Head of Technology (Founding Member)

In partnership with a 1500 CR Conglomerate, we will be launching a combination of FinTech & Retail Marketplace focused on empowering Kirana Stores.  Formal registration, Business Plan finalization and  kick off  activities are work-in progress. We are looking for 15+ years experienced technology specialists for the role of Head of Engineering.

You will lead this new value stream help the platform scale up to servce over a 3 million user base in the next 3-5 years

 

Location ; Bangalore / Chennai 

Travel  : Would be required in the initial stages 

Compensation  - Industry standard (open for discussion)

You

• 9+ years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java or similar languages
• 3+ years of experience in team management, including hiring, building key projects and career management.
• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
• Passionate Tech architect, retains narrow focus on research, system performance and scalability

Technology

Good knowledge of languages like Java, Python and web technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS)

Expertise in front end and backend JS frameworks (e.g React JS, Angular, Node.js,)

Experience working in Agile frameworks and project management tools (e.g. Atlassian, Git)

Knowledge of deployment of distributed RESTful search platforms (like Elastic or Solr)

Experience in designing hyperscale architecture

Exposure to Microservices, AI/ML and Bigdata

Worked on at least one 0-1 initiative preferably IT product firms

Hands on ready to code any time (candidates who are interested only in advisory model, please excuse)

Candidates with good exposure working with OR algorithms would be given preference

Reasonably networked to be able to attract tech talent and build a large Engineering team independently

- Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver software products that delight our customers and accelerates our business growth.
• Be a combination of technical hands-on software engineer and a leader who has the ability to influence, guide, and inspire those around you.
• Empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers and managers.
• Understand the market and our end customers.
• Stays current on leading industry trends.
• Conduct performance reviews, calibration sessions and feedback discussions for direct reports.

 

Key Responsibility Areas:	Building and integrating information systems to meet the Clients need. Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it. Resolving technical problems as they arise. Driving and providing solution in RFP/RFI. Providing supervision and guidance to development teams. Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed. Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented. Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have. Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets. Analyzing and documenting requirements. Setting the collaboration framework. Creating a solution prototype. Participating in technology selection. Controlling solution development.
Required Skills:	Proven work experience as Technical Architect or Project Manager Hands-on experience in software development and system administration Knowledge of strategic IT solutions Familiarity with programming languages like Java, Spring/SpringBoot,Microservices, Rest APIs, Python etc Familiarity with operating systems like Windows, UNIX, and databases like MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Mongo Db, etc.. Experience in cloud computing and cloud Technologies   Excellent communication skills – you should be adept at listening to, understanding, and explaining key concepts to managerial and technical resources. Good Anticipation and problem-solving skills – an expert technical architect should be able to anticipate where problems might crop up and find solutions before the system gets deployed.  Ability to deal with pressure – must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines Ability to prioritize and manage time – IT projects often have fixed deadlines that cannot be averted Relationship building - Ability to form a good rapport with clients, managers, and colleagues as part of trust-building  In-depth knowledge about quality standards, legislation, and best practices
Qualification	Degree or Post Graduate in Information Technology, Computer Science, or relevant subjects

 

You need to write scalable Golang code for developing and implementing robust applications. You would indulge your dedication and passion to build server-side logic ensuring low-latency and high-end performance. You should have sound knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices.

YOUR ‘OKR’ SUMMARY

OKR means Objective and Key Results.

As a Senior Development Engineer at Coredge, you will help develop our next-generation cloud native core

solution along with the product and the open-source community to build the Coredge.io vision

What you will do?

• System engineering and implementation in Golang.

• Working on performance issues using creative experiments and internally developed product features.

• Research, propose, and integrate relevant open-source projects based on product objectives.

• Write organized, efficient, and well-documented Python/Golang code as an example for junior engineers.

• Participation in all levels of product definition, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

• Must include the ability to discuss abstract system architectures from ideas through implementation and

         creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges.

• Mentoring software engineers, fostering an environment of trust and accountability.

What you will need?

A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. As an integral part of the development team, you will need the

following skills to succeed.

• Strong Golang skills to develop a framework(s).
• Hands-on to design & develop re-usable framework components.
• Hands-on experience in developing the framework, designing re-usable framework components.
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, Continuous Integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, and functional programming.

Additional Skills:

• Knowledge of Cloud-native would be an advantage.
• Understanding of Kubernetes from the Architecture side and also understanding the Standard API.
• Code contributed to CNCF or a similar community will be a plus.
• Performance benchmarking of K8’s or any cloud will be added advantage

Additional Advantage:

• Deep understanding of technology and passion about what you do.
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with a strong focus to optimize hardware cost.

• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and  influence within a dynamic environment.

• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraint.

What's In It for You?

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

Our Hiring Process:

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of every round)

• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

So, if you are looking at an opportunity to really make a difference- make it with us…

Coredge.io provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable central, state or local laws.

Advertising at our client is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on our clients portal and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies.The Supply Quality organization in Bangalore has the charter to solve optimization problems for ad programs to ensure high-quality ad-impressions. We develop advanced algorithms and systems to optimize performance for our advertisers and publishers. We are focused on solving a wide variety of problems in computational advertising like traffic quality prediction (robot and fraud detection), Security forensics and research, Viewability prediction, Brand Safety and experimentation. Our team includes experts in the areas of distributed computing, machine learning, statistics, optimization, text mining, information theory and big data systems.

The Supply Quality infrastructure(SQI) team builds large-scale real-time transactional solutions, batch and stream processing systems, internet scale crawling solutions and storage infrastructure. We process bid requests in the orders of tens of billions per day with our real-time, batch and stream processing systems. To handle data at this scale, we use cutting-edge open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Redis etc.. We are not tied to one technology. Instead, we use what is best suited for the purpose. All of our systems tend to be loosely coupled, communicating using synchronous and asynchronous messaging, leading to a classic distributed processing architecture. All our systems need to also implement complex machine learning and optimization algorithms at scale. 

We are looking for a talented Engineering Manager to lead a new big-data engineering initiative within SQI. The team will own building highly available, efficient and low latency internet scale infrastructure including web-scale crawler, contextual processing and classification systems that will be used across multiple advertising use cases. As a leader of the team, you will be responsible to evolve the charter of the team, work with stakeholders to set goals and deliver them. To succeed, you need to demonstrate sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of engineering excelllence towards delivering cutting-edge solutions that materially improve customer experience.


Primary responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements.
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

 

 

As a Director Engineering, your role & responsibility will include the following.  

• Define the product roadmap and delivery planning. 
• Provides technical leadership in design, delivery, and support of product software and platforms. 
• Participate in driving technical architectural decisions for the product.  
• Prioritization of the features and deliverable artifacts 
• Augmentation of the product development staff.  
• Mentor managers to implement best practices to motivate and organize their  teams. 
• Prepare schedules, report status as well as make hiring decisions. 
• Ensure to provide proven ability to evaluate and improve software development  best practices. 
• Provide DevOps and other processes to assure consistency, quality and  timeliness. 
• Participate in interviewing as well as hiring final decisions. 
• Guide and provide input to all strategic as well as technical planning for entire  products. 
• Monitor and provide input for evaluation and prioritize change requests.
• Create and monitor the set of policies that establish standard development  languages, tools, and methodology; documentation practices; and examination  procedures for developed systems to ensure alignment with overall architecture.' 
• Participate in project scope, schedule, and cost reviews. 
• Understand and socialize product capabilities and limitations. 
• Identify and implement ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrate  accuracy and thoroughness. 
• Establish working relationships with external technology vendors. 
• Integrate customer requirements through the engineering effort for championing  next generation products. 
• Quickly gain an understanding of the company's technology and markets,  establish yourself as a credible leader. 
• Release scheduling. 
• Keeps abreast of new technologies and has demonstrated knowledge and  experience in various technologies. 
• Manage 3rd party consulting partners/vendors implementing products. 
• Prepare and submit weekly project status reports; prepare monthly reports  outlining team assignments and/or changes, project status changes, and  forecasts project timelines.
• Provide leadership to individuals or team(s) through coaching, feedback,  development goals, and performance management. 

• Prioritize employee career development to grow the internal pipeline of leadership  talent. 
• Prioritize, assign, and manage department activities and projects in accordance  with the department's goals and objectives. Adjust hours of work, priorities, and  staff assignments to ensure efficient operation, based on workload. 

 

Qualification & Experience  

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Information  Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required. 
• Relevant certifications also preferred among other indications of someone who  values continuing education. 
• 15+ years’ experience "living" with various operating systems, development tools  and development methodologies including Java, data structures, Scala, Python,  NodeJS 
• 8+ years of individual contributor software development experience.
• 6+ years management experience in a fast-growing product software  environment with proven ability to lead and engage development, QA and  implementation teams working on multiple projects. 
• Idea generation and creativity in this position are a must, as are the ability to  work with deadlines, manage and complete projects on time and within budget. 
• Proven ability to establish and drive processes and procedures with quantifiable  metrics to measure the success and effectiveness of the development  organization. 
• Proven history of delivering on deadlines/releases without compromising quality. 
• Mastery of engineering concepts and core technologies: development models,  programming languages, databases, testing, and documentation. 
• Development experience with compilers, web Services, database engines and  related technologies. 
• Experience with Agile software development and SCRUM methodologies. 
• Proven track record of delivering high quality software products. 
• A solid engineering foundation indicated by a demonstrated understanding of  
• product design, life cycle, software development practices, and support services.  Understanding of standard engineering processes and software development  methodologies. 
• Experience coordinating the work and competences of software staff within  functional project groups. 
• Ability to work cross functionally and as a team with other executive committee  members. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Communicate effectively with different business units about technology and  processes using lay terms and descriptions.  
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• Experience Preferred: 
• Experience building horizontally scalable solutions leveraging containers,  microservices, Big Data technologies among other related technologies. 
• Experience working with graphical user experience and user interface design. 
• Experience working with object-oriented software development, web services,  web development or other similar technical products. 
• Experience with database engines, languages, and compilers  
• Experience with user acceptance testing, regression testing and integration  testing. 
• Experience working on open-source software projects for Apache and other great  open-source software organizations. 
• Demonstrable experience training and leading teams as a great people leader.
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• 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

Key Job Responsibilities:

• He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap.

• He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and build roadmaps
• Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

• Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional teams.
• Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both platforms.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 10+ years experience
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard,  REST popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning) Express etc

• Experience in Microservices architecture is a must.
• Working on public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc is preferred
• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres.
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

We are looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to join our engineering team. As a manager, you will lead a team participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle: scoping, design, coding, testing, implementation and support. You will help hire, train, mentor and lead a team of highly capable engineers. You will also help in the development of

Ours is a scalable microservices platform and geospatially-aware applications across multiple industries and form-factors. In this role, you must be able to multitask, quickly
adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable
code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult and complex problems. You take
pride and ownership in your work as well as the overall contributions of your team. You must also have the ability to take a system-wide understanding, recognize use of system
components and disparate technologies and be able to diagnose and debug components
across an entire system. Your ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and verbal) is key, as is being a self-starter.

Primary Responsibilities:

● Build, train, mentor and lead a cross-functional agile team

● Help design, architect and develop advanced software solutions supporting multiple

projects and initiatives in a dynamic agile environment

● Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition,

development of functional specifications, and design

● Wok in close collaboration with Scrum masters, Technical Product Manager and

Stakeholders within the team and function to co-own the deliverables

● Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required

● Establish and lead best practices in software engineering

● Mentor and grow new employees on your team

● End to end feature development with a team size of 8-10 Dev & QA engineers across

levels.

Requirements:

● Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field

● 10+ years of software development experience using both Frontend and Backend

technologies like - React.js/Angular.js, along with GoLang/Java/Python, or another object-oriented programming language

● 3+ years as an engineering lead or manager

● Experience with cloud technologies (AWS) and containerization (Docker/EKS) and Microservices

● Experience with SAFe Agile is preferred

Note: Role is full stack with more inclination to backend side.

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)