Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Solve hard problems in large scale distributed co-ordination, scaling, algorithmic optimization, operations research and data crunching. We have a flat hierarchy. Everyone codes, everyone ships. You'll own components end to end.
• The ideal candidate will be an experienced Java developer with exceptional software system design, problem solving, and object-oriented coding skills. Good understanding of system performance trade- offs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability.
• Understanding of enterprise information systems, service oriented architectures, and multi-tenant design is a plus.
• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 7-10 engineers, Delegating tasks, and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases with the team.
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
•  Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
•  Give back to the open-source community through contributions on code and blog posts
•  This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
• Write technical documentation

Preferred candidate profile

Some Specific Requirements

•    Atleast 8+ years of Tech Lead Experience, 5+ years of Development Experience
•    You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
•    Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
•     Hands-on experience in JavaScript / Python / Node.Js. Exceptions can be made if youre
  really good at any other language with experience in building web-app based tech products
•     Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
•     Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Flask, Sanic, Fastapi would be plus
•     Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.io
•     Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX. Plus
• knowledge of Frontend Frameworks and Experience in at least one of the following
  frameworks - React.Js, Angular, Vue.js.
•     Deep knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, or MySQL
•     Basic knowledge of event-based systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
•      You should have experience with deploying and scaling Microservices.
•      You've worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB,
  AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Deep Knowledge of Cloud-Native Application Architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices

Perks and benefits