding of Cloud Native architecture, containerisation, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, and DevOps culture. Kubernetes foundational knowledge would be a great bonus, as we use it extensively.
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Practical experience in the use of leading engineering practices and principles.
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Practical experience of building robust solutions at large scale. We serve traffic in the many millions every month so our products need to scale seamlessly to meet our customer demands.
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Appreciation for functions of Product and Design, experience working in cross-functional teams.
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You’ll try to make the codebase nicer for the next person that visits it.
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You’re someone who’ll own every step of the development process; from refining tickets to shipping the code to production.
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You’ll do your best, and ask for help when it’s needed.
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You have an interest or desire to learn about every part of the stack; from the latest JavaScript standards, to GraphQL, to accessibility, and the infrastructure we deploy to (we use Kubernetes extensively, but we have a dedicated platform team on hand to help!)
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Someone who can communicate in a variety of media (through Slack and in person) effectively within their team, outside of their team, and with people in our product and design families, to even our users
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Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to different audiences
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Business proficiency in spoken and written English
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You will be working with a global team and need to be accommodative of different time-zones as required
About you - Desirable skills
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Experience of working with international teams across multiple time-zones
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Mentoring and/or management experience
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Knowing about continuous integration, testing strategies, design systems, software architecture, data and analytics, user experience, accessibility, internationalisation, web performance
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Experience and/or interest in working with digital advertising
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Experience and/or interest in working in publishing
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Experience and/or interest in working with Fashion
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Proficiency working with a variety of third party APIs and developer tools
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Commercial experience using Kubernetes, React and GraphQL
- 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience
- 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.
- Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)
- Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
- Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
- Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala
- Agile software development expert
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
- Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation
- Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)
- Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
- Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems
- Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)
Technical Architect/Technical Head/Technical Lead
EDUCATION,EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
BE/MCA/ B.TECH/Post graduation preferred
10+ years of experience
CTC - 20 LPA.
Vacancy: 1
JOB ROLE:
Technical lead will be responsible for technology development delivery and maintenance of small to medium size projects(end to end). Must have good technical and communication skills to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Must have Managed the team of 6-10
- Good understanding of industry specific framework
- Need good design/Architecture design experience
- To build and maintain financial tech products
- Customer interaction
- Exposure to SDLC
- Project status reporting
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Java
- Spring
- Hibernate
- My SQL
- J Query
- Apache Tomcat
- Rest web services
- Design patterns
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BillTrim negotiates a better rate and protects our customers from overpaying.
BillTrim is San Francisco-based growing startup funded by well-respected and proven investors.
Why work with us?
BillTrim is here to make history. We are passionate to solve problems.
We deeply care about our customers.
To work on something great, something big not average.
We do not compromise with quality. To make SAAS that customers will love and appreciate.
To witness crazy growth and take your career and take it to new heights.
We believe in one outstanding employee gets more done and costs less than two adequate employees.
Less is better, do not clutter unnecessary text, images, buttons, or even a line of code.
We follow Silicon Valley culture.
Personality traits to become a part of BillTrimmer's famiy:
Go to attitude
Tenacious and hungry to make a name
Willing to learn and adapt
Willing to work on weekends if need be
Filled with curiosity and not afraid to ask questions
Think independently and be open-minded to possibilities
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Why We Need You
Our current engineering team is growing fast and we’ll need leadership to support a focused team effort across a variety of projects and priorities.
We’re looking for someone who will help us with:
- Manage, mentor, and grow an extremely talented and energetic engineering team
- Define our engineering culture and process broadly as our first management hire
- Work closely with product and design in determining the strategy and direction of your team
- Define the development process of the team to create a constructive and efficient work environment
Your Role:
- Lead the development of APIs, customer/developer experience, and supporting systems
- Be actively involved in our long-term strategic direction, working closely with the CTO/co-founder
- Experience scaling teams and processes in a high growth environment
- Empower the team to achieve a high level of technical productivity
- A strong belief in high engineer agency, responsibility, and accountability
- Own the existing SCRUM & SPRINTS & make sure throughput and DEADLINES are me
- A compassionate but clear and focused approach to leadership
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
Experience that would help you succeed: (Note, we don't expect you to a spike in all aspects, but to grow there in time)
Growth-minded: You have a keen product sense and an exceptional track record for delivery, as well as examples of innovation and/or influential impact.
Experienced: You will develop our current team, hire additional team members, and empower each member to have an owner mentality within their role. You have a large task ahead and building a high-output team will be your top priority.
Driven: You have experience in the past that lends itself to being able to dive in on tactical problems, while also being able to scale with the company as the needs change.
Technical: You’re able to leverage a strong technical background and have hands-on experience in solving large and difficult technical problems, with the ability to make decisions swiftly and thoughtfully.
Apply only if the answer is yes to all of the following :
- 3+ years of Engineering Manager of team size 10-50 experience
- Proven ability to manage high complexity projects
- Motivated by a fast-paced, high impact environment
- Proactive and comfortable with ambiguity
- Well versed with Hiring as well as Firing
- HAVE worked in a B2C Startup for at least a year?
- CAN join in within 30-45 days?
Position : Senior Engineering Manager
Experience Range : 10 Years -12 Years
Salary Range : As per Market
Equity : 0.05% - 0.20%
Location : Remote
Job Brief:
We are looking for proactive “Senior Engineering Manager” with proven leadership skills. You are expected to work on many projects at the same time, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers. Your responsibilities will include researching and developing new designs and products, proposing budgets for projects, and overseeing all the activities related to each project.
Expertise : Your experience across the years in the Roles you have played.
- 10 to 12 years of working experience in Laravel, Code Igniter ,Slim Framework.
- Solid PHP basic and OOPs concepts, PHP higher version
- Strong MySQL database knowledge. Knowledge of Clustering, Replication, Stored Procedures, DBMS - added advantage
- Hand- on experience of Server technologies[AWS] like setup S3,EC2,load balancers, code deployment and scaling, DNS Management, Database Management, Payment Gateway Integration
- Understanding of Multi-tier architecture of the application
- Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and ajax.
- Knowledge of React.JS will be an added advantage.
- Experience in developing and consuming web services like REST, SOAP, XML
- Proficient on API documentation tools/framework such as Postman, Swagger.
-Team Leader, Team Management.
- Development experience as per SOLID principles.
- Experience in Client Communication.
- Adaptive to Start-up culture and fast paced growing environment.
Responsibilities:
- Hire and build a globally-distributed, happy, and successful engineering team.
- Managing a team of 20 + Engineers including Technology leads.
- Closely work with the product team to transform the product roadmap to engineering plan.
- Convert high-level engineering plan into an agile sprint plan with accurate effort estimation ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the project.
- Manage a team of software engineers and technical leads from various disciplines such as frontend, backend, and QA.
- Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s).
- Understand Engineering KPIs and seek to improve them.
- Conduct managerial interviews for candidates.
• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack
