MergerWare.com - Associate Director/Director - Engineering

NOTE: CANDIDATE WHO HAS READ JD AND APPLIED WILL BE ONLY INTERVIEWED

About us :

MergerWare is M&A digital industry leader firm based in Bangalore and Boston is looking for key hires in Software engineering to build a world-class financial software product. We serve top-tier customers globally in Fortune 100 space. Our product is a disruptive innovation in the financial sector required by VCs, private equity funds, and corporate M&A. We are looking for key technical talent who will form the core of the company. This team will build the product from the ground up, contribute to architecture, design, and platform - with lots of room for innovation!

Our engineering talent would ideally be hands-on in the following areas with multiple years of experience in developing and leading enterprise-class teams.

Self-motivated with an ability to go beyond the norm and rise above the challenges! Our key hires will be given stock options and the ability to function in various roles and key responsibilities by cross-function mobility opportunities.

KRA & main area of responsibility:

Key Result Areas (Accountability & Responsibility of the role):

- Build highly scalable M&A Platforms. Ability to work in a fast-paced setup, deliver results, set up high standards for the team, and the ability to attract world-class talent.

Primary Roles and responsibilities:

- Build a world-class team of product engineers. Also, ensure their KPIs and OKR are set and evaluated at regular intervals to meets the best minds in product development.

- Take responsibility for delivering high-quality software products, on time, and within budget.

- Partner closely with technical architects, product managers and focus on designing and developing the foundation of our products and platform.

- Partner with cross-functional core stakeholders in engineering, product management, program management, release management, QA, design, performance engineering, sales, and professional services teams to lead the technology vision/direction

- Technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.

- Work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, Sales, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace

- Guide the overall architecture, design, and development of the engineering function

- Setting up a vision of the technical team and direct them towards MergerWare vision to be the world's best M&A software firm.

- Responsible for managing the staffing requirements and skillsets by working with HR and agency

Key Skills Required:

For this position, We prefer someone who has:

- The ideal candidate needs to have at least 10 +years of programming experience with Javascript frameworks Meteor JS, Node JS, MongoDB, NoSQL, Push Notification, etc. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript

- Experience with the data structure

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs

- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

- Excellent knowledge of AWS is mandatory.

- Stellar software development experience (10+ yrs), with a strong track record of leadership in technology strategy and product delivery.

- 5+ years of proven experience in software engineering leadership roles, managing large global engineering teams. Managing multiple engineers.

- Sound technical depth - ability to go deep into technical architecture and design details to help the team make the right decisions around building SaaS products and be able to articulate clear requirements to a global cross-functional team

- 5+ years of track record in developing and deploying enterprise SaaS (/related) software, using agile processes in a fast-paced environment

- Experience in setting up & building high-performance technology teams.

- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. High on the bias for action.Strong verbal and written communication skills Strong decision-making skills, metric-driven operations, and ability to motivate and maximize productivity in a fast-paced environment.

- Ability to work with multiple levels in the organization with key business holders.