We are looking for an experienced Technical Manager who is responsible to manage and scale our clients product engineering functions. This position provides hands-on technical, architecture, and management functions to our product development team and reports to the VP of Engineering. The person will also need to closely work with the product management, business operations, quality assurance, and customer-facing teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Responsible for hiring top talent, retention, team development as well as ensuring timely, high-quality release. Build and manage collaborative and high productive teams in India, Europe, and North America. Use the time differences to your advantage.

- Ensure proper tracking of project activities right from user story definition to delivery. Keep your team up to speed, and on schedule to meet agreed-upon software delivery dates.

- Act as an owner of the projects and team assigned to you. Take responsibility for product quality, on-time delivery, as well as effective, efficient, secure, and predictable releases.

- Take responsibility for increasing your own and your team's knowledge. Self-learning is a MUST in this dynamic and competitive environment.

- Co-ordination of releases to multiple customers - Ensure technical reviews with appropriate teams (architectural, product, customer-facing teams)

- Review of architecture designs and expected to do coding 50% of time

- Ensure proper unit testing and code reviews take place at the appropriate time during the software development cycle.

- Co-ordination with different stakeholders (internal and external)

- Define and improve engineering practices and processes as required. Nothing is written in stone. - Setting up individual goals for team members and tracking

- Respond to operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements to ensure consistent delivery of quality services

- Tracking of releases across various hosting services

- Covid-19 has changed the way we work. Work independently or as part of a team when required, but always productively.

Desired Skills and Experience :

- 12+ years of progressive experience in technical leadership and development management, with experience across a variety of SaaS technology stacks and cloud platform services.

- Stronghold on the latest technologies, SaaS architecture, design patterns that lead long term scalable, stable, high-quality, and flexible cloud solutions with security, OWASP, and SOC2 compliance.

- Strong hands-on coding experience with Java and J2EE technologies with a good eye for building enterprise-class products.

- Experience with ELK and Spring Frameworks is highly desirable.

- Hands-on experience in design, architecture, and implementation of cloud services based on microservices, and containerized architectures. Recent coding experience is highly desirable.

- Exposure to different approaches to building and maintaining multi-tenant SaaS products and cloud platforms

- Excellent interpersonal, communication, leadership, and management skills

- Demonstrated experience with agile development methodologies and building high performing teams

- Demonstrated commitment to quality, and experience in implementing QA methodologies

- Good experience in setting CI/CD pipelines and automation cycles

- Must be willing to work through time zone issues - sometimes late nights and or early mornings, hopefully to your advantage.

Functional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Mid-level Management

Education: Bachelors/Masters.degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Key Skills: Product engineering, Technical Architecture & Design, SAAS, Cloud, Budgeting, Team Management, Operations, Forecasting, Business operations, Java, AWS, Angular, Angular, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Microservices, Design patterns

Performance profile :

Competencies/Skills :

Management Skills :

- Strong knowledge of talent management including hiring, mentoring, performance compensations

- Cross functionally collaborative and influencing abilities

- Disagree & commit

- Experience working across geography and timezone in a distributed environment

Process Skills :

- Knowledge and experience of modern software development methodologies including Agile/Sprint etc

- Acceptance and passion of DevOps framework

- Experience working and managing full stack development including end to end testing

- Knowledge of product development methodologies

Technical Skills :

- Strong systems fundamentals

- Architecture skills, frameworks, diagramming and evangelism.

- SaaS, Platform, Microservices,

- Multi-Tenancy, Cloud (AWS)

- Big Data (i.e. NoSQL, Hadoop, CDW knowledge in addition to RDBMS), EMR, Athena, Redshift,

- Data Stores, Pipelines, Job Management and Orchestration.

- Front-End: UI, UX with some design sensibility (Angular preferred)

- Mid-Tier: Java, Python, and/or other post modern languages

Experience :

- As a hands-on full stack developer experience for 5-8 years

- Progressively increasing responsibilities 5-6 years as a people manager

- At least one cycle experience of building and growing SaaS product

- 2-3 years experience working in distributed team across the globe

- Must be active contributor (50%) for developing and supporting products

- Experience in setting up and grow new team from ground up

- Work experience in building and contributing to platform development

- Experience performing legacy code to modern architecture using cloud

- Highly desirable experience includes SOC-2, ISO, Security best practices

- Secure the system by identifying and resolving vulnerabilities using tools like SonarQube

- Highly desirable experience includes implementation AWS reference architecture

- Experience operating as a single threaded leader, focusing on one product area

- Owned and operated as a startup inside the parent company

- Experience in conducting PSR tests and identifying and resolving bottlenecks

- Experience in CI/CD and testing automation to make it repeatable and predictable

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