Engineering Manager - Full Stack

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Web)
Keywords: react, nextjs, engineering manager, micro-frontend, typescript,
redux, nextjs, tailwind, xstate
TL;DR
We are looking for a manager who can lead & mentor a bunch of engineering
teams. The person must have worked on highly scalable front-end architecture.
What we expect from you:
● Must have 6+ years of experience in React / Angular and 2+ years of
managing teams.
● Must have managed multiple pods / teams in the past.
● Work closely with project and product managers to ensure tasks are
completed as per the sprint timeline
● Strong understanding of functioning of server-side rendering,
client-side code splitting/chunking and partial hydration.
● Strong understanding of HTTP APIs, Websockets, REST principles and
CORS.
● Must have very strong knowledge of code optimization to maintain high
performance of SPAs.
● Exposure to TDD
● Must have hands-on experience with APMs like DataDog, NewRelic
etc..
● Should be through in creating Technical Requirement Document
● Define and drive the technical strategy and development methodology
● Design low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
● Use technology and automation to help manage technical debt
● Must follow lean thinking
What’s in store for you?
● Weekends are for yourself and family
● Work from place of your choice
● Health Insurance for yourself + Wife + Kids
● Play an important role in very rapidly growing company
● Very flexible working hours

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real-world customer problems
• 3-5 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams
• BE / B. Tech /M. Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science
• Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams
• The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders
• Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our FinTech products
• Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to
• executives and non-technical leaders

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

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”

As a tech lead, you will be responsible for the architecture, design, and development of one of the Digbihealth products across Mobile, Care Dashboard, and research product surfaces. You will work closely with the product team in delivering experience and outcomes that consistently engage, enrich the care and user experience. You will be responsible for the Micro services, orchestration modules, and also for code and adaptable design quality.

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.

 

Job brief:
We are looking for a director of engineering to lead our engineering department and help us build great products. You’ll manage our infrastructure and ensure all internal systems operate securely and effectively.
To be successful in this role, you should be confident managing our teams while, at the same time, setting goals, budgets and timelines for various projects. We also expect you to be in charge of our integrations with external partners and oversee all software development plans from ideation to execution.
Ultimately, you’ll make sure we use innovative technologies that maximize our productivity and help our company grow.
Job Description:
• Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggestimprovements
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines
• Prepare and manage the engineering department’s budget
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overallobjectives
and resources
• Hire engineers and coordinate their training
• Implement innovative technologies
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment

Requirements:
• Work experience as a director of engineering, Head of engineering, CTO, Engineering
Manager or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and modern human-computerinterfaces
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills

Stack: Golang, Python, React.js, Docker and Kubernetes, Elastic Search

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers while working with leaders to create and implement the technology platform and product vision for RIVIGO. You will work with engineers and product teams to create roadmaps with an emphasis on execution. You will stay technical, leading engineers across the stack to bring end-to-end solutions to life, digging into complex but rewarding world of solving real problems. Qualifications: • Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field • 7-12 years of prior relevant experience • Experience with managing people and projects is a must • Expertise in J2EE server technologies • Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis, javascript, ajax etc. • Experience with high performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus • Experience and understanding of a wide range of client-side technologies including JavaScript, Angular, ReactS etc. is an advantage • Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks • Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • 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

HackerEarth provides enterprise software solutions that help organizations in their innovation management and talent assessment endeavours. HackerEarth Recruit is a talent assessment platform that helps in efficient technical talent screening allowing organizations to build strong, proficient teams. HackerEarth Sprint is an innovation management software that helps organizations drive innovation through internal and external talent pools, including HackerEarth’s global community of 1M+ developers. Today, HackerEarth serves 750+ organizations, including leading Fortune 500 companies from around the world. General Electric, IBM, Amazon, Apple, Wipro, Walmart Labs and Bosch are some of the brands that trust HackerEarth in helping them drive growth. Roles and Responsibilities: Responsible for mapping business objectives to an optimum engineering structure, including correct estimation of resource allocation. Responsible for key technical and product decisions. Provide direction and mentorship to the team. Setup best practices for engineering. Work closely with the Product Manager and help them in getting relevant inputs from the engineering team. Plan and track the development and release schedules, proactively assess and mitigate risks. Prepare for contingencies and provide visible leadership in crisis. Work closely with engineers, conduct their 1:1s, understand their requirements and facilitate an environment where each engineer is happy and productive. Work individually with engineers and help them with correct time estimation and scoping of tasks. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of various engineers, and then map projects to career paths of various engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s for performance feedback and lead their appraisals. Responsible for driving good coding practices in the team like good quality code, documentation, timely bug fixing etc. Be responsible for product metrics and drive them in the team. Interact with other engineering teams, facilitate discussion among them and provide a framework for inter-team collaboration. Build teams, hire the best talent with right dynamics. Foster a result oriented, performance driven culture by setting clear goals, career paths, core competencies, reward and recognition mechanism for the engineering team. Create and maintain an open and transparent environment that values speed and innovation, motivate engineers to build innovative and effective systems rapidly. Required Skills: 8+ years of strong experience in full-stack software product development, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership position. Technically hands-on with prior experience in at least one compiled language (C, Java), one dynamic scripting language (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl), web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript) and database technologies (SQL & NoSQL). Experience working with high-performance technical teams and ability to create a culture based on those best practices. Experience working with Product Managers and UX Designers Excellent people manager. Strong in building relationships and collaborate with others. A strong vision and ability to deliver quickly in fast-paced startup culture.