Technical Lead/ Engineering Manager

About the Role 

Hey there! Are you a mastermind looking for your next big challenge? If so, we want you to join our team as our VP of Engineering! We're looking for someone who's driven, experienced, and ready to lead the charge for our tech products and solutions. As the VP, you will manage a team of developers, identify new technologies and implement them to drive business results. 

But it's not all about tech - you'll also be working closely with our core team to make sure we're meeting the needs of the market. Basically, you'll be a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to our tech and make sure we're always ahead of the game. So, if you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact, hit us up! 

We can't wait to see what you bring to the table. 

What You'll Do 

• Lead the development team and ensure projects are completed smoothly and on  schedule 

• Stay ahead of the game by finding and using new technologies to boost the business 

• Work hand in hand with the core team to figure out their needs and keep our products on point with the market trends 

• Keep our products high-quality, scalable, and secure 

Develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget 

• Brainstorm and plan the company's tech strategy with the CTO and other important leaders 

• Keep up to date with the latest tech trends and find new growth opportunities 

• Give the development team technical guidance and be a mentor to them 

What You'll Bring 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field 

• A 8+ years of experience leading software development teams, with a track record of delivering complex products 

• Technical know-how and experience with the latest software development tech 

• Proven experience in identifying and implementing new technologies to drive business  results 

• Experience handling the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that come with working in a startup environment 

• Ace leadership, communication, and teamwork skills 

• Self-starter with loads of drive and a desire to make things happen 

What we would also love to see 

• Understand the mobile development landscape especially Android and iOS 

• Hands-On experience with API based development 

Work mode: Hybrid

Location: Siruseri

Job Description

• Act as a technical expert for CRM projects.
• Be responsible for working on D365 CRM development, support, and integration projects.
• Lead or participate in design and architecture sessions with key business users, gathering and documenting business processes and requirements for the system.
• Architect the CRM system, related customizations, and reports to model the business and organizational process.
• Advise business users on best practices for CRM, development, or integration processes.
• Writing technical specifications for planned work.
• Build and configure CRM forms, views, dashboards, and workflows.
• Develop SSRS reports using Microsoft SQL and FetchXML. Maintain code repository, VSTS backlog, and source control.
• Effectively utilize SDK and 3rd party tools such as XRM Toolbox for administration of CRM system. Support of the application including fixing application issues.

Eligibility Criteria:

• 5+ years’ experience with different versions of Microsoft CRM including D365 CRM.
• Experience in migrations, customizations, JavaScript, C#, .NET, HTML, SQL Server, and SSRS including plugins, scripting, and form creation.
• Experience in workflow development including complex ones.
• Experience with CRM API, REST/ODATA, and SOAP endpoints.
• Experience in integrating D365 CRM with other applications is preferred.

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Xoxoday Plum. Plum is a rewarding and incentives 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 of 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 25 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have at least 7+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, full-stack developer with modern architecture.
• 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
• JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, PHP
• Frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, MySql, Cassandra, 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 Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. You'll report to the co-founder directly.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavour, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

‍A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

‍We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

PEOPLESOFT FINANCIALS, PEOPLE TOOLS, SQL

Job Description

This requirement is to service our client which is a leading big data technology company that measures what viewers consume across platforms to enable marketers make better advertising decisions. We are seeking a Senior Data Operations Analyst to mine large-scale datasets for our client. Their work will have a direct impact on driving business strategies for prominent industry leaders. Self-motivation and strong communication skills are both must-haves. Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment is desired.

Problems being solved by our client: 

Measure consumer usage of devices linked to the internet and home networks including computers, mobile phones, tablets, streaming sticks, smart TVs, thermostats and other appliances. There are more screens and other connected devices in homes than ever before, yet there have been major gaps in understanding how consumers interact with this technology. Our client uses a measurement technology to unravel dynamics of consumers’ interactions with multiple devices.

Duties and responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will contribute to the development of novel audience measurement and demographic inference solutions. 
• Develop, implement, and support statistical or machine learning methodologies and processes. 

• Build, test new features and concepts and integrate into production process
• Participate in ongoing research and evaluation of new technologies
• Exercise your experience in the development lifecycle through analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of this system
• Collaborate with teams in Software Engineering, Operations, and Product Management to deliver timely and quality data. You will be the knowledge expert, delivering quality data to our clients

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years relevant work experience in areas as outlined below
• Experience in extracting data using SQL from large databases
• Experience in writing complex ETL processes and frameworks for analytics and data management. Must have experience in working on ETL tools.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a similar degree with a focus on statistical methods. A Bachelor’s degree in the same fields with significant, demonstrated professional research experience will also be considered. 
• Programming experience in scientific computing language (R, Python, Julia) and the ability to interact with relational data (SQL, Apache Pig, SparkSQL). General purpose programming (Python, Scala, Java) and familiarity with Hadoop is a plus.  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Experience with TV or digital audience measurement or market research data is a plus. 
• Familiarity with systems analysis or systems thinking is a plus. 

• Must be comfortable with analyzing complex, high-volume and high-dimension data from varying sources
• Excellent verbal, written and computer communication skills
• Ability to engage with Senior Leaders across all functional departments
• Ability to take on new responsibilities and adapt to changes

Roles and Responsibilities:  

• Work on application development lifecycle activities that include: Analysis, Design,  Coding, Testing & Implementation  

• Execute all phases of software application projects including resolving issues and helping  to ensure successful deployment  

• Proactively adapt to the changing business and technological landscape of Salesforce  and .Net/Java platforms  

• Design Salesforce solutions and form effective project plans. Add value in all stages of  project work (definition, development, deployment)  

• Assist in developing customized solutions to problems identified by business area  managers  

• Tackle inconsistencies in data quality and create processes to overcome system  deficiencies  

• Master new technologies and development models  

Desired Candidate Profile:  

• 3+ years Force.com development experience, with a strong focus on Apex and  Visualforce development  

• Must have experience in developing CRM Sales based applications, Workflows,  Approvals, Reports (including joined reports), Dashboards along with basic SFDC “click  and customize” environment  

• Strong development skills in Lightning, Apex and Visualforce which includes writing  triggers, components, classes etc.  

• Proven skills in integrating JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX based functionalities in  Visualforce  

• Sound experience in analyzing security requirements and accordingly designing and  implementing profiles, roles, permissions etc  

• Experience in developing integration processes using Salesforce.com’s Web Services API  and third-party integration tools (Apex Data Loader, DB Amp etc) is desirable  • Knowledge of SFDC deployment, configuration and administration processes would be  an added advantage  

• Must be up to date with latest releases in Salesforce as a platform  
• Familiarity in jQuery, CSS, XML, DHTML and HTML  

• Leverage experience with .NET development, web services development and SQL  development to build integration points between Salesforce and back-end systems 
• Good interpersonal skills, for effective communication with business and development  teams  

• Proven track record of successful and timely project delivery  
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• Candidate should have Salesforce certification

• Take complete ownership of the web application and API back end development
• Finalize User Stories, Tasks, Sprints etc. on JIRA based on the product roadmap
• Estimating delivery timelines and execution of relevant tasks with the team
• As individual contributor, writing clean, functional code on the front- and back-end
• Mentoring junior members of the development team
• Design and develop effective APIs for mobile apps
• Maintain and develop unit and integration tests (rails mini-tests)
• Co-ordinate web application releases with the DevOps team
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

SKILLS

Must have:

• Proven experience as a ROR Developer (individual contributor).
• Experience developing scalable web applications
• Sense of ownership about the product.
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Experience of leading a tech team

Nice to have:

• 2+ years of experience with front-end frameworks such as - React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js
• Experience with more than one web application stack (e.g. .net, Java, Django etc.).

Qualifications:

MCS, B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering

• 5 to 8 years of hands on experience in automating MS Office applications like Excel, Word, PPT and Outlook using VBA 
• 5 plus years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of programming code
• Experience in database development
• VBA - Should have good experience in developing efficient logic/algorithms using VBA
• Solid understanding of SDLC concepts 
• Solid experience in MS Excel (2003, 2007, 2010, 2013,2016)
• Must be good at all excel features and excel formulas 
• Well versed with complete MS Office package (Excel, Word, Outlook, PPT)
• Work both independently and as part of a team 
• Experience in requirements gathering, effort estimate, designing and implementation and creating mock-up screens 
• Experience in databases like MS SQL Server (2005 to 2012,2014), MySQL and MS Access 
• Must have strong database concepts and DB designing skills 
• SQL - must be good at writing efficient, fine-tuned queries using joins and aggregates 
• Experience in writing Stored procedures, Triggers and T-SQL
• Nice to have programming knowledge in C# 

• VBA, SQL 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
• Should be able to take complete ownership of the project from requirements gathering to delivery and maintenance 
• Should be able to work independently 
• Must be Proactive and Self-motivated
• Must have the ability to prioritize the work, execute tasks and meet the deadline without fail 
• Effective time management skills 
• Customer Focus, Willing to learn and self- teach any new technology 
• Strong business and collaboration skills, and responsive to service needs and operational demands.