Product Development - Head

Company Name – Client Freshworks,Location : Perungudi Chennai (Hybrid)

• Strong written/verbal communication skills

• Minimum 3+ Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Fork joins pool and other threading concepts)

•  Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

•  Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

•  Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.

•  Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

•  Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

•  Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non-clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

Job Title: Engineering Head (Fullstack)

Category: Software Development

Role: Fullstack

Type of Position: Full-time

Experience Required: 8 – 15 years

Annual Salary: ₹25 – 30 LPA (CTC negotiable for exceptional candidates)

Location:

• [Add city, e.g., Bangalore, India]
• Remote option available

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Head to lead our engineering team, drive technical excellence, and build scalable products. You will oversee end-to-end product development, define the engineering strategy, and mentor a team of talented developers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the engineering team of 20+ Developers to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to define the technical roadmap.
• Implement best practices in code quality, architecture, security, and performance.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow into future leaders.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies to improve productivity and product performance.

Must-Have Skills:

• Expertise in Fullstack Development (Node.js / Java / Python + React / Angular / Vue)
• Strong experience in Cloud Platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Hands-on with Microservices Architecture & Scalable Systems
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams (5–20 members)
• Strong problem-solving and system design skills

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to AI/ML or Data Engineering is a plus
• Previous experience in startup or fast-scaling environments

Why Join Us:

• Opportunity to shape the engineering culture and architecture from the ground up
• Work on cutting-edge technology with a talented and passionate team
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities

Roles & Responsibilities :

·        To lead team from front to all the software developers including Interns at b+m India office

·        To upgrade and guide to the entire software developers team with technical solutions and updated technologies from time to time .

·        Participate in the complete lifecycle of projects from inception to deployment to value delivery.

·        Developing best practices to ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope of work.

·        Create a project Management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective. Developing and monitoring project plans, project schedules, working hours and ensuring project deadlines are met.

·        Escalate all obstacles that cannot be dealt with promptly that could result in project delays.

·        Communicate project status and key issues to stakeholders on a regular basis.

·        Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of multiple projects (if needed).

·        Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

·        Delegate project tasks based on requirement to the team members' ,  individual strengths, skill sets, and as per their experience levels.

·        Attend seminars and training as required improve & maintain proficiency (if needed).

·        Perform other software development related duties like,

     Software development in C# with MS Visual Studio, Developing and designing GUIs in WPF.

     Source code development for libraries (.dll), e.g. for data exchange

     Creating standard interfaces via web service and OPC UA

    Connecting MS SQL database systems for secure data transfer.

Creating VR and AR applications in Unity

Casandra Architeture- 7+ Yrs- Bangalore

Strong knowledge of Cassandra Architecture including read/write paths, hinted handoffs, read repairs, compaction, cluster/replication strategies, client drivers, caching, GC Tuning.

                Experience in writing queries and performance tuning.

                Experience in handling real time Cassandra clusters, debugging and resolution of issues.

                Experience in implementing Keyspaces, Table, Indexes, security, data models & access administration.

                Knowledge in cassandra backup and recovery.

                Good communication skills.

Will be developing mobile and web applications using latest technology. Should be good in analysing requirements and translate into applications. Good in understanding application flows.

Tech Skills –

MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular/React, Node.js) – Expert level - at least 2-3 full sized projects

Cloud technology – Familiar with using cloud technology (AWS, GCP etc) – Intermediate – Should be able to interact with the services from cloud (e.g. firebase etc)

HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Java script – Intermediate level - Good understanding of concepts and should be able to realize application screens based on the UI provided by designers

Mobile technology – Hybrid (ionic, Cordova, capacitor, flutter), Native (Android, iOS) – Beginner – Should have understanding of concepts, good with basics

We are looking for an experienced engineer with superb technical skills. You will primarily be responsible for architecting and building large scale data pipelines that delivers AI and Analytical solutions to our customers. The right candidate will enthusiastically take ownership in developing and managing a continuously improving, robust, scalable software solutions. The successful candidate will be curious, creative, ambitious, self motivated, flexible, and have a bias towards taking action. As part of the early engineering team, you will have a chance to make a measurable impact in future of Thinkdeeply as well as having a significant amount of responsibility.

Although your primary responsibilities will be around back-end work, we prize individuals who are willing to step in and contribute to other areas including automation, tooling, and management applications. Experience with or desire to learn Machine Learning a plus.

Experience

12+ Years

Location

Hyderabad

Skills

Bachelors/Masters/Phd in CS or equivalent industry experience

10+ years of industry experience in java related frameworks such as Spring and/or Typesafe

Experience with scripting languages. Python experience highly desirable. 5+ Industry experience in python

Experience with popular modern web frameworks such as Spring boot, Play framework, or Django

Demonstrated expertise of building and shipping cloud native applications

Experience in administering (including setting up, managing, monitoring) data processing pipelines (both streaming and batch) using frameworks such as Kafka, ELK Stack, Fluentd

Experience in API development using Swagger

Strong expertise with containerization technologies including kubernetes, docker-compose

Experience with cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Familiarity with continuous integration, Jenkins

Responsibilities

Architect, Design and Implement Large scale data processing pipelines

Design and Implement APIs

Assist in dev ops operations

Identify performance bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

Help maintain code quality, organization, and documentation

Communicate with stakeholders regarding various aspects of solution.

Mentor team members on best practices

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly