Senior Engineering Manager - eCommerce

Responsibilities

- Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example. 

- Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.

 - Team management: You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping individuals grow in their careers, having constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.

Desired Skills and Requirements

- Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility. Ability to architect, design and code yourself. Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications. Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database.) Knowledge of multiple technology stacks /languages /tools and their pros/cons. 

 - Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality. Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.

- You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer science. 

 - Total of 9+ years- experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large scale applications and 2 + years- experience in team management

 - Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.

 - Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.

 - Excellent coding skills in Java/J2EE. 

 - Very good understanding of Web Technologies

- Good understanding and experience with using open source technologies and building complex products. Handling large data (batch and real-time), workflows and scheduling, building pluggable frameworks and systems, strong abstraction and architecture skills. 

 - Experience using traditional RDBMS, NOSQL DBs (Cassandra, Mongo DB, Aerospike etc.), caches (redis, memcache), messaging frameworks (Rabbit MQ, Kafka).

 - Experience in big data processing (storm, spark, map-reduce) is a plus.