Software Architect/Solution Architect

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Xoxoday Plum. Plum is a rewarding and incentives infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises of 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture ( Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 25 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have at least 7+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, full-stack developer with modern architecture.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, PHP
• Frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, MySql, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. You'll report to the co-founder directly.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavour, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

‍A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

‍We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with at least 12 years of experience managing the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical projects or programs. You will ensure that technical projects are completed within agreed-upon timelines, budgets, and quality standards, and shall play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of complex technical projects and programs.

No of Positions 1

Skills Required

• 12+ years experience with development background and excellent communication skills
• Should have strong project management and people skills along with technology skills (primarily web based application development, but can be any)
• Program Planning: Define the scope and objectives of the program and develop a detailed project plan, including schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Risk Management: Manage program risks, develops mitigation plans, and communicates risk status to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that program objectives are aligned with business goals and objectives.
• Communication: Communicate program status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management.
• Project Management: Manage the day-to-day \ activities of the project team, ensuring that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that the program meets the required quality standards.
• Resource Management: Manage program resources, including staffing, budget, and equipment.
• Change Management: Manage changes to the program scope, schedule, and budget and ensures that stakeholders are informed and aligned with the changes.
• Technical Expertise: You will have the strong technical expertise to understand the technical aspects of the program and provide guidance to the project team.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate program performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. You must be able to build and maintain strong relationships with team members and stakeholders to ensure the project's success.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Supervise, plan, and manage the stages of product development, approving the product at each stage.
• For maximum efficiency, create detailed project plans at each stage of product development.
• Maintain a steady flow of ideas and solutions during product development initiatives in order to introduce innovation and improve operational efficiency.
• Keep track of key metrics and create reports to communicate development progress to senior management, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work with a variety of teams, such as software architects, software engineers, system engineers, developers, and product teams.
• Determine cross-team dependencies and include them in the program planning process.
• Determine how to solve technical problems by diagnosing them and suggesting potential solutions.
• Ensure that product development and delivery can be completed within the product budget and timeframe.
• Oversee the product deployment process and, if necessary, assist with the integration process.
• Make necessary changes to product development processes based on performance metrics.
• Stay current on the latest developments in our product category and industry.
• Ensure complete compliance with industry standards by documenting all processes and adjusting them as needed.
• Manage project escalations and assist in the formation of project teams as needed.
• Maintain and implement project plans within the organization necessary technical programs to assist product management teams.

Experience: 12+Years

Location: Hyderabad

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Engineering Manager to join our growing team in Bangalore. You will be responsible for a team that builds end-to-end functionality for products on the Trifacta platform, including data ingestion and publishing services, scalable backend services, and polished user interfaces. Above all, your work will impact how the world works with data.

Responsibilities:

• You inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering team and its team members.
• You attract and retain software engineers for your team.
• You care for your team.
• You are responsible for the execution of your team's projects.
• You provide hand-on technical leadership, e.g. through code reviews or architectural discussions.
• You represent your team in engineering and release management meetings.
• You collaborate and coordinate with other teams and functions such as product management and user experience design, making sure everyone is in sync.

Requirements:

• You have 6 or more years of experience as a software engineer (or in a comparable role) taking projects from the initial concept to production.
• You have a bias towards action and a can-do attitude.
• You have minimum 1 years of experience managing a team of 3-5 engineers as a people manager.
• You have experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders (developers, product management, user experience design, quality assurance).
• You are a communicative and collaborative manager with excellent people skills.
• You have a strong desire helping people and teams grow.
• You have experience working with cross-site teams.

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Job Summary
The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

Job Role : Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams committed to building the innovative products
• Work effectively cross-functionally to drive change and influence product and process decisions.
• Help to shape thinking around designing scalable products and business processes/programs to support KlearNow rapid growth.
• Be both a deep technical leader and a thoughtful people manager.
• Champion engineering excellence, establishing business metrics, and drive continuous operational improvement.

Minimum Qualification

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Overall 10+ years of Software engineering background.  
• 5+ years of management experience -Team Management: Lead a team of 6 – 8
• 3+ years of experience growing and managing multi-team organizations.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in core programming languages such as, Java, Python, go, SQL

Preferred Qualification

• Proven track record of creating and managing high performing teams.
• Experience with logistics domain
• Interest in people and organizations.
• Demonstrate creative problem solving and analytical skills.

If you wish to know more on the opportunity and like to pursue this further, then I would suggest that you share your updated CV and suggest a good time when we could connect.

About Company

KlearNow is pioneering “Logistics as a Service” (LaaS) by creating the industry’s first fully cloud-based digital network that can be used across the entire array of supply chain participants to simplify the transit of goods worldwide.

• KlearNow transforms outdated B2B logistics processes—simplifying lives.
• KlearNow turns daunting logistics paperwork into powerful information to move more goods through customs and drayage with just a few clicks.
• Its smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) AI-powered platform eliminates wasted time and money, reduces costs, and enhances customer experiences by enabling new levels of visibility, productivity, and collaboration.

We are headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, California with locations in India, Canada, UK. This year we will be expanding to multiple countries.

Why us

KlearNow is operational and a certified Customs Business provider in US, Canada and UK with plans to grow in many more markets in near future.  Be a part of a rapidly growing company where you will have the opportunity to extend our leadership position and fast-track innovation behind AI-powered intelligent supply chain solutions.

Over and above the core customs clearance solution, KlearNow is also providing consolidated freight visibility, data and document management and intra-port activity for efficient Drayage.

To know more about KlearNow, please visit our website https://www.klearnow.com/">https://www.klearnow.com/ 

As KlearNow grows, we’re looking for an Engineering Leader who is passionate about people growth and organizational development. This is a unique opportunity to help build the products and practices that will support KlearNow growth over the next round of funding. In this role, you will reimagine enterprise logistics software and build global products that enable KlearNow expand in Americas, Europe and Asia.