Head of Product Engineering:

The Head of Engineering is responsible for leading, building, and training growing R&D team for the development, release, and maintenance of reliable software applications according to business, market, and customer needs.

Job Responsibilities :

- Hire, develop and lead global, highly capable, talented, and motivated developers and Engineering managers to bring new and complex solutions to market on time

- Manage the agile development process to ensure fast iterative and incremental delivery

- Provide resource plans, budget tracking and forecasting

- Contribute to long-term technology solutions based on business needs, architecture, and strategic drivers

- Establish best practices for all aspects of software development

- Work with Product Management to define the release plan and prioritize the product requirements based on the business needs

- Ensure the engineering team has a strong customer focus on escalations and production problems

Qualifications :

- 10+ years of software development and 5+ years of engineering management experience.

- Proven ability to lead global and multi-product engineering teams

- Strategic resource and software release planning abilities

- Exposure to development of applications & microservices in Kubernetes & AWS Cloud Environments

- Ability to direct highly dynamic teams leading agile development methodologies (e.g.

test-driven-development, continuous-integration, sprints)

- Conversant with and strongly promote software development best practices (e.g. continuous integration, code reviews, release processes)

- Exposure to cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure

- Familiar the following technologies

- Programming languages in Ruby-on-Rails and/or Python

- Server-side caching ( Redis)

- Enterprise Messaging framework (Kafka or RabbitMQ)

- Web services (REST) and web service-based APIs

- SQL skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

- Proven track record of delivering and supporting mission critical systems with minimum downtimes

- Experience with microservices, SOA or equivalent

- Strong understanding of the authentication, authorization, and data protection

- B.Tech or M.Tech /MS. in computer science or related field

Bonus Points :

- Strong development background in any of the languages such as Go Lang, Ruby, Python, Spark

- Exposure to NoSQL databases (HBase and others)

- Exposure to highly scalable web applications

- Experience with data ingestion, data pipelines and data transformations

Experience and Track Record

- Experience is building, mentoring, and scaling a product management organization in an Enterprise software company.

- Specific experience in building the strategy and roadmaps for enterprise software platforms, including defining and launching modern SaaS analytics, AI/ML, and/or developer platforms to market.

- Proven track record in scaling new product innovations, working with highly matrixed organizations to create not only the product strategy and roadmap, but the processes required to drive profitable execution.

- Experience in developing software that is used by a broad partner and developer ecosystem and to work with sales and marketing teams to ensure 3rd parties have the right APIs, tooling, and support to scale their operations.

- A passion for product development and extreme attention to detail.

- Experience running a large team of engineers. solution architects and product marketing.

- Strategic mindset, with the ability to make difficult decisions.

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