Technical Architect/CTO
at Company is a Software Product House operating in the Contac
- Experience in defining new architectures, design all layers of the solution, create architectural blueprints that can be used for final code development.
- Interface with client business/technical teams to understand complex requirements.
- Anticipate on technological evolutions(example use MySQL Lite not MS SQL, use C# not ASP, don't use JSF use Angular).
- Resolve technical issues.
- Bridge between Developers, Project Managers/Leads, and Client, ensuring smooth communication channel.
- Ensure quality of project implementation deployed.
- Provide technical guidance to projects/programs for complex components of a multiple technology suites.
- Ensuring documentation of the complete project architecture.
- Lead actions to determine root cause of problems and drive resolution.
- Participate in cross-functional work groups to assess business needs, develop a systems architecture strategy, and implementation plans.
- Leads work groups that are responsible for software development.
- Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly integrated and implemented by the development team.
- Coach the technical team in the development of the technical architecture and help them solve challenging technical problems
- Provide technical support and technical quality control throughout all stages of the project.
- Spearheads the development, implementation and communications of architecture roadmap strategies to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve.
- Identify existing architecture weaknesses and find opportunities for process reengineering and perform cost benefit analysis
- Time Management- Organizes own workload to achieve maximum productivity and completes work in a timely and professional manner. Handles multiple short and long term modules by proper planning while anticipating potential problems and planning for contingencies.
- Identify high-potential team members for next level positions and creating learning and development plans for them.
- Enable strong process in place and reducing dependencies on individual.
Technical Skills and Qualification
- Excellent knowledge of Web technologies, Java, Javascript, Contact center environment.
- Experience of current technologies including Open Source, J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JSP, etc.), web application development, web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Rich Internet Applications, messaging infrastructures and databases.
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools and applications.
- Should be comfortable for 40%-60% coding.
- Able to convert requirements into executable code
- 9 to 12 yrs experience
- Qualification: BE/B-Tech /MCA or any equivalent degree
Desirables
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill
- Ability to lead discussions with all levels of the organization and provide balanced information of an idea or communication of an issue regardless of written or verbal
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
- Having Analytical and problem-solving
- Ability to translate complex requirements into functional and Technical architecture
- Experience managing the technology aspect of multiple complex projects
- Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions and Assist team members in complex task
- Willing to take ownership and being accountable.
- Openness, communicates honestly, openly, and consistently.
- Positive Attitude encourages a positive rather than negative viewpoint.
- Integrity maintains the highest standard of personal conduct in performing all duties.
- Should be a good listener.
- Dependable, can be relied upon to get the job done.
- Able to avoid mistakes that could/should be anticipated.
- Should be able sense and grab the opportunities to innovate and improvise.
- Very high competence in presentation skills.
- Negotiator: Excellent negotiation skills which comes handy in hard selling new ideas/ new technical implementations etc.
- Risk Management: Should be able to take calculated risks in trying out new technical implementation avenues
- Able to communicate the org level vision to the team effectively
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Responsibilities
• Build high quality systems and applications that solve key challenges for the customer
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand their requirements, challenges and develop potential solutions
• Proactively identify areas of improvements, come up with innovative solutions, and drive adoption
• Push boundaries on infrastructure and cost optimisation, reusability, simplicity and scalability • Own significant engineering projects end-to-end
• Sign-off on all significant architectures and technical designs regardless of front-end or back-end.
• Translate business requirements to tangible engineering deliverables
• Setup and streamline processes and introduce best practices to improve the overall efficiency and throughput of the engineering team
• Be an effective mentor and help in building capacity in the larger team, strategize and work towards helping junior engineers grow
• Stay current with latest tools, technologies, methodologies and ideas; spread the knowledge and conduct effective POCs to demonstrate applicability and benefits
Requirements
• 15+ years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and middle tier enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with large volume batch and real-time data processing applications
• Experience building enterprise SaaS applications. Strong knowledge of AWS.
• Programming Languages: Java (must have), Python (good to have)
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
• Strong in problem solving, data structures and algorithm design.
• Clear Object Oriented Design and Design Pattern concepts
• Significant experience working with non-functional requirements such as performance, security, compliance, automation etc.
• Experience developing AI-based solutions is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail
Head of Technology
He/She should be a ‘most technical business person’ and his/her goal is to build a great company, not only a technology which just sounds cool. Let’s make it simpler - the primary job of the Tech. head is to make sure the company's technology strategy serves its business strategy. We strongly believe along with technology understanding every Technology Head needs great understating of the business itself.
Role Overview:
Get “Tech” in order: Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets
Innovation through Research and continuous improvement. Head of technology is one strategic personnel who provides critical and factual inputs for IP Creation.
Connecting Business Requirements with activity: Given that, Head of technology is an executive Tech leader, it’s easy for him to understand the business opportunities which Tech Product could create. He/She bring the perspective of tech as a differentiator. He/She should understand the “Market Needs” language talked by his other executive colleagues.
Methodology: With time, help build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing products/ platforms and services.
Architecture Practices: Making sure that best practices are defined and followed by team is very important. he/she may have to garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality is an important activity that he/she should follow. For example, you build an amazing product but during deployment and testing stage performance is hit, or a bug fixes are taking more time than actual building a feature etc. need to be avoided.
Help build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for its Products. As validation of idea happen with acquisition of users and customers, product / platform / service may undergo transformation on required features set and Market needs. A roadmap to achieve those “vanity goals” for the project, and be able to successfully tweak an approach with changing needs is expected from Head of technology.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Plan the project & Assign tasks & complete them within the agreed timelines with client
- Use PMP tools to manage projects
- Attend client meetings and take briefings
Help Business teams to innovate and keep them updated with new technologies - Documentation as per the process – BRS, SRS, HLD & LLD
- Manage a team; set processes in place to facilitate everyday operations seamlessly
- If required, code.
What you will need:
- PHP/MySQL, Angular JavaScript, jQuery, Memcached
- Experience: Minimum 10+ year is required (PHP/MySQL)
- Good Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks (CodeIgniter / Zend/Laravel).
- Solid Knowledge of OOPS.
- Solid experience with MySQL - writing and optimizing SQL for high performance systems with large Database
- Extensively worked on Mobile platforms.
- Must have Experience on either of Social API like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail
- Good knowledge of GIT, SVN
Head/ Chief Architect - Engineering
About Our Client
Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
About the role:
About the job
- Own and drive product development and engineering management in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Deliver architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency inline with business strategy.
- Develop and maintain a aspirational architectural road map
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies.
- Build and lead the technical team with focus on infusing culture resulting in energetic & positive outcomes.
Requirements
- Relevant prior experience in a software product-based company in a leadership position. Minimum of 5+ years experience building applications in high level programming languages - Java, Python or Go
- Strong experience in either or all of databases: MySQL, MongoDB, NOSQL, SQL Server, Oracle. -Strong working knowledge on AWS & Google Cloud & Cloud security.
- Strong working knowledge of Web, caching technologies, API integration technologies & protocols.
- Experience with managing AGILE development methodology and inspire the team to follow best Scrum practices.
- Fair understanding of DevOps would be ideal
- Must be a strong and enthusiastic team player with excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- You are a good communicator who can explain technical concepts to product managers, designers, support and other engineers and you have curiosity about how things work
- Skills in Microservices Architecture, Product Roadmap& tech team management
Regards
Team Merito
Work from anywhere. Our office, your home or anything convenient.
What is the role?
You will be responsible for architecting, training the team and implementing your
solution. You will be working closely with the Product Managers and the tech
leads/developers to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant
applications.
Key Responsibilities
● Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices
architecture.
● Work on core back-end and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
● Work on optimizing the middleware and backend technologies to ensure highest
scalability.
● Work on best system design principles and ensure high availability.
● Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
● Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical
backlog.
● Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
● Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming
languages.
What are we looking for?
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you
do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about
their work and are team players.
● Education - BE/MCA or equivalent.
● Overall 8+ years of experience.
● Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
● Worked on open source technologies - NodeJS, Typescript, ReactJS, MySQL,
NoSQL, MongoDB, ELK, Kafka, Redis.
● Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks,
ReactJS, AngularJS.
● Back-end exposure - good knowledge of building API.
● Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
● Knowledge of cloud architecture especially using AWS and its features.
● Should be completely hands on and have the ability to develop quick Prototypes.
● Good understanding of CMS.
● Will be responsible for the functional/technical track of a project.
Whom will you work with?
You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of
Empuls
- Product development-oriented: leading the architecture and design of a multi-tenant, cloud-native platform that hosts the IoT and Analytics apps architecting integration engine with connectors to handle and consume structured and unstructured data from different sources (customers ERP systems, external meta-data, etc) designing frameworks to support Big Data Analytics and real-time actionability based on predictive ML models driving the development of company's IoT platform dashboard and mobile applications with support from UX consultant.
- Internal team-oriented: building and a mentoring team of software developers planning and managing project timelines towards meeting roadmap goals and customer deliverables driving the team towards a test-driven and documented codebase.
- Customer-facing: work with customer's technical team to understand requirements architect and draft solution proposals integrate with customers' existing systems.
Requirements:
- Customer experience-related software development projects.
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of time-series (relational or NoSQL-based) databases.
- Experience in integrating multiple Big Data solutions and legacy database systems.
- Experience in designing high volume data chains, i.e. messaging queues, streaming, processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data for IoT eco-system.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise application frameworks like spring/apache software integration web services (SOAP/RESTful), ESB SDLC tools (Git, Automated Testing Frameworks) cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience in building Big Data, AI, Machine Learning analytics pipelines.
- Familiarity with security requirements in IoT space & wireless sensor networks is a plus.