Engineering Manager - Media Analytics & Technology Firm

Company Profile: Client of Upgrade HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd. who are pioneer in Media Analytics and Technology

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES - 

- Own and drive business features into technology requirements.

- Work closely with Product Managers, Customers to align technology choices with business requirements.

- Architect design & develop full stack modules and components.

- Planning of multiple projects and good understanding record of time estimate vs actual delivery.

- Spearhead and mentor the team towards a product success story.

- 100 % adherence to scrum and devops practices.

- Raising the bar in engineering practices such as Code Quality, Reviews, Agility etc.

- Stay updated on emerging technologies and apply them to our products.

- Hands on in end to end technology stack development.

- Quickly create quality prototypes.

- Mentor and develop junior developers in the team.

- Evangelist for high quality products and driver of best practices towards the same.

- Interact with stakeholders (Developers and Product Managers in other teams) to understand their requirements and to gather feedback.

- Train stakeholder and other developers on the solutions we develop for them.

- Conduct internal dev talks to share interesting experiences with some technology stack or on some new tool/framework which can benefit everyone.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

- Excellent grasp of one or more languages including an OO language.

- Experience building multi-tier web applications, experience working on all layers of the stack is a plus.

- 10+ years- experience bringing innovative products to the market.

- Excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Design & Design Patterns, algorithm & data structures.

- Experience with cloud technologies, SaaS, PaaS & IaaS.

- Good understanding and experience of Distributed systems.

- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

- Prior experience with Microservices based architectures is a plus.

- Prior experience in Advanced Analytics is a plus.

- Good knowledge of Linux environment.

- Internalized and practices agile best practices from software architecture to product deployment.

REQUIRED SKILLS

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

- Stay abreast with the latest technologies and then apply them in relevant products

- Good communication and presentation skills.

- Ability to collaborate across multiple functions.

- Interest & ability to influence all areas of software development from software best practices, CI, CD, Sustainability, documentation.

- Eagerness to mentor the team and be a go-to technology leader.

- Extreme attention to detail.

- Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.

- Analyze technology, resource needs etc. to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.

- Working knowledge of event-based programming.

- Working knowledge on Front-end technologies like React or Angular.

- Constructs effective team structure that allows individuals and teams to succeed.

- Should have experience in managing a decent sized team in past.

- Experience with microservice architectures.

- Knowledge of container technologies.

GOOD TO HAVE SKILLS

- Akka

- Working Knowledge on React and Redux

- Apache Ignite

- Apache Kafka

- Graph Databases

- Devops

- Scrum

- AWS

- Gitflow.