Head - Engineering - eCommerce

Head of Engineering-Ecommerce

Responsibilities:

- Complete ownership of a large problem i.e. Consumer experience, Order management system, etc. and several underlying pieces. You will own this with product managers and business folks. You are supposed to be equally responsible for the success/failure of the various initiatives.

- Work with product managers, engineering leads, QA and deliver long term solutions. Be really good in driving execution, building write communication and org structure. Identify the right people and assign clear responsibilities.

- Hire the best and mentor them actively. Prior experience in building team from scratch is highly desirable

- Work with architects and design the system end to end for your services.

- Understanding and ability to pick the right system components i.e. which DB, which language with some directions

- Very good in low level design i.e. design classes with clear responsibilities.

- Responsible for production deployment of code and support for any production bugs.

- Very high level of ownership and love for solving real world problems.

Requirements:

- Proficiency in system design. Good understanding of scalability and how various distributed systems work.

- Experience in building products from scratch for B2C/eCommerce or Retail.

Skills- Java, Node, React, frontend, backend, Mobile applications.

- Ability to design modules and lead initiatives independently with limited guidance. Build a lot of depth on a few business problems and associated tech solutions i.e search, growth, security etc. In most cases, you will be responsible for a few services.

- Should have build and scale the engineering team in past from scratch (upto 100).

- Strong in low level design/ design patterns/ OOPs concepts.

- At least 12-14 years in a top tier product company. .

- Ability to handle some ambiguity and chaos of a very fast paced environment.