Senior Manager - Engineering

Roles and Responsibilities
● Technical Guidance: Provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this
requires the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on experience.
● Execution and Delivery: Follow good software development practices and ensure timely delivery
of high-quality products. 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 : 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.

Qualifications & Experience
● Technical depth: Experience in architecture, design and code. Technical experience in building
and operating web-based applications. 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.
● Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Understanding of object- oriented
programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer-science.
● Total of 9+ years’ experience building cutting edge products. Experience in building very large
scale applications and 2 + years’ experience in team management
● Problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
● Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data. ● Coding skills in Java/J2EE.
● Understanding of Web Technologies
● 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.