Mintoak - Vice President - Engineering (10-15 yrs)

Job Description :

The is a senior role which involves leading Fintech and get to work amongst the sharpest of minds in the banking fraternity (Indian and global) in Product and Technology. This is a challenging role which expects the incumbent to work with constant agility with various teams and deliver the best products in the space using effective technology platforms.

As VP of Engineering, you will Lead and build the engineering team, manage product engineering, release and deployment across geographies and work closely with the Product Teams. You will also play an integral role in the evolution of the architecture and product roadmaps in the rapidly growing product suite

- Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision.

- Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life

- Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability and performance using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles across geographies

- Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures utilizing automation.

- Responsible for key technical and product decisions.

- Implement best practices to ensure security and availability devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications

- Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change management and reporting

- Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex stack involving spring boot microservices, containers, cloud services, etc.

- Work closely with product / project teams as well as clients and help

- Provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.

- Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver high quality output.

- Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.

- Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational capabilities as well as improving existing toolset

- From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the organization

- Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance

- Implementing best practice engineering methods.

- Mentoring and supporting the team by reinforcing practices such as Test Driven

- Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhanced observability and documentation

- Present technical solutions, problem areas, proof of concepts to the team or wider audience

- Participate in cross team coordinated development activities

- Create and deliver on the long term road map for engineering efficiency.

- Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability, and performance.

- Measure and ensure engineering, and product delivery goals are met, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance

- Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process

- Experience adopting and deploying FOSS tools in production

- Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineer system

- Essentially this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect

Team Management :

- Manage multiple technology delivery teams

- Lead engineering team(s) to ship high-quality software on predictable schedules.

- Managing a team of bright engineers, each of whom is building a production-ready system for various clients

- Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and training the members across levels

- Responsible for coaching, developing, motivating & retaining team members

Technical Skills and Experience :

- Engineering Lead / Director of Engineering with 10+ years of experience in Product-Led Tech-First companies with an attitude to learn almost anything and a heightened sense of urgency

- Brilliant at communication, estimation and delivery, change management, and leadership capabilities

- Should have managed large technology team directly or through the hierarchy

- Proven track record of managing engineering teams and delivering large-scale, complex software projects.

- Passionate about working in finance domain and disrupting traditional workflows that are inefficient and lack transparency

- Wide experience in Security, Scale, Design and Architecture, API, Cloud Infrastructure, Tooling, and multiple frameworks

- Strong experience building products with microservices based approaches.

- Background in transforming existing applications & coming up with a microservices based architecture (including technology migration) is a plus.

- Programming background : Strong hands-on experience on Java. Preferably a polyglot

- Experience in distributed system design, cloud native technologies, messaging systems , databases and performance tuning

- In depth understanding of principles and best practices around code quality, clean code and design

- You live and breathe automation and have a firm grasp of Continuous Delivery and Deployment principals and techniques

- Experience with AWS services

- Experience implementing containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration

- Experience with observability frameworks such as Prometheus, and Grafana for logging, monitoring and distributed tracing

- Experience with Frontend technologies / mobile development is a plus

- Very good communication & technology documentation skills.

- Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

- Embrace simplicity and evolutionary design over convoluted and heavy top down design solutions

- A strong preference for build over buy as far as software solutions are concerned

- Strong knowledge of agile development practices and modern software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.

- Strong decision-making abilities with a focus on execution and operational excellence.

Qualifications and Experience :

- BE/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA from a premier institute with 10+ years of experience

- Experience working in a fast growing fintech startup is a plus

- Experience leading an engineering team