Head of Engineering - Backend Development (10-15 yrs)

Role : Head of Engineering

- Lead, mentor, and coach a team of diverse, talented engineers, fostering their growth and development while delivering world-class services in a fast-paced environment.

- Utilize effective collaboration skills to work closely with other engineering and product teams, ensuring highly stable and performant services that exceed the expectations of both internal and external customers.

- Thrive in a highly technical and constantly evolving environment, demonstrating exceptional people management skills and a strong customer focus. Provide technical leadership while nurturing a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and data-driven decision-making.

- Facilitate transparent communication that promotes alignment across the engineering organization.

- Provide direct supervision to an engineering team and work with colleagues across the globe.

- Drive communication, transparency, and platform deliveries across the engineering organization.

- Coach your team to drive engineering best practices and excellence. Ensure opportunities for learning and development for your team members.

- Perform regular code and architectural reviews for your team and others to ensure technical accuracy and engineering best practices.

- Be a servant leader for your team; coach them, do not command them.

- Provide constructive feedback to direct reports and coworkers, ensuring a culture of constant improvement and helping everyone grow together.

Minimum Qualifications :

- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in software development, in ASP.net/Java/Node AWS, Microservices

- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in master data management, including proficiency in organizing and optimizing data in Microsoft SQL Server relational databases. Familiarity with non-relational NoSQL databases is a plus.

- Proven experience in leading Agile teams and demonstrating a track record of building and leading high-performing teams.

- Skilled in leading efforts focused on enterprise scale web applications, leveraging modern frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and platforms such as AWS

- Experience modernizing legacy applications into modular, scalable, and decoupled architectures.

- Excellent organizational abilities to effectively manage multiple employees, schedules, and projects.

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

- Demonstrated conflict resolution skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to make and own decisions quickly.

- Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with 10+ years of overall experience in the field of software engineering.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Any architect level experience is an added plus.

- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.

- Experience with DevOps practices and tools for automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).

- AWS Certifications in relevant technologies (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect or any developer level certifications).

- Experience working with international teams in various time-zones.