Head Of Engineering

The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (getsimpl.com) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and
Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission to make money simple, so that people can live well and do amazing things.

Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.
Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long- term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In the background,

Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.


Areas of work
Principals are involved in Architecture Direction and Alignment
1. Tracking and directing how the overall system architecture evolves.
2. Developing and identifying useful architecture patterns within our systems based on
industry know-how and our own operational and development experience.
3. Develop and manage an architecture decisions guidelines framework that will be useful to
make consistent, faster and reliable architecture and design decisions.
4. Documenting or making this information available to all engineers - new or old
5. Create mechanisms to audit and ensure architectural compliance across engineering teams

Internal Developer Community and Tech growth for teams
Create and nurture tech communities so that developers can
● gain more knowledge about the industry practices
● learn to express their knowledge, opinions and views

Quality
Monitor and improve the quality of our systems by helping with
1. Bug reduction
2. MTTR reduction
3. Ensuring better engineering practices around testing, tooling, monitoring and resilience.

Cost - Infra and application costs
Ensuring systems are run and maintained with frugality in mind without compromising on business
and operational expectations.

Hiring
Help hire and mentor engineers at Simpl.

Partners at Work
Principals partner with team leads, product managers, infosec engineers and devops engineers,
ensuring alignment in vision and execution, splitting time between different domains as they see fit.

Minimum Qualifications
● At least 8 years of software development experience
● Experience with technically leading projects and architecting high traffic consumer-facing
applications.
● A background in CS or relevant technical experience.
● Familiarity with languages like Go, Java, Ruby and Python.
● Familiarity with the AWS Stack

About Climate Connect Digital

Our team is inspired to change the world by making energy greener, and more affordable. Established in 2011 in London, UK, and now headquartered in Gurgaon, India. From unassuming beginnings, we have become a leading energy-AI software player, at the vanguard of accelerating the global energy transition.

In 2020,  we were acquired by ReNew Power, India’s largest renewables developer. Following ReNew’s NASDAQ listing in summer 2021, Climate Connect Digital has been newly formed as a fully independent subsidiary. With backing from ReNew for an ambitious and visionary new strategy, for rapid organic and inorganic growth.

Our mission has technology at its core and involves unlocking value by leveraging information technology and AI/ML  across the energy ecosystem. The world is still at the nascent stages of using such technologies in the energy sector to create massive value for all the stakeholders.

About OptiMax

OptiMax is Climate Connect Digital's future-ready offering to renewable energy asset operators and investors. It boasts sophisticated big data processing and analytical capabilities, which feed into a suite of cutting-edge algorithms for optimising operational and commercial decision-making. Boosting renewable energy production is a critical part of the company's vision of a Net Zero grid, wherein economies around the world are able to permanently retire thermal energy production facilities, in defence of our planet's future.

About the Role

At CC.D, Engineering Managers are responsible for ensuring their team is staffed, performing and delivering quality solutions, while supporting the wellbeing and ongoing professional development of their team.

We're looking for candidates with significant experience building, managing, and monitoring backend services at scale. You will be expected to manage your time well, communicate effectively, and collaborate in a fully distributed team.

You will lead a team of backend engineers, helping them solve technical challenges, project planning and ensuring that enterprise engineering practices are followed to help them build out robust & scalable backend services.

Job responsibilities

• Help manage our software development cycles by supporting prioritizing, speccing, and building features
• Develop a roadmap for your team’s focus areas and set goals to work towards that plan
• Help tune our engineering processes to allow us to scale and continue shipping high-quality software (ensuring effective implementation of engineering practices such as test-driven-development, CI/CD & more)
• Regularly conduct peer reviews, code audits and promote good practices
• This position is primarily a management role but the candidate should be extremely comfortable with coding efforts like PR reviews, bug fixes, and other coding activities outside of critical path development efforts
• Work with engineering leadership to solve technical and architectural challenges

Job requirements

• 6+ years in hands-on engineering roles (4+ in senior / principal level)
• 2+ years in managing engineering teams
• Solid understanding of test-driven development
• Have significant experience in backend technologies like databases, async job processing, messaging systems, indexing/search systems, web frameworks, etc
• Be detail-oriented, organized, and great at oral/written communication
• Be growth-minded and want to help improve our processes, scale teams, and take other actions that significantly improve our productivity and quality.
  
  

What’s in it for you

We offer competitive salaries based on prevailing market rates. In addition to your introductory package, you can expect to receive the following benefits:

• Flexible working hours and leave policy
• Learning and development opportunities
• Medical insurance/Term insurance, Gratuity benefits over and above the salaries
• Access to industry and domain thought leaders.

At Climate Connect, you get a rare opportunity to join an established company at the early stages of a significant and well-backed global growth push.

We are building a remote-first organisation ingrained in the team ethos. We understand its importance for the success of any next-generation technology company. The team includes passionate and self-driven people with unconventional backgrounds, and we’re seeking a similar spirit with the right potential.

What it’s ​like to work with us

You become part of a strong network and an accomplished legacy from leading technology and business schools worldwide when you join us. Such as the Indian Institute of Technology, Oxford University, University of Cambridge, University College London, and many more.

We don’t believe in constrained traditional hierarchies and instead work in flexible teams with the freedom to achieve successful business outcomes. We want more people who can thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Our comprehensive support system comprises a global network of advisors and experts, providing unparalleled opportunities for learning and growth. 

Job Description:

 

56 -Engineering Manager: Backend ABOUT 56: At 56, we are on a mission to transform how security is perceived. To accomplish this, we have state-of-the-art technology supported by a connected network of AI cameras, safety agents and services to enable real-time physical intervention, which is available 24x7. We combine deep tech computer vision, location services, and contextually deployed safety agents to provide efficient and affordable protection for millions of people, homes, and businesses. Join our mission towards keeping people safer and protecting homes and businesses. About the role : The 56 Engineering team in Bangalore is building a new ground-up platform that transforms physical security. This platform has to be self-serviced, highly reliable, scalable and built for the future. We follow and adapt new technologies and our work includes challenges in the areas of security, geo-location, payments, scalability and architecture. To accomplish this, we are looking for engineers who can:

● Toggle between "big picture" and "fine details" with ease.

● Build software systems ground-up from one line requirements.

● Committed to building high quality and highly reliable software.

Roles & Responsibility :

● Design and Implement foundational components for the 56, which directly impact the safety and security of our customers.

● Constantly evolve the platform to identify bottlenecks in both runtime and development time aspects of the platform and improve them.

● Collaborate with multiple products and engineering teams, as well as external partnerships for integration into our platform

● Work with Product, UX, and Design to build world-class APIs.

● Write quality code and documentation which can be used as an example for your company.

● Help build consensus by being open to a variety of viewpoints and aid in bridging a gap in case of a disagreement.

● Collaborate with peer engineers and continue building a strong culture of quality Basic Qualifications

● 6+ years of professional software development experience

● 4+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Golang

● 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

● Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

● 6+ years overall technical/product development experience.

● Strong object-oriented development knowledge in Java or any other prominent language.

● Stronghold to define technical roadmap and design systems for future which solves for scale and high throughput

● Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues.

● Demonstrates skill and passion for operational excellence.

● Good understanding of CI/CD concepts with knowledge of Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes

● Excellent Documentation skills to lead a technical discussion

● Ability to disambiguate the tech landscape to make technology an enabler to business. Preferred Qualifications

● Knowledge of relational databases and distributed computing technologies.

● AWS technologies exposure.

● Mentoring experience to grow SDEs job family

Initial Responsibilities
• Survey organization to acquire understanding of current practices, strengths, weaknesses
• Identify productivity and quality metrics
• Establish program to collect, analyse and report metrics
• Survey market for developer and QA screening tools
• Screen existing program resources to baseline capabilities
• Assess current team against industry benchmarks
• Identify improvement areas
• Establish get well plan for each improvement area
• Survey market for online training programs to address areas of weakness
• Oversee employee training initiatives associated with improvement initiative
• Build and manage the continuous process improvement program
Long Term Responsibilities
• Provides leadership and direction for engineering resources across regions
• Deploys resources to achieve financial and business objectives
• Leverages relationships with key internal/external customers to support business needs
• Manages and deploys resources within and/or across multiple customers
• Directs the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems
• Negotiates with and /influences customers and/or organizational leadership to set priorities and solidify
relationships
• Leverages the performance management cycle to motivate employees and support achievement
• Directs preparation of work plans, supervise engineering teams
• Supervises daily activities of engineering personnel including technical and administrative support and
ensures that deliverables are produced on schedule and within budget
• Functions as seller-doer, developing client contacts and relationships, preparing estimates,
• Represents the company to client and supports client relationships
• Organizes work to meet deadlines set by others
• Builds team effectiveness skills within work team
• May be responsible for engineering phases of planning and execution of the largest and most complex
of projects.
• Participates in staffing decisions for proposals and projects, works with HR/Recruitment to recruit and
hire staff as needed to execute proposals and projects.

Desirable
• Experience managing software development organizations with greater than 100 resources
• Experience leading software efficiency improvement programs
• Experience with mobile app and server development
• Understanding of the process differences between product development and professional services
Qualifications
• Minimum 15 years of experience managing software engineering resources
• Degree in computing or engineering

Position : Engineering Manager

Experience Range : 8 Years -10 Years

Salary Range : As per Market

Equity : 0.05% - 0.10%

Location : Remote

 

Job Brief:

 

We are looking for proactive “Engineering Manager” with proven leadership skills. You are expected to work on many projects at the same time, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers. Your responsibilities will include researching and developing new designs and products, proposing budgets for projects, and overseeing all the activities related to each project.

Expertise : Your experience across the years in the Roles you have played.

- 8 to 10 years of working experience in Laravel, Code Igniter ,Slim Framework.
- Solid PHP and OOPs concepts, PHP higher version
- Strong MySQL database knowledge. Knowledge of Clustering, Replication, Stored Procedures, DBMS - added advantage
- Hand- on experience of Server technologies[AWS] like setup S3,EC2,load balancers, code deployment and scaling, DNS Management, Database Management, Payment Gateway Integration
- Understanding of Multi-tier architecture of the application
- Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and ajax.

- Knowledge of React.JS will be an added advantage.

- Experience in developing and consuming web services like REST, SOAP, XML

- Proficient on API documentation tools/framework such as Postman, Swagger.
-Team Leader, Team Management.
- Development experience as per SOLID principles.
- Experience in Client Communication

- Adaptive to Start-up culture and fast paced growing environment.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Hire and build a globally-distributed, happy, and successful engineering team.
• Managing a team of 20 + Engineers including Technology leads.
• Closely work with the product team to transform the product roadmap to engineering plan.
• Convert high-level engineering plan into an agile sprint plan with accurate effort estimation ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the project.
• Manage a team of software engineers and technical leads from various disciplines such as frontend, backend, and QA.
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s).
• Understand Engineering KPIs and seek to improve them.
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates.
• Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes.

Position : Director of Engineering

Experience Range : 12 Years -15 Years

Salary Range : As per Market

Equity : 0.10% - 0.30%

Location : Remote

 

 

Job Brief:

 

We are looking for “Director of Engineering” to lead our engineering team and help us build great products. You will also manage our infrastructure and ensure all internal systems operate securely and effectively. To be successful in this role, you should be confident managing our teams while, at the same time, setting goals, budgets and timelines for various projects. In this role you are also in charge of our integrations with external partners and oversee all software development plans from ideation to execution.

Expertise : Your experience across the years in the Roles you have played.

- Experience on scalable architecture, distributed systems, multi-tenancy and multi-threading.

- Prior experience on managing team of up to 30 Engineers, mentoring and coaching them.

- Experience on LAMP or MERN Stack. Hands on experience on Laravel, Code Igniter & Slim Framework.

- Experience on building web applications using Node.js and React.js
- Strong MySQL database knowledge. Knowledge of Clustering, Replication, Stored Procedures,        

   & DBMS

- Hand- on experience of Server technologies[AWS] like setup S3,EC2,load balancers, code  

  deployment and scaling, DNS Management, Database Management, Payment Gateway Integration

- Understanding of Multi-tier architecture of the application
- Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN.
- Proficient in modern JavaScript , HTML, CSS3, jQuery and ajax.
- Experience in developing and consuming web services like REST, SOAP, XML

- Proficient on API documentation tools/framework such as Postman, Swagger.

- Adaptive to Start-up culture and fast paced growing environment.

 

 

 

• Hire and build a globally-distributed, happy, and successful engineering team.
• Oversee Front-end and Back-end development teams of 40+ Engineers including Engineering Managers and their projects.
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s)
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources

Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools

Job Description :- Design and lead the development of an education-technology product spanning web and mobile front-ends and a microservices back-end. The users would include teachers, students, parents and school owners.- We are looking for a qualified technologist with 7+ years of experience, to lead a team of programmers and provide effective guidance as they are developing consumer-facing, new-age, digital-first educational products. You should have prior experience leading the development of several tech products which reached significant scale in the market.- As part of the Technology Team in Client, you will be involved in designing, building and deploying a range of new products and features architected around our in-house Educational Semantic Foundation. You- ll work with a team of brilliant tech leaders and developers to produce engaging and life-changing web and mobile applications, which will be used by students, parents and teachers. You will also work on the analysis of the performance data of millions of students from across the globe, to measure, report and improve the learning of the students. You will need to routinely use NLP, computer vision and deep learning models in many projects to achieve the objectives.- As a team leader, you will be the contact point for all developers, so your communication skills should be excellent. You should also be able to act proactively to ensure smooth team operations and effective collaboration. You will have the freedom to experiment with and adopt new technologies, implement new team best practices and engage with end-users to get direct feedback.Ultimately, you should lead by setting a good example and engage the team to achieve goals.TECHNOLOGY STACK USED AT Client :- Since working on our product involves core mobile and web technologies, we are always looking for people with good Programming skills.- Web Development skills involve all of NodeJS, Python, Ruby On Rails, JavaScript / CSS, ReactJS, relational and non-relational database technologies (like MySQL and MongoDB), Docker, Kubernetes.- Mobile Development skills include native Flutter, iOS (Swift), native Android (Kotlin), React Native.- Multiple Machine Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), Bot frameworks (Microsoft Bot Framework, DialogFlow) and Computer Vision frameworks (OpenCV, Google Cloud Vision API).REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS :- 7+ Years of relevant industry experience, leading the development of tech products which reached significant scale in the market.- Proficient in at least three core development technologies used within Client. You should have a sharp understanding of front-end and back-end application technologies. You should have a strong hold on common software-programming design principles. Familiarity with a variety of data-stores is expected. A penchant for good API design and obsession over high-performance would definitely set you apart.- Proven work experience as a team leader or supervisor. Consistently demonstrated ability to exceed the requirements of a technical lead.- In-depth knowledge of performance metrics to monitor and measure the output of a software development team.- Excellent communication, leadership skills, time-management skills and decision-making skills.- Good knowledge of AGILE product development lifecycle and the process tools: SCRUM, JIRA-like tools; Familiarity with Pair Programming is a must.- Passion for learning, fiddling, tinkering, researching, teaching and sharing.- Technology is constantly evolving, and you will need to learn new programming languages and software design methods as they arise. Knowledge in NLP, ML and Computer Vision frameworks would make you stand apart and be a major plus point.RESPONSIBILITIES :- Delivery: Quality, on time delivery of agreed deliverables. Pay high attention to detail in all work.- Technical Architecture: Define and coordinate the technical tasks for the development of the software and/or interfaces. This includes app architecture, DB design, devops architecture among others.- Hands-on Coding: Participate in the development of the architecturally significant components of the software system and/or interfaces. Own coding for one or more modules of the project under development. Also, participate in and own datacentre upkeep and expansion plans (DevOps activities).- Manage QA activity: Work with QA team to use automated frameworks to perform all testing.- High Performance: Obsessively chase app performance. Employ industry-leading tools to monitor, report and improve app performance, like NewRelic.- Team Environment: Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture. Leverage Agile development methodologies.- Mentor: Act as a mentor for the developers on the team. Maintain high team morale. Encourage creativity and risk-taking. Monitor team performance, reward accomplishments and report on metrics, which can be used for appraisals.- Always up-to-date: Remain knowledgeable of current technology and carry out research to identify new trends that can be used to achieve maximum results. Benchmark new technologies; work on continuous upgradation of technical artifacts. Be an active member of cloud and mobile industry and attend meetups, conferences, etc.- Onboarding new developers: Maintain training documentation to bring new hires quickly up-to-speed and productive.