Looking for Director of Engineering - JavaScript for a prominent firm

Job Responsibilities :

- Build a team of engineers, team leads who can design and develop highly scalable web applications.

- Hands-on management: Must be passionate about coding and design principles.

- Helping set the strategic agenda for the technology team.

- Translating this agenda into an actionable product/tech roadmap.

- Fostering a culture of timely execution against this roadmap.

- Mentoring team members, and ensuring that they are learning and growing with the company

Preferred past background :

- B. Tech. M Tech, BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent from a top tier college

- 7-12 years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups

- Prior experience in leading engineering teams (10+)

- Experience in enforcing engineering best practices (code reviews, testing,service-oriented architecture etc.)

- Open-source contribution will be an add-on.

- Get things done attitude

Technical Skills Required :

- Experience in javaScript and its Object Oriented Concepts.

- Javascript frontend framework/libraries like Backbone, Angular JS, Ember JS,Knockout, React.

- NodeJs and its framework/libraries like Express, Sails, Meteor.

- Build tools like Grunt/Gulp.

- Knowledge of datasets like Redis, Memcache, Mongo Db will be a plus.

- Knowledge of Search Engine Optimization techniques will be a plus.

- Basic knowledge of HTML and its concepts like DOM, Event Propagation Model.

- Css and its preprocessors like SASS/LESS.

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