Manager - Software Engineering

About Us

Welthungerhilfe is an international aid agency headquartered in Germany with its vision for “Zero Hunger by 2030”, the second sustainable development goal set by the UN. It has thousands of programs fighting hunger in more than 30 countries. Welthungerhilfe (https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/">https://www.welthungerhilfe.org)  (https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org/">https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org).

Child Growth Monitor (CGM) is Welthungerhilfe’s digital innovation project leveraging AI to fight child malnutrition. Around 200 million children around the world are suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes to one-third of the deaths of children under the age of five. In the fight against malnutrition, detection is the first important step, but this is not an easy task: Measuring children with traditional methods is still a complex, slow, and expensive task, frequently resulting in poor data and wrong assessments of the child’s health. Early detection of malnutrition becomes the key to initiating treatment, minimizing the risk of complications, and saving lives by reducing the chances of death to a great extent.

Our solution to measure children replaces hardware (bulky measuring boards and physical scales) with off-the-shelf cell phones and AI. CGM uses augmented reality-enabled smartphones to record 3D scans of children. Artificial Intelligence is used to predict their height, weight, and middle upper-arm circumference needed to know the nutritional status of the children.

This role concerns a full-time assignment (Consultant role) working for Welthungerhilfe’s CGM project. This will convert to Full-time employment (payroll) in 1^st quarter of 2023 latest. We are in the process of setting up CGM as a registered social business in India and Germany.

What you would do to help us save millions of children's lives

You, as an Engineering Manager responsible for end-to-end software development and delivery including ownership of the components/features owned by the individual’s teams and required to be an individual contributor too. Responsible for managing and coordinating resources and processes in order to achieve quality & timely milestones of product development, this will result in transforming the lives of children, their families, community at large globally.

Your Responsibilities

• Be a highly technical, hands-on manager for a team of 8 -15 product development teams including QA to execute agile development sprints.
• Interfacing with the frontend/backend/ML/AI/DevOps team to develop end-to-end APIs, systems, and architectures.
• Building, communicating and executing robust development, documentation, and product engineering processes
• Define Strategy and Architecture for the new and existing suites of algorithms and their underlying systems.
• Work closely with data scientists, Data Engineers, Product managers, and analysts to develop analytics and ML-driven services that serve ML predictions, and generate data, Insights, and recommendations based on large amounts of data.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for data analyses, model development, validation, and implementation
• Contribute to and promote good software engineering practices across the team
• Coach, lead, and manage a dynamic team of Software and AI/ML Engineers to meet organizational objectives and grow their professional skills and capabilities.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical audiences equally well
• Actively contribute to and reuse community best practices.

Technical Skills Required:

• Must be a hands-on engineering leader as this role involves rearchitecting and reimplementing systems working alongside the engineers.
• Hands-on development experience using Python (Flask for backend), React, React Native, Nodejs, Vuejs, JavaScript, API Development, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Native Azure cloud development. (You may not need to demonstrate expertise in each of them but have some experience to manage related engineering divisions)
• Ability to coordinate across different products, engineering tasks, and implementing the modules along with scalability, security, and extensibility in mind.
• Well-versed in Flask-Python stack with backend tools such as Kubernetes etc.
• Should possess strong programming skills to write algorithms and understanding of agile development, CI/CD, sprints, code reviews

Eligibility:

• 10+ years of software development experience using an Agile development process with 3+ years of management experience.
• 2-3 years of experience working with a Growth Stage Start-up is desirable.
• Prior experience with creating and maintaining solution architecture
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrated track record in building and recruiting robust high performing teams

Personal Traits

• Smart, quick learner, proactive, comfortable working with unknowns and dynamically evolving requirements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (interpersonal)
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team to success

What You'll Get

• Working with a globally distributed team and partners such as UN agencies, Microsoft, Scientific Research Institutions across the world, etc.
• Flexible work culture & tons of learning curve
• Competitive salary package based on expertise and relevant experience.
• Chance to shape a disruptive AI-driven project to achieve the 'Zero Hunger by 2030' UN goal.

Hiring Process

• You apply
• [30 min] Preliminary discussion with HR
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Domain/Technical round screen with Head of Product / The product team
• [Optional] Scenarios-based recommendation/Culture fit phase- Where you work with us virtually for two days and suggest what's good and improvement areas. Also currently, we gauge our cultural fit with you. [Note- It’s not paid work]
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Final round screen with the Leadership team
• The next day, we evaluate your interview performance, recommendations, and cultural fit.
• Over the next 2-3 days We check references/background and inform you about the hiring decision (Yes or No with feedback)

Diversity at Child Growth Monitor:

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Diversity & Inclusion makes us better.

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