Engineering Manager - Platform (Django)

Roles and Responsibilities
 You will design and b

uild scalable systems to be used by millions of farmers and agri businesses
You will work on building progressive web apps forked off open source frameworks that work equally well on low end devices, low bandwidth network and even offline
You will work with spatiel imagery data to build maps based solutions for farmers and businesses
We believe in a small and effective team - you will have a say in what to build and then own it
You will lead a team of both Android, web and back end developers
We are paranoid about performance - you will investigate performance scalability bottlenecks and existing queries and / or write new queries with performance optimisation in mind
Identify libraries and technologies that solve our problems and / or worth experimentation

Requirements

Have 10-15 years of experience in web development including managing a team
Come up with your own and team's goals and dont need heavy direction or check-ins
Have experience in setting up the,  full dev workflow - right from Dev, test, build to deployment
Have command over one language, preferably python, else java / JS/ Ruby - including debugging and performance analysis
Have clear understanding of databases - Relational and non relational - their data models and performance trade offs; experience designing database and querying to optimize performance
Have experience in developing webapps with atleast one framework (Django, flask, ROR) etc
Have handson experience with caching techniques and utilities like memcache / Redis
Have experience in implementing and deploying distributed systemes on AWS / GCP et c
Have clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
Showcase your work available in opensource, online courses etc

The engineering team is solving deeply technical and challenging problems at scale, while the product team is building innovative and intuitive products leveraging our core platform, and the customer team is solving complex use cases across a range of industries and verticals with the right mix of engineering and product solutions. What if there was a specialist engineering team that worked at the intersection of these functions to empower them and made the sum greater than the whole? That’s what the partner engineering team does!

The role is diverse, multi-faceted, and cross-functional providing exposure to both software engineering and product management. You will collaborate with product managers, solution architects, project managers, customer teams, and clients to understand complex requirements, research and brainstorm solutions, design systems and integrations, and build them out seeing them through to completion. Needless to say – the work is challenging and rewarding, brings about a ton of learning, and the impact is far-reaching!

We are looking to scale the team to keep up with our rapid growth and are on the lookout for rockstar engineers who are go-getters and love solving problems and building products.

The ideal candidate has

Experience in

• Working with enterprise systems and SaaS products.
• Designing and building API integrations, webhooks, and connectors with internal and external systems.
• Implementing integrations with enterprise systems and, leading the implementation by handling all stages of their development –  ideation, system design, development, testing, UAT, and delivery.
• Building modular and extensible features based on product requirements and customer use cases.
• Creating APIs to drive new features and enhance existing features for a web-based application or SaaS product.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ideate, build, and deliver features.

 

Demonstrates

• Ability to dissect a system to understand its inner workings, engineering, and product flows.
• Ability and interest to get familiar with new systems, frameworks, architecture patterns, and programming languages as needed.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, break down complexity, and chart out a clear path/solution for complex problems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-changing environment.
• Being result-oriented, self-driven, proactive and leading from the front to rally people together.

As part of the role, you will

• Brainstorm with the product, customer, and engineering teams to ship thoughtful solutions and integrate them with existing systems to meet complex and diverse requirements.
• Work with customer-facing teams and customers to understand their use cases, pain points, and nuances, and work with the product and customer teams to build and implement robust solutions.
• Design and build highly reliable, modular, and extensible systems and features for the product.
• Write high-quality, extensible, and maintainable code.
• Document detailed specifications for proposed solutions.
• Analyze current technologies and systems used within the firm and by customers to determine ways to improve them based on the requirements.
• Work with the business to understand and solve complex problems, by presenting various solution options and technical concepts in a comprehensible manner.
• Act as a bridge between technical and business audiences during solution planning, development, and deployment.

Preferred technical skills

• System design
• API design, development, and optimization
• Testing (unit/integration/E2E) and debugging skills
• Python
• Django
• Django Rest Framework
• Celery
• PostgreSQL
• Git

Bonus if you have

• Experience in designing and implementing an API integration framework to build integrations quickly and scale integrations seamlessly.
• An understanding of data security and infrastructure.
• Exposure to AWS.
• A keen eye for product development with a core focus on the user journey and doing what’s best for the end user.

If you love startups or have experience working with startups, look no further!

Perks

• Best-in-class compensation
• Performance-based ESOPs
• Fully-remote work
• Flexible schedules
• Engineering-first culture
• Continuous learning
• Massive opportunities for growth
• Paid vacation
• Yearly offsite
• Quarterly hacker house
• Workstation setup allowance
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Maternity leaves
• Latest Apple Workstation
• Rockstar team to work with (we mean it!)
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Engineering Director.

Job brief:
We are looking for a director of engineering to lead our engineering department and help us build great products. 
You’ll manage our infrastructure and ensure all internal systems operate securely and effectively.
To be successful in this role, you should be confident in managing our teams while, at the same time, setting goals and timelines for various projects. 
We also expect you to be in charge of our integrations with external partners and oversee all software development plans from ideation to execution.
Ultimately, you’ll make sure we use innovative technologies that maximize our productivity and help our company grow.

Responsibilities:
•  50% time for hands-on development and other 50% to enable the Engineering team
• Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects
• Leverage your technical depth as a hands-on developer and architect to push your team towards a high standard of technical excellence
• Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Hire engineers and coordinate their training
• Implement innovative technologies
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems
• Take initiative to explore, evangelize, and implement innovative technologies within the business in order to improve the business’s internal platforms as well as customer experience.
• Provide support and leadership to development departments, facilitating continuous evolution in both the frontend and backend development teams.
• The Director of Engineering will also perform similar duties as he deems fit for the proper execution of his duties as delegated by the CEO.

Requirements:
• Work experience as a director of engineering, Head of engineering, CTO, EngineeringManager or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
• Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in an engineering organization
• Strong technical aptitude and proven experience in architecture, design, and delivery of data-intensive applications
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind

Roles and Responsibilities
● The candidate will be responsible for a broad array of individual services, including
Architect and lead team for implementing a set of cloud-based services that will
power Zopper Assure and Zopper Finance.
● Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle from concept
development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support.
● Prior experience in development of e-commerce systems or any other high scale
web/mobile backends is required.
● Expertise in any one programming knowledge preferably in Python.
● Prototype and present various alternative solutions for complex business problems to
Senior Management
● Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the
module
● Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology
stack or component or design pattern versus another to the project team and drives
selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture.
● Drives the performance tuning, re-design and refactoring for a module
● Contributes to designing and implementing the build, release process as well as system
configuration and deployment characteristics of the application
● Implements (hands-on) the module components based on industry best practices.
● Mentors the team (people working on the module and other project team members) on
● Technology concepts and best practices for design, implementation and other
processes

Prerequisites
● Candidate should hold 8+ Yrs of experience
● Should have 3+ years of experience in team handling
● Should be a Btech/MTech

• Take the microservices architecture to the next level of scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability. 
• Build, deploy & run multi-homed systems that work in multiple regions and cloud providers. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, fulfillment/allocation, pricing, maps & routing, fleet positioning, payments, fraud prevention etc 
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable 
• Write high-quality code that is modular, functional and testable; Establish the best coding practices 
• Formally mentor junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting 
• Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture 
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment 
• Operationalize releases by partnering with Tech operations on capacity planning and operability of the product

 

Experience:

• of years  - 10+ years
• Type of experience - software design, development & architecture
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Contribution to open-source software, tech blogs, talking at tech conferences, etc. 

 

 

Educational Qualifications:

○  Must have - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred  

 

Key competencies:

 

•  Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs. 
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. 
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation, consensus etc. 
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL 
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB, etc 
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc) 
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc 
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc. 
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures. 
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 

Y Media Labs is a creative technology company that helps brands re-imagine their
customer experiences. Our mission is to export the Silicon Valley mindset to the rest of
the world.
We create digital products with purpose that have a lasting impact on users' lives and
clients' businesses. We are a team of dreamers and doers united by a simple idea: If we
make a difference for your customers, we will make a difference for your business too.
And it works. Since 2009, we have led early-stage startups and top-tier brands to "wow"
their customers with best-in-class digital products and experiences. The Wall Street
Journal calls us “YML is one of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley.”
Through next-generation technologies and world-class design, we help brands like
Apple, PayPal, L'Oreal, Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, State Farm, First Republic
Bank etc develop solutions that drive major business outcomes. Founded in 2009, Y
Media Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with four offices worldwide including
Atlanta, Indianapolis, Bangalore & Sao Paulo.
We came of age with the invention of the app store. We have mobile in our DNA. We
create solutions across the digital ecosystem. Unlike agencies who are born desktop,
we are deeply connected to how consumer perception has shifted thanks to the mobile
lifestyle. We have built and launched 207 products, delighted over 407 million users,
built over 200+ apps, work with 30 Fortune 500 clients, been responsible for over 400
billion transactions through our work and generated over $200 billion in transactions
for our clients, and been featured on the app store over 700+ times!
• Portfolio of our work can be found @ ymedialabs.com/work
• Live look into our engineering team @ medium.com/ymedialabs-innovation
• Live look into our design team @ dribbble.com/ymedialabs
Our team in Bangalore is close to 180 strong, and we are growing in a variety of ways.
Our goals include a culture of excellence and we are looking to transform the team to
be one of the best tech teams in Bangalore.
We are looking to hire Engineering Manager for our team in Bangalore. If you are
excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide,
building products for brands that you can be proud to show to your family and friends –
you need to join us!
This position reports to: Director of Engineering

What you will be doing:
• Lead and coach a group of engineers in delivering scalable, flexible and secure
features to our customers
• Leading engineering teams composed of backend, frontend, iOS, Android
developers and QA.
• Deep dive into work of your team, review the code submitted by your team, and
resolve the root cause of problems
• Coach your team members how to increase the quality of their code based on
real examples
• Involve in hiring for your teams
• Drive a continuous improvement process - introduce new tools & automations
based on real data analysis
• Represent the team to engineering groups internally, to executive leaders in
various functional groups within YML, to current and future customers, and to
our partner organizations.
• Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
What You Will NOT Be Doing:
• Project and Program management

Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Product/Project Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks
and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Manage the development pipeline to deliver features on schedule while
maintaining high bar for quality. Closely Interact with other functions such as
PM/Product, Design, UI/UX, Architecture, QA, and deliver planned features
• Deliver Web, Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services
deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness.
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of
apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to
help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve
milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules
owned.

Requirements:
• A highly talented developer with 9+ years of hands-on experience
• Primarily in web application development experience using, Javascript, Angular,
ReactJS
• Working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Must have at least 2+ years of experience in an engineering management role,
and a clear record of success prior to that as a senior/staff engineer
• Must be compelling and clear communicator, able to represent your team to
internal and external audiences with differing levels of technical fluency.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities/projects in a fast-paced
environment.
• Good Analytical, Problem solving and Debugging skills.
• Hands on experience in Designing, Coding and release management.
• Continuously increasing your team's work quality & performance
• Experience with writing and maintaining unit-tests, functional tests, and CI/CD
pipelines
• Ability to think from a product mindset
Nice to Have:
• Hands-on cloud development experience

Qualification – B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA (IT/Computer Science)

Years of Exp – 9+

Work from Home Related
Given the current situation it is expected that working from home for extended periods
is a reality that continues for many months. You must be able to fulfill the following
requirements:
• You must have a high-speed broadband connection and must be able to
provide evidence of it
• You must have a proper working environment at home, like a desk, chair and any
other required infrastructure
• You must be able to and willing to attend video calls as part of your workday

Job Perks
• Awesome work environment and opportunity to work with great minds
• Work in fun teams on projects that impacts millions of people
• 100% reimbursement for all job/growth related courses you complete in Udemy

                                                       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

 

Main responsibilities: + Management of a growing technical team + Continued technical Architecture design based on product roadmap + Annual performance reviews + Work with DevOps to design and implement the product infrastructure Strategic: + Testing strategy + Security policy + Performance and performance testing policy + Logging policy Experience: + 9-15 years of experience including that of managing teams of developers + Technical & architectural expertise, and have evolved a growing code base, technology stack and architecture over many years + Have delivered distributed cloud applications + Understand the value of high quality code and can effectively manage technical debt + Stakeholder management + Work experience in consumer focused early stage (Series A, B) startups is a big plus Other innate skills: + Great motivator of people and able to lead by example + Understand how to get the most out of people + Delivery of products to tight deadlines but with a focus on high quality code + Up to date knowledge of technical applications

 

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Job Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above, computer-related major, good English reading and writing ability.
2. Skilled use of Redis, MongoDB, React Native, Android Development and other caching technology.
3. Familiar with basic Linux operation, have experience in super-million-level PV application development and have experience in high concurrency and big data processing.
4. Five years of WEB development work experience, familiar with PHP website program development language with successful large-scale website project development experience or e-commerce development experience is preferred.
5. Familiar with Opencart system module development, development, template improvement and system reconstruction according to the requirements of the prototype, and complete the experience of website construction;
6. Proficient in HTML, DIV + CSS, XHTML, XML page structure, proficient in JavaScript / Ajax scripting language, can write web programs compatible with all major browsers;
7. Familiar with the MySql database, can write efficient SQL statements, have large database optimization experience;
8. Have a good learning and research ability, good business ethics and personal professional ethics, teamwork spirit, good at communication.