Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

Plan, build, configure, and optimize public cloud infrastructure for high performance, scalable and reliable customer experience
Lead, motivate, and scale a highly diverse team.
Introduce scalable, repeatable processes that help the team deliver a high-quality product.
Champion an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.
Recruit, mentor, and develop world-class engineers and engineering managers.
Diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software.
Lead root cause analysis and collaborate with Engineering to build instrumentation into our stack to understand real-time performance characteristics

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience working with kubernetes
Experience working with linux containers
Familiarity with the google cloud environment
Strong technical acumen; creativity; interpersonal skills; emotional intelligence.
Demonstrated ability to build and scale world-class engineering teams.
Proven track record of leading engineering teams working on large-scale, highly-distributed Cloud products and services.
Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes.
Strong communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

For our Cloud and Digital team, we seek Hands-On Technical Lead who can work on designing & implementing high quality scalable cloud software while providing technical leadership/mentoring to a small team of talented developers in agile environment. Your ability to lead the architecture, design, and implementation of maintainable, high-quality, and high-performing web (Java microservices, React UI, AWS) and mobile applications (iOS, Android, React native) is essential for success in this role. 

What you will be doing:

1. Strong programming knowledge in a combination of Java/Spring boot and Ruby on Rails. Expert in working in AWS Cloud, Micro services, REST, MongoDb / RDBMS/Cassandra, React /Node/Java Script, web frameworks/web technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, Messaging Brokers (Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMq), Redis
2. Shaping architecture for robust, reliable, and high-performance applications, considering functional and technical requirements.
3. Manage/Mentor team of talented developers. Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders.
4. Estimate/Plan/Manage project deliverables in Agile environment with incremental system delivery.
5. Knowledge of data analytics and machine learning is a plus.
6. Good knowledge in version control and branching concepts (git, mercurial)

Who you are and what you bring:

1. B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science / Electronics and Electrical. Strong academics and career track record.
2. 15+ years of solid software development experience in building secure, scalable, and resilient systems.
3. Proven experience as software technical lead/manager/architect with cloud and digital SW
4. Excellent knowledge of software implementation, design and architecture of Web and Mobile apps.
5. Proven experience in working with AWS (preferably) or GCP or Azure.
6. Strong understanding of monitoring and logging tools.
7. Strong understanding of software design principles (SOLID, design patterns etc.)
8. Strong understanding of SOA and enterprise integration patterns.
9. Strong understanding of Functional or OOP patterns.
10. Experience in Web and Mobile software development and coding in various languages (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java, React, iOS, Android, Python etc.). Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design.

Note: This is an “Equity-linked Founding Member Role”. We are targeting a $100Bn+ Addressable Market (D2C e-commerce) enabling tremendous wealth creation for founding team members.

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About Blingg: 

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About the Role: 

For a product that brings two worlds together, Users and D2C Brands, the need for a seamless, robust and enticing experience is the key. That’s where you and your technical experience and expertise come in. Our hunt is for a techie at heart, who has done this before and has built an app/platform which is both simple and intuitive.

We are revolutionizing e-commerce, one BlinggBox at a time, you can hop on board and make it a whole lot better with your skills and experience.

Technical Requirements:

->3 - 6 years of proven working experience in Core Flutter + Android + iOS development and deep proficiency with MySQL, Linux and JavaScript or similar languages.

->Hands on Experience with Firebase, AWS, RDMS, Git

->Relevant Backend experience: Nodejs, Postgres/MySQL Or Algorithms

->Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

->Hands-on engineering experience with modern software stacks, cloud-based platforms, and high-stakes infrastructure.

-> Previous experience of work in early-stage startups is highly preferred.

-> Demonstrated ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.

What Will You Do?

->Taking responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of product releases.
->Taking responsibility for the complete architecture of the product ->Driving the adoption of best practices & leading code reviews, design reviews, and architecture
->Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create
->Implementation of long-term technology vision for Blingg

What’s in it for you?

• Once in a lifetime opportunity to Build, Manage, Lead and Blitzscale D2C Commerce
• We are targeting a $100Bn+ Addressable Market (D2C e-commerce) enabling tremendous wealth creation for founding team members.

• Super Attractive ESOPs+ Salary

• Implementing world-class Enginerring practices for all the product development teams at WeCP. Ensure these are evangelized and followed.
• Build and maintain SDLC across all of our development and deployment environments: developer, QA, to our production.
• Envision, implement and rollout best development and devops tooling and automation for all of our services.

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in engineering with mentoring or leading a team
• Hands-on experience with Nodejs, Angular and AWS is mandatory.
• Tech stack: MEAN, AWS, JavaScript, Docker, SRS
• Experience  Dockerizing existing web applications
• Setting up alerts and monitoring for system infrastructure
• Monitoring system and application health and optimising the cost
• Experience with security, threat modeling, penetration testing, static analysis

• Understanding product features, preparing technical documentation.
• Take ownership over project timelines and deliverables.
• Contribute to the design, architecture and build of our Core Platform.
• Help scale the platform and build out new features.
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Self-directed, but also work well with other engineers.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Anticipate future technical needs and craft plans to realize them, and balance feature development with investments in tech debt reduction.
• The ability to combine speed and quality and that you can achieve both at same time.
• Excited about working for a startup and moving quickly.
• Experience in team handling will be a plus.
• Work with customers for understanding requirements whenever needed.

• 6+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on management experience.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience building and leading platforms is a must. Experience with SOA/Microservices 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 solve user’s problems