Director - Engineering - eCommerce/Payment Firm

Director of Engineering

This is a senior engineering leadership position, focused on eCommerce/payment products.

Relevant Experience:

- 15+ years industry experience.

- 7+ years engineering leadership experience.

- Expertise in e-commerce /Fintech domain (B2C and/or B2B).

- Experience working in a multi-geo global environment.

- Track record of continuous delivery with engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

- Build an awesome eCommerce/Payments platform.

- Lead high-performing teams of software engineers to design & develop world-class, highly available, scalable & reliable products in the gifting commerce domain.

- Recruit the best by owning the recruitment processes for your teams.

- Experience building cloud based, large scale web or financial platforms with experience of availability and reliability (e.g. threads, virtualization, configuration management, load balancers, caching).

- Highly energetic, passionate, driven, flexible and accountable

- Lead by example - be hands on by contributing to the design and institutionalize the engineering practices

- Collaborate with and advice stakeholders on technical aspects, make well-informed & data-driven decisions.

- Adapt to & function in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.

- Improve processes, technology & applications you own continuously by showing the team better ways of doing things and help improve skills in the team.

- Prioritise tech-debt and ensure the platforms and applications meet the latest industry standards.

- Discover and groom solutions to minimize tech debt through efficiency tools and platforms.

- Imbibe and maintain a strong customer service-oriented attitude while designing and building products.

- Proven expertise to deliver in an Agile scrum environment

- Be the technology brand ambassador. Learn, teach, & share with your fellow teammates and the world (blogs, open source, etc).

- You will be part of the core leadership team for India SDC (Strategic Development Centre).