Rebel Foods - Engineering Manager - Java/TypeScript (8-15 yrs)

Job Description :

We are surrounded by the world's leading consumer companies led by technology - Amazon for retail, Airbnb for hospitality, Uber for mobility, Netflix and Spotify for entertainment, etc. Food & Beverage is the only consumer sector where large players are still traditional restaurant companies. At Rebel Foods, we are challenging this status quo as we are building the world's most valuable restaurant company on the internet, superfast.

The opportunity for us is immense due to the exponential growth in the food delivery business worldwide which has helped us build 'The World's Largest Internet Restaurant Company' in the last few years. Rebel Foods' current presence is India, Indonesia, UAE, UK & KSA with close to 50 brands and 4500+ internet restaurants built on The Rebel Operating System.

While for us it is still Day 1, we know we are in the middle of a revolution towards creating never seen before customer-first experiences. We bring you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to disrupt the 500-year-old industry with technology at its core.

An opportunity to revolutionize the restaurant industry. Here, at Rebel Foods, we are using technology and automation to disrupt the traditional food industry. We are focused on building an operating system for Cloud Kitchens - using the most innovative technologies - to provide the best food experiences for our customers.

You will enjoy working with us, if :

- You are passionate about solving customer problems using people, processes and technology

- You are an engineer at heart, obsessed with high quality software

- You have a flair for good technical and organizational design

- You are unafraid of making bold decisions to eliminate inefficiencies and improving the velocity of software development

- You are an owner and take responsibility for outputs and outcomes

- You are willing to dive deep to solve complex software issues

- You are a teacher and mentor

Our technology ecosystem :

- Languages : Java, Typescript, Javascript

- Frameworks and environments : Spring Boot, NodeJS, ExpressJS

- Databases : AWS Aurora MySQL, MongoDB

- Cloud : AWS

- Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Caching, Messaging, Logging, Monitoring and Alerting

- CI/CD and DevOps

- Bitbucket, Jira

You will mostly spend time on the following :

- Leading a team of software engineers; owning and developing the roadmap to support your long term vision for the services and conducting tactical execution at the same time

- Hiring, mentoring and coaching your direct reports to be the best they can be, both in their current roles and in their careers

- Liaising with product, business and leadership teams to ensure business priorities are met

- Continuously improving management and engineering processes. Planning, estimating projects and tasks and ensuring software development best practices are being followed

- Working closely with engineers on day to day activities, including writing, reviewing and troubleshooting code

- Owning services, and managing ongoing features, fixes, and daily operations of services

- Teaching and mentoring team members

We're excited about you if you have :

- At least 8 years of experience in software development, including experience building microservices and distributed systems

- Built and led high-performing engineering teams

- Experience working with complex, high-traffic, and consumer-facing distributed platforms

- Proven engineering knowledge and experience

- The ability to operate at a managerial level as well as diving deep and getting your hands dirty when required

- Experience in establishing software development processes and practices; A track record of good project planning and execution

- Good communication skills, both in person and via the keyboard

- Made decisions that impacted technical design, development and planning for one or more projects/programs that impacted multiple teams or functions.

- Good programming skills in one or more languages : Java, Typescript, Javascript, C#, C++

- Experience working in Cloud environments : AWS or Azure or GCP

- Experience building secure, configurable, observable services

- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

- The ability to mentor and teach junior and senior engineers

- The ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering, product and business teams

The Rebel Culture :

We believe in empowering and growing people to perform the best at their job functions. We follow outcome-oriented, fail-fast iterative & collaborative culture to move fast in building tech solutions. Rebel is not a usual workplace. The following slides will give you a sense of our culture, how Rebel conducts itself and who will be the best fit for our company. We suggest you go through it before making up your mind.