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Engineering Manager at Product based startup · Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad · 6 - 15 years · ₹40L - ₹60L / yr · Posted 27 Feb 2023

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Engineering Manager

at Product based startup

Agency job
via Qrata
6 - 15 yrs
₹40L - ₹60L / yr
Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad
Skills
Engineering Management
Engineering Manager
Engineering Head
VP of Engineering
Director of Engineering
Technical Manager
Technical Head
Technical Architecture
Technical lead
Tech lead
skill iconNodeJS (Node.js)
skill iconPython

About Company

Company is an award winning Agri-Tech startup that uses global leadership and expertise in the areas of agriculture and technology to transform the age-old practices of the dairy business to a modern and interesting way of doing the same by infusing technology into farmers’ lives. We are solving the burning problems of dairy farmers by extending the highly lacking technology support to the farmers. We plan to provide AI/Vet, E-commerce, and Fin-tech services to the farmers and simultaneously solve the last mile delivery problem using technology.

It is a purely tech-oriented company and is founded by alumni from IIT Roorkee and London School of Economics. The MoooFarm research team has developed and patented World’s first Cattle Facial Recognition, and is also working with Microsoft for cattle disease detection using udder image. 


What will you be working on?


  • Build and nurture high performing teams of skilled software engineers. Find and hire top talent for your team
  • Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build and predictability of the deliverables of your team
  • Develop the long-term strategy for your systems, while aligning them to the goals of the organization and translate that into an achievable road map.
  • Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments.

Experience:

  • 8+ years of industry experience in product based companies.
  • Have engineering management experience in a high-growth B2C startup or medium-sized product-focused B2C tech company
  • Demonstrated track-record of delivering well-engineered products with modern technologies.
  • Experience in building and architecting products along with exposure to frontend development / Mobile / Web Apps development.
  • Experience building full-stack applications with hands-on experience in the combination of programming languages: React JS, Node JS, Python, AWS, Java, microservices, etc.
  • Strong expertise on one or more SQL/NO-SQL databases (MySQL, Mongo, Postgres, etc.)
  • Exposure to multiple cutting edge open-source frameworks required to build microservices architecture (API Management and Testing, Messaging - Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc. Monitoring - NewRelic, ELK, etc. Container orchestration. ).
  • Experience in building, deployment and maintaining high scale applications on public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Expertise in agile software development processes, continuous integration, test automation and tools like Confluence, Git, Jenkins, and Jira.
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  • You know how to build alignment across functions where incentives don't naturally align
  • You have clear examples of decisions you made under ambiguity  and you can articulate the trade-offs you weighed
  • You've identified a systemic problem and fixed it without being asked
  • You've built or rebuilt something that wasn't working  a team, a process, a system

Work Arrangement

Flexible work setup, including hybrid options. Monday to Friday. Learn more about us at https://www.solarsquare.in.



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Dhaval Chokshi
Posted by Dhaval Chokshi
Mumbai
3 - 5 yrs
₹16L - ₹20L / yr
Software Development
Systems design
Cloud Computing

Celeco Labs is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering on behalf of a confidential client in the housing-finance sector.


This is a role for an engineer who wants to own delivery, not only manage it. You will set the technical direction, build and maintain production systems, and work closely with the business team. You should be comfortable taking a requirement from the first discussion through technical planning, implementation, release, and production support.


What you will do


• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.

• Design, build, and maintain reliable customer-facing products and internal systems.

• Write production code and review code written by others.

• Turn business requirements into clear technical plans and releases.

• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.

• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.

• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.

• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.

• Help hire and guide a small engineering team as the company grows.


What we are looking for


• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.

• Experience building and running production systems.

• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.

• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.

• Good judgment about system design, security, reliability, and cost.

• The ability to explain technical choices in simple language.

• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.


Experience in lending, housing finance, fintech, or another regulated industry is useful, but not required. Experience leading engineers or working directly with founders and business leaders is also useful.


How to apply


Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.

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