Lepton Software - Head - Software Product Engineering

JOB RESPONSIBILITY : 

The Head of Product Engineering is a leadership role that seeks excellence in Smart Market product development and team management. Some of the key responsibilities are:

- Drive the technical strategy and architectural vision for the product.

- Ability to bring excellence in all engineering disciplines inclusive of data processing, quality assurance, application development, analytics, algorithms, and database management systems.

- Responsible for the overall software development and life-cycle management.

- Bring innovation, with a passion for problem-solving.

- Ability to provide a logical framework to support conclusions and ideas.

- Ability to work independently in a fast paced, unstructured environment.

- Ensure adherence to continuous improvement in practices as required to meet quality / time to market imperatives.

- Maintain records to document program development and revisions.

- Work closely with the Product Management team to adapt to customer needs, market segment trends, competitive opportunities and threats to define and develop product releases and features.

- Stay connected with the product market through customer facing team and direct engagement with key customers.

- Timely execution of product/projects as per roadmap and timelines.

- Bring in new and relevant technologies for the purpose of realizing efficiency.

- Ensure the implementation of agile processes that support site/software development processes.

- Should stay abreast of leading and cutting-edge technologies (including open sources platforms) and industry best practices. Continuously absorb relevant and suitable technology based on the projected benefits to the software development.

- Establish unified design tools, frameworks, and processes for early product explorations.

- Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards.

- Provide technical leadership to a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle.

- Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead the best application engineering talent. It is expected that he/she would be able to build the team without completely relying on the HR team.

- Supporting the professional goals and development opportunities for the entire engineering staff - including providing coaching and mentoring, one-on-one meetings and reviewing each engineer's progress.

- Bring great attitude and be a team player so that he/she becomes an energy amplifier.

QUALIFICATION & SKILL SET : 

- Minimum of 10+ years of development and management experience in software development.

- Hands-on experience in Python, JavaScript, NodeJS or Django, PostgreSQL or Oracle, React or Angular (2+), Machine Learning (ML), Software architecture, Cloud Platform/s (preferably GCP). The candidate must be technologically adept and demonstrate outstanding hands-on software development skills.

- Full stack expertise required.

- Passion and thirst for knowledge of back-end services, cloud technologies and scalable container software.

- Understanding of various cloud services from Amazon/Google (preferably Google).

- At least 5 years' building and leading software engineering teams.

- At least 4 years' experience in developing scalable web applications and architectural designs.

- At least 2 years' experience with Cloud technologies.

- At least 2 years experience of leading a product engineering team.

- Experience building software systems in telecommunications industry or GIS platform would be preferred.

- Proven team and product leadership, and an entrepreneurial spirit: a collaborative, motivated self-starter.

- Demonstrated experience building and deploying large scale web applications; experience on mobile is a plus.

- Excellent management, written, and oral communication skills.

- You are welcome to apply even if you do not meet all the qualifications required for the job but feel suitable for the role.