Engineering Manager

Technical Skills Required

Mandatory:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software development with C# and the .Net framework/.net core.

• Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns-based web applications, web api and wcf

• Experience in ORM, Document-oriented NoSQL databases or RDMS • Experience with Git (GitHub), automatic deployments, continuous integration

• Expertise on JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS, data visualization tools.

• Experience of working on highly scalable SaaS products

• Developed & debugged multi-threaded applications.

• Developed and deployed modules in Azure / Aws Good to have: • Experience in development of reports.

• Developed and deployed modules in Docker / Kubernetes • Experience as scrum owner

• Experience in agile development methodology

• Polyglot

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, document, develop & test own product.

• Collaborate with team members.

• Care deeply about writing quality/testable/modular code

• Work with various stake holders across teams and prioritize deliverables.

• Drive efficient DevOps practices for full cycle .NET development and deployment.

Soft Skills Required

Mandatory:

• Clarity of thought

• Sincere

• Proactive

• Self-motivated

• Logical bent of mind (Analytical)

• Team player

• Flexible/adaptable

• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)

• Leader with passion

• Key Technical Skills: Deep experience on Performance Engineering with understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.
• Experienced in defining and realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale real- time enterprise Ability to identify and define non-functional requirements and design systems to meet the same.
• Ability to review existing Architectures and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and share recommendations for addressing the identified
• Demonstrate strong understanding of cloud architecture considerations when scaling and tuning application deployments. Must have hands on experience working on any of the Cloud deployments on AWS or
• Good experience on leveraging APM tools to provide deep dive analysis on performance problems. Deep understanding of the dashboards which can be built for CIO level interactions. Must have relevant experience on APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of different types of application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a
• Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment
• Experience on working on Performance Testing Projects. Fair understanding of Performance Testing tools - Apache JMeter /Gatling/ HP Load Runner for Load testing. Must be in a position to review Performance Testing programs and steer directions towards right Workload Model, appropriate Test and Monitoring Strategy, build performance models and derive at right Capacity Planning.

• Experience in Big Data Analytics like - Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Apache
• Good skills in RDBMS like: Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and Mongo DB
• Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools
• Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch)
• Very sound understanding of technology and have a consultative
• Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environment and issues faced by CIOs in the digital
• Excellent Pre-sales experience and have played a key role in winning business along with the sales
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, liaison and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Good negotiation skills
• Go getter and results oriented
• High energy level with ability to work well under pressure
• Good relationship building skills. Someone who enjoys CIOs trust and has an ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer

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.

Responsibilities:

• Investigate technologies and solutions which help the team achieve deliverables and results.
• Working with business process analysts and technical leads to derive conceptual designs and solutions.
• Assisting project managers with sizing estimates and work-breakdown structures.
• Develop and unit test software within teams of varied sizes and geographical distributions.
• Benchmarking and load testing developed modules and integrated applications.
• Assisting quality assurance team in the conduct of solution testing.
• Documenting software specifications and requirements.
• Working with infrastructure teams to define and establish application environments and implementation of software applications.
• Provide post-implementation support for developed software applications and solutions.

Measures of Success:

• The delivery of software solutions that meets requirements and are within budget and project timeline.
• Achieves good quality development metrics and standards that are aligned with industry best practices.
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  Skill Requirements:
• Knowledge of General Open System / Distributed systems platforms
• Knowledge of cloud service like AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience in developing and implementing Restful APIs
• Good understanding of Network ports/Transfer protocols.
• Ability to process/analyze large amounts of data and logs.
• UI and Backend Development experience (Full stack).
• 6+ years of experience in software development within Linux environment; with a strong focus on development using JAVA, Javascript, C and BASH shell & Python scripting.
• Experienced in structured and agile development methodologies.
• Experienced in load testing and benchmarking tools such as JMeter, Loadrunner, etc.
• Experienced in Linux-based database technology and versed with stored procedures.
• Experienced in web services developments using XML, SOAP, JSON.
• Knowledge of application security setup using common security standards like SSL, TLS, secured ciphers, etc.
• Experienced with software versioning control using GIT.

Soft Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a desire to design and develop top quality software products.

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related
• Minimum 4 years of experience

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a growing team of Engineers to help them build and maintain our products, effectively work on the right things at the right time and help them grow as better engineers along the way. A solid engineering as well as a management background is a must and you should have prior experience running an engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead agile development and project planning
• Lead technical architecture discussion and quality code delivery
• Work with the engineering team, QA and Product teams to effectively run the product road map
• Keep everyone in the company informed on your team’s progress
• Work with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track it through to resolution
• Helping set and fulfill the engineering hiring plan for the team, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing
• Help implement effective engineering processes and policies
• Improve release process and managing bug/feature backlog

Requirements:

• 2+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Should have worked on at least one of these programming languages (Python/Ruby/NodeJs)
• Excellent knowledge of best-practices and coding patterns
• You are proficient at reading and writing code and have built, shipped and maintained software
• You have experience in managing, coaching software developers to help them level up
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills and can communicate within your team and across teams
• You have good project management skills and can lead, keep track of and prioritize between multiple projects
• You are detail oriented and care about the quality of work that gets shipped
• You have been actively learning and keeping up with the industry both in terms of software development and product
• You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
• Engineering degree is must (B.E. CS preferred)

We are looking for a coding Engineering Manager based in Chennai. This is a new role within the growing Engineering function, where you will be responsible for leading a team of talented professionals, assisting them to deliver complex technical solutions across a range of teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable directing, planning and coordinating the team, as well as developing overall concepts for new and existing products and processes. Reporting into the Head of Engineering for our Chennai team, this role is integral to the successful growth of the team as well as wider company performance. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

Play the role of a servant leader in helping the team to excel in the areas of ownership and help to continuously raise the bar on performance.

Perform your responsibilities through delegation, empowerment and influence aimed at delivering long term outcomes for the team and business.

Build, manage and grow one or more engineering team(s), foster Agile practices and continuous improvement, enable engineers to build, test, deliver and operate high-level software products across the company

A hands-on technical approach to management, leveraging your software engineering experience to assist product needs and build

Work with our Product, DevOps, and Data Science functions on articulating roadmaps & ensure a high quality and timely implementation to support our mission and help eliminate identity fraud

Join a mission-orientated company, solving real-world fraud and identity based challenges

Facilitate career growth and success for all team members.

What You’ll Bring:

6+ years of demonstrated deep technical design and programming skills (in individual capacity) designing and delivering enterprise grade distributed systems in the following tooling; Web applications (Java/PHP/.NET/Python) or Mobile applications (SDK, Android/iOS)

2+ years prior experience managing one or more Agile engineering team(s); contributing to a track record of building complex and technical products, ideally within a start-up or fast scaling environment

Track record of having managed performance cycles of engineers of varying experience levels directly reporting to you.

Experience with building software with Agility and in conformity to security standards.

Willingness to “roll-up your sleeves and get your hands dirty” when required

Experience delivering and operating complex software solutions - understanding the end-to-end needs of what is involved within this process.

• 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