Java Engineering Manager - Software Product Development

• Actively work with Product Managers to scope out and plan projects
• Be actively involved in hiring and growing our engineering team
• Plan and organize sprints with a highly ambitious group of engineers
• Actively work with engineers helping them break roadblocks throughout the sprints
• Involved in building and reviewing Project Architecture
• Actively review Code, Product and API Specifications
• Develop engineers on the team and help them advance in their careers
• Care about agility as much you care about scalability and availability
• Build and help us evolve our culture
• Teams at Our Company is expected to be comfortable working across the stack, delivering new features and products from start to finish
• Most products are Ruby on Rails applications with ReactJS frontends. We have PostgreSQL for most of our storage, and everything is hosted on AWS

• Clear and influential in both, writing and person
• Being a role model for the team
• Bringing-in the experience of building and scaling system to 100x
• Programming expert - help team resolve programming related issues as quickly as possible and introduce the team to better ways of building products.

• Opportunity to work with "India’s leading B2B" E-commerce venture. The company grew its revenue by more than 5.5x last year to reach to a 350 Cr annual revenue run rate scale. We invite you to be part of the upcoming growth story of B2B sector through Us.
• Opportunity to work with most dynamic individuals in Asia recognized under Forbes 30 Under 30 and industry stalwarts from across companies like Microsoft, Paypal, Gravitas, Parksons, ITC, Snapdeal, Fedex, Deloitte and HUL
• Our Company is featured in LinkedIn Top Startups 2019: The 25 hottest Indian companies to work for!
• Working here translates into being a part of a dynamic start-up with some of the most enthusiastic, hardworking and intelligent people in a fast paced and electrifying environment
• Our company has been awarded as the most Disruptive Procurement Startup of the year - 2017
• Being a company that is expanding itself every day and working towards exploring newer avenues in the market, every employee grows with the company
• The position provides a chance to build on existing talents, learn new skills and gain valuable experience in the field of Ecommerce

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.

About 6sense : The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team.

https://hub.6sense.com/welcome/6sense-funding-announcement">In one of the latest news,6sense Raises $125 Million in Series D Funding, Increases Valuation to $2.1 Billion https://hub.6sense.com/welcome/6sense-funding-announcement.

In the other news,6sense was named one of https://twitter.com/Inc">@Inc's Best Workplaces for the third year in a row.

As an Engineering Manager at 6sense ,you will have the opportunity to-

• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent. 
• You will nurture an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor, while planning and supporting career development  
• You will diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software. 
• You will meet 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.
• Recruit and retain top-tier software engineering talent 
• Work cross functionally with other Engineering Managers to strategize and execute on crucial business objectives along with managing upstream and downstream dependencies 
• Work with the Product Managers on project planning and roadmap 
• Apply distributed computing and map-reduce knowledge to compute, dedupe, and derive insights from billions of records daily 
• Intellectually contribute to the software, data, process, and growth of other team members 
• Participate in writing applicable patents for your ground-breaking work 
• Promote and set examples for high code quality like unit testing, good variable naming, modularity, etc. 
• Own products/features at multiple levels: code, data, metrics, reduction of support frequency, etc. 
• Ensure new features are properly tested at scale prior to release 

Required qualifications and must have skills 

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ engineers 
• 10+ years of experience in delivering software 
• BS / MS in Software Engineering or an equivalent degree 
• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Job Summary
The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

• Mandatory experience in the Lending/ Digital Lending domain.
  
  Roles/Responsibilities:

  • Own Architecture and Design for one or more verticals end to end
  • Work with stakeholders (Product teams, Partners, UI/UX teams & Vendors) to create exemplary architecture for large-scale, large-volume consumer-facing applications
  • Ability to do POCs by writing code involving both front-end (UI – Web, Mobile Apps) and back-end services.
  • Ability to work in ambiguous environments
  • Be on top of emerging technology and make recommendations to future-proof products and solutions
  • Ensure that systems are architected to be secure and resilient through the practical application of security and Business Continuity principles
  • Lead the definition and validation of architectural principles and standards.

Functional / Technical Skills:

• In-depth architectural, design and leadership skills.
• Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills.

About Company:

ACKO General Insurance: Acko is India’s first online-only insurance company focused on independent general insurance with its entire operations offered through the digital platform. Being India’s first online-only insurtech player Acko plans to launch low-cost, small-ticket insurance products based on data analytics. Acko plans to create products and deliver opportunities in areas where there are gaps such as personalized insurance products based on user consumption behaviors. Distribution will be key for Acko as it competes with the large insurers which have massive reach. Acko will bring out multiple product lines, offer bespoke pricing and products catering to specific segments and create products for the internet economy. Low cost products for the rural sector will also be key over a period of time, delivered via technology. Website: https://www.acko.com/">https://www.acko.com/  

We are a Series C funded company and backed by a marquee set of investors like Mr. Binny Bansal, Amazon, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran etc. Our total funding till date is $143 Million. 

ounding Team:   

Varun Dua, Founder and CEO
Amit Upadhay, CTO (Ex- BrowserStack, CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Deepak Angrula, VP Engineering (Ex-CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Vaibhav Shah, VP Engineering (Ex-Tesco, Ola , Alumni IIT Bombay)

Job Description:

Here’s what you'll do:

•  Lead and mentor a team of 6-10 talented engineers.
•  Develop, test, and deploy features across the entire stack alongside your teammates.
•  Responsible for hiring, mentoring and development of our team of engineers to grow a

high-performance engineering organization.

•  Collaborate with product & technology teams to deliver major initiatives that drive our

customer growth.

•  Guide engineering technical strategy and roadmaps.
•  Commitment to high code quality and delivery requirements.

Here's what we're looking for :

•  Minimally 8 years of work experience on large-scale and high-traffic projects, preferably in consumer-focused product startups.
•  Minimally 2 years of hands-on technical leadership or people management.
•  Hands on experience working with Web Back-end.
•  Strong hands on coding, design, and architectural skills.
•  Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change: excited about pushing out lots of code

quickly and constantly iterating.

•  Experience with hiring and building self-sustaining teams.
•  Thorough and methodical: you enjoy working with data and using it to make informed business decisions.
•  Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them.
•  Empathetic and employee-focused: you care deeply about the people in your team,helping them to achieve their professional goals, and enabling them to do the best work of their lives.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19.
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
• Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
• Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
• Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
• Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

Qualification

B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

1. Lead over a product in the Technology department.
2. Self-sufficiently lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring.
3. Work with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
4. Recruit, train, retain, and simply make Blok a great yet challenging place to work for the people in your team.
5. Mentor team, resulting in trickle-down happiness and efficiency.
   
   Requirements

1. You have at least 2 years of experience in a managerial position in a technology company.
2. You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services, and know-how to compose a service-oriented architecture. You’ll lead by example by executing when necessary.
3. Bias towards action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way. You embrace the agile software development mindset.
4. Hiring prowess. You're a strong leader who can attract talent around the world, raising the bar for excellence. You retained, mentored, and hired senior engineers and managers with a track record of building productive, world-class engineering teams.
5. Mentorship. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through motivating, mentoring, teaching, and reviewing, you help other specialists make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
6. You have the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with others at all levels within the organization. You have experience with effectively creating alignments with multiple teams and operating well in ambiguity.
7. Dedication. You care tremendously about keeping the experience consistent for users. You are your harshest critic and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team's scope.
8. Experience within our tech-stack (Microservices, Node.js, Java, React, MongoDB, Kotlin, Swift, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, WebSockets, etc.)
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative regardless of boundaries empowers their teams and works well in a cross-functional set-up.

• Create architectural designs based on product/design requirement and implement critical high performance,large scale services and libraries Participate in the design and implementation of next generation systems.
• Control projects from start to finish - deliverables to ensure high quality, innovative and functional design.
• Adhere to all industry standards in code and architectural designs and evangelize best practices in library.
• Collaborating with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for the product development.
• Provide constructive feedback on design and product reviews.
• Collaborate with Leads/Engineers for continuous improvement of the code quality by code review and help engineers write better code.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives working with bright engineers across organization.
• Lead engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications using variety of languages and tools/technology stacks.