Manager - Solutions Engineering

Role : Head of Engineer/Director of Engineer

Responsibilities -
● You'll build a team of engineers focused on building out critical components of our Engineering team.
● Support all facets of team management to attract, engage, retain, and nurture teams of outstanding
engineers (e. g., recruitment, mentoring, training and development, performance evaluation).
● Partner with the product and UX teams and other cross functional partners to develop overall vision,
strategy and roadmap for our engineering systems and product suites.
● Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular
assessment and improvement.
● Establish a solid project framework and excellent development processes.
● Drive an excellent experience, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability and simplicity.
● Provide technical and architectural direction for the development, design, integration, testing, and
maintenance of our product.
● Lead agile software processes for the engineering team and introduce best-in-class industry
practices.
● Handle technical debt to ensure our development velocity stays responsive and predictable while
minimizing production incidents of our operations.
Requirements -
● Experience in hiring and performance management of teams in product based companies.
● Experience in leading engineering teams, including experience in managing engineering managers or
Tech Leads.
● 10+ years of work experience architecting, developing, and launching software products and/or
services, ideally at a top Consumer Internet company.
● Strong analytic skills and a demonstrated sense of ownership and accountability.
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide variety of
people.
A service-oriented mentality while driving excellence across the organization.
● Strong organizational skills, both for yourself and the team.
● Business acumen: Proven understanding of business dynamics, goals, and product strategy.
● Knowledge of how Engineering fits into the company's overall business.
● The ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, conflicting constraints and shipping high
quality and pragmatic solutions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company.
● Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field/equivalent practical experience

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Eligibility

Company Introduction

Looking for Sr. Engineering leaders from startups and Tier 1 colleges.

12 -15 yrs. of leading product development & teams in dynamic & ambiguous work
environment with strong programming skills like Objective C, Swift and Java. Leading
continuous improvement teams to re-invent product features for mobile applications in
several domains such as secure instant messaging, secure voice & video communication,
secure e-mail, e-commerce & health science.

Develop strategic plans with regard to the technical development of
applications/software and establishes the business’s technical vision that guides all
aspects of technological development.
 Oversees the strategic deployment of the departmental resources leading to optimal
resource allocation and the smooth and successful development of applications across
theVirtual, epharmacy and CRM verticals.

This is a mission-critical role. We are a small, diverse, agile and high-performance, engineering
team. We’re looking for versatile developers who will:
1. Be product owners
2. Plan, design and build new products and manage their delivery
3. Play the role of tech lead of a team
4. Build new tools and processes around development to increase efficiency
5. Drive culture, learning and development of team members and of the larger org
6. Take ownership and get the job done
7. Have extensive experience in building API products

Who are we looking for?
The leadership role is a software development manager role involving end-to-end engineering
ownership of product(s), and a technical team to go along with it.
● Owner — You will be responsible for one or more products to be delivered to the business.
From a broad point of view, you will be responsible for:
○ Transfer of knowledge from product teams to engineering
○ Interfacing with developer relations, sales and other functions
○ Planning, prioritization of various tasks related to the projects
○ Development of the project, including your own contribution
○ Ensuring quality of deliverables
○ Communication with stakeholders throughout the process
○ Ensure adherence to Agile principles and SCRUM processes

● Technical Manager — As a senior technical member, you will make technical decisions
that will shape current and future behaviours and capabilities of products, and be in good
shape to do so. The requirements here are:
○ Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems, including
production maintenance experience are must-haves
○ Deep knowledge of at least three of Python, JavaScript, Java, Scala, Go, Ruby
and their popular frameworks, libraries and ecosystems. More languages and
frameworks fetch more points
○ Knowledge of ancillary technologies, including logging, monitoring,
dashboarding etc would be necessary

● Enabler — You will introduce various checks and balances in the system, introduce
processes which stop people from failing, introduce tools which make people more
productive, optimize where required, hand-hold where necessary and essentially go
through the entire SDLC, and take the team with you.
● Nurturer — You will cater to your team's interests, help them learn, point them towards
things worth learning, facilitate information cross-pollination within the org, communicate
and cater towards individuals growth-paths, career aspirations and sanity.
Why Setu?
We will spare no efforts to ensure that Setu empowers you to do the most important

Responsibilities • Execute full lifecycle software development • Write well designed, testable, efficient code • Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility • Design, build and Integrate fully independent software systems • Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures • Document and maintain software functionality • Tailor and deploy software tools, processes and metrics • Serve as a subject matter expert • Comply with project plans and industry standards • Lead, Manage and guide a small team to deliver projects in brisk pace. Requirements • 8 - 15 years proven work experience in software engineering • BS / MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred. • Hands on experience in designing scalable applications or building API • Expertise in working with various SQL and NoSQL Databases. • Ability to develop software in Ruby on rails, NodeJS, optionally PHP. • Excellent knowledge of frontend technologies like React and Web services, Rest API Service, JSON and SOAP Technologies. • Experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly concurrent systems. • Experience in guiding a team of Software Engineers for increased proficiency. • Ability to document requirements and specifications • Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes

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

Senior Engineering Manager - Engineering

Myntra’s Engineering team builds the technology platform that empowers our customers’ shopping experience and enables the smooth flow of products from suppliers to our customers’ doorsteps. We work on areas such as building massive-scale web-applications, engaging user-interfaces, big-data analytics, mobile apps, workflow systems, inventory management etc. We are a small technology team where each individual has a huge impact. You will have the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing organization and gain exposure to all the parts of a comprehensive e-commerce platform.

You will be a part of: Storefront (SF)

If you are enthusiastic to work on services platform built for extremely high scale, working on
cutting-edge front-end technologies and world-class payments and checkout infrastructure then Myntra-Jabong storefront is the right place to be.

To manage 10s of Millions of requests each day scaling to 100s of millions of requests on high sale events Myntra-Jabong’s SF Engineering team builds the technology platform that personalizes our customer’s shopping experience and enables the smooth flow of products from suppliers to our customers’ doorstep. We work on areas such as building massive-scale mobile and web-applications, engaging user-interfaces, user personalization platform, content systems, search systems, imaging and visualization systems for products etc. We are a technology team where each individual has a huge impact and get to experience the delight of your hard labour being visible to real users. You will work closely with the business in shaping our product and serve hundreds of millions of Indians! You will have the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing SF organization and gain exposure to all the parts of a
comprehensive eCommerce platform.

The SF team at Myntra-Jabong operates within distinct verticals which are (Storefront – Services Platform, Storefront Platforms for personalization & Store Channels (Client Apps)).

Responsibilities
● Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software
engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions
and the hands-on ability to lead by example.
● Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instil and follow good software development
practices and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile
practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus
on product quality.
● Team management: You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping
individuals grow in their careers, having a constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.

Desired Skills and Requirements

● Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility. Ability to architect, design and code yourself. Technical experience in building and operating
web-based applications. Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the
client interface to the database.) Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.
● Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality. Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.
● You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer science.
● Total of 9+ years’ experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large scale applications and 2 + years’ experience in team management
● Strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms.