WinZO - Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems (5-6 yrs)

We're looking for people with a hustler mindset, who are curious, eager to learn new things, with a passion for innovation, and work to be a little better every single day. This is not solely based on whether a candidate has previously done similar work or not.

Responsibilities :

- Undertake end-to-end development of services from product to tech to user with optimization analysis.

- Design distributed systems and their components that can be used across WinZO for building services to handle the scale.

- Standardizing and improving the code development process.

- Research and create tools and processes to maintain coding practices and standards across the platform and champion their adoption.

- Responsible for owning and reviewing system architecture and designing and building everything with a hawk eye.

- Work on building a technology that enables users to play games in limited bandwidth/resources such as 3G/Edge, phones with smaller RAMs, etc.

- Collaborate with product management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team, and propose and implement solutions.

- Experiment with emerging technologies and tools and drive the adoption of the same.

- Owning infrastructure and monitoring services used and deployed by the team.

- Hiring and mentoring individuals in the team and ensuring standards are maintained at every level.

- Leading the project planning, supervising, and delegating duties within the development team.

- Draft long-term technology roadmap and vision of the team.

Requirements :

- Hands-on software development experience.

- Sound familiarity with at least one of the programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Erlang, Elixir, Ruby, and Java.

- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

- An innovative lens towards the gaming industry in alignment with WinZO's vision of reaching every household in Bharat like never before.

- Knowledge of mobile platforms is good to have as WinZO is a mobile-first product and you should know how the system works.

- Excellent people management skills with an ability to get work done with appropriate guidance.

- Comfortable to work in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.

- Experience working with a relational database.

- Good to know MongoDB/Redis/ElasticSearch/Kafka.

- Strong algorithm/data structures design and problem-solving skills.

- Experience in developing and owning applications catering to millions of daily requests is a plus.