Software Architect/Solution Architect

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

Extramarks Education India Private Limited

Extramarks is leading the Education Technology sector in India by providing 360⁰ education support to learners through new age digital education solutions. These solutions are used by schools in class room for imparting education and by students at home to make learning easy and effective. Keeping pace with globalization and technology in education, Extramarks empowers young learners to step in with the latest technology and have anytime-anywhere access to quality learning. In a very short period, Extramarks has become extremely popular among schools and students. More than 8000 schools use digital learning and technology solutions of Extramarks across India, Singapore, Kuwait, UAE and South Africa.

Extramarks Learning App allows students to learn at home at their own pace and space and provides complete educational support eliminating the need of a tutor. The three pronged pedagogical approach of Learn, Practice and Test ensures better learning outcomes for students. All concepts are first explained in an easy to learn manner with the help of rich media then the students are allowed to practice the concept. Virtual Practicing modules and Q&A allow the retention of knowledge that is tested on a robust teaching platform to identify the learning gaps.

Extramarks is currently in the process of scaling up rapidly and is looking to hire for the position of Sr. Development Manager, to be an experienced professional with unique skill who stretches from strategy to execution. Extramarks is driving student learning through data driven techniques by providing personalized learning recommendations to the students. Apart from such customer facing innovations, we are also implementing internal operational excellence solutions through similar data driven approaches. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join Extramarks and help change the face of education in India.

Job Description:

- Drive high performance in the Engineering team, with a relentless focus on agile methodologies and continuous innovation in processes, work practices and tooling.

- Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure solutions are maintainable, modular, and of high code-quality.

- Manage the program releases and collaborate with Architects for bringing new practices and making right technical choices for the system.

- Build a strong, progressive engineering culture that values diversity, trust, efficiency, technical ownership, and accountability.

- Able to lead the development cycle and ensure delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimised for performance and built to scale.

Required Skills:

- Extensive experience in managing teams building high-volume and highly complex consumer software products.

- Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing product experience.

- Deep understanding and prior hands-on experience of back-end technologies like Java based microservices & system design architecture with Spring / Spring boot frameworks, hibernate & SQL OR NoSQL databases. (e.g. MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra).

- Good understanding of Java Memory Management, Garbage Collection, Multithreading, Immutability & concurrency programming.

- Expertise in effective planning and prioritization of projects to create an environment where randomization is either absent or extremely minimized.

- Able to break complex projects into modules and propose effective solutions in view of capabilities of existing platforms and infrastructure.

Desired Skills:

- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services.

- Experience with high performance & high scale applications.

- Good knowledge of multiple data storage systems

We are looking for an Engineering Manager, who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.

• Own the product development from
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
• Contribute to discussion on software architecture while mentoring a team of
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems
• Lead teams in the development of new products, solutions, processes, and implementation of cost management
• Communicates technical information to stakeholders, including investors and potential customers.

 

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier
• Prior 7+ years of relevant experience in a start-up or a dynamic work
• Proven supervisory and technical
• Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance
• Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is
• Past use of Agile/Scrum or similar collaborative
• Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
• Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores
• Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

 

• Master’s degree in engineering or MBA a plus

 

 

Our Client  is a leading SaaS platform used by about 100,000 users across 25 countries to grow their businesses.

Our Client differentiates itself by focusing on high-velocity, high-volume sales businesses, and helping the sales force in those businesses to close deals faster. Clearly – scale, performance are the key drivers for us given that our users need to work in large, high-volume, fast-paced environment.

World’s largest edutech and financial services organizations use our product to drive their sales execution.

ROLE

With the recent Series B raise of $32 million, we are all geared up to scale our business globally. Naturally, the engineering team needs to rapidly improve the product, work on scale and performance, and build new features and products to capture new markets.

We are seeking seasoned leaders to grow our engineering teams, scale our development & release processes, and create world class products.

The role will involve building high-performance software engineering teams and delivering world-class software

Presenting plans, updates and risks to all stakeholders is a critical part of the role. 

Leaders must be hands-on when it comes to addressing customer issues, code quality, RCA / issue prevention and managing risks.

 

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in building software products and SaaS applications
• Highly energetic leader with experience of building high-performance engineering teams and delivering great software
• Exposure to managing scale and huge growth in software usage
• Worked with product design teams, customers and other stakeholders to create a well-defined product roadmap and deliver per plan
• Highly customer-focused with the ability to manage fast-paced release environment
• Strong knowledge of AWS from architecture and costs perspective.
• Exceptionally well-organized individual with great listening, communication and presentation skills

Experience- .NET, AWS

 

 

What you will do:

• Making systems more efficient, more reliable and more secure
• Communicating across internal and external organizations

 

What you need to have:

• Minimum 12 years of experience
• Experience in IT Infra, IT Ops, Hardware and network connectivity
• Knowledge on VM ware, AWS cloud
• Experience in Monitoring tools
• Working knowledge on Unix /Linux
• Experience in security, network and compliance frameworks
• Hands-on experience with VMware, AWS Cloud/Multi Cloud, infrastructure automation and monitoring tools
• Understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity 

As a Director Engineering, your role & responsibility will include the following.  

• Define the product roadmap and delivery planning. 
• Provides technical leadership in design, delivery, and support of product software and platforms. 
• Participate in driving technical architectural decisions for the product.  
• Prioritization of the features and deliverable artifacts 
• Augmentation of the product development staff.  
• Mentor managers to implement best practices to motivate and organize their  teams. 
• Prepare schedules, report status as well as make hiring decisions. 
• Ensure to provide proven ability to evaluate and improve software development  best practices. 
• Provide DevOps and other processes to assure consistency, quality and  timeliness. 
• Participate in interviewing as well as hiring final decisions. 
• Guide and provide input to all strategic as well as technical planning for entire  products. 
• Monitor and provide input for evaluation and prioritize change requests.
• Create and monitor the set of policies that establish standard development  languages, tools, and methodology; documentation practices; and examination  procedures for developed systems to ensure alignment with overall architecture.' 
• Participate in project scope, schedule, and cost reviews. 
• Understand and socialize product capabilities and limitations. 
• Identify and implement ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrate  accuracy and thoroughness. 
• Establish working relationships with external technology vendors. 
• Integrate customer requirements through the engineering effort for championing  next generation products. 
• Quickly gain an understanding of the company's technology and markets,  establish yourself as a credible leader. 
• Release scheduling. 
• Keeps abreast of new technologies and has demonstrated knowledge and  experience in various technologies. 
• Manage 3rd party consulting partners/vendors implementing products. 
• Prepare and submit weekly project status reports; prepare monthly reports  outlining team assignments and/or changes, project status changes, and  forecasts project timelines.
• Provide leadership to individuals or team(s) through coaching, feedback,  development goals, and performance management. 

• Prioritize employee career development to grow the internal pipeline of leadership  talent. 
• Prioritize, assign, and manage department activities and projects in accordance  with the department's goals and objectives. Adjust hours of work, priorities, and  staff assignments to ensure efficient operation, based on workload. 

 

Qualification & Experience  

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Information  Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required. 
• Relevant certifications also preferred among other indications of someone who  values continuing education. 
• 15+ years’ experience "living" with various operating systems, development tools  and development methodologies including Java, data structures, Scala, Python,  NodeJS 
• 8+ years of individual contributor software development experience.
• 6+ years management experience in a fast-growing product software  environment with proven ability to lead and engage development, QA and  implementation teams working on multiple projects. 
• Idea generation and creativity in this position are a must, as are the ability to  work with deadlines, manage and complete projects on time and within budget. 
• Proven ability to establish and drive processes and procedures with quantifiable  metrics to measure the success and effectiveness of the development  organization. 
• Proven history of delivering on deadlines/releases without compromising quality. 
• Mastery of engineering concepts and core technologies: development models,  programming languages, databases, testing, and documentation. 
• Development experience with compilers, web Services, database engines and  related technologies. 
• Experience with Agile software development and SCRUM methodologies. 
• Proven track record of delivering high quality software products. 
• A solid engineering foundation indicated by a demonstrated understanding of  
• product design, life cycle, software development practices, and support services.  Understanding of standard engineering processes and software development  methodologies. 
• Experience coordinating the work and competences of software staff within  functional project groups. 
• Ability to work cross functionally and as a team with other executive committee  members. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Communicate effectively with different business units about technology and  processes using lay terms and descriptions.  
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• Experience Preferred: 
• Experience building horizontally scalable solutions leveraging containers,  microservices, Big Data technologies among other related technologies. 
• Experience working with graphical user experience and user interface design. 
• Experience working with object-oriented software development, web services,  web development or other similar technical products. 
• Experience with database engines, languages, and compilers  
• Experience with user acceptance testing, regression testing and integration  testing. 
• Experience working on open-source software projects for Apache and other great  open-source software organizations. 
• Demonstrable experience training and leading teams as a great people leader.
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We are searching for Developers who have between 2-3 years of coding experience, that are interested in contributing to open source, whether it is documentation, product roadmap, or writing. In accordance with your own timetable, you can accomplish this.

- As a manager, you will lead a team participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle : scoping, design, coding, testing, implementation and support.

- You will help hire, train, mentor and lead a team of highly capable engineers. You will also help in the development of the company's scalable microservices platform and geospatially-aware applications across multiple industries and form-factors.

- In this role, you must be able to multitask, quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult and complex problems.

- You take pride and ownership in your work as well as the overall contributions of your team. You must also have the ability to take a system-wide understanding, recognize the use of system components and disparate technologies and be able to diagnose and debug components across an entire system.

- Your ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and verbal) is key, as is being a self-starter.

Primary Responsibilities :

- Build, train, mentor and lead a cross-functional agile team

- Help design, architect and develop advanced software solutions supporting multiple projects and initiatives

- Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition, development of functional specifications, and design

- Collaborate on or lead the development of technical design and specifications as required

- Establish and lead best practices in software engineering

- Mentor and grow new employees on your team

Skills & Requirements :

- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or a related field

- 5+ years of software development experience using JavaScript, GoLang, Node.js or another object-oriented programming language

- 3+ years as an engineering lead or manager

- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS) and containerization

- Experience with a microservices architecture

- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills

- Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases

- Test-driven development mindset and a focus on quality, scalability and performance

- Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high-quality code

Location: Bangalore/Mumbai

Requirements:

• Experience in building tech platforms
• Setup SDLC processes within the team.
• Define Architecture and tech design of the system. Take strategic calls in deciding the tech stack to be used.
• Should be a hands on coder and should contribute significantly to the code base.
• Manage task allocation and delivery timelines for the team.
• Team building and hiring. Should be able to define the resource requirements and work with hiring managers to fill in the positions.
• Work closely with the product and business team to execute the vision and roadmap of the company.
• Domain expertise in Payments/Lending/Fintech is preferred.