Engineering Manager

Location: Bangalore

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

• Actively work with Product Managers to scope out and plan projects
• Be actively involved in hiring and growing our engineering team
• Plan and organize sprints with a highly ambitious group of engineers
• Actively work with engineers helping them break roadblocks throughout the sprints
• Involved in building and reviewing Project Architecture
• Actively review Code, Product and API Specifications
• Develop engineers on the team and help them advance in their careers
• Care about agility as much you care about scalability and availability
• Build and help us evolve our culture
• Teams at Our Company is expected to be comfortable working across the stack, delivering new features and products from start to finish
• Most products are Ruby on Rails applications with ReactJS frontends. We have PostgreSQL for most of our storage, and everything is hosted on AWS

• Clear and influential in both, writing and person
• Being a role model for the team
• Bringing-in the experience of building and scaling system to 100x
• Programming expert - help team resolve programming related issues as quickly as possible and introduce the team to better ways of building products.

• Opportunity to work with "India’s leading B2B" E-commerce venture. The company grew its revenue by more than 5.5x last year to reach to a 350 Cr annual revenue run rate scale. We invite you to be part of the upcoming growth story of B2B sector through Us.
• Opportunity to work with most dynamic individuals in Asia recognized under Forbes 30 Under 30 and industry stalwarts from across companies like Microsoft, Paypal, Gravitas, Parksons, ITC, Snapdeal, Fedex, Deloitte and HUL
• Our Company is featured in LinkedIn Top Startups 2019: The 25 hottest Indian companies to work for!
• Working here translates into being a part of a dynamic start-up with some of the most enthusiastic, hardworking and intelligent people in a fast paced and electrifying environment
• Our company has been awarded as the most Disruptive Procurement Startup of the year - 2017
• Being a company that is expanding itself every day and working towards exploring newer avenues in the market, every employee grows with the company
• The position provides a chance to build on existing talents, learn new skills and gain valuable experience in the field of Ecommerce

Hi

About the Co.-

Our Client aims to be the country’s first food platform that brings together digital-first brands, experiences and retail destinations that will influence and shape the narrative around food amongst India’s most discerning consumers.

The company's first brand, was launched earlier this year. Best known for its namesake restaurant in Mumbai, It now offers a range of fresh and packaged food products and FMCG range available through multiple digital platforms, marketplaces, its own D2C platform and leading modern trade and gourmet stores in India.

What you’ll be doing?

• Design and develop new, engaging, fast, end-to-end product experiences led by a content to commerce approach for our consumers as part of India’s biggest venture in the omnichannel gourmet food space.

• Work closely with your's and other engineering teams (SAP, PoS, OMS etc) with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0 to 1 integrations with an appetite to quickly scale from 1 to n across products.

• Work cross-functionally across multiple teams to drive buy-in on new product experiences and engineering frameworks.

• Recruit and build an entirely new engineering team and move fast in converting new ideas to product collaborating with Product, Design, Leadership and other functions, while maintaining high product quality and reliability.

• Complete responsibility for leading a team of application and front-end / Back-end engineers to drive product experiences in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational excellence as products mature.

• Coaching, mentoring managers and Architects in the team. Good team management skills with ability to multitask, strong problem solving and analytical skills.

What you’ll bring?

• 9+ years of overall experience with 5+ years of digital engineering management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates (frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies.

• Experience building high performance websites and mobile apps with scalable architecture. Experience in building headless magento preferred.

• Ability to bring in software engineering life cycle best practices - meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing, security and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.

• Exceptional technical skills with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands on approach to lead from the front.

• Ability to think and analyse 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.

• Expertise and interest in growing teams- interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members.

• Great management and team development skills: ability to set roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and honest feedback, help team members grow in their careers, and deliver results.

• Passionate, entrepreneurial, technically hands-on with a love for 0 to 1 and delivering premium experiences for our customers.

Why work with us?

• You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.

• You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.

• You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.

• You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike

Regards

Team Merito

Job Description:

As a developer in the chatbot team you’ll be responsible for expanding the scope of AERIN (Aertrip’s Chatbot) to handle all types of travel queries in a scalable and efficient manner. You will need to make AERIN as robust as possible and strive towards 100% accuracy. You should be able to design, develop, test and roll out new features quickly. You should be ready to tackle open-ended problems and build solutions for them.

Preferred qualifications & experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
2. 1 or more years of work experience in the tech industry.
3. Experience with NLP solutions.
4. Experience with chatbot frameworks like RASA, DialogFlow is a bonus.
5. Experience with spacy, nltk and other ML libraries.
6. Familiarity with version control tools like Gitlab.
7. Experience in object oriented design and programming.
8. Sound programming skills to write algorithms for text analysis and context understanding.

Preferred Skills & Abilities:

1. Should be able to write clean and manageable code.
2. Passion for innovation.
3. Out of the box thinking.
4. Should be able to understand both the tech and business aspects of a system.
5. Should be able to meet deadlines.
6. Should be able to work in a collaborative environment.
7. Should be able to work independently in small teams.

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

About Company

Vision : Bikayi helps small to medium sized businesses go online and scale their businesses. Bikayi merchants are selling various things from groceries to apparels and electronic items. 

Scale : We are very close to grossing a GMV of 1B dollars on an annual basis. Probably one of your neighbourhood shops is using Bikayi to sell online.

Fuel : Monetizing the product from early days we have a solid business model and our revenue numbers are growing at a healthy pace. Apart from this we are funded by top investors in the world like Sequoia capital and Ycombinator.

People : We have a culture which gives you a lot of challenges to solve and at the same time get high rewards.

Responsibilities

• Work towards Improving the architecture by tracking emerging technologies; evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements.
• Recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production and quality standards; resolving problems; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Setup Architecture and Design guidelines for the platforms for multi-country roll-outs
• Develop and Define Architecture Standards
• Develop and Define Application Architecture Standards
• Own your product : You will be responsible for the success / failure of your team and the product. You will need to work with cross functional teams, understand their requirements and make sure that everybody is on the same page.
• Development of your team : Making sure that engineers under you are growing in their careers and getting better are software development everyday.
• Design & Architecture : You need to have technical expertise in the company's tech stack and in general the frontend or backend infrastructures, have ability to guide the developers in case there are any blockers.
  
  
  
  

Requirements

• Past experience of working for tier 1 / vc funded companies.
• Past experience of handling a team of at least 5+ developers.
• Continuous past experience of delivering products at a steady pace.
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Knowledge in Node JS
• Hands-on in Webpack, ES6, Typescript
• Strong working experience in Single Page, Building micro frontend apps, Progressive Web Apps, Server-Side Rendering using React.js
• Hands-on experience in the React ecosystem like Redux, React Router etc.
• Experience in Team Management. 
• Lead technical design discussions and review design to make sure design is aligned with Architecture.
• Setup and maintain standard developer guidelines for the development team
• Hands-on experience with automated test frameworks like Jasmine, Jest, Mocha, enzyme etc. And experience in promoting the values of unit tests, integration tests, and CI/CD automation
• Hands-on experience in maintaining Web Vitals

1. Proven 9+ years of work experience in managing software development (Android/PHP) 
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
3. Highly experienced with Agile development methodologies
4. Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
5. Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job.
6. Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization.
7. Work well under pressure and be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary.
8. Ability to multi-task, work independently and demonstrate keen attention to details.
9. Team player attitude is mandatory.
10. High command in English Communication
11.  
12. Work on projects, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers.
13. Plan, lead and manage a team of Software Engineers
14. Provide leadership to the core engineering team of product development professionals, to drive all pertinent issues related to the product development life cycle.
15. Build and execute the roadmap in terms of methodologies, development processes, and team enablement to enhance productivity and efficiency.
16. Apply knowledge of software engineering, programming, technologies, processes, and methodologies to develop, maintain and support the technical solutions.
17. Analyze problems and drive long term technology solutions to evolve the product scalability, performance, reliability and supportability
18. Partner with the Products team to contribute to the product strategy and support product vision
19. Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
20. Researching and developing designs and products.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The candidate is expected to create and lead a team of engineers and drive dev efforts for

Medibuddy and its various products.

The candidate will be part of the Engineering leadership team (IIT/IIM grads) and will help

strategise, execute product roadmap.

Work closely with Product and business teams to strategize or design the features and

product experiments.

Lead a team of 10+ Engineers [backend and/or mobile]

Responsible for engineering delivery in platform & product engineering pods at Medibuddy.

Scale the technology architecture, team and product to drive a 10x growth in next 12-24

months.

Code and Architect key features that form backbone of DocsApp

Conduct performance reviews and mentor and guide the team reporting

Drive adoption best engineering practices in the team and the organization

1. Deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable code at a fast pace.Skills & Qualifications:
2.  9+ yrs. relevant experience in consumer tech/ or SaaS space.
3. Tier 1 background (IIT/BITS/IIIT/NIT), Pass-out from 2014 batch or earlier.

Strong Technical Background: You have strong programming, architecture, DevOps and QA

chops. You should have experience working with a diverse engineering stack in a fast-paced

environment.

Biased toward action. You must be able to do more with less and turn would-be blockers into

opportunities for growth.

Balancing Short Term with Long Term - You have demonstrated strategic execution

balancing short term tactical execution with long term vision. You should be able to adapt

quickly as per the demands of the situation.

Efficient Execution - You must be persuasive, patient, compassionate and possess exquisite

prioritization skills.

Prior management and team-building experience. You'll be managing several direct reports

initially and will have the opportunity to scale and build out a high-performing engineering

team.

Stakeholder management - You complement product and business owners with finding the

right solutions in a timely manner.

Past entrepreneurial experience is a big plus.

Strong grasp of Nodejs/Python stack

Databases/Datastores : Mysql , Redis / Memcache , MongoDB

1. Basic Understanding of Android, iOS, Web Application stacks
2. One of SQS, RabbitMQ, SNS
3. Familiarity with AWS and its services including RDS, ECS, EBS, Cloudwatch, ELK, Redshift
   
   Nice to have -

Logging : ELK, Cloudwatch.

Frontend : html , css , Javascript

Protocols : HTTP, XMPP, MQTT, Socket.io, TCP