Engineering Manager (frontend &Backend)

Engineering Manager Responsibilities:

• Platform stability and smooth functioning on a day to day basis.
• Proposing and managing budgets for projects and for growth.
• Supervising the work of multiple teams (build, test, infrastructure).
• Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
• Identifying potential roadblocks and building contingency plans.
• Quickly dealing with bugs and breaks in the operational environment.
• Determining the need for training and talent development.
• Team building.
• Product launch with management buyin.
• Providing clear and concise instructions to engineering teams.

Engineering Manager Requirements:

• Bachelor's / Masters degree in CS or related.
• 8 t0 12 years' engineering experience.
• Proven supervisory and technical skills.
• Capable of working in an unsupervised agile environment.
• Must come highly-recommended.

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the founding team of KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

• Product Development: Partner with the founder & product team to create a product roadmap. Play a key role in influencing customer journey, experience & specs (requirements) with UX designer. Develop front end & back end systems and product. 
• Project Management: Ensure product development roadmap timelines are achieved in a timely way with the right quality with progress being reported daily. 
• Technology Excellence: Ensure that products have best in class performance on technology driven aspects (load times, latencies, uptimes, etc.). 
• Hiring & Developing: Hire junior engineers, divide project workloads & mentor them to continuously improve.
• Continuous Improvement: Establish intake mechanism to convert user feedback into actionable upgrades in product design, track feature improvements & their progress and create rapid improvement cycles. 

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who – 

• Has 4+ years of experience in a digital product company
• Should have managed teams before & can attract talent
• Has experience in front end & back end technologies across web & app development
• Has studied computer science or engineering with at least a B.Tech or B.E degree
• Preferably is skilled in at least one performing art or is a hobbyist
• Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
• Moves fast to launch & fix issues 
• Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

• Develop a company's strategy around technology and product to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Provide technical vision and strategy for the team.
• Own technical architecture for the application and infrastructure for the product
• Discover and help implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Build quality assurance, data protection and security processes
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
• Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
• Managing technology budgets and time frames.
• Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
• Lead the team on design and execution of the engineering roadmap with a focus on engineering excellence in all aspects of the execution.
• Establish repeatable processes and methods that ensure a high level of productivity, quality, and reliability.
• Proven experience as a Project Head or similar leadership role with 5+ years of experience in a technology leadership role
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MS/MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.
• Must have hands-on experience in Java, Front end technologies like Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular, AWS, Modular software development, multi-tenant architecture and highly scalable systems and Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux & Windows)
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
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Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

About the role:

We are currently building an exciting multi-category, digital first, direct to consumer, commerce business for couple of new brands in Food & Fashion category. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our ecommerce business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking & logistics integrations.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead its development across web, mobile and in-store devices. You will be responsible to work closely with business leaders to understand the developer needs and device solutions through developer tools and services. The role incumbent will be managing a team of in-house & outsourced developers and will be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, project delivery and maintenance of systems developed in-house. The incumbent will also be driving technology innovation with integrations and external partners to fully leverage the latest solutions and technologies for servicing the organization needs. This role will report to the Director-Engineering.

Location: Mumbai based preferably. We can also consider Bangalore based candidates.

Responsibilities:

Your core responsibilities will include Technical Guidance, Execution, Delivery & Team Management. You will be working in a fast-paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business impact.

• Ownership of engineering features and components from concept, design, development & deployment
• Participate in the solution architecting, enterprise interface design and integration.
• Work with users to understand requirements, design scalable and efficient technology solutions.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with other internal teams and external partners.

• Communicate cross-functionally, collaborate with Business teams, Product managers, engineers and QA to plan, own and deliver solutions on time.
• Ensure teams follow best practices regarding coding standards, code reviews, and testing. Responsible for code quality, review & release strategy.

• Define and drive development team priorities and ensure delivery through in-house and vendor development teams.

• Keep tab of latest technology trends and leverage it for improvements/changes in current setup to increase efficiency, reduce maintenance cost and time to market.

• Publish regular reports of activities and highlight potential risks. 
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor engineering team resources.

Required Qualification, Experience & skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 6-8 years of overall developer experience with a minimum 12-18 months in the GoLang toolkit – very familiar with all the frameworks and tools needed to manage and further build an end to end ecommerce platform in GoLang
• Prior experience in managing a team of min 4-6 engineers
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging

• Experience of implementing Agile, Scrum & Iterative processes

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from Web development, Mobile app development, AWS, machine learning, large scale data platforms, service oriented architecture, distributed systems design, android platform, front-end user interfaces, databases etc.

Job Profile - Engineering And Product role

Major Responsibilities

•  Defining the technical specifications and architecture along with overall  product infrastructure.
• Provide creative and unique solutions to accommodate for the versatility and customizations during product development.
• The role would expect you to code and/or conduct code reviews so experience in PHP, java or similar languages would be useful.
• Managing a team of engineers and developers; ensuring quality is met at every process of the development and deployment phases.
• Managing AWS servers to track/monitor/optimize resource utilization and upgrade servers when necessary.
• Ability to understand and collaborate on a complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.
• Implementation of new technologies to optimize product quality and usage.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• 10+ years of expertise working on and managing Technology teams.
• Understanding of Algorithms, data structures and standard coding practices
• Understanding of RDBMS design. Experience in writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries and optimizing queries.
• Very good understanding of collections and multithreading Framework - SpringBoot , JPA.
• Understanding of RDBMS design. Experience in writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries and optimizing queries.

We at Noise.com are looking for an experienced, Tech Lead who has hands-on experience of mobile apps development to be part of our team. We need someone with expert-level technical skills and expertise, who can manage a fully functional web and app development team, maintain impeccable quality standards and optimize functions accordingly throughout the completion of the app project. You will have an opportunity to build the team. 

Profile summary: 

• Managing the entire product life cycle - conceptualization, design, development, Q/A, maintenance, and new version upgradation

• Good knowledge of Ruby,Node.js, React Native, Android/iOS App development, Firebase, and web services (Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, OOA, OOD, DS, DB Concepts) 

• Work closely with stakeholders on website, app, and internal product planning and execution.

• Provide technical leadership in the end to end design, development, and testing of solutions

• Keep up to date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design, and implementation

• Sound Knowledge of testing methodologies including automation testing

• Handle and address any issues regarding the development: technical difficulty or team management & get all issues resolved by coordinating with other technical experts or if required by any other department for the same

• Coordinate with internal resources and third parties/consultants/vendors for the flawless execution of projects

• Maintaining an Agile environment and meeting the product delivery deadlines

• Lead and manage the day to day activities of their team

• Establish and maintain a proper communication channel among all the stakeholders and report and escalate the same to management as needed

• Tracking the status of the team's work and ensuring deliverables are produced on agreed schedules in coordination with the other stakeholders

• Conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning

• Conduct module-level work effort estimations and integrate for the whole system  

• Provide accurate and detailed weekly task reports

• Should have at least 3.5+ years of experience in mobile application development experience with at least two apps that are on the app store that you are proud to discuss with us

Your must-haves:  

• You should be familiar with the Cloud Technologies 

• You should be familiar with the Web Architecture 

• You should be familiar with the Mobile Architecture especially MVVM

• Consistently demonstrated ability of Tech Lead in current role

• 5+ Years of relevant industry experience

• Certified: AWS Solution Architect (Preferred but not mandatory)