Director - Engineering

Looking for Engineering leader from E-Commerce and Internet Industry

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end. Work very closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to drive the execution of multiple product roadmap

- Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, mobile development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.

- Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development life cycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies. Leverage your technical depth as a technologist to push your team towards a high standard of technical excellence and achieve the organization's quality bar.

- Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance. Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership. Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation. Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them. Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans. Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.

Skills and Experience :

- Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in an SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organizations

- 5+ years of experience mentoring and leading teams. At least 2 years of experience as a second level manager handling teams of 25+ engineers.

- Strong technical aptitude and proven experience in architecture, design, and delivery of data-intensive applications.

- Must have experience in cloud-native application patterns and tools, microservices architectures and web application frameworks (React, Java, Spring Boot, Django, Flask), application migrations to any cloud platform. Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.

- The ability to envision the future engineering needs of the company Plan and implement accordingly The creativity to do things differently.

- Excellent logical and problem-solving skills. Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.

- Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment. Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.

- Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus. Experience working with mobile technologies is a plus.

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