Engineering Manager - KlearNow - Gurgaon, India

Role & Responsibilities

1. Create innovative architectures based on business requirements.
2. Design and develop cloud-based solutions for global enterprises.
3. Coach and nurture engineering teams through feedback, design reviews, and best practice input.
4. Lead cross-team projects, ensuring resolution of technical blockers.
5. Collaborate with internal engineering teams, global technology firms, and the open-source community.
6. Lead initiatives to learn and apply modern and advanced technologies.
7. Oversee the launch of innovative products in high-volume production environments.
8. Develop and maintain high-quality software applications using JS frameworks (React, NPM, Node.js etc.,).
9. Utilize design patterns for backend technologies and ensure strong coding skills.
10. Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud services, including ECS (Fargate), Lambda, and load balancers. Work with Docker to containerize services.
11. Implement and follow CI/CD practices using GitLab for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
12. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design technical solutions, ensuring adherence to Microservice Design patterns and Architecture.
13. Apply expertise in Authentication & Authorization protocols (e.g., JWT, OAuth), including certificate handling, to ensure robust application security.
14. Utilize databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Mongo and DynamoDB for efficient data storage and retrieval.
15. Demonstrate familiarity with Big Data technologies, including but not limited to:

- Apache Kafka for distributed event streaming.

- Apache Spark for large-scale data processing.

- Containers for scalable and portable deployments.

Technical Skills:

1. 7+ years of hands-on development experience with JS frameworks, specifically MERN.
2. Strong coding skills in backend technologies using various design patterns.
3. Strong UI development skills using React.
4. Expert in containerization using Docker.
5. Knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically OCI, and familiarity with serverless technology, services like ECS, Lambda, and load balancers.
6. Proficiency in CI/CD practices using GitLab or Bamboo.
7. Strong knowledge of Microservice Design patterns and Architecture.
8. Expertise in Authentication and authorization protocols like JWT, and OAuth including certificate handling.
9. Experience working with high stream media data.
10. Experience working with databases such as Postgres, MySQL, and DynamoDB.
11. Familiarity with Big Data technologies related to Kafka, PySpark, Apache Spark, Containers, etc.
12. Experience with container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Job Summary
The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

• Lead the tech team on daily project development including legacy system refactor and new feature implementation
• At least 4+ years of people management experience.
• Design, build and maintain our trading systems that deal with trade matching, accounting, financial reporting, liquidity, and risk management.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our trading systems.
• Liaise with business, product team members, and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in leading a team to design and build services that are highly scalable and robust.
• 5+ years of professional experience with at least one of the following languages: Go (preferred).
• Solid knowledge of multithreading, enterprise integration pattern, microservice.
• Fluent English speaker.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Nice to have:

• Full-stack experience: knowledge of Javascript React, IOS and Android app development.
• Knowledge of Ethereum-like blockchains.
• Experience in crypto exchange development.
• Experience in building systems in the finance industry.
• Familiar with DevOps work with AWS or GCP

Conditions:

• Do something meaningful; Be a part of the future of financial technology and the no.1 company in the industry
• Fast-moving, challenging and unique business problems
• International work environment and flat organization
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company
• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours, Casual work attire

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.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Work with outside data sources and APIs

- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

- Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

- Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code

- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability using JUnit, Mocikto or Espresso.

- Lead and Mentor Android developers

 Required Skills and Experience :

 - 6+ year of proven software development experience and Android applications development

    in Android Kotlin and react native based Hybrid app development

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

- Experienced in Android Kotlin and react native based Hybrid app development

- Experience with Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

- Experienced in Client server programming (RESTful APIs) to connect Android applications to backend services

- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience in Android Studio IDE and tools like Android Device Monitor, Logcat

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

- Proficient in using code versioning tools, such as Git, SVN

- Strong CS fundamentals and a good working knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

- Strong on OOPS and Java concepts

- Proficient in integration of third party libraries OkHttp, Retrofit, ButterKnife, Image caching libraries

- Working knowledge of RxJava, RxAndroid

- Expert in debugging, troubleshooting, memory optimization, performance and scalability of mobile app.

- Apk size and battery optimization

- Strong design/development experience working on at least 4 Mobile application apps from Scartch

- Has worked on MVP, MVVM design patterns for android applications

- Has experience on working with web views in Android and customizing them for different features

- Follows coding guidelines, Reviews code for peers and juniors.

- Understands and implement security guidelines

- Experience in localization

• Experience with object-oriented design and languages
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Experience architecting systems on AWS platform a strong plus
• Be able to deal with ambiguity and independently drive, design, and implement large scale software solution
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on technical projects
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Technical aptitude to quickly grasp complex technical issues and communicate directly with technical teams
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a long-term product roadmap and architecture while balancing short term commitments
• Handling the entire SDLC. 
• Own the architecture SCOT product platforms to drive business results. 
•  Be a visible leader to drive and own the architecture and design of some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry to create company wide impact 
•  Be an operational and technical leader with a passion for distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment and delivery. Accountable for solutioning, design, architecture, for the ease of evolution, quality of the systems, performance, scalability, availability characteristics, NFRs and limitations of the systems. Should be willing to be hands-on and spend time actively developing parts of the systems. 
•  Envision and develop the long-term architectural direction, with emphasis on platforms/ reusable components while adopting a nimble delivery process.
•  Establish structures and processes that ensure a high level of quality and reliability and extensibility of deliverables .
•  Drive the creation of next generation extensible web, mobile and fashion commerce platforms, security protocols, customisation and tools to support continuous scaling, internationalisation and platform extensions. 
•  Drives code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drives the architectural governance for them 
•  Set directional paths for the department for adoption of new technology stacks for solving business problems 
• Work with product management, business stakeholders and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term, long-term roadmaps and shape business directions
•  Initiate and deliver leadership training within the engineering organisation and drive the growth of leaders to create a strong leadership bench.
• Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc.
• Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines. 
• Lead by example through innovation. 
• Build and nurture a team of software developers
•  Shape team goals by developing a deep understanding of our business processes and success criteria
•  Develop and execute a long-term architecture while balancing short term commitments
•  Work closely with the team to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems
• Effectively partner with engineering and non-engineering groups across the organization to deliver on own goals
• Work closely  to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems. 
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build, and predictability of the deliverables
• Effectively partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders across the organization to co-define and deliver on goals.

• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers
• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers

We are looking for a bright and exceptional Engineering Manager to join our Hyderabad based Technology team. The role involves building complex next generation product used by our clients and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

What you’ll do: • Manage, design, execute and take complete responsibility for the delivery and maintenance of software projects/products • Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks • Work with business groups to outline project deliverables and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks • Work with Technical Relationship managers to understand the client initiated R&D requests • Act as a point of contact for managing and driving production defects to resolution • Tailor processes to help manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to appropriate closure • Engage and manage team of highly talented technologists, and aid in them grow professionally with regular mentoring

What you’ll need: • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience, fintech domain is a plus • Demonstrated track record of end-to-end delivery of enterprise-grade software • Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence • Superior project management skills to ensure high-quality and timely solution delivery

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams • Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders • Excellent analytical and reasoning skills • Ability to learn new domains and deliver output • Experience leading a team of highly skilled engineers • Strong communication skills

Members of the Arcesium Company Group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, colour, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.