Software Engineer - Partner Engineering

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As a Technical Program Manager you will be responsible for coordinating and driving to completion tech initiatives that span multiple teams (dashboard, web-app scanner, new scanners etc.). This role required a strong Business analytics background and a solid understanding of Golang/Python and Typescript to lead the engineering team on such initiatives

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders directly. During the first 6 months of your role, you will be closely orchestrating and leading the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective Tech Lead/Principal SDEs.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise:

• Specialize as the go-to person for one or more technologies and take initiative to learn new ones.
• Design and implement medium to large-sized features while reducing the system’s tech debt.
• Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Be hands-on with writing code, contributing a good amount of time with development tasks as required.
• Be like Yoda - the wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.

Project Management:

• Lead and manage the full project lifecycle along with the Tech leads & engineers in ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, monitor progress, and report on project status to stakeholders.
• Own and improve SDLC best practices across the organization.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Effectively communicate project goals, timelines, and expectations to cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with development teams, product managers, leadership and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful project outcomes.
• Coordinate team members providing effective feedback and moderating discussions.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies.
• Handle unexpected challenges with resilience and adaptability.

Ownership and Operations:

• Own the production operation, ensuring timely delivery of technical projects and monitoring system performance.
• Evolve the architecture to support future requirements and define its SLAs.

Leadership and Management:

• Act as an Engineering Manager when required, providing leadership and guidance to the team.
• Manage the team members’ career, expectations, performance, and level of happiness.
• Define the right processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.

Impact and Evolution:

• Make an impact on the whole tech organization/product engineer teams.
• Lead the 0->1 journey of upcoming products in the platform along with respective Tech Lead/Principal SDEs.

Quarterly Co-working:

• You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in Program Management
• Strong product & program management background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable
• Strong organizational skill with the ability to prioritize and execute tasks across multiple projects with tight deadlines, aggressive goals, and ambiguity.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of Golang, Python, TypeScript are preferred
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Certification in Project Management (e.g., PMP) is a plus.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits.

About HighLevel 

HighLevel is an all-in-one, white-label marketing platform for agencies & consultants. Our goal as a business is to create a sustainable, powerful, “all things marketing” operating system that creates limitless opportunities for our customers. With over 20,000 customers, we need people like YOU to help us grow and scale even further in the coming years. We currently have 600+ employees worldwide, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and, above all, encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/ 

YouTube Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Role & Responsibilities 

Looking for a senior AI engineer for the platform team. The ideal candidate will be responsible to derive key insights from huge sets of data, build models around those, and take them to production.

• Implementation - 
• Analyze data to gain new insights, develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to distributed data sets at scale
• Build continuous integration, test-driven development, and production deployment frameworks
• Architecture - Design the architecture with the Data and DevOps engineers
• Ownership - Take ownership of the accuracy of the models and coordinate with the stakeholders to keep moving forward
• Releases - Take ownership of the releases and pre-plan according to the needs
• Quality - Maintain high standards of code quality through regular design and code reviews.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in Python/R is a must.
• Proficiency in ML/DL frameworks and tools (e. g. Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, Pytorch, Lightning, Huggingface)
• Strong command in low-level operations involved in building architectures for Ensemble Models, NLP, CV (eg. XGB, Transformers, CNNs, Diffusion Models)
• Experience with end-to-end system design; data analysis, distributed training, model optimisation, evaluation systems, for large-scale training & prediction.
• Experience working with huge datasets (ideally in TeraBytes) would be a plus.
• Experience with frameworks like Apache Spark (using MLlib or PySpark), Dask etc.
• Practical experience in API development (e. g., Flask, FastAPI).
• Experience with MLOps principles (scalable development & deployment of complex data science workflows) and associated tools, e. g. MLflow, Kubeflow, ONNX
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or a related field of study
• 3+ years of AI engineering experience
• Strong people, communication, and problem-solving skills

What to Expect when you Apply 

• Exploratory Call 
• Technical Round I/II
• Assignment 
• Cultural Fitment Round 

Perks and Benefits

• Impact - Work with scale, our infrastructure handles around 5 Billion+ API hits, 2 Billion+ message events, and more than 40 TeraBytes of data
• Compensation - Best in Industry
• Learning - Work with a team of A-players distributed across 15 countries who move fast (we have built one of the widest products on the market in under 3 years)
• Generous Device Policy - You get a Macbook Pro
• Unlimited Leave Policy
• 1 team offsite every year
• Remote first culture

EEO Statement: At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organization stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities, and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences while providing excellent service to our clients and learning from one another along the way! Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with dis abilities to perform the essential functions.

Dynamic technical leader who can lead a cutting-edge product development team that is tasked with building world class business applications. This role reports to the CTO and will be responsible for engineering one of the key products lines of SmartDocs. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Manage the end-to-end engineering process to ensure the product releases are released successfully as per the published product roadmap  
• Coordinate requirements prioritization and product managers 
• Release products with proper quality  
• Coordinate code reviews and ensure proper development guidelines are adhered to 
• Coordinate QA testing with QA teams 
• Coordinate proper documentation is released 
• Coordinate with DevOps engineers to maintain proper development landscape 
• Nurture and expand the dynamic development team that is nimble and can meet the requirements of the product managers 
  
  

Key experience and required skills: 

• At least 2 years' experience managing successful development teams building modern web applications in the role of “Developer Manager” or Engineering Manager” or higher 
• Experience as a senior Java developer for at least 2 years with full hands-on development experience 
• Excellent understanding of modern web application architectures and architecture patterns 
• Expertise in Agile and agile-type processes 
• Experience being part of SaaS product development is a definite plus 
• Significant experience in management reporting and communication to executive leadership teams 
  
  

Success Factors 

The ideal candidate would have been part of one or more startups that delivered modern web applications, preferably SaaS products in enterprise space. The ideal candidate will be a proper mix of management skills and technical prowess.  

What we offer 

SmartDocs is a modern progressive product company with the mission of delivering awesome Procure to Pay platform to medium and large enterprises to optimize and streamline business processes. We offer: 

• Awesome workplace  
• Cool benefits 
• Cutting tech stack 
• Socially Impactful products 
• Multiple learning opportunities 
  
  

What we expect 

We are looking for a dynamic leader with the following key traits 

• Responsibility 
• Accountability 
• Flexibility 
• Team player 
• Awesome communication skills 

As a Technical Architect, you need to be

• Technology Expert
• Creative and self-driven
• Customer centric
• Visionary
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

You will closely work with Head of Product Engineering responsible for for the platform development, Chief Technology Officer driving the technology innovation, Software Development Leaders, Program Manager, SCRUM Masters, UX Designers

You will be responsible for

• Driving and defining the technical architecture of the Core SaaS platform
• Develop high-level technical specifications and design of the platform
• Define technical product roadmap to continuously enhance the platform.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and technical guidelines to development team
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
• Bring in best of the class architectural practices in the platform

Your Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years of software product development experience, with majority of them is hands on experience developing in enterprise software product
• Experience in developing and hosting PaaS or SaaS based products/platform with hands on experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on
• Experience developing enterprise- grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Can mentor train existing team members on aspects of architecture, design and explain, document and elaborate architecture and design changes
• Strong background in architectural principles, patterns and anti-patterns
• Must have contributed to technology tools evaluation and technical proof of concept applications
• Should have experience in multiple tech-stacks including Data Analytics tech-stacks as well.

We are looking for a talented product engineer to facilitate the design and manufacturing of our next line of exciting products. As a product engineer, you will be working closely with the design team to create industry-relevant products that meet company specifications. You will also be required to design and oversee the product manufacturing process to ensure that our products meet state safety requirements.

To ensure success as a product engineer, you should have excellent analytical and design skills, good working knowledge of design software, and advanced troubleshooting skills. A top-notch product engineer should be able to transform ideas into high-end products that perfectly meet the needs of our customers.

• Meeting with the development team to discuss product ideas.
• Analyzing market and industry product trends.
• Determining product feasibility costs and return on investments.
• Developing design ideas based on customer interests, budgets, and market research.
• Creating rough product designs using sketches and computer software.
• Conducting theoretical testing on design models.
• Creating full product designs and specifications using computer software modeling techniques.
• Selecting product materials and designing the product manufacturing process.
• Overseeing production and ensuring that products conform to market specifications and safety regulations.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a similar field.
• Previous experience working as a product engineer.
• Advanced analytical and design skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of industry and market trends.
• Ability to visualize theoretical models and design ideas.
• Good project management skills.
• A keen eye for detail.

• Do you like the idea of playing Master Shifu for product development teams? Or, what organizations think of it as playing an Engineering Manager.

• Do you live by the mantra of “buck stops with me”. Seriously, we also don’t know who Buck is and we are also looking for him.

• Have you led a product team of 15+ members in the past to successful outcomes? Okay, we would love to talk even if you unfortunately ran into a failure.

• Do you speak both binary and Humanary? Python , dialect, to talk to geeks and the Humanary, English or Hindi dialect, to talk to Clients. 

• Do you practice Agility? No, we don’t mean asanas from Baba Ramdev but things like Scrum or Kanban

• Do you practice Curiosity over Complacency? I..e are you a lean mean learning machine?

• Can you envision a solution architecture after hearing the product's vision and user stories? Do things like scalability, performability, flexibility, maintainability give you goosebumps of joy?

• Do you have an eye for good user experience?

Did you say Yes to all of them? My My! Love you! I’m sure your current team loves you too. But, if for whatever reason, you are looking for a new home then we would love to talk to you. We are a certified Great Place to Work, which means it’s a place where people love working with each other. And, you would too.

Send me an email, will ya?

About Company

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. works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Engineering Manager 

Requirements:

Education - B.Tech/MCA or equivalent.

Overall 10 to 12 years of experience.

Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.

Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Columnar DBs

Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks, React, AngularJS.

Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API using Node or Lambda or python.

Good understanding of ELK, Kafka, Redis and CDN.

Worked on serverless technologies and good understanding of CMS.

Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.

Good understanding of AWS and its technologies.

Should be innovative and communicative in approach and should be hands on coding guru

Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a product.

Experience with Scaling SAAS products and ability to design from scratch.

Ability to manage a small team of 5 -10 Developers/QA Engineers and guide them on the design and coding best practices

Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.

Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.

Work on the front-end with ReactJS.

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).

• Experience with object-oriented design and languages
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Experience architecting systems on AWS platform a strong plus
• Be able to deal with ambiguity and independently drive, design, and implement large scale software solution
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on technical projects
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Technical aptitude to quickly grasp complex technical issues and communicate directly with technical teams
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a long-term product roadmap and architecture while balancing short term commitments
• Handling the entire SDLC. 
• Own the architecture SCOT product platforms to drive business results. 
•  Be a visible leader to drive and own the architecture and design of some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry to create company wide impact 
•  Be an operational and technical leader with a passion for distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment and delivery. Accountable for solutioning, design, architecture, for the ease of evolution, quality of the systems, performance, scalability, availability characteristics, NFRs and limitations of the systems. Should be willing to be hands-on and spend time actively developing parts of the systems. 
•  Envision and develop the long-term architectural direction, with emphasis on platforms/ reusable components while adopting a nimble delivery process.
•  Establish structures and processes that ensure a high level of quality and reliability and extensibility of deliverables .
•  Drive the creation of next generation extensible web, mobile and fashion commerce platforms, security protocols, customisation and tools to support continuous scaling, internationalisation and platform extensions. 
•  Drives code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drives the architectural governance for them 
•  Set directional paths for the department for adoption of new technology stacks for solving business problems 
• Work with product management, business stakeholders and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term, long-term roadmaps and shape business directions
•  Initiate and deliver leadership training within the engineering organisation and drive the growth of leaders to create a strong leadership bench.
• Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc.
• Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines. 
• Lead by example through innovation. 
• Build and nurture a team of software developers
•  Shape team goals by developing a deep understanding of our business processes and success criteria
•  Develop and execute a long-term architecture while balancing short term commitments
•  Work closely with the team to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems
• Effectively partner with engineering and non-engineering groups across the organization to deliver on own goals
• Work closely  to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems. 
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build, and predictability of the deliverables
• Effectively partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders across the organization to co-define and deliver on goals.