About the role
Responsibilities:
- Be a member of a very small group of people to think, strategize, and execute a transformation for a larger cause.
- Define a technology roadmap for the product you will own.
- Set up, measure, and optimize engineering processes for productivity.
- Hire and build teams, and influence the people processes for the continuous evolution of the team.
- Mentor and develop engineers for effective delivery of business goals.
- Manage operations to monitor and ensure SLA adherence and continuous reduction in KTLO.
- Collaborate with Academics, Product Managers, Content Operations, and Business team members.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in software product development.
- You thrive in building and developing great teams, people, and great products.
- Learner and looking to explore uncharted territories to solve problems.
- Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, and distributed systems.
- You are either an experienced manager or a senior individual contributor with strong people skills and leadership experience.
- Passionate about software engineering best practices.
- Hands-on technical leader with a minimum of 2 years of experience in people management.
- A proven track record of leading the architecture and delivery in a consumer internet domain.
- Must have exposure to leading product development and engineering practices and developing systems and web applications from scratch.
- Experience in distributed systems, highly scalable products, performance, and reliability.