Engineering Manager

Role Summary:

We are looking for a technically adept Principal Software Engineer who specializes in Node.js, and MySQL and any experience in Angular/react is good to have. The candidate will be instrumental in developing high-performance web applications and leading the technical direction of our software development team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop robust, scalable web applications using Angular / React, Node.js, and MySQL.
• Lead backend development efforts, ensuring efficient database design, optimal server-side scripting with Node.js, and API integration.
• Spearhead front-end development with Angular, focusing on responsive design and user experience optimization.
• Implement advanced MySQL database management and optimization techniques.
• Establish and enforce code quality and software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, and CI/CD processes.
• Analyze system requirements and delegate tasks to team members, ensuring adherence to technical specifications and timelines.
• Troubleshoot complex application issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement strategic solutions.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating and adopting new technologies as appropriate.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on defining technical roadmaps, aligning software development strategies with business goals.
• Lead technical discussions and provide mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in software development with a focus on Node. js, along with MySQL / PostgreSQL, and any experience working with front-end technologies like Angular / React, and MongoDB for databases is good to have.
• Expertise in developing high-load, scalable, and distributed web applications.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in database design, optimization, and management in MySQL.
• Strong grasp of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and AJAX.
• Experience with modern development tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.

Location: Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi

Responsibilities :

● Build and nurture high performing teams of skilled software engineers. Find and hire top talent for your team

● Work closely with your team providing continuous feedback to raise the bar

● Shape team goals by developing a deep understanding of our business processes and success criteria

● Develop and execute a long-term product roadmap and 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.

● Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build, and predictability of the deliverables of your team

● Effectively partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders across the organization to co-define and deliver on own and team goals

What are we looking for ?

● Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field from a college of repute

● 8 to 14 years of industry experience in software engineering with 2 to 3 years of experience of directly managing a team of software engineers

● Prior experience in established start-ups would be preferred

● 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 and non-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 operation

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Xoxoday Plum. Plum is a rewarding and incentives infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises of 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture ( Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 25 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have at least 7+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, full-stack developer with modern architecture.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, PHP
• Frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, MySql, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. You'll report to the co-founder directly.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavour, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

‍A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

‍We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Responsibilities:

Plan, build, configure, and optimize public cloud infrastructure for high performance, scalable and reliable customer experience
Lead, motivate, and scale a highly diverse team.
Introduce scalable, repeatable processes that help the team deliver a high-quality product.
Champion an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.
Recruit, mentor, and develop world-class engineers and engineering managers.
Diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software.
Lead root cause analysis and collaborate with Engineering to build instrumentation into our stack to understand real-time performance characteristics

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience working with kubernetes
Experience working with linux containers
Familiarity with the google cloud environment
Strong technical acumen; creativity; interpersonal skills; emotional intelligence.
Demonstrated ability to build and scale world-class engineering teams.
Proven track record of leading engineering teams working on large-scale, highly-distributed Cloud products and services.
Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes.
Strong communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

What you need to have:

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Plum Integration activities. Plum is a rewarding and incentive infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc.).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 10 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have experience working with applications like HubSpot salesforce and other CRM.
• Should have experience in B2B integrations.
• Should have at least 10+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, with an Automate as much as possible mind set full-stack developer.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• Frameworks like React, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Integration Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. Your will report to the CTO directly.

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

At JFrog, we’re reinventing DevOps to help the world’s greatest companies innovate -- and we want you along for the ride. This is a special place with a unique combination of brilliance, spirit and just all-around great people. Here, if you’re willing to do more, your career can take off. And since software plays a central role in everyone’s lives, you’ll be part of an important mission. Thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100, trust JFrog to manage, accelerate, and secure their software delivery from code to production -- a concept we call “liquid software.” Wouldn't it be amazing if you could join us in our journey?

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager to bel responsible for planning, coordinating and leading activities across the full delivery lifecycle, to ensure successful deliveries.
To join us, you need to demonstrate the ability for hands-on leadership and ensure you can offer guidance and support, as well as assisting developers at code level.

• Lead a team of strong developers, working on large-scale, complex and cutting-edge systems
• Managing the development and delivery of complex features from design to production according to product requirements
• Ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely while driving all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards
• Building a strong development team that can work independently and at the same time will collaborate with other international R&D teams
• Coordinate team activities with product managements, support, and other interfaces

• 5+ years of experience in building and managing highly skilled development teams, and the ability to lead, coach and influence them
• Deep understanding in Java, Golang, SQL database, Elastic search, K8S and Docker
• Experience in developing scalable, concurrent, low-latency, fault tolerant systems
• Strong track record of leading and managing the delivery of software development projects, meeting key milestones and overcoming challenges
• Previous experience in working with other international R&D, product management and support teams
• Proven knowledge in both architecture and implementation-level software design of high-scale distributed systems
• Ability to manage, track and identify risks, bottlenecks and challenges ahead of time, and oversee technical coordination to resolve them
• Willingness to work in a fast paced, and driven team in a context-switching environment