Engineering Head - Content Marketplace Platform

We have urgent openings for Head Of Engineering

Company Name - Pepper Content

Designation - Head Of Engineering

Experience : 9 to 14 years

Salary Range - upto 70 Lakhs

Job Location - Mumbai

Head of Engineering | Job description:

- About Pepper Content Pepper is India's largest content marketplace platform that consists of a curated talent network of 35,000+ content writers and graphic designers. Pepper works with over 500+ companies currently like CRED, Facebook, IndiGo Airlines, upGrad, India Today Group, Infoedge, Swiggy, Amazon India, Adobe, HP, Paytm, etc. We help create high-quality content on-demand through our seamless content operations platform. Till date, we have created over 100,000+ content pieces through our platform and are on path to redefining how content is created by marrying creativity and technology together.

- We are backed by marquee investors, the likes of - Lightspeed India, Beerud Sheth (Upwork founder), Balaji Srinivasan (Coinbase CTO), Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Snapdeal founders), Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy founder), Aakrit Vaish (Haptik), Miten Sampat (Times/CRED), Amit Ranjan (Slideshare founder) and many others.

Our Approach:

We, at Pepper Content, have taken a very unique and innovative approach towards building a managed marketplace around content offerings.

We have freelance creative professionals at one end who are looking to upskill and earn through their skills and talent in their free time and businesses who require quality content at scale on the other end. We act as a bridge between the two with a very managed approach that lets the creator work on their own pace and pay while businesses get their requirements without worrying about quality or turnaround times

Let's talk about you:

We are looking for a Head of Engineering at Pepper. Here's a few things we are looking for: 

- You will be responsible for leading the engineering teams in all aspects of product development from initialization till rolled-out. You will be responsible for the creation and delivery of the strategic, software development methodology and IT architecture vision. The ideal candidate will have strong ownership, good communication skills, enjoy working in highly collaborative and fast paced environments.

This role reports directly to our cofounder.

Responsibilities: 

- Building and leading high-performing teams through effective hiring and coaching

- Develop and lead the execution of the engineering roadmap

- Develop the technical strategy and scalable architecture using modern distributed application software that meets the overall business requirements

- Ability to create and implement software engineering solutions using modern software engineering best practices

- Willing to roll up sleeves and get into codebase from time to time

- Provide technical direction on all software development activities

What we prefer:

- At least 8 years working experience in software/product engineering in fast-paced environments

- At least 2 years of experience in a senior-level engineering management role, leading large teams of engineers and driving large-scale projects and products, in collaboration with product, design and commercial teams

- Excellent stakeholder management and strong advocate on Agile methodology

- Deep knowledge of current technological trends, frontend, backend, data such as Nodejs, Reactjs, Databases, etc.

- Experienced in back-end, architecture and infrastructure and web services.

- Strong communication skills with ability to work with individuals from multiple domains, from product owners to 3rd party partners

- Ability to multitask and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment

- Proven track record in leading high performance technology teams