Engineering Manager

Location: Bangalore

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the software development team, providing guidance and oversight throughout the development process

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software requirements and ensure that they meet regulatory requirements and industry standards

Manage the software development lifecycle, including planning, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance

Ensure that software development processes are efficient, effective, and scalable

Work with external partners, contractors, and vendors to ensure timely delivery of software components

Develop and maintain a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement within the software development team

Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and improve product development processes

Provide technical leadership and expertise to other teams within the organization

Represent the software development team in cross-functional meetings and communicate updates to stakeholders

Hire and groom, mentor the right talent.

Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

At least 10 years of experience in software development, with a focus on medical devices or other regulated industries

Experience leading software development teams and managing the software development lifecycle

Strong technical skills in software development, including experience with software development tools and programming languages

Experience working with regulatory requirements, such as FDA regulations and ISO standards

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve their goals

Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment

About Navi

Navi is one of the fastest growing financial services companies in India providing Personal & Home Loans, Insurance and Mutual Funds with a digital first approach. At Navi, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.

Founders: Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal

Know what makes you a “Navi_ite” :

1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment

• Passionate about Navi’s mission and vision
• Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership
• Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities

2.Obsession with high quality results

• Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes
• Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work
• Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards

3.Resilience and Adaptability

• Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances, showing resilience and agility

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and develop new, end-to-end financial product experiences in BFSI domain for Retail Consumers
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering teams across multiple product teams to drive buy-in on new product
• Experiences and engineering frameworks.
• Work closely with your’s and other engineering teams with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0→1 integrations with an appetite to quickly scale from 1→n across products.
• 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.
• Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational.
• Excellence as products mature.

What You’ll Need :

• 10+ years of overall experience with 3+ years of Engineering Management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates(frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies. Good software engineering methodology- meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.
• Exceptional technical skills in backend with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands-on approach to lead from the front when the situation calls for it.
• Ability to think and analyze 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

Future Scope of joining Navi :

• Navi’s future, and hence your future, is boundless. We want to start with reimagining the BFSI industry to a tech-forward, customer centric sector.
• For your personal future, at NAVI, the impact and dedication you bring forth with your work is what matters the most.If you show enthusiasm and dedication, promotions, team-jumps and vertical changes are all easily within your reach, as is exponential career growth.

Who will be my Stakeholders :

• Our customers come first. they will be your priority, always.
• Your team members will be passionate, responsible, outspoken and innovative. - Your managers will be there to guide you through any problems you may face. They will show you the way, but you will have to walk to the path.
• Your leaders will live and breathe to ensure that Navi runs smoothly, your customers are happy, and that every employee working in Navi grows as a professional

Other Perks :

• Hyper-growth opportunities
• Flexibility to move across business domains
• Unlimited leaves.
• Satisfaction of building something from scratch and driving it till the end

What does this role hold for you…??

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies.
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers.
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backward from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing the customer's cause in tech and product decisions

 Apply if you have…

• Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 7-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript,
• NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
• Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in a dynamic and disruptive environment
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of the backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands-on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• High motivation to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment

Know more about us…

About us:

We are a team of software avengers, passionate engineers & thinkers designing the future of education. The company has its roots from IIT, IIM Alumni and various SMEs in education space. Here, we all work together with & for a single dream; ‘Education For Everyone, Everywhere.’

Dizvik is an EdTech product-based tech start-up working on exciting technologies & latest tech amendments. We use technology as an effective & efficient tool to create things that are impactful & make education easier. Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Robust Media Streaming are few of our core areas.

We are a crazy bunch of people having multiple personas always trying to keep things light-hearted! Our roots are not new, the company is nurtured by the well established group excelling since 2003. The founders of Dizvik Technologies own multiple companies & one of those is Dhyeya Educational Services Private Limited (Dhyeya IAS) having more than 20 offline Institutes/Centers in India.

Role Description:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and developing highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant micro-services based applications for the company. Using Node Js, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSql, JWT, Cassandra, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Rabbitmq, Redis, Middlewares, CDN, Elasticsearch, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional and enterprise level product.

Salary Range:  10 LPA to 25 LPA

Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant backend architectures & applications for the company.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA, etc.) on planning and execution.
• Communicate, collaborate and lead the work & team effectively across distributed features
• Owning and working end-to-end on application – from system (server, deployment, configuration management) to back end (container, application, and database).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience in backend technologies: Node Js, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSql, JWT, Cassandra, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Middlewares, CDN, Elasticsearch etc.
• Implementation of security and data protection.(CSRF/JWT/ORM and various middleware/DB security implementations).
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills, and data structures experience.
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services in Monolith & Microservice both the architectures.
• Data modelling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience in troubleshooting server performance memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks, etc.
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
• Experience in versioning systems like GitHub, SVN, gitlab etc.

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