Engineering Manager

Role & Responsibilities

1. Create innovative architectures based on business requirements.
2. Design and develop cloud-based solutions for global enterprises.
3. Coach and nurture engineering teams through feedback, design reviews, and best practice input.
4. Lead cross-team projects, ensuring resolution of technical blockers.
5. Collaborate with internal engineering teams, global technology firms, and the open-source community.
6. Lead initiatives to learn and apply modern and advanced technologies.
7. Oversee the launch of innovative products in high-volume production environments.
8. Develop and maintain high-quality software applications using JS frameworks (React, NPM, Node.js etc.,).
9. Utilize design patterns for backend technologies and ensure strong coding skills.
10. Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud services, including ECS (Fargate), Lambda, and load balancers. Work with Docker to containerize services.
11. Implement and follow CI/CD practices using GitLab for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
12. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design technical solutions, ensuring adherence to Microservice Design patterns and Architecture.
13. Apply expertise in Authentication & Authorization protocols (e.g., JWT, OAuth), including certificate handling, to ensure robust application security.
14. Utilize databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Mongo and DynamoDB for efficient data storage and retrieval.
15. Demonstrate familiarity with Big Data technologies, including but not limited to:

- Apache Kafka for distributed event streaming.

- Apache Spark for large-scale data processing.

- Containers for scalable and portable deployments.

Technical Skills:

1. 7+ years of hands-on development experience with JS frameworks, specifically MERN.
2. Strong coding skills in backend technologies using various design patterns.
3. Strong UI development skills using React.
4. Expert in containerization using Docker.
5. Knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically OCI, and familiarity with serverless technology, services like ECS, Lambda, and load balancers.
6. Proficiency in CI/CD practices using GitLab or Bamboo.
7. Strong knowledge of Microservice Design patterns and Architecture.
8. Expertise in Authentication and authorization protocols like JWT, and OAuth including certificate handling.
9. Experience working with high stream media data.
10. Experience working with databases such as Postgres, MySQL, and DynamoDB.
11. Familiarity with Big Data technologies related to Kafka, PySpark, Apache Spark, Containers, etc.
12. Experience with container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

About Company:

Company is an open-source, low code software that helps developers build applications quickly, usually within only hours. Since being introduced less than two years ago, Appsmith’s open source software has more than 10 million downloads, more than 18,000 stars (up 12x since 2021) on Github and is used at over 10,000 organizations across 150 countries. We are a global and fully remote organization, excited to welcome new teammates to our collaborative environment and high-performance culture.

See our GitHub repo here: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

Company has raised $51.5 mn in funding. Company Vision We believe every organization should have the ability to develop high performing internal applications quickly and cost-effectively. Every enterprise needs to create custom internal applications, spending between 10% to 40% of their engineering resources on them. Yet they often take a backseat to customer-facing applications because they are challenging, expensive and slow to build. Appsmith is already enabling software engineers to transform how they build internal apps, often building them 10 times faster with Appsmith. In the future we’re building, custom software developed for internal users will look and work no differently than the best out-of-the-box SAAS products. Internal users will demand great UX, great customer support, and great reliability from their in-house development teams because Appsmith has made it quick and painless for developers to build, deploy and maintain custom software. What do we value? Above all, we value a growth mindset. As a team of learners, we read, talk to people and listen to feedback constantly. We love working with people who have strong opinions, weakly held. Self starters and ambitious people form the backbone of our team. Do you want to work on bigger projects? Are you comfortable setting large goals and then accomplishing them? We value consistency and reliability. For example, sticking to committed deadlines, showing up on time etc. We believe that predictability makes teams run a lot smoother. It’s the little things that matter. Attention to detail shows that we empathize with our users, our colleagues and anyone else that we interact with. Are you a practical optimist? Our founding team strongly believes in a better future. We believe in playing our part to make that future a reality. What will you be doing? The history of software is the history of teams. And the history of teams is the history of leaders. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team(s) of engineers focused on solving challenging product problems. You will take charge of the team’s outcomes by building robust engineering processes and inculcating a culture of ownership and accountability within the team. As a leader you will play a key role in bridging communication between various functions such as engineering, product, design and QA. This will help your team release high quality features on-time.

Must Have Skills

● You should have prior experience in leading SaaS product teams in startups. This will help you ramp up and build context within the team easily.

● Teams with predictable schedules and clear directions tend to move faster. You should have managed projects before and be comfortable creating product and feature roadmaps.

● It takes an engineer to understand an engineer. You should (until recently) have been an active developer.

Communication is the key to success. You should be able to convey your ideas to engineers and non-engineers alike with ease and clarity.

● As a leader, it’s imperative that you understand what the team is working on. A strong grasp over the fundamentals of APIs, web backends and browser frameworks will hold you in good stead. Nice to Have Skills

● Past experience in building and scaling teams distributed across time zones and geographies is a bonus.

● Contributions in other open source communities will help you assimilate and enhance Appsmith’s global community.

● Have you worn a founder’s hat before? If yes, we’d love to hear all about your story.

Remote working: Company is a fully distributed and remote team. Diversity and Inclusion: Company has dedicated to maintaining a diverse team and an inclusive work environment because our success depends on it. We welcome all people to apply for roles with company especially women and other disadvantaged populations and we appreciate non-traditional career paths. What is the recruitment process? As a small team, it’s imperative that all of us get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation (video conference) with us will last about 60 mins. Typically the whole process takes between 2 - 10 business days depending on your and our schedules. Introductory call: This call will help us get to know you better. We want to understand your career aspirations and your story. We will also introduce Appsmith's vision and product to you. If you find our product vision interesting exciting, we will move to the next steps. Technical conversation I: This is a video call with one of our leaders that allows for a deeper technical conversation. We will delve deeper into your professional background and talk about your technical prowess, past projects and leadership style. Technical conversation II: Another round of video interview with a founder on the team that will focus heavily on your project management experience. Expect to discuss strategies for handling real-world scenarios that occur in teams. Culture fit conversation: Conversation with the founders and quick meetings with our team members to ensure that there is a culture-fit. Extending an offer: If all goes well, we will extend an offer which includes financial benefits, equity stock grants and any other benefits.

Benefits

● Budget to setup your home office

● Medical insurance for self and dependants

● Self-education budget for books, courses, and conferences

● Flexible holiday schedule

● Paid Maternity and Paternity leave

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Engineering Manager to join our growing team in Bangalore. You will be responsible for a team that builds end-to-end functionality for products on the Trifacta platform, including data ingestion and publishing services, scalable backend services, and polished user interfaces. Above all, your work will impact how the world works with data.

Responsibilities:

• You inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering team and its team members.
• You attract and retain software engineers for your team.
• You care for your team.
• You are responsible for the execution of your team's projects.
• You provide hand-on technical leadership, e.g. through code reviews or architectural discussions.
• You represent your team in engineering and release management meetings.
• You collaborate and coordinate with other teams and functions such as product management and user experience design, making sure everyone is in sync.

Requirements:

• You have 6 or more years of experience as a software engineer (or in a comparable role) taking projects from the initial concept to production.
• You have a bias towards action and a can-do attitude.
• You have minimum 1 years of experience managing a team of 3-5 engineers as a people manager.
• You have experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders (developers, product management, user experience design, quality assurance).
• You are a communicative and collaborative manager with excellent people skills.
• You have a strong desire helping people and teams grow.
• You have experience working with cross-site teams.

CommerceIQ is a well-funded, Series B growth stage start-up that helps consumer brands grow their business on e-commerce channels (like Amazon, Walmart) using advanced algorithms and machine learning technology. We help consumer brands win shoppers at the moment of purchase by algorithmically managing supply chain, demand forecasting, promotions and advertising spend, fraud listing detection, content optimization and other aspects that help shoppers make online purchase decisions. 

In 2020, CoVid 19 affected every business, few positively and many negatively. However, E-commerce adoption has gone through the roof and we have seen e-commerce spend grow from 15% to 25% of retail spend in just 8 weeks! (Compare this to a decade that it took to grow e-commerce adoption from 5 to 15%). This put us in a unique situation and provided a huge opportunity for us to help brands grow significantly on e-commerce channels.

At the back of strong product-market fit and a change in human behaviour due to CoVid that buoyed e-commerce, we tripled our revenue consecutively in 2019 and 2020. More than 50 consumer brands use our product to drive e-commerce growth. Our customers include named brands like Bayer Healthcare, J&J, Nestle, Hamilton Beach, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Kellogg, Kimberly Clark, Colgate, Mars, Inc. and many others.

Our focus in 2021 is to heavily invest in our engineering, product and customer success capability to bolster our product, make our customers successful and establish ourselves as a market leader in this rapidly growing market!

Roles and responsibilities :

• Manage the performance and career development of a team of engineers, and own significant parts of CIQ applications that require design, architecture, and coding (Both Frontend and Backend).
• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
• Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on high standards.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying right design patterns, review code, and deliver with speed and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Own the QA and deployment strategies for the team.
• Work‌ ‌with‌ ‌multiple‌ ‌stakeholders to understand business, prioritise and execute based on company goals and priorities.
• Be the custodian of process and SDLC best practices within the team.
• Own hiring goals for the team and hire the best.
• Delivery and tech ownership of all roadmap / tech items for the team.

What you need to succeed :

• Should have proficiency in Backend and frontend technologies along with good experience in AWS.
• Should‌ ‌be‌ ‌aware‌ ‌of‌ ‌best‌ ‌practices‌ ‌for‌ ‌Software‌ ‌development‌ .
• 6+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
• 5+ years software design, coding in Java / equivalent and a good understanding of frontend technologies.
• 1+ years of management experience in building small to medium-sized teams, demonstrating growth and a track record of successful deliveries.

Preferred Qualifications : 

• 5+ years of experience in building and working with production grade systems.
• Shipped several large-scale projects with dependencies across multiple teams.
• Built and delivered on successful cross-functional partnerships across multiple teams.
• Been actively involved in creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap.
• Actively coached, mentored and grew team members in their careers.
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to hire and build incredible engineering teams.
• Good understanding and experience in practicing SDLC best practices.
• Strong believer in innovation culture and Engineering driven ideas.
• Experience in release management and agile methodologies.