Engineering Manager

Requirements
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in
management role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
● Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.
● Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams

About BiteSpeed

Hey there! We are a seed funded SaaS startup on a mission to help ecommerce brands embrace conversational commerce as the future of selling online.

We're starting by building the tools for any ecommerce brand to be able to sell and engage with their customers on chat apps like Whatsapp, FB Messenger.

💡 Read more about our mission and the story of commerce here!

Within 2 years of launch, we have 1500+ e-commerce brands across 50+ countries using our product (pretty cool right?).

 

Check us out here - **https://apps.shopify.com/bitespeed-fb-messenger-chatbot** and do read through the 180 odd 5-star reviews to get a sense of what our customers say about us (we openly brag about this 😉).

 

Learn more about our investors here -

 

BiteSpeed Raises $1.9 Million Seed Funding From Sequoia India's Surge

D2C Enabler BiteSpeed Raises Funds From Sequoia's Surge, CRED's Kunal Shah, Others [Funding alert] BiteSpeed raises $275K in seed round led by Whiteboard Capital

 

About the team

BiteSpeed started out in the dorm rooms of BITS Pilani when we hardly knew much about running a company, in fact most of us hadn’t written a line of code in our lives.

 

We were inspired by companies like Postman and Freshworks which have built market leading software companies from India and had a desire to create something world-class which we could be proud of.

 

So we jumped off the cliff and built a parachute on our way down (just as Reid Hoffman likes to say).

 

 

We could make a long, boring list of 20 company values but by now you probably do get a gist of the kind of people we are. We are young, ambitious self-learners on a journey to create a globally competitive software company from India.

About the role

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our founding team and lead our product development. If you’re someone who thrives on high ownership, can figure stuff out on your own and wants to be part of the zero-to-one journey, this might be for you.

 

Years of experience: 4-10

 

What you’ll do
 We’re at 10M requests per day, you’ll take us to 100M requests per day.

 

• Designing for scale: We have complex systems working overtime with a lot of moving pieces. It’s just going to get worse. We need to reimagine scalable & reusable LEGOs 🧩;
• Setup DevOps: Rome was not built without discipline, and we’re not aiming for anything less. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover and we need your help 🛠;
• Building the dream team: We need a Phil Jackson to get us a Rodman for our defence. A Dhoni to make our Rohit open. It’s going to be tough finding the right people and tougher putting them to the right work ;
• Prioritise and delegate tasks: What tech debt to fix while also building for current business requirements? How to get it all done in time using limited resources? 🧐;
• And after all of it of-course, be ready to jam to this every time we push to prod - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QNUcrjtOs🔥;

 

Salary and Location

Expected CTC: 40-60LPA + Generous equity (ESOPs) Location: Remote

 

 

Job Description

The client is looking for an extraordinary and dynamic Engineering Manager to be
part of its Engineering team in Bangalore. You must have a good record of
architecting scalable solutions, hiring and mentoring talented teams, and working
with product managers to build great products. You must be highly analytical
and a good problem solver. You will be part of a highly energetic and innovative
team that believes nothing is impossible with some creativity and hard work.

Responsibilities
● Own the overall solution design and implementation of the core infrastructure
for backend systems. This includes requirement analysis, scope discussion,
design, architecture, implementation, delivery, and resolving production issues
related to engineering. The core back-end system is a large-scale data platform
that ingests data, applies ML models, and streams the output to the Data lake and
serving layer. As of today, we ingest 2 Bn data points every day, which need to
scale to handling 200 Bn data points every single day.
● End-end backend engineering infra charter includes Dev ops, Global
deployment, Security, and compliances according to latest practices.
● Ability to guide the team in debugging production issues and write best-of-the
breed code.
● Drive “engineering excellence” (defects, productivity through automation,
the performance of products, etc) through clearly defined metrics.
● Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas, and methodologies; share
knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision-makers.
● Hiring, mentoring, and retaining a very talented team.

Requirements
● 8-12 years of strong experience in product development.
● Strong experience in building data engineering (no SQL DBs, HDFS, Kafka,
Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark, etc) intensive backend
● Experience with DAG-based data processing is highly desirable
● Excellent track record of designing and delivering System architecture,
implementation and deployment of successful solutions in a customer-facing
role.
● Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
● Ability to influence decision making through data and be metric driven
● Strong understanding of non-functional requirements like security, test
automation etc
● Fluency in Java, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, REST Services
● Ability to hire, mentor and retain best-of-the-breed engineers
● Exposure to Agile development methodologies
● Ability to collaborate across teams and strong interpersonal skills
● SAAS experience a plus

About Us upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow. upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19 upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany. We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Qualifications Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in an engineering organization Strong technical aptitude and proven experience in architecture, design, and delivery of data-intensive applications Must have experience in cloud-native application patterns and tools, micro-services architectures and web frameworks (Spring Boot, Django, Flask), application migrations to any cloud platform 5+ years of experience mentoring and leading teams The ability to envision the future engineering needs of the company – Plan and implement accordingly The creativity to do things differently Excellent logic and problem-solving skills Roles and Responsibilities Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end. Work very closely with various business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies. Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies. Leverage your technical depth as a former developer and architect to push your team towards a high standard of technical excellence, and achieve the organization's quality bar. Define objectives and track results for team members in a supportive, motivating, and fact-driven way. Proactively identify and resolve issues relating to people, product, tech, and process

Key Job Responsibilities:

• He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap.

• He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and build roadmaps
• Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

• Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional teams.
• Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both platforms.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 10+ years experience
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard,  REST popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning) Express etc

• Experience in Microservices architecture is a must.
• Working on public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc is preferred
• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres.
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure and responsive architecture for all LoveLocal products

• Build highly Scalable platforms using Python, ReactJS, NodeJS, Kafka, Distributed Caching, SQL and No SQL Databases

• Take full ownership of the people related aspects of the Engineering team engagement, recruiting, retention, compensation, promotions, individual performance management and organizational structure

• Should be actively involved in hunting and recruiting new talent

• Manage the engineering pipeline at all levels from planning the product implementation with the developers, distributing and managing work of the engineering team and ensure code quality across products and services

• Should continuously plan and build for increasing scale of the product and ensure full hygiene of the tech infrastructure and code sanity

• Should be the primary point of contact of functional heads for all tech dependencies

• Take ownership of overall tech budget, reviewing expenses and planning for future costs

• Work closely with CTO and Product Head on the Tech roadmap of the organisation

• Become an integral part of the core team and be strongly aligned with the mission and values of the company

Main Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development with end-end implementation of products (Preferably in a product driven organisation)

• Minimum 3 years of experience leading a team of at least 15 developers, either as an EM or a Tech Lead

• Should have worked in a well scaled and fast paced working environment (Startups beyond Series B or a major tech organisation)

• Comfortable handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Well versed with cloud computing and infrastructure management AWS / GCP

• Has worked extensively on designing and implementing Microservices architecture

• Should have experience working with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDb, Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, etc.

• Should have experience working with Big Data streaming services such as Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ etc

• Should be highly skilled in Python and have solid exposure to JavaScript

• Should have solid exposure to Web development and have had familiarity working with Android and IOS engineers

• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices and Design Patterns

• A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree from top engineering institutes. 

Responsibilities:

• Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment
• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Recruit IT professionals with business and industry experience, and develop, reward and energize a competent, effective team within the technology organization.
• Lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives
• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product road-maps
• Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product road-maps
• Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance

Main responsibilities: + Management of a growing technical team + Continued technical Architecture design based on product roadmap + Annual performance reviews + Work with DevOps to design and implement the product infrastructure Strategic: + Testing strategy + Security policy + Performance and performance testing policy + Logging policy Experience: + 9-15 years of experience including that of managing teams of developers + Technical & architectural expertise, and have evolved a growing code base, technology stack and architecture over many years + Have delivered distributed cloud applications + Understand the value of high quality code and can effectively manage technical debt + Stakeholder management + Work experience in consumer focused early stage (Series A, B) startups is a big plus Other innate skills: + Great motivator of people and able to lead by example + Understand how to get the most out of people + Delivery of products to tight deadlines but with a focus on high quality code + Up to date knowledge of technical applications

Role & Responsibilities: - Define product roadmap and delivery upon it - Managing a team of 10+ developers and managers, to deliver on product roadmap - Recruiting new talent and coaching team members to build a world class team - Establishment of performance goals for all team members. - Designing and developing enterprise class highly scalable mission critical applications - Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java platforms - Hands on Architecture and Design skill is required - Work closely with QA, Professional Services, Developers to drive product development - Architecture and design reviews - Track actual project cost against estimated cost - Set goals and perform appraisals for team members - Improve state-of-art within the team for automation, architecture, infrastructure - Manage client expectations - Understanding client requirements and provide estimation Skills : - 14+ years of experience of building successful production-quality software. - Expertise in large-scale multi-tiered systems. - Expertise in Core Java and JEE, object-oriented design, analysis and design patterns - Good exposure to JSON based REST services in Java. - Excellent knowledge of RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Cache, Linux based systems - Focus on clean high-quality code and solid designs.