Tech Lead

ENGINEERING LEAD ABOUT US: Businesses and customers have always struggled with returns, damaged, unwanted inventory. Current returns management, refurbishment, and liquidation channels are disaggregated, inefficient, and fragmented – meaning both the customer and the business are losing money & trust in the quality of products. And that is where Overcart steps in. Overcart builds a transparent ecosystem, we restore trust to consumers buying refurbished goods by ensuring quality & great pricing, as well as providing warranties & build an integrated partnership with e-commerce companies, manufacturers, and distributors. We’re a strong (yet slightly crazy) team with offices in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai & Bangalore – the main HO is in Gurgaon. We’re backed by one of the largest global funds based in the Valley, Omidyar Network; one of the big Indian power-houses, JSW, and legendary Angel investor K Ganesh. YOUR ROLE: Overcart is a technology-driven company: right from a traditional online store on the frontend to a (what will be) state-of-the-art returns management software for our clients to a comprehensive market-driven algorithm that determines the right price of unboxed products. You get to build the back-end infrastructure to support a highly integrated logistics and sales platform, evolve the front-end and UI to drive higher traffic and conversion, as well as build the technology group and culture within the group. Your role as full stack engineering lead involves hands-on coding as well as understanding the business to play a strategic role. Your measure of success is determined by how effectively you are able to scale the technology to meet business needs. You will be expected to project manage tasks, review and write code, determine and scale backend architecture etc. SKILLS AND ATTITUDE: Experience with Python + JAVA , MySQL, Any NoSQL DB. Competent HTML/CSS/Javascript coding abilities - including the latest standards (HTML5, CSS3) and Web 2.0 / AJAX Good to have experience in Bootstrap and JS MVX Frameworks[AngularJS, ReactJS, KnockoutJS] Experience in Technologies like Redis, Solr, RabbitMQ, Memcache Experience using version control systems (SVN, Git) Strong written and oral communication skills - ability to write technical documentation Knowledge or expertise in managing and optimizing AWS instances is strongly preferred. Ability to self-learn new languages, and solve problems. Not thinking that UX/UI is for numpties (and boring) Ability to think outside the box and bring fresh ideas to the table Willingness to work in a start-up environment: meaning longer hours, complex work, but way more fun and a significant boost to your career. Experience in mentoring developers and task planning. Minimum 5 years experience in technology roles (incl. some full stack dev) Sense of humour essential