About Company:
ACKO General Insurance: Acko is India’s first online-only insurance company focused on independent general insurance with its entire operations offered through the digital platform. Being India’s first online-only insurtech player Acko plans to launch low-cost, small-ticket insurance products based on data analytics. Acko plans to create products and deliver opportunities in areas where there are gaps such as personalized insurance products based on user consumption behaviors. Distribution will be key for Acko as it competes with the large insurers which have massive reach. Acko will bring out multiple product lines, offer bespoke pricing and products catering to specific segments and create products for the internet economy. Low cost products for the rural sector will also be key over a period of time, delivered via technology. Website: https://www.acko.com/">https://www.acko.com/
We are a Series C funded company and backed by a marquee set of investors like Mr. Binny Bansal, Amazon, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran etc. Our total funding till date is $143 Million.
ounding Team:
Varun Dua, Founder and CEO
Amit Upadhay, CTO (Ex- BrowserStack, CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Deepak Angrula, VP Engineering (Ex-CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Vaibhav Shah, VP Engineering (Ex-Tesco, Ola , Alumni IIT Bombay)
Job Description:
Here’s what you'll do:
- Lead and mentor a team of 6-10 talented engineers.
- Develop, test, and deploy features across the entire stack alongside your teammates.
- Responsible for hiring, mentoring and development of our team of engineers to grow a
high-performance engineering organization.
- Collaborate with product & technology teams to deliver major initiatives that drive our
customer growth.
- Guide engineering technical strategy and roadmaps.
- Commitment to high code quality and delivery requirements.
Here's what we're looking for :
- Minimally 8 years of work experience on large-scale and high-traffic projects, preferably in consumer-focused product startups.
- Minimally 2 years of hands-on technical leadership or people management.
- Hands on experience working with Web Back-end.
- Strong hands on coding, design, and architectural skills.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change: excited about pushing out lots of code
quickly and constantly iterating.
- Experience with hiring and building self-sustaining teams.
- Thorough and methodical: you enjoy working with data and using it to make informed business decisions.
- Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them.
- Empathetic and employee-focused: you care deeply about the people in your team,helping them to achieve their professional goals, and enabling them to do the best work of their lives.
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Responsibilities
Lead and manage a talented Engineering Team of 8+ members. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members and assist them in their career progression.
Set OKRs, progress checks and do performance evaluations. Manage the development pipeline to deliver features on schedule while maintaining high bar for quality.
Closely Interact with other functions such as PM, Design, UI/UX, Art, QA, and deliver planned features.
Perform Design reviews, Code reviews Create a solid Tech backlog that involves modernizing tech stack, set goals for performance improvements.
Establish Best Process and Development Practices and drive the centre of excellence for the teams. Updates with new technology trends and constantly evolve Facilitate and create problem-solving culture in the team.
Be obsessed about players and giving the best experience to our players.
Requirements
Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
Should have 8+ years of professional experience in mobile, development using C++, C#, PYTHON, GO Lang, Javascript.
Should have 2+ years of experience in managing teams, including hiring, mentoring and building strong teams.
Shown ability to motivate teams and operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-energy environment.
Exposure to using Agile and Scrum methodologies. Good communication skills, interpersonal skills with experience in building strong internal relationships.
Good Analytical, Problem-solving and Debugging skills.
Hands-on experience in Designing, Coding and release management. Desired Skills and Experience NET,C++,Golang,Java,JavaScript,Python,Quality Assurance,C#
Since their launch in 2020, they have grown 70-80% MoM just by delivering a strong product experience. It is rated 4.7/5 by consumers across Bangalore, and adopted by hundreds of doctors.
They have been backed by marquee investors. And the overall team is now 100+
About the role
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This role is for an engineering manager/leader who has been leading teams and building products in larger scale startups, serving millions of monthly users. And is ready to upgrade their role from being an engineering manager to playing the engineering head of the company.
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Work closely with the founders and other leaders in the company to build a strong product and business- collaborating to create innovative products that will help define the future of healthcare.
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Build a strong engineering team and processes that enhance their performance and the overall organization.
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Pick the right architecture and tools for building a high performance, robust and scalable engineering platform , in a cost-effective way
Must have
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Has been an experienced Engineering Manager, or Senior Engineering Manager (8 to 10+ years of experience), across at least 1 scaled mobile-first B2C tech startup with paid transactions.
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Strong experience with mobile development: iOS, Android and/or React Native. Not just coding, but also leading mobile-based engineering teams.
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Strong understanding of devops and backend systems needed for scaling.
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Has led engineering teams that launched products from idea to launch (0 to 1), and launch to scale (1 to 10)
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Has led teams of 10-15+ engineers.
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Comfort in an early stage environment.
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Strong communication and leadership ability- especially in the current remote environment.
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Has built teams from scratch, and been through the ups and downs of building startups and products.
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A passion for building impactful products.
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Strong developer, still codes, and can give the best in their team a run for their money! Is pretty much a full-stack engineer.
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8-10+ years of experience
Nice to have
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Has founded their own company.
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Built products for healthcare, logistics and/or IoT devices
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Builds things outside of their full-time role- can be through writing, sharing, teaching, building, contributing, etc
Job Description :
The Engineering Manager will work closely with management and our customers and partners globally. As a successful hire, you will report to the VP - Engineering. You will be responsible for shaping our product and strategizing its delivery around when and how it will be done so.
The Ideal Candidate :
- Should have 8-15 years experience with at least 2 years as an Engineering Manager
- Must have experience with Containerization, Docker, Kubernetes
- Should have designed and delivered :
1. Open Source based Enterprise Software
2. Software based on Java, Angular JS, ReactJS, Python, no-SQL databases, Elastic, Kubernetes.
3. Solutions in the Cloud (AWS or Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP))
4. Delivered multiple releases of products using Agile Development
5. Delivered Artifacts like Design/Test-Plan/Documentation-Plan documents
- Posses Team Management skills :
1. Led Product Development Teams involving UI, Middle-Tier and Database developers
2. Led Product Development, QA and Documentation Teams
3. Delivered performance reviews, improvement plans to team members
4. Should have completed a 4-year Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferably)
Responsibilities :
- Lead Product Development, QA and Documentation for multiple Products
- Deliver Engineering Product Releases and Patches
- Provide work break-down and be responsible for all Engineering Team deliverables
- Interact with team members and ensure timely and successful delivery of each sprint iteration
- Provide technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to Engineering Team
- Be responsible for tools and processes for all Engineering activities
- Work with Product Management and help shape product roadmap
- Work with Services Organization and set right expectations with regards to product roadmap, delivery of enhancements and patches
- Define and manage quarterly goals for Engineering Team
- Manage engineering budget, incentive programs and team building activities
- Hire and manage Product Development, QA and Documentation Team members
👋🏼We're Nagarro.
We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 16+ years of experience in designing and developing technology solutions using a variety of platforms, languages, and tools, with at least 5+ years of software architecture experience
- Strong background into Devops, Azure, Java, .NET, all mobile, web and backend solutions
- Ability to think breakthroughs by leveraging new age technologies and a deep understanding of the client’s business and the industry they operate in
- Ability to lead by example by picking up coding of complex functionalities when required
- Strong understanding of technology and the ability to deep dive into a technology problem
- Ability to influence key client stakeholders on their technology and operations strategy
- Vast experience in owning delivery of complex technology solutions for global clients
- Ability to multitask and own multiple technology tracks simultaneously in a globally distributed delivery setup
- Experience in creating cutting edge technology solution by collaborating with other world class technologists
- Balanced approach that aligns technology-based solutions with customer needs
- Visible thought leadership through technology blogs, whitepapers, presentations etc.
- Fluent verbal and written language skills and ability to convey a message in a simple and structured manner, customized to the audience and to the mode of communication
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Owning the technology health of the project / account on all key metrics
- Ensuring projects / accounts meet technical standards of governance, technology standards and best practices
- Owning the long term as well as the short-term technology strategy of your project / account
- Identifying opportunities in the current engagement to cross sell or up sell Nagarro’s offerings
- Conceptualizing and owning the technical architecture and design of the projects you are influencing
- Harnessing your consulting skills in a culture that promotes opportunities to provide thought leadership and breakthrough solutions for our clients.
- Running workshops internally and with customers on technology and business topics to create new solution areas and use cases
- Communicating and driving adoption of organizational technology initiatives in your account
- Mentoring and managing team members, by giving constant on-the-job feedback, and by providing guidance
- If you are aligned with a Center of Excellence (CoE) or practice –
- Defining the vision for the practice/CoE, creating plan/budget for the practice
- Do you like the idea of playing Master Shifu for product development teams? Or, what organizations think of it as playing an Engineering Manager.
- Do you live by the mantra of “buck stops with me”. Seriously, we also don’t know who Buck is and we are also looking for him.
- Have you led a product team of 15+ members in the past to successful outcomes? Okay, we would love to talk even if you unfortunately ran into a failure.
- Do you speak both binary and Humanary? Python , dialect, to talk to geeks and the Humanary, English or Hindi dialect, to talk to Clients.
- Do you practice Agility? No, we don’t mean asanas from Baba Ramdev but things like Scrum or Kanban
- Do you practice Curiosity over Complacency? I..e are you a lean mean learning machine?
- Can you envision a solution architecture after hearing the product's vision and user stories? Do things like scalability, performability, flexibility, maintainability give you goosebumps of joy?
- Do you have an eye for good user experience?
Did you say Yes to all of them? My My! Love you! I’m sure your current team loves you too. But, if for whatever reason, you are looking for a new home then we would love to talk to you. We are a certified Great Place to Work, which means it’s a place where people love working with each other. And, you would too.
Send me an email, will ya?
Responsibilities:
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Acting as an entrepreneur - taking ownership the problem statement end-to-end.
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Delivering direct value to the customer - and not just stop with internal delivery.
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Lead a diverse team of High performing Engineers - who set new standards everyday.
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Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team.
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Estimate, plan, divide and conquer customer problem statements - through sturdily developed & performant technical solutions.
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Handle multiple competing priorities and ambiguity - all in a fast-paced, high growth environment.
Requirements:
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7+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems.
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1-4 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams.
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BE / B. Tech /M. Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science.
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Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.
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The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders.
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Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our FinTech products.
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Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead one of our key product engineering teams. This role will report directly to the VP of Engineering and will be responsible for successful execution of the company's business mission through development of cutting-edge software products and solutions.
- As an owner of the product you will be required to plan and execute the product road map and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.
- You will have to collaborate with Product Management and Implementation teams and build a commercially successful product.
- You will be responsible to recruit & lead a team of highly skilled software engineers and provide strong hands on engineering leadership.
- Requirement deep technical knowledge in Software Product Engineering using Java/J2EE, Node.js, React.js, fullstack, NosqlDB, mongodb, cassandra, neo4j, elastic search, kibana, elk, kafka, redis, docker, kubernetes, apache, solr, activemq, rabbitmq, spark, scala, sqoop, hbase, hive, websocket, webcrawler, springboot, etc. is a must
Requirements
16+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 5+ years as an engineering leader in a software product company.
- Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit high performance talent
- High technical credibility - ability to audit technical decisions and push for the best solution to a problem.
- Experience building E2E Application right from backend database to persistent layer.
- Experience UI technologies Angular, react.js, Node.js or fullstack environment will be preferred.
- Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, Dynamodb, etc.)
- Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash.
- Experience in developing Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology.
- Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc.
- SaaS cloud-based platform exposure.
- Experience on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
- Ownership E2E design development and also quality enterprise product/application deliverable exposure
- A track record of setting and achieving high standards
- Strong understanding of modern technology architecture
- Key Programming Skills: Java, J2EE with cutting edge technologies
- Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have
Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
- Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
- A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
- Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
- Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
- Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
About Us
Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.
Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.
Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore.
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Technology Lead
Location: Bangalore/Mumbai
Requirements:
- Experience in building tech platforms
- Setup SDLC processes within the team.
- Define Architecture and tech design of the system. Take strategic calls in deciding the tech stack to be used.
- Should be a hands on coder and should contribute significantly to the code base.
- Manage task allocation and delivery timelines for the team.
- Team building and hiring. Should be able to define the resource requirements and work with hiring managers to fill in the positions.
- Work closely with the product and business team to execute the vision and roadmap of the company.
- Domain expertise in Payments/Lending/Fintech is preferred.
Roles & Responsibilities:
The candidate is expected to create and lead a team of engineers and drive dev efforts for
Medibuddy and its various products.
The candidate will be part of the Engineering leadership team (IIT/IIM grads) and will help
strategise, execute product roadmap.
Work closely with Product and business teams to strategize or design the features and
product experiments.
Lead a team of 10+ Engineers [backend and/or mobile]
Responsible for engineering delivery in platform & product engineering pods at Medibuddy.
Scale the technology architecture, team and product to drive a 10x growth in next 12-24
months.
Code and Architect key features that form backbone of DocsApp
Conduct performance reviews and mentor and guide the team reporting
Drive adoption best engineering practices in the team and the organization
- Deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable code at a fast pace.Skills & Qualifications:
- 9+ yrs. relevant experience in consumer tech/ or SaaS space.
- Tier 1 background (IIT/BITS/IIIT/NIT), Pass-out from 2014 batch or earlier.
Strong Technical Background: You have strong programming, architecture, DevOps and QA
chops. You should have experience working with a diverse engineering stack in a fast-paced
environment.
Biased toward action. You must be able to do more with less and turn would-be blockers into
opportunities for growth.
Balancing Short Term with Long Term - You have demonstrated strategic execution
balancing short term tactical execution with long term vision. You should be able to adapt
quickly as per the demands of the situation.
Efficient Execution - You must be persuasive, patient, compassionate and possess exquisite
prioritization skills.
Prior management and team-building experience. You'll be managing several direct reports
initially and will have the opportunity to scale and build out a high-performing engineering
team.
Stakeholder management - You complement product and business owners with finding the
right solutions in a timely manner.
Past entrepreneurial experience is a big plus.
Strong grasp of Nodejs/Python stack
Databases/Datastores : Mysql , Redis / Memcache , MongoDB
- Basic Understanding of Android, iOS, Web Application stacks
- One of SQS, RabbitMQ, SNS
- Familiarity with AWS and its services including RDS, ECS, EBS, Cloudwatch, ELK, Redshift
Nice to have -
Logging : ELK, Cloudwatch.
Frontend : html , css , Javascript
Protocols : HTTP, XMPP, MQTT, Socket.io, TCP