IvyCamp - VP - Engineering - India Operations Head - Bidgely

Job Description

One of our portfolio companies, Bidgely, is looking for an extraordinary and dynamic Engineering leader to lead the software development team currently over 100 engineers (and growing) in Bangalore. You must have an impeccable record of building and leading engineering teams to deliver successful technology products in a fast paced environment. You must be passionate about technology and building a high-performance technology team. Be part of a highly energetic and innovative team that believes nothing is impossible with some creativity and hard work. Build a culture that empowers people to take responsibility and grow into next generation leaders.

Responsibilities -

- Deliver on overall engineering roadmap and goals of high product quality within budget and on-schedule. Plan, track and execute on overall engineering plan by appropriate prioritization, resource allocation and coordination with Product and Business teams.

- Adopt engineering best practices and champion their adoption in the organization.

- Ensure high quality engineering processes are followed - agile scrum, code reviews, architecture reviews, solid documentation, continuous integration and release management.

- Ensure that Bidgely's production infrastructure is meeting SLAs of availability, response time, data security and data privacy. Responsible for resolving the production & customer issues in a timely manner to keep customer delight.

- Collaborate with Business team, Customer Success and Product Management to prepare quarterly and yearly engineering plans and budgeting. Track Key Engineering Metrics and present to key stakeholders. Represent engineering in executive meetings and key customer meetings.

- Build a high performance team. Attract, Recruit and Retain top talent. Motivate team members and help them grow in the organization. Formulate long-term goals and standards of performance for engineering. Train team members at all levels to be successful and grow to the next stage in their careers.

- Stay current with the latest market trends, technology ideas and methodologies; share knowledge within Bidgely and outside. Ensures that the Bidgely maintains and expands its technology leadership position.

- Create a culture of responsibility and innovation, transparency, ownership and grow teams such that middle leaders are promoted from within and not hired from outside by design.

Requirements:

- 13+ years of strong experience in software product development, with at least 8+ years in engineering leadership position.

- BS/MS in CS/EE/MCA or equivalent from top institutes

- Strong track record of delivering highly scalable SaaS products in cross geography startup environment.

- Experience in Java, Web Services, RDBMS, NOSQL, AWS and Big Data technologies.

- Must be technical enough to dive into any level of technical details if required.

- Excellent people manager. Demonstrated ability of attracting, recruiting and building high quality technology team.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Excellent problem solving and change management skills

- Positive, self-motivated, proactive and quick learner.

- Prior experience of growing an engineering organization in a fast-paced startup environment.

- Understand Business concepts and drive daily decisions in line with company goals.

- Believe in SMART goals - not for the sake of planning on paper rather a true test of predictable and high quality delivery.

- Strong planning skills for self and engineering managers down to line for predictable and on quality output.

About Bidgely:

As the industry's first enterprise energy analytics and customer engagement platform provider, Bidgely's utility artificial intelligence (AI) solutions transform utility meter data into business intelligence for optimizing shareholder value, personalizing the customer experience and modernizing the grid. Bidgely's mission to be a trusted AI partner helps utilities solve daily challenges related to home energy management, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency and new revenue models. Bidgely is identified as one of the top leaders in the energy and utility.