Engineering Manager

As a Technical Architect, you need to be

• Technology Expert
• Creative and self-driven
• Customer centric
• Visionary
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

You will closely work with Head of Product Engineering responsible for for the platform development, Chief Technology Officer driving the technology innovation, Software Development Leaders, Program Manager, SCRUM Masters, UX Designers

You will be responsible for

• Driving and defining the technical architecture of the Core SaaS platform
• Develop high-level technical specifications and design of the platform
• Define technical product roadmap to continuously enhance the platform.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and technical guidelines to development team
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
• Bring in best of the class architectural practices in the platform

Your Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years of software product development experience, with majority of them is hands on experience developing in enterprise software product
• Experience in developing and hosting PaaS or SaaS based products/platform with hands on experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on
• Experience developing enterprise- grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Can mentor train existing team members on aspects of architecture, design and explain, document and elaborate architecture and design changes
• Strong background in architectural principles, patterns and anti-patterns
• Must have contributed to technology tools evaluation and technical proof of concept applications
• Should have experience in multiple tech-stacks including Data Analytics tech-stacks as well.

Role : Head of Engineer/Director of Engineer

Responsibilities -
● You'll build a team of engineers focused on building out critical components of our Engineering team.
● Support all facets of team management to attract, engage, retain, and nurture teams of outstanding
engineers (e. g., recruitment, mentoring, training and development, performance evaluation).
● Partner with the product and UX teams and other cross functional partners to develop overall vision,
strategy and roadmap for our engineering systems and product suites.
● Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular
assessment and improvement.
● Establish a solid project framework and excellent development processes.
● Drive an excellent experience, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability and simplicity.
● Provide technical and architectural direction for the development, design, integration, testing, and
maintenance of our product.
● Lead agile software processes for the engineering team and introduce best-in-class industry
practices.
● Handle technical debt to ensure our development velocity stays responsive and predictable while
minimizing production incidents of our operations.
Requirements -
● Experience in hiring and performance management of teams in product based companies.
● Experience in leading engineering teams, including experience in managing engineering managers or
Tech Leads.
● 10+ years of work experience architecting, developing, and launching software products and/or
services, ideally at a top Consumer Internet company.
● Strong analytic skills and a demonstrated sense of ownership and accountability.
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide variety of
people.
A service-oriented mentality while driving excellence across the organization.
● Strong organizational skills, both for yourself and the team.
● Business acumen: Proven understanding of business dynamics, goals, and product strategy.
● Knowledge of how Engineering fits into the company's overall business.
● The ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, conflicting constraints and shipping high
quality and pragmatic solutions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company.
● Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field/equivalent practical experience

Technical skills required: 

• 5+ years building enterprise systems 
• Worked on one or more large scale applications on Python Django
• Good understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and availability with an understanding of the CAP theorem and its implications for real-world distributed systems
• Understanding of distributed systems like Dynamo, HBase, various messaging and queuing systems and understanding of Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events, rate control, load distribution
• Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services
• In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation, and GC
• Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc. 
• Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers
• Ability to detect fraud and risk mitigation

 

Responsibilities:

• Code reviews, ensuring that the code follows the best technical practices and design patterns
• Follow best technical practices, incorporate emerging solutions, and employ scalable designs that can be easily adopted
• Architect solutions by mapping customer business problems to end-to-end technology solutions
• Experience in working with Agile Methodology
• Regular monitoring and audits of the cloud infrastructure
• Managing System monitoring tools and developing processes for handling crisis situations
• Managing the development team and the support team. Setting processes that will increase the team’s efficiency
• Handling technical and managerial interviews for expansion of the team

 

Qualification and experience:

• B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.
• 5+ years of experience  working as a full stack engineer with a track record of delivering scalable products
• FinTech experience with Prepaid payment instruments and UPI experience is a big plus
• Machine learning experience would be preferable

 

• Take the microservices architecture to the next level of scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability. 
• Build, deploy & run multi-homed systems that work in multiple regions and cloud providers. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, fulfillment/allocation, pricing, maps & routing, fleet positioning, payments, fraud prevention etc 
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable 
• Write high-quality code that is modular, functional and testable; Establish the best coding practices 
• Formally mentor junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting 
• Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture 
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment 
• Operationalize releases by partnering with Tech operations on capacity planning and operability of the product

 

Experience:

• of years  - 10+ years
• Type of experience - software design, development & architecture
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Contribution to open-source software, tech blogs, talking at tech conferences, etc. 

 

 

Educational Qualifications:

○  Must have - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred  

 

Key competencies:

 

•  Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs. 
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. 
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation, consensus etc. 
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL 
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB, etc 
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc) 
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc 
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc. 
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures. 
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 

Roles & Responsibilities:

The candidate is expected to create and lead a team of engineers and drive dev efforts for

Medibuddy and its various products.

The candidate will be part of the Engineering leadership team (IIT/IIM grads) and will help

strategise, execute product roadmap.

Work closely with Product and business teams to strategize or design the features and

product experiments.

Lead a team of 10+ Engineers [backend and/or mobile]

Responsible for engineering delivery in platform & product engineering pods at Medibuddy.

Scale the technology architecture, team and product to drive a 10x growth in next 12-24

months.

Code and Architect key features that form backbone of DocsApp

Conduct performance reviews and mentor and guide the team reporting

Drive adoption best engineering practices in the team and the organization

1. Deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable code at a fast pace.Skills & Qualifications:
2.  9+ yrs. relevant experience in consumer tech/ or SaaS space.
3. Tier 1 background (IIT/BITS/IIIT/NIT), Pass-out from 2014 batch or earlier.

Strong Technical Background: You have strong programming, architecture, DevOps and QA

chops. You should have experience working with a diverse engineering stack in a fast-paced

environment.

Biased toward action. You must be able to do more with less and turn would-be blockers into

opportunities for growth.

Balancing Short Term with Long Term - You have demonstrated strategic execution

balancing short term tactical execution with long term vision. You should be able to adapt

quickly as per the demands of the situation.

Efficient Execution - You must be persuasive, patient, compassionate and possess exquisite

prioritization skills.

Prior management and team-building experience. You'll be managing several direct reports

initially and will have the opportunity to scale and build out a high-performing engineering

team.

Stakeholder management - You complement product and business owners with finding the

right solutions in a timely manner.

Past entrepreneurial experience is a big plus.

Strong grasp of Nodejs/Python stack

Databases/Datastores : Mysql , Redis / Memcache , MongoDB

1. Basic Understanding of Android, iOS, Web Application stacks
2. One of SQS, RabbitMQ, SNS
3. Familiarity with AWS and its services including RDS, ECS, EBS, Cloudwatch, ELK, Redshift
   
   Nice to have -

Logging : ELK, Cloudwatch.

Frontend : html , css , Javascript

Protocols : HTTP, XMPP, MQTT, Socket.io, TCP

• P&L responsibility of the digital agency business. • Recruiting, Account management, Client servicing, Heading day to day operations, Business Development & reporting to the management. • Spearheading the Digital vertical & looking at long term business visions & goals with the management. • Create and maintain strong industry relations with existing clients. • Grow the business by identifying potential clients and leading the business development portfolio. • Defining a comprehensive growth strategy for the business and strengthening the key verticals of the business. (Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing, SEO, SEM, etc.) • Setting high standards of client servicing in terms of ROI and turn-around time. • Set processes and practices in place to define business verticals. • Leveraging existing clients / brands to further business objectives. • Monitor effective benchmarks for measuring the impact of social media programs, and analyze, review, and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results. • Monitor trends in social media tools, trends and applications. • Encouraging adoption of relevant social media techniques into the corporate culture and into all of the company's services. • Research on industry & competitor trends to apply best practices to client portfolio. • Understanding client goals/objectives and their entire digital marketing needs including Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Social Media, Display Advertising. Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing & more. • Work jointly with internal team to drive campaign strategy & development • Identify growth opportunities from existing client portfolio and drive revenue by creative up-selling and cross-selling initiatives. • 5+ years of experience in a business development / client servicing role , selling core digital advertising solutions. • Strong understanding of social media, digital marketing and digital activations. • Understanding of SEM- Google Adwords, SEO, Google Analytics, Display Advertising, Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Social Media Marketing. • Great communication, presentation skills and client servicing skills. • Excellent time management and organizational skills. • Proactive and a self-starter.