Engineering Manager

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• Enterprise 
• fintech 
• Payments
• Healthcare

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• Experience in mobile application development or frontend frameworks such as React.
• Managing successful engineering teams across both mobile and web application development.
• Deep knowlege in CSS methodologies like SCSS & SASS.
• Exposure in UI development like PWA, Single page app, Hybrid App, responsive web deisgn.
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About Navi

Navi is one of the fastest growing financial services companies in India providing Personal & Home Loans, Insurance and Mutual Funds with a digital first approach. At Navi, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.

Founders: Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal

Know what makes you a “Navi_ite” :

1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment

• Passionate about Navi’s mission and vision
• Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership
• Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities

2.Obsession with high quality results

• Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes
• Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work
• Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards

3.Resilience and Adaptability

• Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances, showing resilience and agility

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and develop new, end-to-end financial product experiences in BFSI domain for Retail Consumers
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering teams across multiple product teams to drive buy-in on new product
• Experiences and engineering frameworks.
• Work closely with your’s and other engineering teams with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0→1 integrations with an appetite to quickly scale from 1→n across products.
• Recruit and build an entirely new engineering team and move fast in converting new ideas to product.
• Collaborating with Product,Design, Leadership and other functions, while maintaining high product quality and reliability.
• Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational.
• Excellence as products mature.

What You’ll Need :

• 10+ years of overall experience with 3+ years of Engineering Management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates(frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies. Good software engineering methodology- meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.
• Exceptional technical skills in backend with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands-on approach to lead from the front when the situation calls for it.
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server,DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity)while designing and implementing services
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Expertise and interest in growing teams-interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members

Future Scope of joining Navi :

• Navi’s future, and hence your future, is boundless. We want to start with reimagining the BFSI industry to a tech-forward, customer centric sector.
• For your personal future, at NAVI, the impact and dedication you bring forth with your work is what matters the most.If you show enthusiasm and dedication, promotions, team-jumps and vertical changes are all easily within your reach, as is exponential career growth.

Who will be my Stakeholders :

• Our customers come first. they will be your priority, always.
• Your team members will be passionate, responsible, outspoken and innovative. - Your managers will be there to guide you through any problems you may face. They will show you the way, but you will have to walk to the path.
• Your leaders will live and breathe to ensure that Navi runs smoothly, your customers are happy, and that every employee working in Navi grows as a professional

Other Perks :

• Hyper-growth opportunities
• Flexibility to move across business domains
• Unlimited leaves.
• Satisfaction of building something from scratch and driving it till the end

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.

No of Positions 1

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

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the founding team of KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

• Product Development: Partner with the founder & product team to create a product roadmap. Play a key role in influencing customer journey, experience & specs (requirements) with UX designer. Develop front end & back end systems and product. 
• Project Management: Ensure product development roadmap timelines are achieved in a timely way with the right quality with progress being reported daily. 
• Technology Excellence: Ensure that products have best in class performance on technology driven aspects (load times, latencies, uptimes, etc.). 
• Hiring & Developing: Hire junior engineers, divide project workloads & mentor them to continuously improve.
• Continuous Improvement: Establish intake mechanism to convert user feedback into actionable upgrades in product design, track feature improvements & their progress and create rapid improvement cycles. 

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who – 

• Has 4+ years of experience in a digital product company
• Should have managed teams before & can attract talent
• Has experience in front end & back end technologies across web & app development
• Has studied computer science or engineering with at least a B.Tech or B.E degree
• Preferably is skilled in at least one performing art or is a hobbyist
• Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
• Moves fast to launch & fix issues 
• Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

• If you are from IIIT, NIT;
• If you have experience of Amazon or equivalent product company;
• If you are confident to use technology and meet any product goals; Coding must be your interest as entrepreneurs need to do anything and everything if required. 
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• If you are ready to take the challenge with Company Stake, Co-founder role, and a minimum fixed salary (don't compare it with your corporate salary) to run your essentials; then THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TRY ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH MINIMUM POSSIBLE RISK. You will not get an option to be a co-founder of a 3+years old totally operational startup, who gives you the seed for the next year to give a final touch and raise Series A.