Director/Senior Manager/Manager - Engineering - Online Travel Industry - IIT/NIT

Designation: Director Engineering / Sr.Engineering Manager/ Engineering Manager

Experience: 10- 15 years

Location: Bangalore

My Client is Corporate entity of three giants in the Online Travel Industry

The Culture :

- Despite being a giant in the travel industry, my client is still has a start-up like heart; welcoming wacky ideas, bringing to life great products and encouraging its employees (aka Go trippers) to have an awesome experience. My Client invests heavily in the personal well-being of all its employees and provides a work atmosphere charged with positive energy, youth and vibrancy. It is a place where one can create a powerful impact with their talent, hard work, zeal and teamwork.

Major Responsibilities

- Own end to end development and operations of high performance web and mobile applications.

- Architecting and scaling engineering platform to reduce technical debts and improve performance and agility.

- Experience with various technology stacks, including web application development, middleware, integration, enterprise architecture.

- Foster culture of innovation and fast execution, leading by example and hands-on execution.

- Build best in class data/machine learned algorithms and platforms for solving and enhancing marketplace dynamicity.

- Interface with business to define requirements, deliverables, and provide the necessary engineering expertise & support to ensure on-time delivery of product

- Be the technical owner for a set of products that includes a proprietary booking engine, micro services written in python & go, various automated reporting & administrative facilities, frontend applications ( mobile & web ) and data related engineering initiatives.

- Continue to develop and improve delivery processes. Commit to fostering a quality-focused development culture while leading managing a team of engineers, data analysts and QA Lead the talent management effort for Technology, including hiring, developing, training and retaining a best in class team

Desired Skills

- Should be a hands-on technology person with eye for details and scale. Ability to Multi-Task in an ambiguous and very dynamic start-up environment. Should have excellent prioritization and project management skills

- Sound knowledge and experience working in a variety of agile frameworks and project tools (e.g. Atlassian, git)Expert knowledge languages (Python, Go, etc.) web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, CSS, HTML). Worked extensively in middleware environments

- Must have experience in developing applications using multiple stacks. Must have experienced scale in building web applications and SOA (micro services) based large scale setups

- Proven experience in architecture, design and delivery of data intensive applications. Experience with modern web UI frameworks (e.g. React, Angular) Experience leading a QA / testing function and developing automation techniques to improve ongoing quality of delivery

- Experience of building high throughput, low latency web-services over Strings and Binary Protocols.

- Expert level knowledge of Data Sources from RDBMS to NoSQL ( MySQL, Redis, Cassandra

- Expertise in Linux. Experience with architecting systems for AWS is a plus. Experience with web paradigms such as REST, Responsive Web Design, Test-driven Development (TDD), Dependency Injection etc.

- Understanding of data engineering and machine learning is a big plus.

Qualifications/ Experience

- Must have experience in developing applications using multiple stacks

- Must have experienced scale in building web applications and SOA ( micro services ) based large scale setups

- Must have prior experience in managing team of 30+ people comprising of engineers, leads, engineering managers, etc.

- Must possess traits of thriving to work in a start-up environment.

- Should be a hands-on technology person with eye for details and scale.

- Ability to Multi-Task in an ambiguous and very dynamic startup environment.

- Should have excellent prioritization and project management skills.