Engineering Manager - UI

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