Product Manager

Role Summary:

We are looking for a technically adept Principal Software Engineer who specializes in Node.js, and MySQL and any experience in Angular/react is good to have. The candidate will be instrumental in developing high-performance web applications and leading the technical direction of our software development team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop robust, scalable web applications using Angular / React, Node.js, and MySQL.
• Lead backend development efforts, ensuring efficient database design, optimal server-side scripting with Node.js, and API integration.
• Spearhead front-end development with Angular, focusing on responsive design and user experience optimization.
• Implement advanced MySQL database management and optimization techniques.
• Establish and enforce code quality and software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, and CI/CD processes.
• Analyze system requirements and delegate tasks to team members, ensuring adherence to technical specifications and timelines.
• Troubleshoot complex application issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement strategic solutions.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating and adopting new technologies as appropriate.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on defining technical roadmaps, aligning software development strategies with business goals.
• Lead technical discussions and provide mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in software development with a focus on Node. js, along with MySQL / PostgreSQL, and any experience working with front-end technologies like Angular / React, and MongoDB for databases is good to have.
• Expertise in developing high-load, scalable, and distributed web applications.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in database design, optimization, and management in MySQL.
• Strong grasp of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and AJAX.
• Experience with modern development tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.

Location: Bangalore

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

Who we are:

Acqueon's conversational engagement software lets customer-centric brands orchestrate campaigns and proactively engage with consumers using voice, messaging, and email channels. Acqueon leverages a rich data platform, statistical and predictive models, and intelligent workflows to let enterprises maximize the potential of every customer conversation. Acqueon is trusted by 200 clients across industries to increase sales, drive proactive service, improve collections, and develop loyalty.

At our core, Acqueon is a customer-centric company with a burning desire (backed by a suite of awesome, AI-powered technology) to help businesses provide friction-free, delightful, and referral-worthy customer experiences.

We are looking for

We are looking for an innovative and mission-driven Director, Engineering to play a pivotal role in building the most critical engineering solutions for our business growth. This new role will be supporting the enterprise and Technology organization of business line.

The Director, Engineering works with the Product Owner to understand the business strategy and work together to define the roadmap of product feature development over the next couple of years. Along with that the key aspect is to ensure that the team is aligned to deliver these strategic initiatives which would encompass building data streams, data analytics and feature development across multiple projects in close partnership with our Product teams.

As a Director Engineering in Acqueon you will….

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.

• Lead a team of strong developers, working on large-scale, complex and cutting-edge systems and ensure that the team optimizes codes, while contributing to business goals and product strategies
• Chalk-out and implement the vision, technology roadmap and business goals
• Operate with scale and speed, amidst flux in the fast-paced environment and evaluate performances regularly and share and seek feedback
• Managing the development and delivery of complex features from design to production according to product requirements
• Work closely with Engineering Leaders, Managers; Product Management, Business Development and Operation teams, and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace, estimate and plan projects in an agile environment
• Ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely while driving all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards
• Building a strong development team that can work independently and at the same time will collaborate with other international R&D teams
• Responsible to review Architecture and design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions and deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up
• Expertise in highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
• Strong object oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces
• Superior management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high quality projects on time
• Strong technical competence with a track record of individual technical accomplishments

As a Director in Acqueon you will need….

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science/IT preferred
• With 15+ years of experience in building and managing highly skilled development teams, and the ability to lead, coach and influence them
• Deep understanding in Java, Golang, SQL/NoSQL database, Elastic search, K8S and Docker
• Experience in developing scalable, concurrent, low-latency, fault tolerant systems
• Strong track record of leading and managing the delivery of software development projects, meeting key milestones and overcoming challenges
• Previous experience in working with other international R&D, product management and support teams
• Proven knowledge in both architecture and implementation-level software design of high-scale distributed systems
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines.
• Ability to manage, track and identify risks, bottlenecks and challenges ahead of time, and oversee technical coordination to resolve them
• Willingness to work in a fast paced, and driven team in a context-switching environment
• Should have experience with CDP platforms, NoSql platforms, java/python, AWS platform, ELT (connectors to fetch data, transform) additionally experience with Sagemaker, AI Modelling and Data Science would be a plus

We are looking for a bright and exceptional Engineering Lead to join one of our Fortune 500 clients in the Fintech industry for the locations - Bangalore / Gurgaon / Hyderabad based Technology team. The role involves building complex next generation product used by the clients and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Active participation in design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects/products.
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R& D tasks.
• Work with product groups to outline project deliverables and help manage the roadmap of the R& D tasks.
• Act as a point of contact for managing and driving production defects & stability improvements to resolution.
• Tailor processes to help manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to appropriate closure.
• Engage and lead a team of highly talented technologists.

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 6-9 years of experience, Fintech domain is a plus.
• Demonstrated contribution to end-to-end delivery of enterprise-grade software.
• Proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA.
• Hands-on experience in enterprise application development, coupled with knowledge of frameworks & tools like/equivalent to spring, mybatis, git, gradle
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, and data modeling skills.
• Experience in cloud technologies is a plus.
• Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence.
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams.
• Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills.
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Strong communication skills.
• The ideal candidate should have strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as a demonstrated passion for technology.
• Excellent reasoning ability and good interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role as it involves interaction with business users.

• Take the microservices architecture to the next level of scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability. 
• Build, deploy & run multi-homed systems that work in multiple regions and cloud providers. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, fulfillment/allocation, pricing, maps & routing, fleet positioning, payments, fraud prevention etc 
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable 
• Write high-quality code that is modular, functional and testable; Establish the best coding practices 
• Formally mentor junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting 
• Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture 
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment 
• Operationalize releases by partnering with Tech operations on capacity planning and operability of the product

Experience:

• of years  - 10+ years
• Type of experience - software design, development & architecture
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Contribution to open-source software, tech blogs, talking at tech conferences, etc. 

Educational Qualifications:

○  Must have - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred  

Key competencies:

•  Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs. 
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. 
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation, consensus etc. 
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL 
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB, etc 
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc) 
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc 
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc. 
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures. 
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 

• Strong object oriented concepts. Experience in structure object oriented modelling with preferred expertise in using tools like Enterprise Architect or similar. Experience in working with TOGAF standards is preferred.
• Experience in architecting the technical scale and scope of high volume, scalable enterprise software solutions including logical and physical landscape requirements with specific attention to design, development, and deployment strategies
• Capability to adapt, learn and work with multiple technology platforms. 
• Knowledge in Application Security including Information security principles & realization, OWASP & PCI DSS Compliance ( Security Design & Technology Skills )
• In depth knowledge and experience in large scale database management, data modelling and database design in RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Experience in recommending and implementing DevOps tools for enterprise projects.
• Capability to evaluate tools, technologies and processes, including assessing their strategic benefit in the solution.
• Willingness to work hands-on with engineers to review, troubleshoot coding problems quickly and efficiently.
• Expertise in following technologies – ASP.Net MVC, Web API, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, ASP.Net Identity, REST
• Experience in implementing various application deployment models and monitoring the server infrastructure using industry standard tools.
• Experience in docker based deployment models.
• Experience in architecting, developing and deploying cloud based (One or more among AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) enterprise solutions.
• Experience in designing and developing micro-services based applications. 
• Experience in designing and developing solutions with TDD (Test Driven Development)