About the Role:
We are looking for the Engineering Manager who will be central to the engineering team, deliveries, and processes. You will lead high-performing teams that fuel our growth. Our ask is a burning desire for scale, relentless passion for building cutting-edge products, and undying love for technology.
What you will do
• Define best practices around code, design, architecture, testability, CI/CD, and observability and ensuring 100% alignment with them
• Provide value-added expertise in engineering design • Architect systems for scale and stability
• Work with the executive leadership and product management teams to understand the short-term and long-term product roadmap and align that with the technical/non-functional roadmap
• Contribute to recruitment activities
• Oversee the preparation and final approval of project plans
What you will need
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree - preferably in Computer Science
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on programming/application development experience with Java ecosystem and associated tooling (Node, React, Angular, MySQL, AWS, HTML 5, CSS, JSON, REST etc) in the Consumer Tech sector
• Deep experience in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies and best practices in software development and workflow products
• Strong Communication Skills demonstrating the ability to present and explain ideas and concepts
• Passionate about testing strategy, problem-solving, learning new skills, sharing expertise and knowledge
• Leadership experience in a fast-growing startup
• Strong work ethic and ownership mindset
• #hustle
What you will get
• Be a part of the leadership team of a fast-growing Series A startup defining core strategies for the growth of the company
• ESOPs and compensation way above the market for unparalleled wealth creation
• Ground-level view of building out a global EdTech company that is going to impact hundreds of thousands of lives
• Phenomenal work environment, with massive ownership and great growth opportunities
• A young, dynamic, and passionate team
• Industry best perks
Location: Delhi
Salary: Upto 25 LPA
About Leverage Edu:
At Leverage Edu, we are democratizing access to global opportunities for students everywhere. By helping students make the right career choices with the aid of information and pathways that they can trust, we are opening doors to opportunities they could not access without the right guidance and support. Making sense of the complex web of courses, colleges, careers, and geographies is a tough task – by leveraging technology but connecting with students at a personal level we help them maximize their potential.
To build towards this goal we are looking for people with the ambition and hustle to make the world a smaller place and get people closer to their dream opportunities. We are building at a breakneck speed in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world and the opportunities for growth are limitless.
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A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. We are a profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Our customers include Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a trustworthy and proactive Technical Engineering Manager with 8+ years of engineering experience and proven leadership skills.
To be successful as an engineering manager, you should have exceptional foresight and great communication skills. You need to have a working knowledge of different engineering disciplines and how they relate to one another, and experience in identifying and managing risks.
Experience or knowledge in the security domain is good to have but not mandatory for this position.
As a core team member, you will be setting the culture that the entire team will follow in the future. You will set incredibly high standards for yourself and hire exceptional people who enjoy pushing themselves to perform at the highest level every day.
Responsibilities:
- Supervising the work of multiple teams.
- Planning projects and executing them to completion on time.
- Building the engineering team by hiring exceptional people.
- Hiring and managing contract employees.
- Identifying training and talent development needs and executing them to ensure the team is performing at its peak.
- Ensuring products have the support of upper management.
- Guiding team members of different experience levels by delegating responsibilities and coaching them with their work.
- Defining engineering processes, ensuring they are followed, and constantly learning and optimizing them.
Requirements:
- Having 8+ years of experience overall with at least 5+ years experience designing and building software applications
- Proven supervisory and technical skills.
- Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms like Python/NodeJS.
- Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
- Experience in designing for performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability
- Understanding of software quality assurance principles and agile methodologies
- A technical mindset with great attention to detail
- High-quality organizational and leadership skills
- Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
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Personality traits we really admire:-
- We want to surround ourselves with people driven to do the right things and act with integrity even when no one is looking.
- A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humor, is an added advantage.
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Has attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process
- Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation
- Round 2 Interview - Product Manager & CTO
- Round 3 Interview - Tech Team
- Round 4 Interview - CEO
- Round 5 Interview - HR & Team Alignment
Compensation
- As per Industry Standards
We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.
Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.
Why Join Us :-
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will allow you to experience it all firsthand.
- Health insurance & Term Life Insurance: We offer health insurance coverage up to 5 Lacs for you and your family including your parents.
We are looking for a Head of Engineering who has a passion to drive more solar and clean energy in the world working with us.
The software helps anyone understand how much solar could be put up on a rooftop and calculates how many units of clean energy the solar PV system would generate, along with how much savings the homeowner would have. This is a crucial step in helping educate people who want to go solar, but aren’t completely convinced on solar’s value proposition.
If you are interested in bringing the latest technologies to the fast-growing solar industry and want to help society transition to a more sustainable future, we would love to hear from you!
You will:
- Be an early employee at a growing startup and help shape the team culture
- Safeguard code quality on their team, reviewing others’ code with an eye to performance and maintainability
- Be trusted to take point on complex product initiatives
You should have a strong understanding of software design and architecture and some technology leadership experi
● 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
We are looking for a talented product engineer to facilitate the design and manufacturing of our next line of exciting products. As a product engineer, you will be working closely with the design team to create industry-relevant products that meet company specifications. You will also be required to design and oversee the product manufacturing process to ensure that our products meet state safety requirements.
To ensure success as a product engineer, you should have excellent analytical and design skills, good working knowledge of design software, and advanced troubleshooting skills. A top-notch product engineer should be able to transform ideas into high-end products that perfectly meet the needs of our customers.
Product Engineer Responsibilities:
- Meeting with the development team to discuss product ideas.
- Analyzing market and industry product trends.
- Determining product feasibility costs and return on investments.
- Developing design ideas based on customer interests, budgets, and market research.
- Creating rough product designs using sketches and computer software.
- Conducting theoretical testing on design models.
- Creating full product designs and specifications using computer software modeling techniques.
- Selecting product materials and designing the product manufacturing process.
- Overseeing production and ensuring that products conform to market specifications and safety regulations.
Product Engineer Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a similar field.
- Previous experience working as a product engineer.
- Advanced analytical and design skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of industry and market trends.
- Ability to visualize theoretical models and design ideas.
- Good project management skills.
- A keen eye for detail.
We help enterprise software companies deliver faster time-to-value during customer onboarding & implementation. Our platform enables cross-functional teams (Sales, Pre-Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Product, Engineering & QA) to collaborate at scale on a ‘single source of truth’ to track, prioritise and close any gaps in the delivery of customer use cases.
If you are passionate about delivering data driven operational excellence for customers and making a big impact as the 'Founding Engineer' in an enterprise SaaS startup - then we would like to hear from you!
You will get a unique opportunity to work with an experienced leadership team and grow your career with the company!
This is a unique opportunity to become a technical lead in a growing early stage Enterprise SaaS startup.
Remote Work : We are a remote-first company with a fully distributed team.
Responsibilities:
- Ownership of the entire front-end development from requirements to deployment
- Lead and mentor the front-end development team
- Take architectural and design decisions
- Set up development, testing and deployment processes as per best practices
- Conduct code reviews and approve pull requests
- Work with the founders to ship new features that solve our customers’ needs
- Work with Product Designer to turn designs into functional responsive front-end application UI components.
- Take initiative to improve system’s software architecture, UI, UX, scalability and performance
- Participate in the customer meetings for solution design and technical discussions
- Help in customer support activities by resolving any technical queries/issues reported by the customers
Requirements:
- B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science or related field
- 3-5 years of industry experience as a Front-End Engineer in a SaaS product
- 3+ years of experience in ReactJs
- Proficiency with front-end languages HTML/CSS/JavaScript and multiple libraries
- Proficiency with Unit and end-to-end testing UI frameworks
- Experience with CI/CD and deployment to AWS
- Prior experience with building and maintaining design systems
- Familiarity with tools like Figma and experience turning Figma designs into top-class UI
- Knowledge of REST APIs
VP Engineering
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA / 1. ENGINEERING – LEADERSHIP / FULL TIME
Disney Media & Entertainment Distribuon (DMED) brings together the Company’s best-in-class product, technology, and commercializaon teams together into one global organizaon. DMED is responsible for the P&L management and all distribuon, network and engineering operaons, sales, adversing, data, and certain key technology funcons worldwide for the Company’s content engines. DMED also manages operaons of the Company’s streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+ Hotstar; and domesc broadcast and cable television networks.
Disney+ Hotstar is leading the way as the largest and smartest video plaorm in the country, reaching over 300 million users today. We have set a number of world records along the way - including for the highest concurrent viewership at 25.3 million during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Disney+ Hotstar today is the one-stop desnaon for all your entertainment needs - from Live Sports, Indian and Internaonal Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Naonal Geographic and Disney+ Originals. We’re looking for the brightest minds to build the future of TV with us.
About the Team
In this role, you will build large distributed systems to process and stream video at scale and drive all user aspects. As a VP for the team, you will develop plaorms and tools that deliver personalized recommendaons to 500+ million users. You will work on building storage soluons and microservices that serve recommendaons at a rate of few 100K requests per second. You
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will develop tools that serve recommendaons to our users in real-me. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling experiences for our customers!
The pace of our growth is incredible – if you want to tackle hard and interesng problems at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, join us!
Your Key Responsibilies
Responsible for the overall soware development life cycle.
Management and execuon against project plans and delivery commitments
Manage the day-to-day acvies of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, enhancing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.
Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
Contribute substanally to innovaon and overcome technology limitaons to deliver on customer experience.
Report on the status of development, quality, operaons, and system performance to management.
What to Bring
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
14+ years of experience designing and developing complex, interacve consumer applicaons
Proficient with either Java or GoLang
7+ years of experience in soware development with strong experse in Java with micro web frameworks – like Play, Spring MVC, reacve programming
At least 5 years managing soware development teams including hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
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Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring(New Relic, statsd, graphite), fault tolerance and metrics
Experience with MySQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB) Experience/Knowledge of Nelix OSS.
Experience in server-side services using ElascSearch, Kaa Experience with AWS stack.
Experience with CI/CD processes.
A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-funconal, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
Excellent wrien and verbal communicaon skills with the ability to present complex technical informaon clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.
An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong programming and product management skills
Our Values
- Audacity
- Self-Awareness - Ownership
- Bias for Acon
- Collaboraon
- Radical Candour - Inclusivity
- Mentorship
The Perks
- The glory. Almost too much responsibility. - No dress code. Unlimited leave.
- A fun-life balance.
- A cket on our rocket ship to the moon.
Who we are as an employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideraon for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, naonal origin, gender identy,
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disability, protected veteran status, or any other characterisc protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
Who we are as a company
We’re Disney+ Hotstar. The go-to desnaon for over 300 million users for everything from Live Sports, Indian and Internaonal Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Naonal Geographic and Disney+ originals. Our mission is to revoluonize internet entertainment through smart personalizaon, and by building a global video plaorm that takes over the world wide web and the whole wide world.
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
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in leading/managing a high performing engineering team
• A minimum of 6 years of object-oriented software development experience as an individual contributor
• A polyglot in programming languages with the ability to learn new technologies as the need arises
• Clear and confident spoken and written communication.
• Have spearheaded the build and development of a successful SaaS platform.
• Expertise in driving platform features across thousands of enterprise users.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully engage, contribute and collaborate with other
functional leaders such as product and design.
• Is data-driven, rigorous thinker, changes/adapts decisions based on customer feedback and insights.
Bonus Skills:
• Basic understanding of Machine Learning
• Prior start-up experience or have successfully built a start-up business from the ground
• MEAN/MERN Stack experience
• Solid understanding and experience working with AWS or any other Cloud provider
- 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
