Lendingkart - Manager - Software Engineering

About the Role:

At Lendingkart we are looking for engineers who are passionate, quality conscious, game changers with can-do attitude, problem solvers who think of solving it for real people and build it from India. You get to significantly amplify your impact in the Fintech world. If you want to start small, impact large - this is the place for you.

Some high level things you would own but not limited to:

- You are the go to person for all technology at LendingKart. You get to play a very crucial role in driving some product and technology related decisions.

- You are responsible for the technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment.

- You will define engineering practices, product development patterns and drive product development to scale to Lendingkart requirements..

- You will show high levels of ownership in driving product roadmap, systems and also hiring the best Engineers on the team wherever required.

- You will be involved in team building, mentoring and ability to attract the best talent to enhance the productivity of all the application engineering teams.

- You will build & maintain systems for ensuring reliability of the product platforms, and enhance, scale & Ideation and stakeholder management

- You will maintain the end-user computing experience for all of Lendingkart's group's functions.

- You will build, own and mentor the team of high-performance engineering team, product owners and engineering managers, provide thought leadership across each of these functions to bring best efficiencies and quality.

- You can experiment with new and relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption and create impact.

- You can come up with ideas to Implement long term technology vision for your team.

- You will be responsible for providing guidance to engineers and making relevant decisions related to technology solutions.

- The key to the success of this position is having a strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail

What you would possess already:

- We are looking for more expertise than experience. If we must, then 10+ years of experience upwards is a good measure.

- We would love you to have some great academics. An Engineering degree combined with a Master's degree is always a plus.

- You would have substantial experience in building large complex business applications across multiple teams.

- Strong Object oriented skills, knowledge of design patterns and uncanny ability to design for the domain and build functional platforms

- Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring senior software engineers / technical leads.

- Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform.

- Deep understanding of data-driven web application design and development.

- Deep understanding of design patterns, optimisations, deployments.

- Prior experience in working with agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum).

- You have a keen eye towards testability, quality and reliability

If you possess experience building products where the functional requirements have scaled significantly over time, you would love what we plan to build.

If you are keen to re-architect products and you would love the idea, some experience around that is also helpful.

Working in a start-up environment is a good bonus, but you would have worked in a fast paced business environment in your career.