Manager - Software Engineering

Required Qualifications:

- To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required :

- Minimum 10 years of technology experience including 3 years in software engineering management roles.

- Prior hands-on development experience in building enterprise class software products and high scale SaaS applications

- Strong communication skills, with internal and external stakeholders

- Demonstrated ownership, can-do attitude and data-informed decision making

- Expertise in JavaScript/typescript, node.js, PHP or any other concurrency-friendly language

- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes

- Experience with modern best practices including DevSecOps, Agile development

- Exposure to Cloud software and CI/CD tools.

- Experience in Cloud native Serverless technologies and/or AWS Certification(s) is preferred

- Experience in US Education technology market and products is preferred

- BE/ B Tech/ MCA (Computer Science Background referred)

Essential Functions:

- Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

- Own the engineering software delivery aspects; work with product management to help set direction; define an engineering plan to meet product goals; execute on the plan.

- Develop, implement and execute technology roadmaps, including non-functional aspects from security to production health.

- Design product architecture to solve customer problems using services-based architecture.

- Hire, mentor and further develop a team of exceptional software engineers.

- Create team multipliers through best practices like DevSecOps, automation and pave the way for the team to focus on deliverables and build innovation velocity.

- Seek out and perform code, security, scalability, quality and sustainability reviews from other developers proactively. Accept feedback and make improvements.

- Thrive on variety and working on all aspects of building a web application, over the entire development cycle. We all do task breakdowns, estimate times, design, code, fix bugs, make suggestions, and work with the database as needed.

- Comfortable working On Call representing engineering and collaborating with our CloudOps team to respond to production alerts to ensure good customer experience.

- Build partnerships across multiple stakeholders to ensure team, customer and business success.