Head of Engineering

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a Tech Lead/Principal SDE, you'll be leading the engineering team for the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform. You will be the owner of the product and would requires a unique balance between hands-on development, architecture knowledge and production support.

You would be ensuring technical excellence, innovation, and alignment within your team. Drive feature design, ensuring regular releases, system optimization, and mentorship while shaping our overall tech strategy along with the Technical Program Manager (TPM).

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders & TPM directly. You will be leading the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Specialization in Technology: Act as the go-to person for specific technologies and proactively learn new ones to stay ahead in the industry.
• Technical Architecture: Create the technical architecture for the product, and keep evolving it to meet future requirements, defining and ensuring adherence to SLAs. Focus on reducing technical debt within the product.
• Ownership and Monitoring: Take ownership of production operations, releases, ensuring system uptime, and being mindful of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Hands-On Coding: Engage in hands-on coding activities, contributing 30% to 70% of your time to development tasks.
• Be like Yoda: The wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.
• Team Coordination: Coordinate team members, providing constructive feedback, and facilitate productive discussions.
• Process Adjustment: Adapt and refine team processes based on feedback, guiding the team through necessary changes.
• Technology Evangelism: Research, create proofs of concept, and introduce innovative technologies to the team.
• Process Definition: Define and implement appropriate processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.
• Company-wide Impact: Contribute to the overall tech organization, influencing its direction and strategies.

Role Expectations:

• Quarterly Co-working: You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.
• Architecture and Integration: Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Tech Mentoring and Alignment: Mentor team members, drive technology adoption, and ensure alignment with company goals.
• Technical Experiments: Conduct technical experiments, and drive innovation within the team.
• Code Reviews and Feedback: Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• System Design Presentations: Present and communicate system designs effectively within the team and to stakeholders.
• Technical Capacity Planning: Plan and forecast technical resource requirements, contributing to hiring decisions.
• Production Issue Management: Manage and escalate production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime. What you build is what you own.
• System SLAs and Monitoring: Define and monitor system SLAs, metrics, and performance indicators.
• Product Direction and Practices: Define product direction & roadmap, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate with other Tech leads, Technical Program Manager, Product manager, leadership to ensure alignment and synergy
• Development Process Improvement: Continuously improve the development process, promoting efficiency and quality.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role or similar working experience
• Strong product & development background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable (as a developer, SDET, architect, etc).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Kong, Envoy, AWS Mirroring etc.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of GoLang, Python, JavaScript
• Experience with DevOps - Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Experience with system monitoring and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Fully remote & agile working environment.
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits.

Job Description

[Job Overview]:

● Perform role of MDG senior functional consultant SAP S/4 Hana ABAP skills will

also be good

● [Primary Skills]: SAP MDG domain in scope - Business Partner and Material

Expertise in any std master data domains like material, Business partner

Customer & supplier.

● Functional configuration of MDG like change request, BRF+ workflow

development, data model enhancements, MDGFPM config, etc Support domain

data replication process.

● Facilitate MDG data load and distribution. Understanding of the impact of the

enterprise on decisions made in MDG.

● Minimum 2 full lifecycle implementations in on Business partner Customer and

supplier and Material master domain.

● Hands-on experience in extending the data models, custom entities, and

attributes.

● Good to have knowledge of earlier versions of MDG and S/4 HANA Responsible

to interact with Business and to gather business requirements and accumulate

information.

● Good analytical skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills.

[Good to have Skills]:

JLPT N3 or N2 certified SAP S/4 Hana ABAP skills or debugging skills

[Responsibilities and Duties]:

● Actively engage with the client team by participating in the business process

discussions, understand the current processes, pain points and new

requirements to design an effective solution in S/4HANA.

● Lead the functional / technical consultants in ensuring successful delivery of the

SAP Solution and ensure deliverables for MDG are successfully handed over for

the closure of the project.

● Identify and escalate issues and risks within project structure as soon as

discovered and not just when the delivery is due

● Prepare Key user & End user training and workshop materials and conduct the

meetings Ensure documentation of all key project deliverables and execute

smooth transition plan to the Application maintenance team

● Support Effort Estimation, Solution Standardizing, conduct Training, Mentoring

and Coaching junior team members Strong client facing experience, Analytical

mind-set with a strong eagerness to learn and able to translate requirements into

designs and code / configuration

● Demonstrates excellent communication skills, both oral and written Open to work

in shifts and flexible to support during weekends / holidays in case of urgency

👋🏼We're Nagarro.

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 16+ years of experience in designing and developing technology solutions using a variety of platforms, languages, and tools, with at least 5+ years of software architecture experience
• Strong background into Devops, Azure, Java, .NET, all mobile, web and backend solutions
• Ability to think breakthroughs by leveraging new age technologies and a deep understanding of the client’s business and the industry they operate in 
• Ability to lead by example by picking up coding of complex functionalities when required
• Strong understanding of technology and the ability to deep dive into a technology problem
• Ability to influence key client stakeholders on their technology and operations strategy
• Vast experience in owning delivery of complex technology solutions for global clients
• Ability to multitask and own multiple technology tracks simultaneously in a globally distributed delivery setup
• Experience in creating cutting edge technology solution by collaborating with other world class technologists 
• Balanced approach that aligns technology-based solutions with customer needs
• Visible thought leadership through technology blogs, whitepapers, presentations etc. 
• Fluent verbal and written language skills and ability to convey a message in a simple and structured manner, customized to the audience and to the mode of communication

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Owning the technology health of the project / account on all key metrics 
• Ensuring projects / accounts meet technical standards of governance, technology standards and best practices
• Owning the long term as well as the short-term technology strategy of your project / account
• Identifying opportunities in the current engagement to cross sell or up sell Nagarro’s offerings  
• Conceptualizing and owning the technical architecture and design of the projects you are influencing
• Harnessing your consulting skills in a culture that promotes opportunities to provide thought leadership and breakthrough solutions for our clients.
• Running workshops internally and with customers on technology and business topics to create new solution areas and use cases
• Communicating and driving adoption of organizational technology initiatives in your account
• Mentoring and managing team members, by giving constant on-the-job feedback, and by providing guidance
• If you are aligned with a Center of Excellence (CoE) or practice –
• Defining the vision for the practice/CoE, creating plan/budget for the practice

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

Exp: 7 - 12 years

Min 5+ years in team management

Solid experience building teams from scratch in Startups

Preferred: Talents from Tier 1 Tech Schools / IT Product Startups

Key Skills: Java, Python, Distributed Systems, Data Structures, Algorithms, AWS, Design Patterns, HLD, LLD, Data Analytics, MongoDB, Node Js

Responsibilities:

• Vision: Building a vibrant technology culture via a shared strategic architecture vision, as the Chief Architect of the company.

• Mission: Driving the platform and product vision to life.

• Goals: Leading and delivering on the long-term road map for engineering and infrastructure efficiency.

• Execution: Building and sustaining core reusable technology that would ensure scalability, reliability, availability and resiliency for all the products running on the platform and power the enterprise's quest to remain technologically competitive as it extends its customer base and enhances customer experiences continuously.

• Assets: Owning all relevant platform technology and infrastructure, both internal (like Dev and staging environments, DevOps stacks, etc.) and client-facing (like production and HA / DR environments)

• Tools and frameworks: Leading a team of engineers and architects across DevOps, Site-Reliability, Product TechOps / NOC, Frameworks and Cloud Infrastructure teams.

• Thought leadership and industry presence: Representing technology branding and evangelism, as the face and voice of enterprise technology; sharing and evangelizing the technology strategy with internal and external entities, including employees, customers, partners, analysts, technical networks and investors.

• Team leadership: Helping build the technical talent brand of the company and in managing their portfolio of IP (intellectual property), via multiple media like blogs, conference presentations and tech media coverage.

Candidate persona mapping:

This role would be part of the Senior Leadership Team of the company, Our typical candidate for this role would be a person who:

• Is a Senior Technical Architect/Manager with 8+ years experience in Product First Tech First companies operating on a global scale

a) Preferably, with rich experience working in Silicon Valley, USA / IT Product Startups

b) Rich experience in helping build platforms that have supported products built from scratch and which have scaled over time

c) Rich experience in helping deploy products on the SaaS model

• Has rich and diverse experience in platform technology areas like design and architecture, APIs and Microservices, cloud infrastructure (private, public, hybrid or multiple), security, scale, tooling and multiple frameworks

• Has an executive presence and strong communication skills

• Demonstrates technology thought leadership

• Demonstrates a record of leading a team of Architects, managing, mentoring and appraising them

• Is, preferably, a programming polyglot

• Should have built diverse teams from scratch

Must Have Experience/Attributes -
Multi-year experience in Designing & Coding Applications of a successful Online platform
Experience in Designing Distributed Applications @ Scale
Proficiency with scalability and high availability strategies for Java Services & Microservices on distributed platform
Defining solution based on the set of Non Functional Requirements - security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability
Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting expertise
Strong desire and ability to look for and adopt best practices/community driven open source framework and technologies into design deliverables
Should be obsessed with code quality, performance optimization and tools usage to improve productivity/quality
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Experience of driving activities to influence code quality and process rigor
Enthusiastically follow technology trends, software engineering best practice and technologies while enjoying the challenge of solving complex problems
Experience of working on E-commerce platform
Experience in Dockers and container orchestration on Kubernetes
Working Experience in Integration Technologies / Middleware like Kafka, Rabbit MQ , ESB
Knowledge on Cloud Ecosystem - Added Advantage