Tech Lead

You have a computer science or equivalent degree from a leading technology institute
• You have a strong technical background, with 5+ years of experience with software
engineering
• You have managed engineering teams that have a strong record of shipping products
• You have successfully recruited and mentored engineers
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable

Proficiency in Javascript, HTML5/CSS3, SQL
• Experience with frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL
• Experience with databases technologies like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis
• Experience with dev ops - AWS, CI/CD
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks

Senior Manager - Engineering
Responsibilities:
• Effectively manage and lead a team of software engineers in Bangalore and their projects working on mobile games.
• Report to manager in Montreal, Canada.
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements.
• Work with stakeholders including product management, quality & certification, product support and solution architecture to deliver high quality, reliable & scalable products.
• Ensure compliance with security regulations.
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines.
• The role calls for active role in people management, mentoring & coaching, designing solutions for
complex problems & delivering these solutions on quality and within committed timelines.
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools.

Requirements:
• BE/BTECH/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field.
• Work experience as Manager or Director Engineering leading an engineering team of 5+.
• 8-10 years of hands-on experience.
• Experience working on multiple modern programming languages and platforms (Node.js, Typescript,
React, AWS (Lambda, AppSync, Cognito, RDS).
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and modern human-computer interfaces.
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development.
• Good understanding of agile methodologies.
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind.
• Excellent project management skills.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real-world customer problems
• 3-5 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams
• BE / B. Tech /M. Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science
• Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams
• The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders
• Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our FinTech products
• Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to
• executives and non-technical leaders

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

Software Development Manager

What You Will Need:

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.

Job Description for Project Head for IT

• Provide technical vision and strategy for the team.
• Assess issues regarding Information Systems and create manageable solutions
• Own technical architecture for the application and infrastructure for the product
• Discover and help implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Develop a company's strategy around technology and product to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Strategic Direction for identifying and implementing new technologies
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Build quality assurance, data protection and security processes
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
• Ensuring that 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.
• Managing technology budgets and time frames.
• Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
• Lead the team on design and execution of the engineering roadmap with a focus on engineering excellence in all aspects of the execution.
• Establish repeatable processes and methods that ensure a high level of productivity, quality, and reliability.

 

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as a Project Head or similar leadership role with 5+ years of experience in a technology leadership role
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MS/MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.
• Must have hands-on experience in Java, Front end technologies like Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular, AWS, Modular software development, multi-tenant architecture and highly scalable systems and Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux & Windows)
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
• Excellent communication  and team management skills
• Leadership and organizational abilities
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving aptitude
• Experience in architecture, developing, deploying, and operating large scale, highly available, SaaS applications and services in private or public cloud.

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product

Appy if you have

• A graduation/post graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 7-12 years of strong experience in various frontend development technologies which includes Javascript (core and oops), Nodejs, Html, Css
• Expertise in 
• Any UI framework React/Vue 
• State Management libraries like redux
• Build tools (webpack, grunt, gulp etc)
• Experience with 
• best practices for JS development using jslint, testing frameworks etc.
• package managers like npm or yarn
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environments.
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills.
• Strong communication skills.

 

Good to have

• Experience with AWS, Microfrontend, Nginx, CDN caching
• Exposure to Performance optimization techniques/tools (caching, cdn, lighthouse, optimization)
• Experience with Dockers & Containerization
• Knowledge of tools and best practices for Linting, Compiling, Minifying, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with "Micro Frontend architecture" & “Backend For Frontend”

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.

Responsibilities

• Managing small to medium teams with a focus on performance and talent retention
• Participate in creation and execution of product and technology roadmap with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product managers and other leads/architects for building and delivering projects
• Ownership of front-end and back-end development work carried out with reusability, scalability, and testability of the projects
• Hire and mentor junior team members and coordinate their training
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment and stay compliant with security regulations
• Monitor reliability and performance of all customer-facing and internal projects
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines

 

Requirements

• Work experience as an engineering manager or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
• Experience in the Fintech space
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and server-side technologies (Java preferred)
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
• Good understanding of SDLC using agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban / SAFe)
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills
• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field