Engineering Manager

Requirements

● Strong technical concepts, working knowledge on Scripting languages like javascript, frontend like Angular is preferred.

● Ability to understand product from Customer’s point of view to design / develop product feature.

● Should have some years of experience in Techno - Managerial role

● Experience with product based companies is preferable

Roles and Responsibilities
● The candidate will be responsible for a broad array of individual services, including
Architect and lead team for implementing a set of cloud-based services that will
power Zopper Assure and Zopper Finance.
● Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle from concept
development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support.
● Prior experience in development of e-commerce systems or any other high scale
web/mobile backends is required.
● Expertise in any one programming knowledge preferably in Python.
● Prototype and present various alternative solutions for complex business problems to
Senior Management
● Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the
module
● Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology
stack or component or design pattern versus another to the project team and drives
selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture.
● Drives the performance tuning, re-design and refactoring for a module
● Contributes to designing and implementing the build, release process as well as system
configuration and deployment characteristics of the application
● Implements (hands-on) the module components based on industry best practices.
● Mentors the team (people working on the module and other project team members) on
● Technology concepts and best practices for design, implementation and other
processes

Prerequisites
● Candidate should hold 8+ Yrs of experience
● Should have 3+ years of experience in team handling
● Should be a Btech/MTech

The engineering manager will:
1. Lead a growing team of engineers, responsible for overall technical direction of the team
2. Responsible for code and data architecture, resource management and timely delivery of
releases
3. Responsible for scaling team (hiring) and product infrastructure with the growing user
base
4. Responsible for creating scalable system architecture & infrastructure
5. Hands-on coding of individual product modules
6. Own the codebase, identify code optimization opportunities and maintain error-free code
7. Maintain code documentation
8. Setup and manage back-end infrastructure/services
9. Research new technologies that have the potential to improve the product
10. Manage team’s development backlog tasks/timelines
11. Conduct detailed code reviews, create test cases and conduct alpha, beta testing, conduct QA testing with help from QA engineers
12. Gather requirements business/product managers regarding new feature requests and bugs

What we need?
1. 3-5 years hands-on coding experience in mobile application development with Android SDK, Swift or Flutter SDK and Firebase, Google Cloud Platform or AWS backend
2. 1-2 years experience in leading a team of software development and QA engineers
3. A keen interest in new technologies and best practices
4. Experience in managing development tasks/timelines for a team (e.g. by holding daily scrums)
5. Ability to create fault resistant development frameworks for engineers
6. Experience in seamless deployment of apps to Play Store and App Store and knowledge of respective developer guidelines
7. Experience with performance testing & tuning, scaling and optimization of high-load applications
8. Experience in scaling through non-relational distributed databases

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product

Appy if you have

• A graduation/post graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 7-12 years of strong experience in various frontend development technologies which includes Javascript (core and oops), Nodejs, Html, Css
• Expertise in 
• Any UI framework React/Vue 
• State Management libraries like redux
• Build tools (webpack, grunt, gulp etc)
• Experience with 
• best practices for JS development using jslint, testing frameworks etc.
• package managers like npm or yarn
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environments.
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills.
• Strong communication skills.

 

Good to have

• Experience with AWS, Microfrontend, Nginx, CDN caching
• Exposure to Performance optimization techniques/tools (caching, cdn, lighthouse, optimization)
• Experience with Dockers & Containerization
• Knowledge of tools and best practices for Linting, Compiling, Minifying, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with "Micro Frontend architecture" & “Backend For Frontend”

Key Skills: Java / C# / C++

Responsibilities:
• As a leader, you will be Facilitating discussions and lead decision-making on all
engineering aspects of his/her team.
• Able to define and execute the engineering plans for the areas under his/her ownership.
• Drive engineering best practices for the team.
• Define, implement and maintain the hygiene of the production systems (both engineering
and processes) for the areas under his/her ownership.
• Responsible for the health of the business directly owned by the team.
• Challenging business & product on outcomes, channelize feedback into execution, and
be accountable for engineering outputs
• Hiring, mentoring and retaining a best-of-class engineering team.
• Responsible for all stakeholder management including but not limited to business,product, operations, and clients/vendors

Requirements:
• BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline (or
equivalent).
• 8+ years of software development experience and 3+ years in leading teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex
technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences
• Past experience with startups and fast-paced environments is an added advantage
• As a leader, you must have proven skills in designing and developing simple to complex
solutions including experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed
systems.
• Proven track record building and managing high-performing software development
teams.
• Practical experience and ability to drive design and architecture of multiple subsystems with other senior members in the team.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Work with outside data sources and APIs

- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

- Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

- 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

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability using JUnit, Mocikto or Espresso.

- Lead and Mentor Android developers

 Required Skills and Experience :

 - 6+ year of proven software development experience and Android applications development

    in Android Kotlin and react native based Hybrid app development

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

- Experienced in Android Kotlin and react native based Hybrid app development

- Experience with Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

- Experienced in Client server programming (RESTful APIs) to connect Android applications to backend services

- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience in Android Studio IDE and tools like Android Device Monitor, Logcat

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

- Proficient in using code versioning tools, such as Git, SVN

- Strong CS fundamentals and a good working knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

- Strong on OOPS and Java concepts

- Proficient in integration of third party libraries OkHttp, Retrofit, ButterKnife, Image caching libraries

- Working knowledge of RxJava, RxAndroid

- Expert in debugging, troubleshooting, memory optimization, performance and scalability of mobile app.

- Apk size and battery optimization

- Strong design/development experience working on at least 4 Mobile application apps from Scartch

- Has worked on MVP, MVVM design patterns for android applications

- Has experience on working with web views in Android and customizing them for different features

- Follows coding guidelines, Reviews code for peers and juniors.

- Understands and implement security guidelines

- Experience in localization

• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers
• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers

This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to gain tremendous experience watching a organization being built from the ground-up (and subsequently, earn life-changing equity) for an exceptional Principal Engineer.

 

• 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.