
Senior Tech Architect
at A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore
Work from anywhere. Our office, your home or anything convenient.
What is the role?
You will be responsible for architecting, training the team and implementing your
solution. You will be working closely with the Product Managers and the tech
leads/developers to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant
applications.
Key Responsibilities
● Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices
architecture.
● Work on core back-end and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
● Work on optimizing the middleware and backend technologies to ensure highest
scalability.
● Work on best system design principles and ensure high availability.
● Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
● Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical
backlog.
● Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
● Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming
languages.
What are we looking for?
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you
do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about
their work and are team players.
● Education - BE/MCA or equivalent.
● Overall 8+ years of experience.
● Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
● Worked on open source technologies - NodeJS, Typescript, ReactJS, MySQL,
NoSQL, MongoDB, ELK, Kafka, Redis.
● Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks,
ReactJS, AngularJS.
● Back-end exposure - good knowledge of building API.
● Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
● Knowledge of cloud architecture especially using AWS and its features.
● Should be completely hands on and have the ability to develop quick Prototypes.
● Good understanding of CMS.
● Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a project.
Whom will you work with?
You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of
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Responsibilities:
1. Set project timeline
2. Monitor project deliverables
3. Monitor project baseline to ensure activities progressing as planned
4. Monitor project burndown charts
5. Monitor employee's performance with KPI's
6. Update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project progress
7. Coach and support project team members with tasks you assign them
Head of Technology
He/She should be a ‘most technical business person’ and his/her goal is to build a great company, not only a technology which just sounds cool. Let’s make it simpler - the primary job of the Tech. head is to make sure the company's technology strategy serves its business strategy. We strongly believe along with technology understanding every Technology Head needs great understating of the business itself.
Role Overview:
Get “Tech” in order: Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets
Innovation through Research and continuous improvement. Head of technology is one strategic personnel who provides critical and factual inputs for IP Creation.
Connecting Business Requirements with activity: Given that, Head of technology is an executive Tech leader, it’s easy for him to understand the business opportunities which Tech Product could create. He/She bring the perspective of tech as a differentiator. He/She should understand the “Market Needs” language talked by his other executive colleagues.
Methodology: With time, help build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing products/ platforms and services.
Architecture Practices: Making sure that best practices are defined and followed by team is very important. he/she may have to garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality is an important activity that he/she should follow. For example, you build an amazing product but during deployment and testing stage performance is hit, or a bug fixes are taking more time than actual building a feature etc. need to be avoided.
Help build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for its Products. As validation of idea happen with acquisition of users and customers, product / platform / service may undergo transformation on required features set and Market needs. A roadmap to achieve those “vanity goals” for the project, and be able to successfully tweak an approach with changing needs is expected from Head of technology.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Plan the project & Assign tasks & complete them within the agreed timelines with client
- Use PMP tools to manage projects
- Attend client meetings and take briefings
Help Business teams to innovate and keep them updated with new technologies - Documentation as per the process – BRS, SRS, HLD & LLD
- Manage a team; set processes in place to facilitate everyday operations seamlessly
- If required, code.
What you will need:
- PHP/MySQL, Angular JavaScript, jQuery, Memcached
- Experience: Minimum 10+ year is required (PHP/MySQL)
- Good Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks (CodeIgniter / Zend/Laravel).
- Solid Knowledge of OOPS.
- Solid experience with MySQL - writing and optimizing SQL for high performance systems with large Database
- Extensively worked on Mobile platforms.
- Must have Experience on either of Social API like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail
- Good knowledge of GIT, SVN
- Develop and execute engineering strategy (including technology architecture, development stack, scalability, security etc.) of all our SaaS solutions while keeping in mind needs of business as usual and evolving product feature requirements
- Lead the engineering team and ensure good delivery management to deliver the product roadmap with high speed and quality
- Innovation – explore available technologies that may be useful to our context and run experiments and POCs to evaluate before adoption
- Bring automation and best practices to code management, testing and build & deployment processes
- Solve the most complex issues/initiatives through hands-on development
- Help the team members in resolving difficult technical issues
- Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement
- Provide thought-leadership to fellow team members by working as a guide and mentor to the rest of the team members
The Benefits:
- Best in Industry Remuneration
- Attractive ESOP opportunity with huge potential upside
- Cutting edge technologies with always something new happening
- Start-up culture with full ownership and freedom
- Fully flexible hours and work from anywhere
- Super-fun work environment and colleague
Key Skills Needed:
- Microservices, Spring Boot, Core Java, Struts 2.0, JPA & Hibernate
- Hands-On experience in relational databases (MySQL Preferred)
- Experience in Data warehousing & Analytics
- Hands-on exposure in mobile application developmen
Qualifications
- B.E. / B.Tech from Tier 1 Institute
1. Opportunity to join a very ambitious project starting in the Smart Automation field.
2. Initial team of two senior entrepreneurs already working in this area with strong skills in strategy, consulting, and business development.
3. Startup positioning, business plan, tactical and strategic activities plans minimizing funding needs already well defined.
4. More information will be communicated during the first interviews.
Must have:
1. Demonstrated experience through all phases of the technology life cycle, including project planning, requirements definition, architecture design, build/configuration, testing and operational transition, operating model, governance.
2. Masters' degree in Computer Science or related field.
3. Advanced technological skillset and a demonstrated history with technology.
4. Must have experience with PHP Codeigniter 3 and 4 AND HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (ES6 2020), JQuery, Codeigniter 4, PHP, MySQL, Nginx / Apache, AWS.
Optional: React.js , Node.js
5. Exceptional team management skills with excellent verbal and written communication.
6. Ability to delegate efficiently & decision making
7. Extensive industry knowledge with an eye towards the future & Passionate for achieving goals.
Specific duties include:
1. Creating technology standards and practices and ensuring adherence
2. Leading the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships
3. Closely working with senior CTO and Building and managing the technology team
4. Overseeing research and development as well as special projects
5. Making recommendations to senior management through presentations and advocacy
6. Managing data systems implementation and monitoring their effectiveness in meeting business goals
7. Supervising software testing, and information systems security and maintenance
8. Managing staff in functional areas such as LAN/WAN architecture, systems operations, and hardware and software support
9 Anticipating and reacting to major technology changes
10 Developing technology contingency plans to keep projects on track
11 Supervising Web application and software development
Apart from all the formalities mentioned above, dedication & Passion is something that cannot be measured by any parameter, would love someone with the same passion as us and join with our journey.
Salary/Offer:
Only equity (based on candidate experiences) will be offered as of now. Salary will be there once the company is stable.
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exp in cloud and ecommerce domain
hands on ecommerce development and rollout scaling business.
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