Engineering Manager (Platform)

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.