Roles & responsibilities
- Technology Leadership
- Lead by example by being hands on tech stack & tools used by the team
- First principles approach to solve problems
- Ensure best coding practices are adopted & followed
- Organizational Leadership
- Customer centric thinking
- Lead the team in right direction
- Align the team to work on shared vision
- Delivery
- Work closely with Product Managers, Tech Leads & Tech ops to ensure
- Responsible for timeliness and quality of deliverables
- Effective communication and keeps internal & external stakeholders updated on the
progress of projects
- People Management
- Hiring, mentoring & coaching
- Performance management of the team
- Help build career path for team members
- Regular 1:1s, conflict resolution
- Motivate & reward the team for good job done
Ideal candidate
- 9+ years experience (with recent years of experience being engineering manager or staff engineer)
- Strong competencies in software design & architecture along with a deeper understanding of the scalability of distributed systems
- Experienced in agile methodologies
- Ability to own things with entrepreneurial mindset
- Good at stakeholder management
- Good working knowledge on backend technologies like Java, spring boot, MYSQL, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis