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15/10 Astha
Recruiter at Nextleap Advisory

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Director - Engineering - EduTech (7-15 yrs)

Bangalore Job Code: 856515

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to join our team in the role of Director of Engineering.

In this role, you will:

- Scope and lead technical projects with enormous impact across many teams

- Lead recruitment of high quality engineers for our development team

- Directly contribute to product development by writing code

- Architect systems for scale and stability

- Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter

- Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like product, design, and customer success

You may be a fit if:

- You have a computer science or equivalent degree from a leading technology institute

- You have a strong technical background, with 5+ years of experience with software engineering

- You have managed engineering teams that have a strong record of shipping products

- You have successfully recruited and mentored engineers

- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable

Required technical skills:

- Proficiency in Javascript, HTML5/CSS3, SQL

- Experience with frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL

- Experience with databases technologies like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis

- Experience with dev ops - AWS, CI/CD

- Understanding of security principles and possible attacks

Within three months you will:

- Develop an in-depth understanding of our users and product

- Recruit a team of 3-5 engineers

- Lead engineering starting with one product team and keep switching between teams to establish rapport with every engineer and familiarity with the entire code base

- Define an efficient process for Agile software development and implement it across teams

Within six months you will:

- Lead engineering across all product teams at collaborating with the Product, Marketing & Customer Success to ship software of exceptional quality

- Define a process for maintaining healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures etc.)

- Take charge of engineering performance reviews and define an efficient system for promotions and firing

- Scale the team from time to time to ensure adequate engineering bandwidth 

This job opening was posted long time back. It may not be active. Nor was it removed by the recruiter. Please use your discretion.

Women-friendly workplace:

Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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