Director - Engineering - Online/Internet

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage (recruit, motivate, develop, strengthen) the product engineering team

- Mentor and lead the engineering team as a subject matter expert for all technology and architecture related issues.

- Architect, Design, Develop & Implement frameworks and application software components using Cloud and Enterprise/Open Source technologies.

- Be accountable for the overall technical excellence and quality of the platforms

- Should be proactive and enhance existing software architecture by analyzing and identifying areas for improvement, optimization or refactoring

- Tune applications at all levels database, middleware and application logic to ensure high product efficiency and quality

- Constantly explore new and emerging technologies and techniques, and research ongoing industry developments/trends in the space and make appropriate recommendations to the management for enhancements

- Aware of Software estimations and capable of doing and validating estimates across multi technologies.

- Create and Manage technology strategy that can serve the business strategy

- Low burn, highly iterative new product development and testing

- 80/20 rule: effectively create low resource high impact technology solutions

- Should be able keep everything our technology can and can- t do in her/his head

- Being able to see micro and macro at the same time and with equal efficiency

- Future ready: always looking to disrupt and challenge the status quo

- B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.

- Articulates a clear technology vision that is inspiring and aligned with business needs and Experienced in articulating the business goals and cascading them down the organization appropriately so that every person in the organization is appropriately stretched to achieve outcomes.

- Minimum of 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering leadership capacity and experience across variety of technology stacks (from conception to Go-Live).

- Strong experience in E-Commerce & Enterprise grade products

- Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies

- Strong experience in RDBMS & preferably worked with NOSQL & Hadoop as well and worked across multiple platforms (front-end, middleware)

- Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership

- Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a startup environment