Tech Lead

Company: Magic Crate (www.magiccrate.in) is a VC funded start-up founded by alumni from IIT, IIM and Georgia Tech that is backed by Industry veterans. It designs, develops and delivers boxes/crates to people’s home every month on a subscription basis. The boxes contain high quality material and instructions for hands on fun activities that children in the age group of 3-8 years can do with their parents. TECH LEAD ROLE: • Provide direction for all things technology at Magic Crate • Manage development of products of exceptional quality, within schedule and budget • Oversee engineering department to attain maximum efficiency • Deploy technology to achieve and surpass business goals • Ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction RESPONSIBILITY • Develop new functionality for our e-commerce website using Magento, PHP, MySQL. • Integrate with third-party applications for shipping, inventory etc. • Troubleshoot issues for scaling of the technology, including server, database, network etc. • Manage front-end development using HTML & CSS. • Ability to manage simple network architecture, database backups, fault tolerance etc., • Work closely with Operations & Customer Service departments to identify problems & resolve them on a periodic basis. QUALIFICATIONS • Graduate or Post graduate degree in Computer Science • Proven skills in building and leading a team that delivers high quality software • Expert knowledge of AWS hosting and related server side technologies • Demonstrated ability in architecting and building native mobile apps or web apps that scale • Experience coding on Android / iOS would be desirable • Ability to master any technology on demand • Command over various software development methodologies