About the role
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a technical team to design and implement highly reliable, scalable, extensible, maintainable, and operable products and platforms.
- Assess the current technology state, evaluate options, and define the technology strategy for the future in his areas.
- Drive technology innovations to derive much higher efficiencies and greater customer delight.
- Anticipate and manage the risks associated with day-to-day technology operations.
- Ensure ongoing operational stability of the current applications and systems.
- Build a highly motivated and skilled technology organization that brings together domain knowledge, Technology excellence and Data sciences with a strong penchant for problem-solving through sustainable solutions.
- Lead the team to build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity.
- Work closely with product management and design teams to define the next generation of products and platforms for the Indian e-commerce industry.
Requirements:
- Experienced in managing a large and diverse organization and motivating the team to achieve desired outcomes in a very quick and agile manner.
- Should have a total of 8+ years of technology experience, having spent significant time building highly scalable and high-performance online and offline applications and applying various design patterns.
- Strong prior experience in the software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
- Strong exposure and experience in rolling out new technology solutions in a dynamic and complex environment.
- Should have managed teams with senior-level engineers and architects.
- Must have proactively driven product and/or technology planning exercises for the organization.
- Must have proven experience in driving dramatic product and/or process improvement changes within the organization.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Align well with Flipkart's culture - customer focus, drive, enthusiasm, honesty, and humility.