About the role
Responsibilities:
- You not only have the technical chops to roll up your sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects but also build and manage a team of 10-15 top-notch engineers.
- You not only optimize your own code but also make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs.
- As an engineering manager, you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your team.
- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular and deep mentoring.
- Perform regular performance evaluations and share and seek feedback.
- Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening.
- Our world-class software engineers are just getting started, and as a manager, you guide the way. You are their default mentor.
- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations teams and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
- You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption at the same time.
- Architect and design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.
- You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment.
- Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations.
Requirements:
- Have spent 2+ years at a start-up or worked in a small and reasonably independent team/dev center.
- Able to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly and provide a longer-term vision and motivation.
- Development and Operations all need your expertise to ensure superior solutions match our scale of operations.
- Very high technical competence and a strong technical background with a track record of individual technical accomplishments.
- Ability to play the role of the architect for the team.
- Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you.
- Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup.
- Deep understanding and expertise with highly transactional, large relational, and complex systems.
- Strong object-oriented design skills and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Superior project management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Over 9 years of experience with technology depth as well as good people skills.
- A BE/B. Tech in Computer Science or some equivalent academic field.