Engineering Manager for a leading BNPL Player

(Sr) Engineering Manager
About Rakuten
Rakuten, Inc. is one of the world’s leading Internet service companies, providing a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal & media, online marketing and professional sports. Rakuten is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas. Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 20,000 employees worldwide.
For more information, visit http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/.
If you are:
 A leader with vision, loves pushing boundaries, questioning status-quo and thrives on challenging problems.
 Passionate technologist, not afraid of scale, complexity and breadth
 Loves to create a high-performance culture that exceeds expectations, deliver value and create impact
 Detailed oriented individual, who understands nuances of technologies choices and drives best fit solutions.
We’d like to meet you! Expertise:
 Expert in Distributed Systems and Cloud technologies
 12+ years’ experience, with at least 2-3 years as Engineering Manager / Lead
 Hands-on with Java ecosystem, web services architecture, design patterns and frameworks
 Experience working with caches, app servers, web containers
 Understanding of datastores, Oracle exadata / no sql based
 Experience with git or likes
 Good understanding of development practices and tools, devops, release engineering and infrastructure management
 Experience working on API based SaaS products
 Experience with SRE, operational architectures, observability aspects
 Deep understanding of Reliability, Availability and Scalability
 Hands on experience with complex project management, agile based preferred
 Comfortable working with a distributed team
Responsibilities:
 Scoping, planning, and technical architecture reviews
 Grow and manage the skills, talent in the organization.
 Mentor and lead team(s)
 Responsible for day-to-day management of Services development team
 Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations, and other delivery teams to ensure effective launch and delivery of projects
 Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement

Looking for a Technical Lead with min. 10 years of hands-on IT experience, developing at least more than two full life-cycle project using public Cloud technologies such as SOA Suite, OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure etc. 

Job description

    A minimum of 8-10 years of hands-on IT experience, developing at least more than two full life-cycle project using public Cloud technologies such as SOA Suite, OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
    At least 5 years of experience in Java/J2EE with Spring Boot, Spring Microservices, Angular, MongoDB & SOA Suite 12C. Willing to learn new technologies .
    NodeJS/Angular/Java/J2EE web application development
    Agile development concepts
    REST, JSON, and distributed application development
    Unit testing frameworks and approaches to coding
    Works on small to large, complex projects that require increased skill in multiple technical environments and possesses knowledge in a specific business area.
    Strong written and communications skills are a must. Must be able to document, present, and articulate designs and technical decisions in front of teams and key business design makers.
    Developer loves to write code, build products and see your creations used by customers around the world.
Excellent experience in XML technologies XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath and Web Services SOAP, WSDL
Knowledge in functional and technical aspects of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
    Front-end frameworks (React, Angular, JS, REST)
General Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure knowledge
Oracle Integration cloud experience
The cloud migration experience is a plus
Competitive knowledge will be a plus.

Job Responsibilities

    Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
    Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java/Node/SOA/Mulesoft code
To develop integration solutions using Oracle SOA Suite 12c and Oracle Integration Cloud.
    To Support SIT, UAT, Go-Live, Hyper care
    To Support and resolve L3 level issues
    Drive initial testing phase and quality assurance process.
    Log their hours correctly in the System so that they can be billed to the Customers accordingly.
    Deliver high-quality, fully tested, and fault-proof Customer Integration Developments, as per the Technical Mapping Specifications.
    Ensure implementation of optimized, reusable (where possible) deliverables that cater to customer needs and cause the least impact to the existing Customer Integration landscape.
    Extensive know-how on the relevant Customer Integration IT Products, Integration patterns, protocols, and tools.
    Testing bench skills
    Deployment process awareness in full Software Development Lifecycle
    To deliver quality Integration Solutions on time.
    To hand over the Integration Solution to support teams with quality documentation.
    To provide good support as L3 Support.
    To be able to handle multiple projects at a time.

We are looking for a coding Engineering Manager based in Chennai. This is a new role within the growing Engineering function, where you will be responsible for leading a team of talented professionals, assisting them to deliver complex technical solutions across a range of teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable directing, planning and coordinating the team, as well as developing overall concepts for new and existing products and processes. Reporting into the Head of Engineering for our Chennai team, this role is integral to the successful growth of the team as well as wider company performance. 

 

 

What You’ll Be Doing:

 

Play the role of a servant leader in helping the team to excel in the areas of ownership and help to continuously raise the bar on performance.

Perform your responsibilities through delegation, empowerment and influence aimed at delivering long term outcomes for the team and business.

Build, manage and grow one or more engineering team(s), foster Agile practices and continuous improvement, enable engineers to build, test, deliver and operate high-level software products across the company

A hands-on technical approach to management, leveraging your software engineering experience to assist product needs and build

Work with our Product, DevOps, and Data Science functions on articulating roadmaps & ensure a high quality and timely implementation to support our mission and help eliminate identity fraud

Join a mission-orientated company, solving real-world fraud and identity based challenges

Facilitate career growth and success for all team members.

 

What You’ll Bring:

 

6+ years of demonstrated deep technical design and programming skills (in individual capacity) designing and delivering enterprise grade distributed systems in the following tooling; Web applications (Java/PHP/.NET/Python) or Mobile applications (SDK, Android/iOS)

2+ years prior experience managing one or more Agile engineering team(s); contributing to a track record of building complex and technical products, ideally within a start-up or fast scaling environment

Track record of having managed performance cycles of engineers of varying experience levels directly reporting to you.

Experience with building software with Agility and in conformity to security standards.

Willingness to “roll-up your sleeves and get your hands dirty” when required

Experience delivering and operating complex software solutions - understanding the end-to-end needs of what is involved within this process.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of application and front-end / Back
end engineers to drive innovation in full-stack product development, while relentlessly
improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Responsibilities:
• Oversee the mobile app, m-site, desktop, cloud infrastructure
• Back-end development teams and their assigned tasks
• Good understand of mobile app, JavaScript and Web architecture
• Monitor reliability, performance of all internal systems and suggest improvements
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Should be able to guide engineers for best UI performance of app, m-site and
website
• Manage software development by setting requirements, goals and timelines
• Design strategies for future development plans based on the company’s overall
objectives and resources
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• 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 and equipment

Requirements:
• Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and
engineering best practices.
• Experience with start-up will be a big plus.
• Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of
• (10+)Sr. Engineers / Engineers, and coaching mentoring while maintaining a handson role
with code development
• Started as a Software Engineer and worked with a wide range of technologies,
especially with the modern open source stacks
• Work experience as a Technical Architect/Senior Manager/ VP of Engineering or in a
similar leadership
position at an engineering department
• Extensive experience with both cloud/AWS and on premise technologies
• Big Data/ML experience is a plus
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Ability to mentor and grow engineering talent
• Excellent project management skill

Send us your code samples / GitHub profile / published articles if applicable.

Responsibilities • Execute full lifecycle software development • Write well designed, testable, efficient code • Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility • Design, build and Integrate fully independent software systems • Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures • Document and maintain software functionality • Tailor and deploy software tools, processes and metrics • Serve as a subject matter expert • Comply with project plans and industry standards • Lead, Manage and guide a small team to deliver projects in brisk pace. Requirements • 8 - 15 years proven work experience in software engineering • BS / MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred. • Hands on experience in designing scalable applications or building API • Expertise in working with various SQL and NoSQL Databases. • Ability to develop software in Ruby on rails, NodeJS, optionally PHP. • Excellent knowledge of frontend technologies like React and Web services, Rest API Service, JSON and SOAP Technologies. • Experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly concurrent systems. • Experience in guiding a team of Software Engineers for increased proficiency. • Ability to document requirements and specifications • Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes

About Meatigo

We’re transforming the way in which Indians Eat Meat!

 Meatigo is the leader in the online gourmet meat and delicatessen grocery space and we are proud to be one of the most innovative companies in the food retail space. Since 2016, we’ve worked towards transforming the way Indians eat meat by offering fresher, safer, responsibly sourced, sustainable and more nutritious meat products.

 

Backed by a team of people, with over 35 years of experience in meat processing & meat products, Meatigo boasts of an unrivalled expertise in cold-chain management, sourcing, manpower training and quality control. We follow an end-to-end business based on the hub and spoke model that starts from procuring the fresh produce to processing, storage and delivery. We currently deliver orders within 120 minutes across 8 Cities (and counting!)

 

For more details, do check out www.meatigo.com

 

About The Role

 

At Meatigo, we're redefining the future of on-demand meat delivery. We're building a small team of incredibly talented programmers and developers to enable us to achieve our vision of connecting customers to better meat from Meatigo.

 

 We are looking for a leader to launch and grow our Meatigo Tech Team. 

 

 You will be responsible for building the next version of the Meatigo Consumer Website, Consumer App, Internal Apps as well as integration into other platforms. As we gear up for the next level of growth at Meatigo, you'll lead star engineers, designers, and operators in a fastgrowing dynamic environment. This role will be based out of Gurgaon, but you will speak with customers. stakeholders and teams all across India to understand their unique needs. The role demands a mix of entrepreneurship, cross-functional collaboration, and well-honed product judgement.

 

 

 

Job Description: (Tech Lead)

This role is for a person to lead the development project for an ecommerce application. The person should have a total work experience of 10-12 years in the IT  industry. 

Educational Requirements:

∙ Bachelor's / Master's Degree in the Computer Engg/Computer Science from reputed engineering college.

∙ Prince 2, PMP or other Project Management certification is preferable.

∙ AWS certified Developer - Associate or Sys Ops Administrator Associate is preferred.

Project Management experience:

∙ Managed at least 3 full cycle development projects with team size of 5 including himself successfully.

∙ Used Project Management tool Jira or Slack.

∙ Good knowledge of testing and Software quality.

∙ Hands on experience on container set up and cloud deployments.

∙ Understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery.

∙ A leader who inspires confidence and works as a team player.

∙ Hungry for learning.

Technology Skills and Experience

∙ Knowledge and use of CentOS and Tomcat.

∙ Knowledge and use of React.Js, Node.JS

∙ Knowledge and use of Bash, server side scripting

∙ Knowledge and use of Java Springboot

∙ Hands-on high level and detailed design knowledge and experience. ∙ Hands on development in Java using Java SDK 

∙ Experience with a UI framework like Bootstrap/Material design etc. ∙ Experienced in developing componentized UIs.

∙ Working knowledge of HTML5/java script/CSS/Typescript is must. ∙ Working experience of NodeJs

∙ Developed web services APIs and consumption [REST/SOAP]. ∙ Good knowledge of the use of MVC/MVVM patterns

∙ Working with Caching layers like Redis.

∙ Knowledge and use of ERMs/ORMs preferable.

∙ Experience of reverse proxies like Nginx/HA Proxy etc.

∙ TDD & BDD, the use of tools like Karma/Mocha/Jasmine is required. ∙ Application performance and scalability enhancement.

∙ Knowledge of loosely coupled design.

∙ Security aspects in design and development of applications.

Database

∙ At least 7 years’ experience with RDMS like MySQL Database, table design, normalization, and database performance.

∙ Able to write stored procedures and their debugging.(Optional)

∙ DB installation, maintenance and turning (the latter is optional)

Cloud

∙ Hands on knowledge of AWS cloud based development, deployment and support.

∙ Hands on experience of using Docker containers on the AWS platform. Knowledge of Kubernetes.

∙ Hands on experience in Server Management and AWS instances.

Tools Knowledge and Skills

∙ Used Gitlab

∙ Used Selenium or UFT/Silk or other testing tool.

∙ Used Jira, Slack or Trello

∙ Used Nagios (optional)

Salary:

∙ INR 20-30 Lakhs inclusive of all allowances.

Location:

∙ Gurgaon, Haryana

Joining:

∙ Preferably by 15 June 2021 but latest by 01 July 2021

 

 

Experience- 4-10 Years
Location- Bangalore
Industry- Product Based Companies

Role & Responsibilities:

1. Working with engineering executives to define the engineering roadmap.
2. Working with the team to keep the technical and team docs up to the mark.
3. 4+ years of experience in software engineering and development work.
4. Experience designing or building technically complex architectures.
5. 2+ years managing software development teams of at least 3 members.
6. Identified issues and built great processes for achieving engineering, product, and team goals.
7. Worked in high growth startups, can make stability, performance.
8. 70-80% of responsibility is into developing a product/features/modules from scratch while the rest percentage is into people management.
9. Majority looking for candidates with JAVA experience in past or present experience.

Overall leadership for all technical functions including product strategy implementation and server releases

Experience: 5 years and above 

Qualification: B. Tech from a reputed institute

Expertise in Core Java (Multithreading, Collections, etc.) and am comfortable with Unix, Oracle PL/SQL with a sound understanding of the complete SDLC process

Design Patterns, Algorithms, Data structures, OOP concepts & OO Design principles

Have done extensive work in software development

Project Management exposure is an added advantage for this candidate

JS, Jquery and CSS exposure of minimum 1.5 yrs

Candidates from gaming industry are preferred

Engineering Lead - ­ Fluent in either Python, NodeJS. ­ Has worked on either MySql, Postgresql, MongoDB ­ Experience working with Payment systems, workflow management systems, chat systems is a plus. ­ Has working knowledge on the complete development stack ­ Fluent with AWS, GIT ­ Knowledge on Continuous Integration ( CI ), Automated Deployment tools is a plus ­ Previous experience of leading a team, architecting is a plus ­ Open Source contributions is a plus