Engineering Manager / Engineering Lead

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

About 6sense : The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team.

In one of the latest news,6sense Raises $125 Million in Series D Funding, Increases Valuation to $2.1 Billion https://hub.6sense.com/welcome/6sense-funding-announcement.

In the other news,6sense was named one of @Inc's Best Workplaces for the third year in a row.

As an Engineering Manager at 6sense ,you will have the opportunity to-

• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent. 
• You will nurture an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor, while planning and supporting career development  
• You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software. 
• You will meet 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.
• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent 
• Work cross functionally with other Engineering Managers to strategize and execute on crucial business objectives along with managing upstream and downstream dependencies 
• Work with the Product Managers on project planning and roadmap 
• Apply distributed computing and map-reduce knowledge to compute, dedupe, and derive insights from billions of records daily 
• Intellectually contribute to the software, data, process, and growth of other team members 
• Participate in writing applicable patents for your ground-breaking work 
• Promote and set examples for high code quality like unit testing, good variable naming, modularity, etc. 
• Own products/features at multiple levels: code, data, metrics, reduction of support frequency, etc. 
• Ensure new features are properly tested at scale prior to release 

Required qualifications and must have skills 

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ engineers 
• 10+ years of experience in delivering software 
• BS / MS in Software Engineering or an equivalent degree 
• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute.
• 10+ years of strong design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products.
• 6+ years' experience leading engineering teams (including a combination of experience hiring, mentoring, managing performance, and providing technical leadership and design guidance).
• Excellent computer fundamentals and problem solving skills
• Excellent data structures & algorithms skills.
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting edge technologies around server side development in Java and Big Data.
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.
• Provide good attention to details.
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of massively scalable & distributed system.
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.

About the role:

We are currently building an exciting multi-category, digital first, direct to consumer, commerce business for couple of new brands in Food & Fashion category. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our ecommerce business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking & logistics integrations.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead its development across web, mobile and in-store devices. You will be responsible to work closely with business leaders to understand the developer needs and device solutions through developer tools and services. The role incumbent will be managing a team of in-house & outsourced developers and will be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, project delivery and maintenance of systems developed in-house. The incumbent will also be driving technology innovation with integrations and external partners to fully leverage the latest solutions and technologies for servicing the organization needs. This role will report to the Director-Engineering.

Location: Mumbai based preferably. We can also consider Bangalore based candidates.

Responsibilities:

Your core responsibilities will include Technical Guidance, Execution, Delivery & Team Management. You will be working in a fast-paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business impact.

• Ownership of engineering features and components from concept, design, development & deployment
• Participate in the solution architecting, enterprise interface design and integration.
• Work with users to understand requirements, design scalable and efficient technology solutions.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with other internal teams and external partners.

• Communicate cross-functionally, collaborate with Business teams, Product managers, engineers and QA to plan, own and deliver solutions on time.
• Ensure teams follow best practices regarding coding standards, code reviews, and testing. Responsible for code quality, review & release strategy.

• Define and drive development team priorities and ensure delivery through in-house and vendor development teams.

• Keep tab of latest technology trends and leverage it for improvements/changes in current setup to increase efficiency, reduce maintenance cost and time to market.

• Publish regular reports of activities and highlight potential risks. 
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor engineering team resources.

Required Qualification, Experience & skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 6-8 years of overall developer experience with a minimum 12-18 months in the GoLang toolkit – very familiar with all the frameworks and tools needed to manage and further build an end to end ecommerce platform in GoLang
• Prior experience in managing a team of min 4-6 engineers
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging

• Experience of implementing Agile, Scrum & Iterative processes

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from Web development, Mobile app development, AWS, machine learning, large scale data platforms, service oriented architecture, distributed systems design, android platform, front-end user interfaces, databases etc.

Must Have Experience/Attributes -
Multi-year experience in Designing & Coding Applications of a successful Online platform
Experience in Designing Distributed Applications @ Scale
Proficiency with scalability and high availability strategies for Java Services & Microservices on distributed platform
Defining solution based on the set of Non Functional Requirements - security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability
Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting expertise
Strong desire and ability to look for and adopt best practices/community driven open source framework and technologies into design deliverables
Should be obsessed with code quality, performance optimization and tools usage to improve productivity/quality
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Experience of driving activities to influence code quality and process rigor
Enthusiastically follow technology trends, software engineering best practice and technologies while enjoying the challenge of solving complex problems
Experience of working on E-commerce platform
Experience in Dockers and container orchestration on Kubernetes
Working Experience in Integration Technologies / Middleware like Kafka, Rabbit MQ , ESB
Knowledge on Cloud Ecosystem - Added Advantage