Sr Engineering Manager

• Leading the engineering team  and federated suites.
• Helping define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end.
• Working very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies for the team.
• Improving, optimizing and identifying opportunities for efficient software development processes.
• Hiring, Developing and Retaining a strong team of engineers.

• 7-9 years of experience with Java development, Spring Boot. Minimum 5+ years of managing high performance development team(s).
• Strong knowledge of REST and micro services based design.
• Experience across the product development SDLC with solving customer problem approaches.
• Prior product engineering leadership in Identity and Access Management solutions is a big plus.

• Experience in mobile application development or frontend frameworks such as React.
• Managing successful engineering teams across both mobile and web application development.
• Deep knowlege in CSS methodologies like SCSS & SASS.
• Exposure in UI development like PWA, Single page app, Hybrid App, responsive web deisgn.
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Software Development Manager

What You Will Need:

About Company:

ACKO General Insurance: Acko is India’s first online-only insurance company focused on independent general insurance with its entire operations offered through the digital platform. Being India’s first online-only insurtech player Acko plans to launch low-cost, small-ticket insurance products based on data analytics. Acko plans to create products and deliver opportunities in areas where there are gaps such as personalized insurance products based on user consumption behaviors. Distribution will be key for Acko as it competes with the large insurers which have massive reach. Acko will bring out multiple product lines, offer bespoke pricing and products catering to specific segments and create products for the internet economy. Low cost products for the rural sector will also be key over a period of time, delivered via technology. Website: https://www.acko.com/">https://www.acko.com/  

We are a Series C funded company and backed by a marquee set of investors like Mr. Binny Bansal, Amazon, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran etc. Our total funding till date is $143 Million. 

ounding Team:   

Varun Dua, Founder and CEO
Amit Upadhay, CTO (Ex- BrowserStack, CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Deepak Angrula, VP Engineering (Ex-CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Vaibhav Shah, VP Engineering (Ex-Tesco, Ola , Alumni IIT Bombay)

Job Description:

Here’s what you'll do:

•  Lead and mentor a team of 6-10 talented engineers.
•  Develop, test, and deploy features across the entire stack alongside your teammates.
•  Responsible for hiring, mentoring and development of our team of engineers to grow a

high-performance engineering organization.

•  Collaborate with product & technology teams to deliver major initiatives that drive our

customer growth.

•  Guide engineering technical strategy and roadmaps.
•  Commitment to high code quality and delivery requirements.

Here's what we're looking for :

•  Minimally 8 years of work experience on large-scale and high-traffic projects, preferably in consumer-focused product startups.
•  Minimally 2 years of hands-on technical leadership or people management.
•  Hands on experience working with Web Back-end.
•  Strong hands on coding, design, and architectural skills.
•  Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change: excited about pushing out lots of code

quickly and constantly iterating.

•  Experience with hiring and building self-sustaining teams.
•  Thorough and methodical: you enjoy working with data and using it to make informed business decisions.
•  Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them.
•  Empathetic and employee-focused: you care deeply about the people in your team,helping them to achieve their professional goals, and enabling them to do the best work of their lives.

Storytelling platforms have not evolved with smartphones, as we still consume stories being passive observers. At Raidenbit, we are building http://onelink.to/kahaniboxapp">KahaniBox - The Netflix for interactive fiction in Indian languages. We create stories with immersive roleplay experiences that allow the audience to control how the stories unfold and end. And while doing that, we are solving some fascinating problems around decoding human psychology and understanding our audience’s content tastes using engineering and data science.

We are looking for an Engineering Head to join our founding team and drive the vision and architecture for scaling KahaniBox to 100M+ monthly users.

You will:

• Recruit and manage world-class engineering talent both in India and abroad.
• Lead the development of our content creation engine, recommendation engine, and content insight engine. 
• Prototype and implement new product ideas and initiatives around increasing revenue, user retention, content consumption, etc.
• Implement and continuously improve processes for high-velocity engineering, including DevOps, testing, CI/CD, PRs, etc.
• Keep technical debt under control by reinforcing and evolving our engineering culture, which values code reviews, high test coverage, and adequate documentation.

You have:

• 7+ years of engineering experience in scaling, optimizing, and rewriting significant systems. Bonus points for gaming/media-tech experience.
• 3+ years of team management experience. 
• Strong team-building and empowering skills - you excel in hiring and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Exceptional competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP.
• Experience with at least one Cloud Providers: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience in building data pipelines and implementing event-driven architectures.
• Strong bias to ship early and iterate quickly with data.
• Intermediate understanding of Machine Learning.