Tech Lead

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 Tech Lead/Principal SDE, you'll be leading the engineering team for the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform. You will be the owner of the product and would requires a unique balance between hands-on development, architecture knowledge and production support.

You would be ensuring technical excellence, innovation, and alignment within your team. Drive feature design, ensuring regular releases, system optimization, and mentorship while shaping our overall tech strategy along with the Technical Program Manager (TPM).

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders & TPM directly. You will be leading the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform.

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:

• Specialization in Technology: Act as the go-to person for specific technologies and proactively learn new ones to stay ahead in the industry.
• Technical Architecture: Create the technical architecture for the product, and keep evolving it to meet future requirements, defining and ensuring adherence to SLAs. Focus on reducing technical debt within the product.
• Ownership and Monitoring: Take ownership of production operations, releases, ensuring system uptime, and being mindful of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Hands-On Coding: Engage in hands-on coding activities, contributing 30% to 70% of your time to development tasks.
• 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.
• Team Coordination: Coordinate team members, providing constructive feedback, and facilitate productive discussions.
• Process Adjustment: Adapt and refine team processes based on feedback, guiding the team through necessary changes.
• Technology Evangelism: Research, create proofs of concept, and introduce innovative technologies to the team.
• Process Definition: Define and implement appropriate processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.
• Company-wide Impact: Contribute to the overall tech organization, influencing its direction and strategies.

Role Expectations:

• 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.
• Architecture and Integration: Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Tech Mentoring and Alignment: Mentor team members, drive technology adoption, and ensure alignment with company goals.
• Technical Experiments: Conduct technical experiments, and drive innovation within the team.
• Code Reviews and Feedback: Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• System Design Presentations: Present and communicate system designs effectively within the team and to stakeholders.
• Technical Capacity Planning: Plan and forecast technical resource requirements, contributing to hiring decisions.
• Production Issue Management: Manage and escalate production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime. What you build is what you own.
• System SLAs and Monitoring: Define and monitor system SLAs, metrics, and performance indicators.
• Product Direction and Practices: Define product direction & roadmap, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate with other Tech leads, Technical Program Manager, Product manager, leadership to ensure alignment and synergy
• Development Process Improvement: Continuously improve the development process, promoting efficiency and quality.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role or similar working experience
• Strong product & development background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable (as a developer, SDET, architect, etc).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Kong, Envoy, AWS Mirroring etc.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of GoLang, Python, JavaScript
• Experience with DevOps - Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.
• 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 database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.
• 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.
• Experience with system monitoring and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Fully 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.

We are in search of a young and energetic team lead for our engineers with 3-4 years of experience. Technical prowess in the below areas are must haves

• Full stack development experience in Java/NodeJs backend with React/React Native front end
• Experience in working with Git flow, unit and end-to-end test cases. CI/CD pipelines and deployment to AWS infrastructure
• Proficient in designing and building webapps/mobile with structured/unstructured database systems
• Have an eye for detail and advocate for a good end user experience
• Exposure to agile development

 If you have team leading experience under your belt, that would be a plus. Candidates need to have good communication skills (verbal and written), be proactive and have a go getter attitude. On the job, you will have to 

• Ensure the business requirements are met with respect to functional and technical specifications established
• Guide, mentor, and help out younger team members
• Do code reviews and ensure there are minimal to no tech debts
• Design and review technical architecture, unit test cases and CI CD pipeline
• Collaborate with designers, business analysts, and contribute to product development at the organizational level
• Test and deploy solutions and work with our QA team to squash those nasty bugs
• Iterate and improve code design and clear off technical debt such as test coverage and technical design improvements

You will be part of the core team that builds platforms that could transform the lives of frontline workers around the world.

The Role:

The Engineering Manager (MandateHQ) is a critical engineering leadership role responsible for building & leading the MandateHQ product by leveraging a strong cross-functional team of iZealiant and Razorpay leadership. Pune is being developed as the second largest strategic development centre for Razorpay after Bangalore and will be home to all Banking products and services under the Razorpay umbrella.

You would also be responsible to work with different partners/vendors/ banks, align them to have multiple bank support on our platform. You would also be expected to demonstrate strong leadership in actively embedding our cultural values and enabling world-class employee engagement for the team.

To know more details about MandateHQ -
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Roles and Responsibilities:

• Hire the best talent and create an environment for continuous learning and growth, and enable the teams to deliver performant, resilient, highly available software at scale.
• Ensure that teams are aligned and motivated to deliver on-time and on-quality
• Manage the scrum team to deliver on Architecture, technical design and delivery
• Own the technical debt backlog for your teams
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and integrity, proven through clear communication and collaboration.
• Write and review backend code using any object-oriented language
• Establish best practices and bring compliance to the set execution process in the team.
• Conceptualize and institutionalize quality and operational metrics in his organization
• Evangelize and role model Customer FIRST mindset with deeper understanding of domain,
• Deliver world class solutions to business problems, Increasing agility by using the wisdom of your team to streamline how work gets done.
• Work and collaborate with cross functional teams, business analysts, design, architects to plan and execute in an agile way
• Operate with scale amid business needs and tech growth of the company. Ability to manage flux and keep things fluid as we ramp up on our journey

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 10+ years of overall experience
• Educational Qualifications - Masters/Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs
• Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available environment. Knowledge of Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, and Testing methodologies is preferred
• Excellent design and architecture knowledge.
• Candidates must be innovative, creative, flexible, and self-motivated.
• Demonstrated data-driven decision-making and strong customer empathy
• Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills

BullSpree– India’s First Financial Market Fantasy Gaming Platform- is disrupting the way India understands Stock market and empowering wealth creation opportunities for millions of users.

Responsibilities: Bull spree is looking for a rockstar VP Engineering, who has hands-on experience architecting and designing e-commerce, scalable web & mobile platforms from ground up. The candidate will be the top technical leader who would work closely with founders on technical requirements, design & development based on agile methodologies, supervises software development projects with contracting vendors and hires and develops in-house team for long-term roadmap execution.

In this role, you will design and develop scalable fantasy game mobile application platforms using the latest technologies. You will own product quality and overall customer experience. You will also propose technical solutions to product/service problems while refining, designing and implementing software components in line with technical requirements.

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in computer engineering or equivalent form Top Tier Institute
• 4 – 8 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on Cloud
• Proficiency developing ReSTful APIs, mobile libraries, Android OS, App Development language (PHP/Kotlin/Java/ JavaScript or equivalent)
• Knowledge of Cloud Services, Containers, databases and Message queues (Kafka / RabbitMQ) highly preferable
• Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Spinnaker, SonarQube) and best practices
• Good understanding of database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra etc.
• Sound debugging skills with ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts
  
  

• Strong experience working with multi cloud (AWS/GCP/AZURE), Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform
• Good understanding of observatory tools and logging
• Enthusiasm for open-source contribution
• Previous experience working in an environment with microservices
• Experience in distributed and big data technologies
  
  

Founded in 2020 by Harsh Dhanawat and Dharmil Bavishi, BullSpree is always working on its mission to

‘Make India empower while investing’. The fantasy gaming ecosystem in India is accelerating at 12.5% CAGR and is currently valued at 20,000 crores. Having secured recent funding, we are looking to expand our core engineering team and foster the vision

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Plum Integration activities. Plum is a rewarding and incentive infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc.).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 10 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have experience working with applications like HubSpot salesforce and other CRM.
• Should have experience in B2B integrations.
• Should have at least 10+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, with an Automate as much as possible mind set full-stack developer.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• Frameworks like React, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Integration Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. Your will report to the CTO directly.

About Meatigo

We’re transforming the way in which Indians Eat Meat!

 Meatigo is the leader in the online gourmet meat and delicatessen grocery space and we are proud to be one of the most innovative companies in the food retail space. Since 2016, we’ve worked towards transforming the way Indians eat meat by offering fresher, safer, responsibly sourced, sustainable and more nutritious meat products.

Backed by a team of people, with over 35 years of experience in meat processing & meat products, Meatigo boasts of an unrivalled expertise in cold-chain management, sourcing, manpower training and quality control. We follow an end-to-end business based on the hub and spoke model that starts from procuring the fresh produce to processing, storage and delivery. We currently deliver orders within 120 minutes across 8 Cities (and counting!)

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About The Role

At Meatigo, we're redefining the future of on-demand meat delivery. We're building a small team of incredibly talented programmers and developers to enable us to achieve our vision of connecting customers to better meat from Meatigo.

 We are looking for a leader to launch and grow our Meatigo Tech Team. 

 You will be responsible for building the next version of the Meatigo Consumer Website, Consumer App, Internal Apps as well as integration into other platforms. As we gear up for the next level of growth at Meatigo, you'll lead star engineers, designers, and operators in a fastgrowing dynamic environment. This role will be based out of Gurgaon, but you will speak with customers. stakeholders and teams all across India to understand their unique needs. The role demands a mix of entrepreneurship, cross-functional collaboration, and well-honed product judgement.

Job Description: (Tech Lead)

This role is for a person to lead the development project for an ecommerce application. The person should have a total work experience of 10-12 years in the IT  industry. 

Educational Requirements:

∙ Bachelor's / Master's Degree in the Computer Engg/Computer Science from reputed engineering college.

∙ Prince 2, PMP or other Project Management certification is preferable.

∙ AWS certified Developer - Associate or Sys Ops Administrator Associate is preferred.

Project Management experience:

∙ Managed at least 3 full cycle development projects with team size of 5 including himself successfully.

∙ Used Project Management tool Jira or Slack.

∙ Good knowledge of testing and Software quality.

∙ Hands on experience on container set up and cloud deployments.

∙ Understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery.

∙ A leader who inspires confidence and works as a team player.

∙ Hungry for learning.

Technology Skills and Experience

∙ Knowledge and use of CentOS and Tomcat.

∙ Knowledge and use of React.Js, Node.JS

∙ Knowledge and use of Bash, server side scripting

∙ Knowledge and use of Java Springboot

∙ Hands-on high level and detailed design knowledge and experience. ∙ Hands on development in Java using Java SDK 

∙ Experience with a UI framework like Bootstrap/Material design etc. ∙ Experienced in developing componentized UIs.

∙ Working knowledge of HTML5/java script/CSS/Typescript is must. ∙ Working experience of NodeJs

∙ Developed web services APIs and consumption [REST/SOAP]. ∙ Good knowledge of the use of MVC/MVVM patterns

∙ Working with Caching layers like Redis.

∙ Knowledge and use of ERMs/ORMs preferable.

∙ Experience of reverse proxies like Nginx/HA Proxy etc.

∙ TDD & BDD, the use of tools like Karma/Mocha/Jasmine is required. ∙ Application performance and scalability enhancement.

∙ Knowledge of loosely coupled design.

∙ Security aspects in design and development of applications.

Database

∙ At least 7 years’ experience with RDMS like MySQL Database, table design, normalization, and database performance.

∙ Able to write stored procedures and their debugging.(Optional)

∙ DB installation, maintenance and turning (the latter is optional)

Cloud

∙ Hands on knowledge of AWS cloud based development, deployment and support.

∙ Hands on experience of using Docker containers on the AWS platform. Knowledge of Kubernetes.

∙ Hands on experience in Server Management and AWS instances.

Tools Knowledge and Skills

∙ Used Gitlab

∙ Used Selenium or UFT/Silk or other testing tool.

∙ Used Jira, Slack or Trello

∙ Used Nagios (optional)

Salary:

∙ INR 20-30 Lakhs inclusive of all allowances.

Location:

∙ Gurgaon, Haryana

Joining:

∙ Preferably by 15 June 2021 but latest by 01 July 2021

• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers
• Lead a small group of highly talented engineers to build platform components to power various micro services.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture of Platform. Leads High- & Low-level design of critical components.
• Mentor other Senior & Lead engineers

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Job Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above, computer-related major, good English reading and writing ability.
2. Skilled use of Redis, MongoDB, React Native, Android Development and other caching technology.
3. Familiar with basic Linux operation, have experience in super-million-level PV application development and have experience in high concurrency and big data processing.
4. Five years of WEB development work experience, familiar with PHP website program development language with successful large-scale website project development experience or e-commerce development experience is preferred.
5. Familiar with Opencart system module development, development, template improvement and system reconstruction according to the requirements of the prototype, and complete the experience of website construction;
6. Proficient in HTML, DIV + CSS, XHTML, XML page structure, proficient in JavaScript / Ajax scripting language, can write web programs compatible with all major browsers;
7. Familiar with the MySql database, can write efficient SQL statements, have large database optimization experience;
8. Have a good learning and research ability, good business ethics and personal professional ethics, teamwork spirit, good at communication.