Technical Lead

ABOUT Company

We are changing the way cataloging is done across the Globe. Our vision is to empower the smallest of sellers, situated in the farthest of corners, to create superior product images and videos, without the need for any external professional help. Imagine 30M+ merchants shooting Product Images or Videos using their Smartphones, and then choosing Filters for Amazon, Asos, Airbnb, Doordash, etc to instantly compose High-Quality "tuned-in" product visuals, instantly. They have built the world’s leading image editing AI software, to capture and process beautiful product images for online selling. We are also fortunate and proud to be backed by the biggest names in the investment community including the likes of Accel Partners, Angellist and prominent Founders and Internet company operators, who believe that there is an intelligent and efficient way of doing Digital Production than how the world operates currently.

About the Role

We are looking for builders of the 1st order. You should get a rush from creating things from scratch and take pleasure in watching users try to tear them apart through sheer volume and strange, unthinkable use cases. And when it breaks, you are to  — make everything smooth, secure, and stronger than ever! If you inhale resilience and exhale code, apply now!

You will work closely with Product and AI Research to build features, tools, and scalable architecture As with any startup, responsibilities will vary frequently. You’ll wear multiple hats, and work across many different technologies, might talk to clients directly, and have an active say in the direction of our product. We want someone who is passionate about this type of environment!

What you’ll do

• You will manage a team of Software Engineers distributed under Tech Leads.
• You will collaborate closely with other engineers of the team and lend your help in your areas of expertise.
• You will manage a scale of Millions of Images processed everyday through Computer Vision algorithms running in the backend.
• Build microservices to support new functionality.
• Bind our front and back end services together.
• Deliver maintainable and high-quality code
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.

We are looking for:

• BTech degree in Computer Science, Engineering, from tier-1 engineering institutes
• 6+ years of Software Development experience in a product development setup
• 3+ years of experience leading a team of Software engineers (strict criteria), preferably in a product based startup environment
• Extremely self-motivated and autonomous.
• Strong data structures and algorithm skills
• Designing database schemas and architecture
• Strong knowledge of Microservices architectural patterns
• Deep experience of building systems at a massive scale

Strong preference for IIT /NIT/ BITS passouts passing out between 2014 and 2015 and experience in major tech product companies (unicorns, well funded startups of good repute - series A and above funded).

 

Note*: 6 years or above experience is mandatory

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for developing and directing IT project management operations and strategic planning to meet organization goals with both customer and internal focus
• Provide overall strategic governance for projects by establishing standards, processes and tools used for effective project delivery

Key Accountabilities:

Project Management

• Establish Methodologies to set productivity and quality targets and to assess results for all projects
• Respond to escalated project issues that may impede project delivery and coordinate solutions
• Coordinate with various functional heads to identify digital solutions and lead the creation of such programs
• Coordinate with teams with customer touchpoints (Cabin Crew, Customer Experience, Commercial) to develop programs aimed to solve for customer issues and needs
• Monitor and analyze project metrics to identify weakness or problems and propose operational improvements and cost savings for future projects

• Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Full project life cycle ownership; successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
• Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders

Transition Management

• Coordinating any major transitions within the company, such as financial, technological, operational, and governance changes
• Analyzing any internal requests for changes and consulting with senior management to deny or approve the proposed changes
• Creating transitional plans and documents to outline project expectations, scope, schedule, and budget requirements
• Leading workshops to provide staff members with information on any major changes in the company, such as new financial protocols or policies
• Ensuring that transitions are planned and carried out in a timely manner and within budget.
• Keeping all parties involved with the transition updated on its progress.
• Spotting any transition-related issues and creating effective solutions to resolve them swiftly
• Providing company-wide guidance during unplanned changes, such as the passing of a senior employee

Team Management

Lead the technical team and head collaboration between Business Users and software providers to build project solutions

Skills Required for the role

Strong Leadership capabilities	Strong Time Management skills
Strong interpersonal and communication skills	Creative outlook to drive process efficiency
Stakeholder management skills	Excellent Project management and delivery skills

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

F5 is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience in building FIPS-ready cryptography-based security solutions at scale. You will participate in the design and implementation of F5’s Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications. Your work includes, but not limited to, design, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging of security services of F5’s platform.

 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with architects and business leaders to understand the requirements for providing FIPS-ready cryptography-based security services for F5’s platform, design solutions, and implement them
• You will develop software for identity related security foundations of Volterra platform - Identity Management, Key Management, Secure Bootstrapping, Authentication, Authorization, Secrets Management, etc.
• You will perform necessary compliance tasks – including building and executing the test suites – required for making systems and libraries ready for FIPS
• You will vet various open source and closed source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system
• Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple domain areas, providing mentorship to other team member
• Demonstrate leadership by taking responsibility and ownership of software components and deliver a complete product satisfying functional, scale, performance and manageability requirements
• Hands-on coding in multiple languages while considering performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 12+ years of software engineering and development experience
• Hands on experience with multiple computer programming languages such as Golang (must), C++, Python, Java
• Hands-on experience with FIPS 140-2 and CMVP
• Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases
• Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
• Good understanding of security concepts like IPSec/TLS, PKI, SAML/OAuth, Key management, etc.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.) is a plus
• Working knowledge of Virtualization technologies like KVM, Docker etc.
• Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills

6+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on management
experience.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, High-scale / High-traffic applications is a
MUST
• Experience with AWS is mandatory while SOA/Micro services with Node.js and Golang is a
plus.
• Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building
productive engineering teams.
• Been actively involved in setting product strategy.
• Entrepreneurial drive and have hands-on experience in creating products which solves
user’s problems
Golang, NodeJs, Java, C/C++,  PHP, Docker, ReactJs, JQuery,  Spring, Hibernate, Redis,  Kafka, RabbitMq, MySQL,  Hadoop, MongoDB,AWS ECS, CodePipeline, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EMR, AWS DocDB, AWS ElasticSearch ,Git, Perforce , Junit, Jasmine, Mocha

Key Responsibilities:- 

Be responsible for the design, development, quality, and delivery of initiatives for the team

Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Velocity’s recruiting team

Define the technology roadmap for the team and liaison with the business teams and product managers to shape the business OKR planning

Oversee agile delivery processes and adoption of milestone-based execution; proactively lead stakeholders communications related to deliverables and risks

Research and identify emerging technologies to define long-term engineering initiatives

Lead and mentor your team, taking them to the next level of technical expertise and inspiring a team culture of ownership, accountability, data-based decisions, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospectives

Work closely with Engineering Leaders, Managers; Product Management, Business Development and Operation teams, and enable them by providing

You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.

Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.

What to bring

At least 5 years of experience in software development and delivery, with in-depth knowledge of software architectures; must have at least 2 years of experience in leading small and mid-sized development teams for the technology ( Golang, Python)

Great project management skills to lead and juggle multi-engineer projects and deliver high-quality projects on time

BTech, MTech, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline (or equivalent) from Tier 1 Institutions  like IIT, NIT, BIT

Past experience with startups and fast paced environments is an added advantage

Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you.

Track record of leading productive engineering teams

You lead by example, by setting the right context, and by helping teammates do their best work

Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.

Good communication skills in verbal and written English.

Should be preferred from only product company background

Role: Engineering Manager

Location: Chennai

Notice Period: Immediate joiners or less than 30 days

Compensation: 35-40 LPA

Experience : 10-18 years of total experience

Job Requirements

- Experience in core JAVA technologies

- Experience with RESTful services

- Experience with relational DBs like MySQL

- Experience working within an Agile/Scrum and CI/CD environment.

- Experience working with version control using GIT/BitBucket.

- Managed 50+ engineers.

Introduction

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Lead over a product in the Technology department.
2. Self-sufficiently lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring.
3. Work with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
4. Recruit, train, retain, and simply make Blok a great yet challenging place to work for the people in your team.
5. Mentor team, resulting in trickle-down happiness and efficiency.
   
   Requirements

1. You have at least 2 years of experience in a managerial position in a technology company.
2. You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services, and know-how to compose a service-oriented architecture. You’ll lead by example by executing when necessary.
3. Bias towards action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way. You embrace the agile software development mindset.
4. Hiring prowess. You're a strong leader who can attract talent around the world, raising the bar for excellence. You retained, mentored, and hired senior engineers and managers with a track record of building productive, world-class engineering teams.
5. Mentorship. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through motivating, mentoring, teaching, and reviewing, you help other specialists make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
6. You have the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with others at all levels within the organization. You have experience with effectively creating alignments with multiple teams and operating well in ambiguity.
7. Dedication. You care tremendously about keeping the experience consistent for users. You are your harshest critic and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team's scope.
8. Experience within our tech-stack (Microservices, Node.js, Java, React, MongoDB, Kotlin, Swift, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, WebSockets, etc.)
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative regardless of boundaries empowers their teams and works well in a cross-functional set-up.

Role & Responsibilities: - Define product roadmap and delivery upon it - Managing a team of 10+ developers and managers, to deliver on product roadmap - Recruiting new talent and coaching team members to build a world class team - Establishment of performance goals for all team members. - Designing and developing enterprise class highly scalable mission critical applications - Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java platforms - Hands on Architecture and Design skill is required - Work closely with QA, Professional Services, Developers to drive product development - Architecture and design reviews - Track actual project cost against estimated cost - Set goals and perform appraisals for team members - Improve state-of-art within the team for automation, architecture, infrastructure - Manage client expectations - Understanding client requirements and provide estimation Skills : - 14+ years of experience of building successful production-quality software. - Expertise in large-scale multi-tiered systems. - Expertise in Core Java and JEE, object-oriented design, analysis and design patterns - Good exposure to JSON based REST services in Java. - Excellent knowledge of RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Cache, Linux based systems - Focus on clean high-quality code and solid designs.