Engineering Manager

Job Description

Objectives of this role

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
• Assume leadership of new projects, from conceptualization to deployment
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality and application design
• Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• Architect and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimised for speed and scale
• Work primarily in MERN stack(Mongo, Express, ReactJs, NodeJs)
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs
• Collaborate across time zones via Slack, GitHub comments, documents, and frequent videoconferences

Required skills and qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in building large-scale software applications
• Experience in MERN stack(Mongo, Express, ReactJs, NodeJs)
• Experience in building web applications
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration testing

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, or engineering
• Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies
• Professional certification

About The Company

The client is 17-year-old Multinational Company headquartered in Bangalore, Whitefield, and having another delivery center in Pune, Hinjewadi. It also has offices in US and Germany and are working with several OEM’s and Product Companies in about 12 countries and is a 200+ strong team worldwide. 

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer within our Web Application Development team, based out of Pune to deliver end-to-end customized application development. 

We expect you to participate & contribute to every stage of project right from interacting with internal customers/stakeholders, understanding their requirements, and proposing them the solutions which will be best fit to their expectations. You will be part of local team you will have chance to be part of Global Projects delivery with the possibility of working On-site (Belgium) if required.You will be most important member of highly motivated Application development team leading the Microsoft Technology stack enabling the team members to deliver “first time right” application delivery.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the technical analysis of requirements and lead the project from Technical perspective

• You should be a problem solver and provide scalable and efficient technical solutions

• You guarantee an excellent and scalable application development in an estimated timeline

• You will interact with the customers/stakeholders and understand their requirements and propose the solutions

• You will work closely with the ‘Application Owner’ and carry the entire responsibility of end-to-end processes/development

• You will make technical & functional application documentation, release notes that will facilitate the aftercare of the application Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Education: Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience: Minimum 5- 10 years

Required Skills

• Strong working knowledge of C#, Angular 2+, SQL Server, ASP.Net Web API

• Good understanding on OOPS, SOLID principals, Development practices

• Good understanding of DevOps, Git, CI/CD

• Experience with development of client and server-side applications

• Excellent English communication skills (written, oral), with good listening capabilities

• Exceptionally good Excellent technical analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills

• Has a reasonable balance between getting the job done vs technical debt

• Enjoys producing top quality code in a fast-moving environment

• Effective team player working in a team; willingness to put the needs of the team over their own

Preferred Skills  

• Experience with product development for the Microsoft Azure platform

• Experience with product development life cycle would be a plus

• Experience with agile development methodology (Scrum)

• Functional analysis skills and experience (Use cases, UML) is an asset

About TechWeirdo:

Techweirdo delivers secure enterprise solutions from SaaS to On-Premise, anywhere, from Application to AI. We offer consultation, services and products to holistically address the digital transformation goals of the enterprises.

We are currently hiring a passionate, product-oriented MERN stack engineer to join a collaborative and innovative team to create technologically challenging, visually delightful, and easy-to-use digital products in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, optimize different modules of scalable applications on MERN stack

• Work closely with architects, business analysts, product managers, QA and UI designers to understand the deliverable and business priorities, UX flow and deliver QA approved, unit-testable solutions

• Collaborate with other members of technical team, delegate tasks, participate in code reviews and find out scope of further optimization

• Appear in project interviews, product roadmap discussions, feasibility analysis and sprint retrospective meetings to help in smooth project delivery as per customer expectation and technological excellence.

Skills/ Role Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Node.js, Express, Microservices, npm packages

• Reactjs (exposure to Typescript is preferred)

• MongoDB, MySQL or any other Sql database

• Ability to write high quality REST APIs in Nodejs and Express

• Ability to create highly scalable and modular components

• Strong knowledge of using ORMs (Sequelize, mongoose)

• Hands-on experience on deploy, monitor, optimize, load-balance large scale nodejs applications on production

• Experience in serverless architecture either lambda or google cloud functions are a plus

• Hands-on experience on Docker, message queue, Redis, AWS managed services are a plus

• Server-side rendering (Nextjs), knowledge of Unix, shell script, deployment, and code sanitization/optimization (Intermediate)

• Have experience in working on large scale enterprise applications

• Strong understanding of coding best practices, error handling, lazy loading, etc.

• Experience in object-oriented design skills.

• An analytical mind and Problem-solving skills

• Open source contribution, active participation in developer communities, publishing own npm packages are plus

Working with TechWeirdo be like:

1. Surrounded by curious learners: With a Growth Mindset as our core strength, we created a learning environment with curious tech learners.

2. New challenges every day: There is no ordinary day at TechWeirdo, if you like solving problems, then this is the right place for you.

3. Zero micro-management, limited supervision: We encourage our team to take on challenging tasks and solve complex problems by taking ownership of their tasks. We trust our team to take calculated risks.

4. Great networking: You will be connected with c-suite executives of top organizations while working with our winning team.

5. Building technology how you want, when you want: We welcome people who see things differently as they are the one who has ability to change the world.

6. Being heard in every meeting: At TechWeirdo, suggestions are encouraged, initiatives are supported, and opinions and perspectives are valued.

Tech CoFounder wanted for our startup. We're building a TikTok of dashcam type videos to allow users to capture interesting scenes or moments from across more than 6 crore kms of roads globally. This solution can have a lot of Connected Mobility potential at the back.

It's a short videos app meant for dashcam style videos getting recorded but from the user's smartphone (placed on a holder in a car or on a bike or in the users hands as well)

The individual should have knowledge of Full stack mobile app development preferably in Kotlin and MEAN stack along with the ability to deploy things on cloud (AWS) A plus point if he OR she knows about iOS app development as well. Bigger plus point will be the ability to move quickly with regards to developing and rolling out features for users at lightening speed.

*Salary mentioned is the salary we both can draw once the initial set of investors come on board and we can raise north of US$ 100k in the first round. You will be entitled to 30-35% equity in exchange of your initial tech development efforts.

Salaries will obviously go up as we raise more rounds and so will the value of our equity go up during each fund raise.

Requirements:

• 10+ years in Product development.
• Strong belief in software craftsmanship and practicing it in day-to-day work, expert in Microsoft. NET technology stack is a must.
• Strong hands-on experience in web development using ASP. NET MVC and C#.
• Usage of SQL and no SQL databases.
• Hands on experience in test-driven development and DevOps practices.
• Strong design capabilities, following SOLID principles using C#.
• Working on solutions hosted in cloud environments (AWS or Azure).
• Implementation of Continuous Delivery processes.
• Good understanding of Behaviour-driven development and domain-driven design.

Excellent communicator

Responsibilities:

• Contribution to the product roadmap in sprint model.
• Helping your team to deliver at high velocity.
• Practice and promote Agile practices.
• Continuously learn and deliver incremental business value.
• Use Continuous Delivery Practices.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Develop of asynchronous and/or multi-tiered scalable applications.

• Improving customer experience, not only for borrowers, but also other partners on the platform.
• Ensure seamless integration with data/ service providers and lending partners.
• When not doing any of above, write tests to prevent any regressions.

• Full-stack development experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Self-starter: Someone who can develop independently.
• Passionate about problem solving, ability to see the big picture.
• Realizes the value of 80-20

• Regular participation on Codechef, Topcoder etc. ( If yes, please cite your rank and pass on a link to your profile! )
• Prior experience at a bank / fin-tech / non-banking financial player in a technical role.