Tech Head

• 4+ years of development and delivery experience as polygot engineer(Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP)
• Ability to think-through challenging problems in a product development environment, and work with amazing people to make it a reality.
• Build software with the latest tools and technologies.
• Excellent OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Familiarity with a few databases, like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, etc.

Senior Engineers (4+ years) who can build and lead the teams in a highly collaborative environment and build product with high quality code, can apply

Job Title: Lead – Product Engineering

About SalesPanda, a unit of Bizight Solutions Private limited

SalesPanda is a Sales & Marketing Automation Platform to help companies grow their business directly as well as through their channel partners. With features like Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, Lead Management, Website Activity Tracking, it acts as an integrated platform to manage sales & marketing efforts. We work predominantly with insurance and financial services companies to automate digital marketing for their channel partners.

SalesPanda is a product of Bizight Solutions a reputed B2B Digital Agency with decades of sales and marketing experience. The company has a decade long experience and works with premium clients like IBM, AWS, HDFC, Aditya Birla, MaxLife, ICICI Home Finance Ingram, Redington, and many more.

Experience Required: 8-12 years
Education: Full-time Graduation in relevant IT stream (BE in CS/B.Tech CS) is mandatory.

Job Profile

We are looking for young and energetic technical folks who are willing to take up the challenge of leading the technical roadmap and the architecture of a fast-growing SaaS product.

The current role is for “Lead– Product Engineering for SalesPanda” and it requires the candidate to technically lead the product (SalesPanda) architecture, infrastructure, and application both. The infrastructure is hosted on AWS and the application is on LAMP. The candidate needs to have a good understanding and preferably hands-on experience of:

• Design and development of LAMP-based SaaS and Mobile product
• Software development lifecycle including source code control, issue tracking, version management, unit, and integration testing
• Understanding of AWS Cloud deployment and technologies like Lambda etc
• Performance tuning of database and application code
• Queuing solutions like AWS SQS, RabbitMQ etc
• Web/Mobile Security and Vulnerability Testing
• Third-party API integration
• Enhancing code coverage and quality through automated frameworks and tools.
• GIT and Jira processes

Experience in working with BFSI clients will be an added advantage.

Roles and Responsibilities

The candidate is expected to perform the following

• Review and optimize product architecture
• Optimize the product scalability and performance – this would involve working with the development and testing team and implement innovative ways to scale.
• Improve Development/ QA processes
• Plan best practices and also work hands-on on new features to check viability before handing over to development teams – e.g. API for email integration, CRM integration, Social media APIs
• Study AWS infrastructure setup and plan optimization
• Review application security and plan/implement the roadmap with the security team.

 

Skills Required:

• Must have hands-on experience of the language core PHP and framework Laravel, MySQL
• Experience in building cloud (AWS) solutions
• Must have worked with distributed systems and understand caching, queue management, and message brokering.
• Should have good knowledge of stateless applications and has worked with the auto-scaled environment on the cloud
• Should understand serverless concepts e.g. AWS Lambda etc.
• Must be a hands-on techie who can lead the team from the front.
• Implement new tools and technologies to further improve product stability
• Understanding of Integration of Email, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and other APIs
• Familiarity with security technologies, processes, and concepts such as Authentication and Authorization, Static Code Analysis, penetration testing methods
• Experience with common application security issues and remediation
• An understanding of performance engineering especially SQL tuning Unit and Integration testing frameworks and tools
• Experience in using source code control tools like Git

 

Employment Type: Full Time, 5 days a week

Compensation : As per industry standards

Job Location: Nehru Place, New Delhi

Visit http://www.bizight.com/">www.bizight.com and http://www.salespanda.com/">www.salespanda.com to know more about us.

 

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the founding team of KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

• Product Development: Partner with the founder & product team to create a product roadmap. Play a key role in influencing customer journey, experience & specs (requirements) with UX designer. Develop front end & back end systems and product. 
• Project Management: Ensure product development roadmap timelines are achieved in a timely way with the right quality with progress being reported daily. 
• Technology Excellence: Ensure that products have best in class performance on technology driven aspects (load times, latencies, uptimes, etc.). 
• Hiring & Developing: Hire junior engineers, divide project workloads & mentor them to continuously improve.
• Continuous Improvement: Establish intake mechanism to convert user feedback into actionable upgrades in product design, track feature improvements & their progress and create rapid improvement cycles. 

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who – 

• Has 4+ years of experience in a digital product company
• Should have managed teams before & can attract talent
• Has experience in front end & back end technologies across web & app development
• Has studied computer science or engineering with at least a B.Tech or B.E degree
• Preferably is skilled in at least one performing art or is a hobbyist
• Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
• Moves fast to launch & fix issues 
• Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

We are looking for a coding Engineering Manager based in Chennai. This is a new role within the growing Engineering function, where you will be responsible for leading a team of talented professionals, assisting them to deliver complex technical solutions across a range of teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable directing, planning and coordinating the team, as well as developing overall concepts for new and existing products and processes. Reporting into the Head of Engineering for our Chennai team, this role is integral to the successful growth of the team as well as wider company performance. 

 

 

What You’ll Be Doing:

 

Play the role of a servant leader in helping the team to excel in the areas of ownership and help to continuously raise the bar on performance.

Perform your responsibilities through delegation, empowerment and influence aimed at delivering long term outcomes for the team and business.

Build, manage and grow one or more engineering team(s), foster Agile practices and continuous improvement, enable engineers to build, test, deliver and operate high-level software products across the company

A hands-on technical approach to management, leveraging your software engineering experience to assist product needs and build

Work with our Product, DevOps, and Data Science functions on articulating roadmaps & ensure a high quality and timely implementation to support our mission and help eliminate identity fraud

Join a mission-orientated company, solving real-world fraud and identity based challenges

Facilitate career growth and success for all team members.

 

What You’ll Bring:

 

6+ years of demonstrated deep technical design and programming skills (in individual capacity) designing and delivering enterprise grade distributed systems in the following tooling; Web applications (Java/PHP/.NET/Python) or Mobile applications (SDK, Android/iOS)

2+ years prior experience managing one or more Agile engineering team(s); contributing to a track record of building complex and technical products, ideally within a start-up or fast scaling environment

Track record of having managed performance cycles of engineers of varying experience levels directly reporting to you.

Experience with building software with Agility and in conformity to security standards.

Willingness to “roll-up your sleeves and get your hands dirty” when required

Experience delivering and operating complex software solutions - understanding the end-to-end needs of what is involved within this process.

Our client is the most sought after traditional Indian outfit manufacturing and exporting company. Their contemporary and stylishly designed clothes are full of unique patterns, matchless embroidery, gorgeous mirror-work and beautiful block prints.

What you need to have:

6+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on management
experience.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, High-scale / High-traffic applications is a
MUST
• Experience with AWS is mandatory while SOA/Micro services with Node.js and Golang is a
plus.
• Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building
productive engineering teams.
• Been actively involved in setting product strategy.
• Entrepreneurial drive and have hands-on experience in creating products which solves
user’s problems
Golang, NodeJs, Java, C/C++,  PHP, Docker, ReactJs, JQuery,  Spring, Hibernate, Redis,  Kafka, RabbitMq, MySQL,  Hadoop, MongoDB,AWS ECS, CodePipeline, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EMR, AWS DocDB, AWS ElasticSearch ,Git, Perforce , Junit, Jasmine, Mocha

1. Proven 9+ years of work experience in managing software development (Android/PHP) 
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
3. Highly experienced with Agile development methodologies
4. Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
5. Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job.
6. Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization.
7. Work well under pressure and be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary.
8. Ability to multi-task, work independently and demonstrate keen attention to details.
9. Team player attitude is mandatory.
10. High command in English Communication
11.  
12. Work on projects, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers.
13. Plan, lead and manage a team of Software Engineers
14. Provide leadership to the core engineering team of product development professionals, to drive all pertinent issues related to the product development life cycle.
15. Build and execute the roadmap in terms of methodologies, development processes, and team enablement to enhance productivity and efficiency.
16. Apply knowledge of software engineering, programming, technologies, processes, and methodologies to develop, maintain and support the technical solutions.
17. Analyze problems and drive long term technology solutions to evolve the product scalability, performance, reliability and supportability
18. Partner with the Products team to contribute to the product strategy and support product vision
19. Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
20. Researching and developing designs and products.

 

 

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Qualifications:

 

• Bachelor’s degree in management, finance or computer sciences or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of IT management experience, preferably within the small and medium business market.
• 8+ year in Software/SAAS business
• Project management experience preferred

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
• Product lifecycle from architecture perspective
• Ensuring that the technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements
• Acting as a mentor to team members
• Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivering of IT projects to market
• Staying on top of technology trends and developments
• Powerful coder with an expertise in PhP, Laravel, Javascript, Architecture Design, Database Design and having agile mindset
• Must have strong knowledge in AWS infrastructure

 

Desired Skills:

 

• Communication
• Planning & Execution
• Problem Solving
• Project Management 
• Quality Management
• Knowledge of deployment tasks such as on site deliveries, installation, acceptance
• Risk assessment 
• Decision Making
• Customer focus

Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s Services. (MERN Stack)
 Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.
 Be the leader in technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.
 Contribute to Open Source software development, standardization of technologies, and evolution of best practices by collaborating with peers outside the company, presenting at conferences, and writing for publication (online or offline).

Minimum 5 Years Experience in an executive leadership role in a SaaSorganization.
 Experience leading teams in a variety of structures and environments ranging from start- up to large-scale enterprise corporations.
 Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to actively
communicate, inspire and motivate all levels ofstaff.
 Leader – strong track record for building a strong engineering culture and world-class
development teams.

We are on the lookout for Engineering Managers who can work with dynamic team setups and solve intriguing problems, someone who can bring a fresh mind with new ideas and perspectives and have a sense of ownership. These managers should be willing to get their hands dirty and love a challenge.

Your Responsibilities :
1. Orchestrate the design, development and delivery with high quality, performance and scale.
2. Develop road-maps for system and product growth, and then ensure timely execution and delivery.
3. Have high technical competence, strong technical background with a proven technical track record.
4. A strong collaborative mindset to work closely with your peers in various teams like Product Management, Design, Quality Assurance and more to bring diverse viewpoints and goals together.
5. Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes.
6. Define a long term talent strategy across technologies. Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for associates and managers who report into you
7. A zeal for solving customer problems, and the cascading the same passion within your team.
8. Drive for innovation and improvement - encouraging and enabling your team to improve their tools, processes, and culture; keeping them agile and creative

Required Skills :
1. Deep understanding of Opensource technologies (Javascript, Node,JS, React, PHP) and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
2. Hands-on experience in developing, designing & scaling complex systems
3. Start-up experience to scale the organization and influence engineers.
4. Strong sense of ownership and accountability
5. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
6. Understanding of business processes and the application of technology to implement them.