Head of Engineering

Our client is looking for a dynamic & passionate Engineering Director who can lead

the tech-stack and drive teams with great leadership qualities.

Here is the JD for Director Engineering -

Responsibilities:

Completely responsible for product delivery, development process, and engineering

team performance. Provide overall direction to the engineering team.

Create a top-performing engineering team culture with high levels of team engagement

and satisfaction.

Work with the leadership team and product leaders to define engineering roadmaps and

solve business problems.

Drive engineering efforts to deliver releases with high quality and on time.

Communicate cross-functionally, hold your command in technical discussion, and have

strategic influence.

Work with the Talent Acquisition team to hire top talent, manage their performance,

and successfully mentor them to grow professionally.

Minimum Qualifications:

Hands-on technical expertise and management experience.

8+ years of people management experience.

Demonstrated experience to recruit and manage technical teams, including team

performance management.

Must have relevant experience in designing, building, maintaining, and extending large

scale production systems.

Have deep expertise in React.js, Node JS and MongoDB.

Strong software engineering skills and best practices including experience with a

modern agile development and deployment workflow.

Proven leadership skills; courage to challenge with candor, motivate and inspire teams.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, for both technical and non-technical

audiences.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

This role will :
 12+ years of management experience in software engineering.
 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
 Strong experience in delivering user interfacing and business critical applications that are scaleable and highly available.
 Solid Experience working with Java and related technologies
 Experience working with Web and UI technologies (Javascript libraries like React) is a big plus
 Experience with building and running microservices in a polyglot environment.
 A strong understanding of database design, and experience with SQL databases and NoSQL databases like Mongo
 Good knowledge of Cloud native and related technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
 Experience with and a thorough understanding of event stream processing and search solutions (Kafka, Elastic etc)
 Experience with designing and developing hybrid mobile react-native is desirable.
 Experience working on projects using Agile methodologies like Scrum
 Ability to design large-scale applications with excellent run-time characteristics such as low latency, fault- tolerance and availability
 Ability to review designs and code, provide actionable feedback, and the detail orientation to follow-up on all technical topics
 Ability to communicate with large cross-functional teams about various engineering topics such as system architecture, detailed design, APIs, project schedules etc.
 Ability to make the right trade-off choices when dealing with functional complexity, conflicting priorities and
aggressive schedules

Desired skills & experience :
 Bachelor's/  Master's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent
 Represent the team and remove hurdles to enable each team member to operate at the highest level of efficiency and productivity
 Ability to hire, mentor and manage the performance of a large team.
 Ability to communicate with senior executives and business stakeholders.
 A learning attitude to continuously improve the self, team and the organization
 Ability to work under pressure and manage difficult situations in a fast-paced work environment.

Engineering Manager (Bangalore, Remote option available) 8+ years of experience 

Zepto (www.zeptonow.com)

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 65-80 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

 

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

 

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

 

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

 

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

 

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

 

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

 

 

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

 

 

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

The EM role would involve team management

 

Interview Process:

1. Discussion on past experience and problem discussion based on projects done
2. Low level design
3. High level design

(One of the rounds will test scenario management via case study since it’s a managerial role) 

 

What You will do Everyday?

• You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects but also build and manage a team of top noch engineers.
• You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs.
• As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.
• Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening.
• Our world-class software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way. You are their default mentor.
• You work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace
• You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions
• You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment
• Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations

 

Your Superpowers

• B.E/B.Tech or any other similar qualification with experience as a tech leader and people manager for at least 8+ years.
• Experience of managing teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Experience with building, developing and coaching teams of best technical talent in the Industry.
• Experience with managing diverse teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup.
• Experience with new open source technologies and their adoption into product development etc.
• Experience with new open source technologies and their adoption into product.

 

 

 

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Plum Integration activities. Plum is a rewarding and incentive infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc.).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 10 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have experience working with applications like HubSpot salesforce and other CRM.
• Should have experience in B2B integrations.
• Should have at least 10+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, with an Automate as much as possible mind set full-stack developer.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• Frameworks like React, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Integration Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. Your will report to the CTO directly.

‍ A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavor, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits.

Requirements
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in
management role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
● Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.
● Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams

• 12+ years of experience in software development with least 3 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect
• Proven and demonstrable experience in creating scalable solutions
• Proven experience with leading large-scale builds, with multiple squads running at the same time
• Familiar with production Cloud / DevOps environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Good leadership and motivational skills
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
• Experience in modeling and graphic representation

Technology / Tools :-

• Digital Lending Stack
• SFDC
• AWS services

Good to have skills:-

• Open-source contribution
• SFDC certification
• TOGAF 9 Certification

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes; suggest improvements
• Create business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals; create and implement business visions and goals by solutioning new implementations/improvements
• Facilitate decision making on technology architecture, build versus buy strategies and vendor (keeping in mind the IT cost)
• Architectural leadership in the resolutions of inter-program and inter-project issues; problem solve on tech challenges faced
• Audit compliance with the Enterprise Architecture standards
• Ongoing publicity and communication of the Enterprise Architecture both within the IT community, and the business units
• Ongoing research and assessment of new analysis approaches for potential use within the Enterprise
• Mentor and Coach the technical team to effectively build solutions; organize training to improve employees' knowledge and skills for future organizational growth
• Thought partner with the CIO on people, process, and platform decision

‍You will be responsible for architecting and developing features on the application end to end. You will be responsible for the functional/technical track of the project. Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes.

 

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• Work on the front-end with ReactJS.
• Designing and developing APIs for the front-end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages).

‍An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• Education - B.Tech/MCA or equivalent.
• Overall 10 to 12 years of experience.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS,  MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Columnar DBs
• Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks, React, AngularJS.
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API using Node or Lambda or python.
• Good understanding of ELK, Kafka, Redis and CDN .
• Worked on serverless technologies  and good understanding of CMS.
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Good understanding of AWS and its technologies.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach and should be hands on coding guru
• Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a product.
• Experience with Scaling SAAS products and ability to design from scratch.
• Ability to manage a small team of 5 -10 Developers/QA Engineers and guide them on the design and coding best practices.

‍You will work with a top-notch tech team, working closely with the architect and engineering head.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Building and leading high-performing teams through effective hiring and coaching
• Develop and lead the execution of the engineering roadmap
• Develop the technical strategy and scalable architecture using modern distributed application
software that meets the overall business requirements
• Ability to create and implement software engineering solutions using modern software engineering
best practices
• Willing to roll up sleeves and get into codebase from time to time
• Provide technical direction on all software development activities

At least 8 years working experience in software/product engineering in fast-paced environments
• At least 2 years of experience in a senior-level engineering management role, leading large teams of
engineers and driving large-scale projects and products, in collaboration with product, design and
commercial teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and strong advocate on Agile methodology
• Deep knowledge of current technological trends, frontend, backend, data such as Nodejs, Reactjs,
Databases, etc.
• Experienced in back-end, architecture and infrastructure and web services.
• Strong communication skills with ability to work with individuals from multiple domains, from
product owners to 3rd party partners
• Ability to multitask and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Proven track record in leading high performance technology teams

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Turtlemint is founded by IIT/IIM graduates, ex-employees of top companies like ICICI Lombard, Yahoo, eBay, and Quikr. Our management team has to experience building and growing many successful technologies and consumer companies. Turtlemint is growing rapidly and it is already amongst the top three insurance platforms in India. We are a well-funded startup, backed by leading Venture Capitalists, and began our business operations in September 2015. We strongly believe that as a technology-led company we can truly disrupt the 'old economy' financial services businesses, a multi-billion dollar industry in India.

 

Turtlemint promises to offer an intellectually enriching and fun work environment, and an opportunity to work with smart and dedicated colleagues. Come make an impact on millions of users on an important but often ignored aspect of their life - financial security & freedom!

 

Job Description  

Position: Engineering Manager

Role:  Engineering Manager  

Experience: 8-15 years  

Location: Mumbai/Pune

 

Responsibilities

 

• Lead a team of engineers and product managers in the ideation and technical development of product
• Provide strategic and operational oversight for Enterprise software product development
• Work closely with business leaders to develop short and long-term strategies
• Manage business expectations, resolve conflicts, and keep businesses aligned
• Define the processes needed to achieve operational excellence in all areas, including project management and system reliability
• Experience scaling and managing 5-20 person teams
• Develop and drive execution on 6 months and 1-year road maps
• Drive innovation, establish new approaches in improving productivity
• Establish a metrics-based organization, develop key operational metrics and push for continuous improvement.
• Ensure system security, data integrity, and accuracy of financial records

 

Skillset and Experience

 

• 8+ years of experience in building Enterprise software
• 8+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, PHP, Python, or C++
• 5+ years experience with agile systems development methodologies
• 4+ years of experience managing engineering teams including hiring/termination and performance management
• 3+ years of experience with either Spring Boot, Play Framework, Django, etc

 

Bachelors in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience 

Finally, and most importantly, drive, energy, and motivation to succeed with delivering great customer experiences 

 

Bonus Qualification

 

• Experience developing financial products like insurance, mutual funds, etc
• Ability to understand the business logic
• Organizational and analytical skills

 

What you get: 

• To work in an early-stage consumer internet start-up in disruptive space  
• To directly work with the founding team of graduates from IIT/ IIM and experience at top internet brands like Yahoo/ eBay  
• Great culture and work with like-minded colleagues  
• Health Insurance for yourself and your family