Engineering Manager

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.

We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. 

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As a Principal Engineer at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll drive the creation of frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners. You’ll also manage a team of high performers to achieve the planned outcomes.

You’ll own the technology strategy of the engineering organization and be a key decision maker when it comes to processes and execution.

Responsibilities:

1. Drive design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Work with product, engineering and business teams to ideate on technology strategy and line up initiatives around the same
3. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
4. Build clean, modular and scalable frontends
5. Own quality and velocity of releases across the engineering organization
6. Manage and mentor a team of engineers
7. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
8. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem, propose and implement new technologies/methodologies as per the business needs
9. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
10. Champion infrastructure-as-code mindset and encourage automation
11. Identify problems around engineering processes, propose solutions and drive implementations for the same

Requirements:

1. At least 8 years of experience, building large scale applications
2. Experience working at startups in growth phase with war stories to share
3. Experience with frontend technologies like vue.js or react.js
4. Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
5. Extensive experience in at least one programming language (preferably Javascript, GoLang) and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
6. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
7. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
8. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
9. Passion for solving complex problems
10. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
11. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
12. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
13. Experience with team management
14. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
2. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
3. Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
4. Exposure to AI/ML

• Build and manage a team of software engineers as the team’s capacity requirements grow
• Organize software development lifecycle
• Prepare specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
• Organize, document, and maintain software functionality
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Evaluate and deploy software tools, processes, and metrics
• Provide support and consulting on software systems usage
• Ensure compliance with project plans and industry standards
• Research, implement and improve on a range of cutting-edge technologies.

Ideal Experience & Skills

• 8+ years experience of working in a Computer Software Engineer or Software Developer position
• 3+ years experience leading a team of developers
• Significant experience in developing web applications
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies 1
• Good experience in designing interactive applications with test-driven development
• Experience with Go, React, AWS, React Native, Python
• Experience documenting requirements and specifications
• Close familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, and release processes
• B.E/B.Tech or any equivalent degree

About You

• A+ character. We are team-first here at the company.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.
• Perks & Benefits
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Group Medical insurance
• Life and long term disability insurance
• Collaborative workspace
• The opportunity to join the fastest-growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

‍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.

About 6sense : The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team.

https://hub.6sense.com/welcome/6sense-funding-announcement">In one of the latest news,6sense Raises $125 Million in Series D Funding, Increases Valuation to $2.1 Billion https://hub.6sense.com/welcome/6sense-funding-announcement.

In the other news,6sense was named one of https://twitter.com/Inc">@Inc's Best Workplaces for the third year in a row.

As an Engineering Manager at 6sense ,you will have the opportunity to-

• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent. 
• You will nurture an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor, while planning and supporting career development  
• You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software. 
• You will meet 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.
• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent 
• Work cross functionally with other Engineering Managers to strategize and execute on crucial business objectives along with managing upstream and downstream dependencies 
• Work with the Product Managers on project planning and roadmap 
• Apply distributed computing and map-reduce knowledge to compute, dedupe, and derive insights from billions of records daily 
• Intellectually contribute to the software, data, process, and growth of other team members 
• Participate in writing applicable patents for your ground-breaking work 
• Promote and set examples for high code quality like unit testing, good variable naming, modularity, etc. 
• Own products/features at multiple levels: code, data, metrics, reduction of support frequency, etc. 
• Ensure new features are properly tested at scale prior to release 

Required qualifications and must have skills 

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ engineers 
• 10+ years of experience in delivering software 
• BS / MS in Software Engineering or an equivalent degree 
• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

Roles and Responsibility :

- This position requires you to lead and manage the whole engineering team.

- Manage your OKRs, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.

- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

- Architect & design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Lead multiple modules, third party integrations and business partners integration.

- Taking architectural decisions, defining high level and low level design.

- Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent and more to be shared via email.

Skills you are expected to have :

- Hands-on experience in advanced Golang, Python, PHP, Reactjs, React Native PWA, Javascript, AWS Cloud Services.

- Deep understanding of technologies, high level design, low level design in a secure, scalable and available set-up.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Hands-on experience in system design, architecture or developing distributed systems.

- Should be good in writing code keeping scalability, flexibility and monitoring at center.

- Good understanding of source control tools GIT, Jira and Bitbucket, code reviews etc.

- Preferable experience in Django and Laravel frameworks, but not limited to these only.

- Experience in the development of robust and scalable Rest APIs and APIs testing tools such as postman etc.

- Experience in micro service-based development would be a plus.

- Experience in queuing systems such as rabbitMQ, Active MQ would be a plus.

- Experience in AWS cloud services.

- Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipeline.

- Good analytical and communication skills.

- Candidates from the fintech domain would be preferred (Payments/ Banking/ Wallets/ Insurance/ Financial Markets).

About Us :

- We are a consumer lending fintech start-up on a mission to provide Fair Finance to Everyone. We have raised $15 million in debt and equity funding from leading angels that have previously backed Ola, Oyo, Myntra, Uniphore and 1mg as well as marquee NBFCs.

- Our loans are originated in partnership with 1000+ merchants who are present in over 80 cities -

- Leading healthcare chains: Indra IVF, Partha Dental, VLCC

- Home improvements: Asian Paints, Design Cafe, @home by Nilkamal

- Education : upGrad, Toppr, Board Infinity, Career Point, Bansal Learning, Miles Education E-Bikes - Ampere, Hero Electric, Lectrix, Benlng

- Our founding team has worked at fintech companies in London where they won a Banking Technology Award for Best Mobile Initiative as well as Indian FinTechs such as Coverfox and Liquiloans.

- The team has extensive experience in credit, investment banking and vendor management. They have graduated from London Business School, Northwestern University (USA), and attained the CFA charter.

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

Job description

    A minimum of 8-10 years of hands-on IT experience, developing at least more than two full life-cycle project using public Cloud technologies such as SOA Suite, OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
    At least 5 years of experience in Java/J2EE with Spring Boot, Spring Microservices, Angular, MongoDB & SOA Suite 12C. Willing to learn new technologies .
    NodeJS/Angular/Java/J2EE web application development
    Agile development concepts
    REST, JSON, and distributed application development
    Unit testing frameworks and approaches to coding
    Works on small to large, complex projects that require increased skill in multiple technical environments and possesses knowledge in a specific business area.
    Strong written and communications skills are a must. Must be able to document, present, and articulate designs and technical decisions in front of teams and key business design makers.
    Developer loves to write code, build products and see your creations used by customers around the world.
Excellent experience in XML technologies XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath and Web Services SOAP, WSDL
Knowledge in functional and technical aspects of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
    Front-end frameworks (React, Angular, JS, REST)
General Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure knowledge
Oracle Integration cloud experience
The cloud migration experience is a plus
Competitive knowledge will be a plus.

Job Responsibilities

    Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
    Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java/Node/SOA/Mulesoft code
To develop integration solutions using Oracle SOA Suite 12c and Oracle Integration Cloud.
    To Support SIT, UAT, Go-Live, Hyper care
    To Support and resolve L3 level issues
    Drive initial testing phase and quality assurance process.
    Log their hours correctly in the System so that they can be billed to the Customers accordingly.
    Deliver high-quality, fully tested, and fault-proof Customer Integration Developments, as per the Technical Mapping Specifications.
    Ensure implementation of optimized, reusable (where possible) deliverables that cater to customer needs and cause the least impact to the existing Customer Integration landscape.
    Extensive know-how on the relevant Customer Integration IT Products, Integration patterns, protocols, and tools.
    Testing bench skills
    Deployment process awareness in full Software Development Lifecycle
    To deliver quality Integration Solutions on time.
    To hand over the Integration Solution to support teams with quality documentation.
    To provide good support as L3 Support.
    To be able to handle multiple projects at a time.