Engineering Manager

In partnership with a 1500 CR Conglomerate, we will be launching a combination of FinTech & Retail Marketplace focused on empowering Kirana Stores.  Formal registration, Business Plan finalization and  kick off  activities are work-in progress. We are looking for 15+ years experienced technology specialists for the role of Head of Engineering.

You will lead this new value stream help the platform scale up to servce over a 3 million user base in the next 3-5 years

Location ; Bangalore / Chennai 

Travel  : Would be required in the initial stages 

Compensation  - Industry standard (open for discussion)

You

• 9+ years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java or similar languages
• 3+ years of experience in team management, including hiring, building key projects and career management.
• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
• Passionate Tech architect, retains narrow focus on research, system performance and scalability

Technology

Good knowledge of languages like Java, Python and web technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS)

Expertise in front end and backend JS frameworks (e.g React JS, Angular, Node.js,)

Experience working in Agile frameworks and project management tools (e.g. Atlassian, Git)

Knowledge of deployment of distributed RESTful search platforms (like Elastic or Solr)

Experience in designing hyperscale architecture

Exposure to Microservices, AI/ML and Bigdata

Worked on at least one 0-1 initiative preferably IT product firms

Hands on ready to code any time (candidates who are interested only in advisory model, please excuse)

Candidates with good exposure working with OR algorithms would be given preference

Reasonably networked to be able to attract tech talent and build a large Engineering team independently

- Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver software products that delight our customers and accelerates our business growth.
• Be a combination of technical hands-on software engineer and a leader who has the ability to influence, guide, and inspire those around you.
• Empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers and managers.
• Understand the market and our end customers.
• Stays current on leading industry trends.
• Conduct performance reviews, calibration sessions and feedback discussions for direct reports.

Responsibilities -

• Collaborate with the development team to understand data requirements and identify potential scalability issues.
• Design, develop, and implement scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to ingest, process, and analyse large - volumes of data from various sources.
• Optimize data models and database schemas to improve query performance and reduce latency.
• Monitor and troubleshoot the performance of our Cassandra database on Azure Cosmos DB, identifying bottlenecks and implementing optimizations as needed.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality, integrity, and security.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering and distributed systems.

Qualifications & Requirements -

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role, with a focus on designing and optimizing large-scale data systems.
• Strong proficiency in working with NoSQL databases, particularly Cassandra.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, preferably Azure Cosmos DB.
• Solid understanding of Distributed Systems, Data modelling, Data Warehouse Designing, and ETL Processes.
• Detailed understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is required.
• Good to have knowledge on any visualization tool like Power BI, Tableau.
• Good to have knowledge on SAP landscape (SAP ECC, SLT, BW, HANA etc).
• Good to have experience on Data Migration Project.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain domain would be a plus.
• Familiarity with software architecture (data structures, data schemas, etc.)
• Familiarity with Python programming language is a plus.
• The ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, work environment.
• A passion for data and information with strong analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work under minimal direction.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with at least 12 years of experience managing the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical projects or programs. You will ensure that technical projects are completed within agreed-upon timelines, budgets, and quality standards, and shall play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of complex technical projects and programs.

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Skills Required

• 12+ years experience with development background and excellent communication skills
• Should have strong project management and people skills along with technology skills (primarily web based application development, but can be any)
• Program Planning: Define the scope and objectives of the program and develop a detailed project plan, including schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Risk Management: Manage program risks, develops mitigation plans, and communicates risk status to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that program objectives are aligned with business goals and objectives.
• Communication: Communicate program status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management.
• Project Management: Manage the day-to-day \ activities of the project team, ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that the program meets the required quality standards.
• Resource Management: Manage program resources, including staffing, budget, and equipment.
• Change Management: Manage changes to the program scope, schedule, and budget and ensures that stakeholders are informed and aligned with the changes.
• Technical Expertise: You will have the strong technical expertise to understand the technical aspects of the program and provide guidance to the project team.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate program performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. You must be able to build and maintain strong relationships with team members and stakeholders to ensure the project's success.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Supervise, plan, and manage the stages of product development, approving the product at each stage.
• For maximum efficiency, create detailed project plans at each stage of product development.
• Maintain a steady flow of ideas and solutions during product development initiatives in order to introduce innovation and improve operational efficiency.
• Keep track of key metrics and create reports to communicate development progress to senior management, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work with a variety of teams, such as software architects, software engineers, system engineers, developers, and product teams.
• Determine cross-team dependencies and include them in the program planning process.
• Determine how to solve technical problems by diagnosing them and suggesting potential solutions.
• Ensure that product development and delivery can be completed within the product budget and timeframe.
• Oversee the product deployment process and, if necessary, assist with the integration process.
• Make necessary changes to product development processes based on performance metrics.
• Stay current on the latest developments in our product category and industry.
• Ensure complete compliance with industry standards by documenting all processes and adjusting them as needed.
• Manage project escalations and assist in the formation of project teams as needed.
• Maintain and implement project plans within the organization necessary technical programs to assist product management teams.

Experience: 12+Years

Location: Hyderabad

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

Responsibilities:

• Investigate technologies and solutions which help the team achieve deliverables and results.
• Working with business process analysts and technical leads to derive conceptual designs and solutions.
• Assisting project managers with sizing estimates and work-breakdown structures.
• Develop and unit test software within teams of varied sizes and geographical distributions.
• Benchmarking and load testing developed modules and integrated applications.
• Assisting quality assurance team in the conduct of solution testing.
• Documenting software specifications and requirements.
• Working with infrastructure teams to define and establish application environments and implementation of software applications.
• Provide post-implementation support for developed software applications and solutions.

Measures of Success:

• The delivery of software solutions that meets requirements and are within budget and project timeline.
• Achieves good quality development metrics and standards that are aligned with industry best practices.
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  Skill Requirements:
• Knowledge of General Open System / Distributed systems platforms
• Knowledge of cloud service like AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience in developing and implementing Restful APIs
• Good understanding of Network ports/Transfer protocols.
• Ability to process/analyze large amounts of data and logs.
• UI and Backend Development experience (Full stack).
• 6+ years of experience in software development within Linux environment; with a strong focus on development using JAVA, Javascript, C and BASH shell & Python scripting.
• Experienced in structured and agile development methodologies.
• Experienced in load testing and benchmarking tools such as JMeter, Loadrunner, etc.
• Experienced in Linux-based database technology and versed with stored procedures.
• Experienced in web services developments using XML, SOAP, JSON.
• Knowledge of application security setup using common security standards like SSL, TLS, secured ciphers, etc.
• Experienced with software versioning control using GIT.

Soft Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a desire to design and develop top quality software products.

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related
• Minimum 4 years of experience

• 6+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on management experience.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience building and leading platforms is a must. Experience with SOA/Microservices with Node.js and Golang is a plus
• Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building productive engineering teams.
• Been actively involved in setting product strategy.
• Entrepreneurial drive and have hands-on experience in creating products which solve user’s problems

• Quick & Excellent Problem solving skills for complex & large scale problems
• Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies
• Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction
• Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases
• Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.
• Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions
• Deep understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems with experience & expertise in a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases
• Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures the Principle architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles.
• Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5 years
• Must have worked in a small setup (either a startup or a small & reasonably independent team)
• 8+ years of overall experience
• B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Job Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above, computer-related major, good English reading and writing ability.
2. Skilled use of Redis, MongoDB, React Native, Android Development and other caching technology.
3. Familiar with basic Linux operation, have experience in super-million-level PV application development and have experience in high concurrency and big data processing.
4. Five years of WEB development work experience, familiar with PHP website program development language with successful large-scale website project development experience or e-commerce development experience is preferred.
5. Familiar with Opencart system module development, development, template improvement and system reconstruction according to the requirements of the prototype, and complete the experience of website construction;
6. Proficient in HTML, DIV + CSS, XHTML, XML page structure, proficient in JavaScript / Ajax scripting language, can write web programs compatible with all major browsers;
7. Familiar with the MySql database, can write efficient SQL statements, have large database optimization experience;
8. Have a good learning and research ability, good business ethics and personal professional ethics, teamwork spirit, good at communication.