Engineering Manager

Our client is looking for a dynamic & passionate Engineering Director who can lead

the tech-stack and drive teams with great leadership qualities.

Here is the JD for Director Engineering -

Responsibilities:

Completely responsible for product delivery, development process, and engineering

team performance. Provide overall direction to the engineering team.

Create a top-performing engineering team culture with high levels of team engagement

and satisfaction.

Work with the leadership team and product leaders to define engineering roadmaps and

solve business problems.

Drive engineering efforts to deliver releases with high quality and on time.

Communicate cross-functionally, hold your command in technical discussion, and have

strategic influence.

Work with the Talent Acquisition team to hire top talent, manage their performance,

and successfully mentor them to grow professionally.

Minimum Qualifications:

Hands-on technical expertise and management experience.

8+ years of people management experience.

Demonstrated experience to recruit and manage technical teams, including team

performance management.

Must have relevant experience in designing, building, maintaining, and extending large

scale production systems.

Have deep expertise in React.js, Node JS and MongoDB.

Strong software engineering skills and best practices including experience with a

modern agile development and deployment workflow.

Proven leadership skills; courage to challenge with candor, motivate and inspire teams.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, for both technical and non-technical

audiences.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering projects on time based on roadmap requirements
• Overriding technical architecture of the product
• Managing the Development Team including workloads, setting and managing targets, mentoring and training members of the team
• Writing technical specifications and managing projects through to completion
• Implementing and reviewing all development processes (coding standards, code review, code complexity)
• Identifying and resolving issues within the product
• Implementing and managing suitable monitoring systems for production platforms
• Monitoring costs across the AWS platform

Requirements:

• Be highly experienced in the following technologies: Java, Node Js, Typescript, React, SQL
• Show preferable experience in Android development, Kotlin, Mongo DB, MQTT
• Demonstrate fluent English speaking, reading, writing
• Excellent communication skills
• Have previous AWS Cloud experience
• Have experience in leading a Development Team, mentoring and training colleagues
• Demonstrate experience in managing projects through an agile environment, ideally Jira or Azure Devops

Amagi is a SaaS platform that lets every content owner deliver their content to consumers anytime, anywhere, to any device. Amagi helps bring entertainment to hundreds of millions of consumers leading the transformation in media consumption. We believe in a connected ecosystem bringing content owners, distribution platforms, consumers and advertisers together to create great experiences.

Amagi grew by 136% last year and is on its way to double itself again this year. The market leader in FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV), it delivers more than 500 media brands to 1500+ end points and is growing exponentially.

At Amagi, our Internal Enterprise Platforms are key to our continued growth. The success of our products is dependent on the success of our internal processes and their ability to provide scalable, reliable and intuitive experiences to our customers, partners and internal stakeholders.

We are looking for an Engineering Director to help us lead the efforts of building Enterprise platforms to automate Lead to Cash process area including setting up the CRM platform, implementation of billing platform and automating process areas related to managing the disputes, account receivables and account payables. The ideal candidate would be responsible for the successful delivery of a scalable and flexible Enterprise platform, applications and workflows related to Lead to Cash process area.

Role reporting into: Chief Executive Officer

Individuals reporting into this role: Software Development Manager - CRM, Software Development Manager - Billing and AR/AP

Location: Bangalore, India

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Participate in the overall design and development discussions
• Support Product Management team in establishing product roadmaps.
• Instil a customer centric and quality-focused culture by using best practices and metrics to ensure desired outcomes
• Focus on building a high performing and highly skilled team.
• Drive engineering excellence by tracking engineering efficiency using relevant metrics
• Demonstrate strong business and technology acumen.

Person Specification:

• 18+ years of overall SDLC experience with 10+ years of experience managing large scale cloud application/platform engineering teams.
• Well versed with at least of one cloud of the platforms, AWS or GCP
• Experience developing the usage/subscription based billing for SaaS products, working with CRM and ERP platforms.
• Strong CS fundamentals (object oriented analysis, data structures, algorithms)
• Experience delivering highly available, scalable, low latency and robust distributed cloud systems.
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Good exposure to CI/CD & Devops environments.
• Knowledge of core Finance & Operations concepts
• Salesforce sales and revenue cloud knowledge
• NetSuite, Salesforce, Freshdesk integration experience
• Working experience with any of the enterprise cloud platforms or applications.

‍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.

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

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

‍You will be responsible for architecting and developing features on the application end to end. You will be responsible for the functional/technical track of the project. Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes.

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• Work on the front-end with ReactJS.
• Designing and developing APIs for the front-end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages).

‍An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• Education - B.Tech/MCA or equivalent.
• Overall 10 to 12 years of experience.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS,  MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Columnar DBs
• Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks, React, AngularJS.
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API using Node or Lambda or python.
• Good understanding of ELK, Kafka, Redis and CDN .
• Worked on serverless technologies  and good understanding of CMS.
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Good understanding of AWS and its technologies.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach and should be hands on coding guru
• Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a product.
• Experience with Scaling SAAS products and ability to design from scratch.
• Ability to manage a small team of 5 -10 Developers/QA Engineers and guide them on the design and coding best practices.

‍You will work with a top-notch tech team, working closely with the architect and engineering head.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. 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 engage and motivate 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. However, we 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.

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

1. Lead over a product in the Technology department.
2. Self-sufficiently lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring.
3. Work with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
4. Recruit, train, retain, and simply make Blok a great yet challenging place to work for the people in your team.
5. Mentor team, resulting in trickle-down happiness and efficiency.
   
   Requirements

1. You have at least 2 years of experience in a managerial position in a technology company.
2. You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services, and know-how to compose a service-oriented architecture. You’ll lead by example by executing when necessary.
3. Bias towards action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way. You embrace the agile software development mindset.
4. Hiring prowess. You're a strong leader who can attract talent around the world, raising the bar for excellence. You retained, mentored, and hired senior engineers and managers with a track record of building productive, world-class engineering teams.
5. Mentorship. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through motivating, mentoring, teaching, and reviewing, you help other specialists make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
6. You have the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with others at all levels within the organization. You have experience with effectively creating alignments with multiple teams and operating well in ambiguity.
7. Dedication. You care tremendously about keeping the experience consistent for users. You are your harshest critic and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team's scope.
8. Experience within our tech-stack (Microservices, Node.js, Java, React, MongoDB, Kotlin, Swift, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, WebSockets, etc.)
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative regardless of boundaries empowers their teams and works well in a cross-functional set-up.

                                                       JD – Engineering Manager Role

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and deployed cloud-native applications (we use AWS)
• Working on or leading enterprise tech products and worked with enterprise customers
• Mentor & grow / Hire Engineering Managers to lead up these individual units.
• Work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
• Set up the organisation & processes to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Well versed in Software Architecture and Design - You should be able to spot flaws in the existing architecture and design. You would help us refactor and re-architecture the code for easier and faster development.
• Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
• Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organisations.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.
• Identify, define, and coordinate the training needs of the team.
• Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback on a regular basis
• Building and maintaining data capabilities at KredX while taking care of scaling, privacy and processing aspects.
• Ability to work with external partners and vendors to integrate with KredX product
• Write blogs and other technical papers to share the lessons with community both inside and outside the company and or participates in technical events to get new knowledge to the organisation while improving brand of engineering team at KredX
• Appropriately escalate any issues/concerns that require immediate attention from other affected parties
• Always be thinking about the engineering systems and business from different angles - fraud, downtimes, scale, business direction and more

Requirements:

• Experience in working with large scale unstructured data, and data science
• Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Possess superb troubleshooting and problem analysis skills.
• Knowledgeable about new engineering paradigms and developments in software engineering

• Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute with at least 8+ years over all professional experience. At-least 2+ years experience in managing/leading software development teams.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Able to drive sprints and OKRs.
• Exceptional team managing skills; experience in building large scale distributed systems
• Experience in Scalable Systems - transactional systems (B2C)
• Expertise in Java/J2EE and multithreading
• Deep understanding of transactional and NoSQL DBs
• Deep understanding of Messaging systems - kafka
• Good experience on cloud infrastructure - AWS preferably
• Good to have: Data pipelines, ES
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise and depth-wise while designing and implementing services
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.