Vise President - Engineering - HR Startup

VP Engineering

8+ years of experience in handling the following responsibilities (preferably in enterprise products)

Location: Hyderabad

- Be a hands-on technology leader providing mentor ship and guidance to a growing software engineering team.

- Responsible for leading and driving performance of the software engineering team

- Responsible for performance management and career development of the software engineering team.

- Oversee release and resource planning with delivery across parallel releases.

- Maintain strong and effective communication channel between the distributed teams and management to keep synergy between the geographic locations.

- Build and promote a strong technical community

- Develop and maintain strong understanding of business domain, business processes, overall architecture and future direction.

- Participate & contribute to development design reviews, milestone and release meetings.

- Recruit, train, motivate & retain high quality software engineers across levels.

- Ensure excellent training program for new hires in software development and overall knowledge transfer of domain, architecture and development processes.

- Contribute to process improvements and best practice methodologies in Product Development globally.

Basic Technical Stack Requirements

- Strong knowledge of developing end to end web applications using PHP

- Ability to create/review base level architecture and create and maintain product roadmaps

- Good knowledge of HTML/ CSS/Javascript/Ajax/ Web-services

- Expertise with MySQL/NoSQL/ Apache and DBMS Concept

- Practical knowledge of Yii Framework

- Ability to manage Mobile Development frameworks - Android and iOs

- Exposure to server hosting, AWS

As one of the senior leaders in the organisation, you will need to be able to

- enjoy working in a fast faced company environment

- build teams, products and businesses ground up

- like to see business impact of whatever they do for the customer

- prefer non-hierarchical, independent and non-pushy environment

- are self-motivated to take up high degree of ownership

- have a good understanding of the global corporate culture and should have demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams

- experience in Agile process and possess the ability to understand & resolve technical issues

- Strong project & risk management skills with a proven track record of delivering releases on time with good quality preferably in a Cloud based delivery model