Licious - Tech Lead - IIT/NIT/BITS

Licious is looking for for an experienced, adaptive, creative, intrepid & adventurous Head of Technology who's super excited about performance & has a deep sense of ownership and responsibility . At Licious, the TEAM is building India's 1st consumer tech food brand and the category we- ve chosen to disrupt to start with is the fresh meat and seafood category . This category is one of the largest consumer categories in the Indian retail landscape & offers tremendous opportunities to create a world class brand in India . The founding team at Licious comprises of Industry veterans who- ve successfully built large brands like Coca Cola, Oberoi Hotels, Reliance Retail, TESCO, SPAR, Jubiliant to name a few with in excess of 200 man years of hands on experience with building great businesses . Like they say, that which helps people, helps business. We believe that at the heart of the company is our unflinching commitment to delivering world class quality of products to the urban consumer with the experiential aftertaste continuing well into the last mile by awesome customer experience & great technology acting as an enabler. Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising and that's been the story with Licious thus far, quite easily India's fastest growing consumer food tech brand. Come tell us about yourself if you feel aligned with the below Job description and be a part of our fantastic journey .

- Position : Head - Technology

- Location : Bangalore

- Industry : Retail, FMCG, Consumer Brand, e-commerce

- Company Incorporation : May 2015

- No of Employees : 250-300

- Primary Channel : Online (www.licious.in) & Android and i-os App

- Business Geography : Currently Bangalore, next city launch by 1/2/17

Founders :

Vivek Gupta - https://in.linkedin.com/in/vivek-gupta-aa617797

Abhay Hanjura - http://bit.ly/1QRr80S

Early Investors :

Kanwaljeet Singh - https://in.linkedin.com/in/singhkanwaljit

Mohandas Pai - https://in.linkedin.com/in/mohandaspai

Kaushal Aggarwal - https://in.linkedin.com/in/kaushal-aggarwal-635b2

Currently Series A funded by one of the largest & most respected VC in the world. Details confidential pre on boarding.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Licious is looking for a talented Head of Technology who wants to build and scale a path-breaking product that consistently delight users. You will lead the core engineering team and play a decisive role in defining the roadmap of the company. Early grounding at an industry-leading - academy- company followed by a high-growth product start up would be desirable and relevant work experience.

WHAT YOU- LL BE DOING:

- From the get-go, you will work with the existing team to develop and improve the platform and infrastructure, scale the customer-facing aspects of the product, finesse the operations vertical of the business, collect and store data for analysis and presentation, and design and build applications to use this data in various ways.

- You will help in the planning of the existing architecture and product deliverables, as well as the design and development of entirely new projects.

- Most of all, you will be part of a team embarking on something new, different, and impactful at Licious.

INITIAL RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

- Partner with our Product Management team to define product specs and build prototypes to test hypotheses

- Lead a team of backend,front-end, and mobile developers to ensure delivery of a scalable stack with testing frameworks and instrumentation appropriately factored in

- Architect the platform for scale and handling millions of transactions with low latency and low failure rates

- Improving our backend infrastructure and database schema to help Licious better utilize operations and customer data (including migrations, optimizing for performance, logging events and actions, improving the reporting and job management system, and improving our internal dashboards)

- Creating additional internal systems to expose this data to front end applications.

- Building entirely new applications to extract valuable insights from existing data

- Improving upon existing front end applications for optimizing the customer journey

- Improve the operations stack in the company to manage our processing and fulfilment centres

WE- D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING:

- Experience with modern software development.

- Familiarity with deployments on cloud infrastructure

- Comfort with multiple programming paradigms and their best practices

- Experience-laced CS knowledge (algorithms and data structures, computing systems - preferably - NIX architecture, application knowledge)

- Knowledge of web standards and modern frameworks

- Familiarity with mobile development paradigms and their associated environments

- Familiarity with consumer privacy and payments industry compliance requirements

- Strong team management and cross-functional collaboration abilities

- Strong communication and documentation skills

- A dedication to building things (show us what you- re proud of)! An open and inquisitive mind.

NICE TO HAVES:

- Expertise with Python, JavaScript, and SQL

- Full-stack experience with one or more web development frameworks (e.g. Angular/React/Ember/etc. on the front end, Django/Rails/Node/etc. on the backend)

- Knowledge of modern web development concepts (e.g. RESTful services, MVC architecture, Agile development)

- An understanding of Supply Chain Management

- Prior experience in building ERP solutions in manufacturing environments

- Exposure to business theory, business process development, governance processes, management, budgeting, and administrative operations

LICIOUS IN NEWS:

- The Times of India : http://bit.ly/1NKBATP

- The Hindu : http://bit.ly/1PrQDCm

- The Economic Times : http://bit.ly/1Olxa8f

- Yourstory : http://yourstory.com/2015/10/licious/

- VC Circle : http://bit.ly/1Psyd6j

- Bangalore Mirror : http://bit.ly/1YI2J1L