Engineering Manager (to be CTO)

ABOUT COMPANY

Our client is one of the strongest Consumer brands in the Bakery category, having a 25000 sq ft state-of-the-art centralized manufacturing facility with European equipment near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The founding team consists of a ‘Master Baker’ from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, one of the finest culinary institutes in the world and an IIM-A alumni with a McKinsey background.

JOB PURPOSE

The role requires to develop business by planning, directing and implementing sales strategies and programs to achieve or exceed the sales objectives for the company. Business Channels are Traditional Retail in Distribution, Modern retail, General trade and Corporate sales business for our bakery products

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To effectively manage the business in the concerned cities/regions and achieving the sales objectives

a. Setting targets and monitoring them monthly to ensure that they are in line with the business plan

b. Meeting the revenue and margin targets for the business

c. Generating sales of company products through a team of salesmen/retail promoters in order to achieve or exceed the annual sales targets

d. Analyzing the sales trend and taking corrective actions wherever necessary

e. Any other special assignments as applicable

2. To develop and maintain a strong sales infrastructure and an aggressive sales team

a. Managing, directing and coordinating the activities of the Area Sales Managers & Sales Officers

b. Sales team deployment as per the company's requirement and as per the budget

c. Accomplishing sales human resource objectives by orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees in assigned retail stores

d. Appointing the right set of channel partners with appropriate experience, good infrastructure, financially strong and with an attitude to grow.

3. To plan, prepare and exist control over sales budget, sales forecast, sales plan etc.

a. Developing sales plan to ensure optimum utilization of resources in the region

b. Meeting sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements

c. Preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions

d. Ensuring that all promotions are within the budget

e. Preparing sales growth blueprint for the future

4. To ensure coordination and relationship management with distributors, customers, as well as other departments

a. Ensuring that distributors and customers in the region are provided with information about new products and services in order to improve sales in the region

b. Developing and maintaining an efficient distribution network

c. Ensuring commercial hygiene by monitoring damages, complaints etc

d. Liaising with the Marketing team to ensure that adequate marketing support by way of merchandising and promotions is available in order to provide brand visibility and promote sales in the region

e. To continuously gain and update category and channel expertise

f. Continuously acquiring knowledge regarding the industry, market construct, and customer behaviour to enable effective business plans

g. Acquire knowledge regarding competition product, strategies to counter attack competition in the best possible manner

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

1. Knowledge: 

a. Sound knowledge of sales and sales administration processes

b. Strong understanding of modern trade and general trade

c. Understanding of perishable/limited shelf life products (e.g. dairy, bakery, juices etc) would be preferable

d. Knowledge of ERP systems would be a plus

2. Skills: 

a. Strong leadership skills

b. Excellent communication and negotiation skills

c. Presentation skills

d. Ability to manage and lead a team

e. Strong decision making ability

f. Ability to build relationships

g. Excellent business acumen

3. Attitude: 

a. Self-motivator

b. Aggressive

c. Sincere

d. Positive approach to problem solving

e. Commitment to achieving the sales targets

f. Dynamic and exploratory

4. Educational Level

a. Graduation: Any specialization

b. Post-Graduation (Must-have): PGDM/ MBA in Marketing or Sales Management

5. Experience

a. Preferably be from FMCG or Organised Modern retail background

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute.
• 10+ years of strong design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products.
• 6+ years' experience leading engineering teams (including a combination of experience hiring, mentoring, managing performance, and providing technical leadership and design guidance).
• Excellent computer fundamentals and problem solving skills
• Excellent data structures & algorithms skills.
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting edge technologies around server side development in Java and Big Data.
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.
• Provide good attention to details.
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of massively scalable & distributed system.
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.

Safety Connect is a leading company in the domain of enterprise field force safety.

We are looking for a highly skilled and dynamic Associate Tech Lead with a demonstrated history to join our growing team. This role involves making technology decisions on behalf of the company to align the company with it’s vision for its tech needs. They should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, hands on, should have built a team before and process oriented.

The Associate Technical Lead should be well versed with Node.js, React js, AWS, Microsoft Azure, flutter, scalable cloud architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.

• Ensuring that the tech team meets the company’s short and long term needs.

• Outline the goals for research and development. 

• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all product requirements. 

• Acting as a mentor to the tech team members. 

• Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of new features.

• Managing technology budgets and time frames.

• Driving and planning sprints and ensuring a high tech team velocity.

• Staying on top of technology trends and developments.

• Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.

• Ensuring that there is no system downtime and all products are working seamless.

Requirements /Qualifications:

• Exceptional communication skills (both verbal and written). 

• Self-motivated with diligent work ethic, a business acumen, enthusiastic and passionate, exceptional team management skills. 

• Should be well versed with Node.js, React js, AWS, Microsoft Azure, flutter, scalable cloud architecture.

• Extensive industry knowledge with an eye towards the future.

• Proactive and efficient time-management.

• Should have managed and set up teams. 

• 2+ years of experience as an Associate technical Lead.

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.

Join us in making the fastest fashion brand on earth. We live & breathe trends. Working on 3D Virtual Design Technology we launch new trends even before they're produced. Making us the only fast fashion brand to be sustainable at the same time. Enabling young shoppers, first-hand access to latest styles with our Digital Only Collection.

We waste nothing but data & exploit nothing but our imagination. We operate at the intersection of fashion & technology. #SpeakSomethingNew is our mantra.

We're looking for a retail ninja who can join in our core team to look after business development & sales. We don't hire many. A small, highly passionate team working to redefine fashion. Apply only if you can execute at breakneck speed, can handle stress, and highly passionate about fashion-tech.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Revenue generation of across product categories and regions.
2. Strategize and Plan the Sales Process Management, Forecasting, Pricing, Expenses, Profitability, Market Research and Business Development Strategy.
3. Managing & establishing channel sales distributors.
4. Monitoring of sales portfolio, category wise and distributor wise.
5. Monthly review & evaluation of Mis Reports (Area Performance, Top Distributors Performance, Top Selling Products Movements, Overdue & Outstanding).
6. If required visit Business Partners in person to review business and cultivate strong working relations. Ensure a strong relationship management with key clients.
7. Must have handled P&L responsibility.
8. Proven track record of fashion business growth.
9. Identifying and executing list of entities with whom we can collaborate and have a fruitful long-term partnerships.
10. Be the first point of contact for retail clients and ensure the USPs of HeSpoke are clearly communicated.
11. Generating new business opportunities and gathering requirements from existing clients/new clients.
12. Creating & analysing weekly and monthly reports.

What to expect:

1. Flexible working hours.

2. Hockey stick growth as the brand scales.

3. ESOPs.

4. Your fashion expenditure sponsored by HeSpoke upto INR five thousand every month.

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

1. Deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable code at a fast pace.Skills & Qualifications:
2.  9+ yrs. relevant experience in consumer tech/ or SaaS space.
3. 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

1. Basic Understanding of Android, iOS, Web Application stacks
2. One of SQS, RabbitMQ, SNS
3. 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

MoEngage is a fast-paced startup that’s helping companies run smart marketing efforts in their effort to reach the customer. We are a leading Marketing Technology Stack provider that is helping brands redefine their customer engagement in the mobile era. Brands use MoEngage to drive long-term, personalised and context-based engagement across channels to help achieve increased customer retention as well as customer LTV. Sitting at a conflux of diverse technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Web & Mobile platforms, MoEngage technology analyses billions of data points generated by customers and their devices, to predict customer behavior and build marketing campaigns that proactively engage users.

In just four years since inception, MoEngage is working with leading brands across e-commerce, entertainment, travel, publishing and banking domains among others. With marquee clients like Vodafone, Oyo, Airtel, McAfee, MoEngage has over 125+ paying Customers in the Enterprise & Internet companies space in India, US, South East Asia & EU. With a global presence spanning 35 countries, MoEngage has offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Jakarta, and Bengaluru.

Today, MoEngage is an industry pioneer in the space and engages more than 350M devices. This includes approximately 40B events tracked per month, 30B+ messages sent, to millions of users across the globe.

As part of the Engineering team at MoEngage, here are some things you can expect:

• Take ownership and be responsible for what you build - no micro management
• Work with A players (some of the best talent in the country), and expedite your learning curve and career growth
• Make in India and build for the world at scale of 350M active users, which no other internet company in the country has seen
• Learn together from different teams on how they scale to millions of users and billions of messages. 
• Explore the latest in topics like Data Pipeline, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Spark, Samza and share with the team 

and more importantly have fun while you work on scaling MoEngage.

About InApps team

In-app team is responsible for effectively delivering the contextual information to help companies cross-sell/up-sell on specific workflows triggered on desired actions performed by application users. As a member of in-app team, you will be working on developing high performance systems to deliver the contextual campaigns in real time. In addition to real time campaign delivery, you will work on designing a flexible platform to provide customised experience for application users using web personalization, which allows companies to present unique and personalized experiences on their applications.

• Scaling campaign delivery with personalized content to 500M unique users within 1 sec.
• Rich campaign content delivery keeping user experience native to mobile and web applications.

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems
• Proven experience in managing high performing engineering teams
• Proven experience with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructure - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Hands on in Java OR Python related technologies and frameworks
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch, MongoDB is a plus
• Liaison with Product Management, DevOps, QA and other teams
• Performance management, Sprint management, Roadmap, Hiring, Onboarding, Mentoring, Costing, Documenting

At MoEngage, we are passionate about our team and technology - see below to know more about us and technology.

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https://www.moengage.com/blog/techatmoengage-reddit-has-330m-monthly-active-users-so-do-we/">Scale @MoEngage

We handle more than a billion messages everyday. Rest assured, you will be surrounded by really smart and passionate people as we scale much more to build a world class technology team.