About the role
Responsibilities:
- Manage a group of highly skilled senior engineers by providing technical management, guidance, coaching, best practices, and principles.
- Active participation in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects.
- Responsible for resource planning, execution, and quality of the software delivered by the group.
- Lead the group to build sophisticated products using a cutting-edge technology stack. The products will be used by retail customers and internal business users.
- Work closely with various business stakeholders like the Product Management Team and other Engineering teams to drive the execution of multiple business strategies and technologies.
- Act as a point of contact for TCO (total cost of ownership), managing and driving production defects and stability improvements to resolution.
- Ensuring operational efficiency and actively participating in organizational initiatives to ensure the highest customer value.
- Tailor processes to help manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to an appropriate closure.
Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 7-9 years of experience.
- Minimum 2 years in a people management role.
- Minimum 4+ years of experience in Java programming and any of the Java frameworks such as Spring or Spring Boot.
- Must have done performance appraisals, Hiring, and building teams from the ground up.
- Experience working in highly dynamic Engineering environments like a start-up.
- Deep understanding of Object-Oriented programming languages.
- Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering processes, design knowledge, and architecture intelligence.
- Exposure to any of the prominent cloud service providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams.
- Ability to advocate and influence multiple stakeholders.
- Experience and knowledge of delivering products with low/no-touch support, along with SRE principles.