Engineering Manager - Software Product Development - Internet Firm - IIT/BITS/NIT

- The role requires someone to have 7+ years of work experience including both hands-on software product development as well as leading and mentoring a team of at least 15 Engineers.

- The individual will be leading a team of engineers and developers, driving the software design and architecture, collaborating with the product managers as well as guiding the company's product vision.

- The individual should enjoy building scalable web/mobile, managing large sets of data, designing scaled software system and mentoring and developing teams.

Duties and responsibilities:

- Technical ownership of web/mobile platform. Ownership of complex software architectures, rapid development, execution, and driving cutting edge innovations.

- Drive software development life cycle with stringent needs on time to market, and quality of the product, apart from other functional and nonfunctional aspects.

- Design and define the interaction between the different components and teams.

- Work closely with peers and product managers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

- Utilize best practice engineering methods and provide expert technical guidance for engineering initiatives

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation

- Build, develop and manage engineering team capable of carrying out initiatives

Requirements and Qualifications:

- 7+ years of industry experience in internet product development.

- Computer Science Graduate from a Tier 1 College

- Proficient with Backend technologies like NodeJs, Python, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Memcached and Front End technologies like React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

- Up-to-date with the latest technologies and keeps an eye on new technologies. Technologies like Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, Redshift, BigQuery, RDS, CloudFront, WAF, Elastic Search, etc.

- Good at evaluating various technologies and implementing them.

- Has adequate knowledge of Android and iOS app development and can manage the tech teams.

- Proven expertise in building and managing high-performance teams in the past & playing a critical role in architecture, design, and development

- Deep technical knowledge in software, systems, databases, and architecture.

- Experienced in scaling and improving the performance of software systems.

- Versatility with developing products on multiple technology stacks that get delivered on AWS.

- A knack for benchmarking and optimization.