MoXpert - Engineering Manager

we have an urgent role with one of the leading Edutech Group at Chennai.

Role: Engineering Manager

- Ideal candidate should have strong web and mobile development (hands on coding )experience and should have worked on large scale web application (design to launch) and should be from a product based company.

- Partner with a team of programmers and provide effective guidance as they are developing consumer-facing, new-age, digital-first educational products.

- You should have prior experience leading the development of tech products which have reached significant scale in the market.

- Sharp understanding of front-end and back-end application technologies.

- Strong hold on common software-programming design principles.

- Familiarity with a variety of data-stores is expected.

- Good knowledge of AGILE product development lifecycle and the process tools:

- SCRUM, JIRA-like tools; Familiarity with Pair Programming is a must.

- Functional Skill sets: Since working on our product involves core mobile and web technologies, we are looking for people with good programming skills in the following areas:

- Web Development skills involve all of NodeJS, Ruby On Rails, Python, JavaScript / CSS, ReactJS, relational and non-relational database technologies (like MySQL and MongoDB), Docker, Kubernetes.

- Mobile Development skills include native Flutter, iOS (Swift), native Android (Kotlin), React Native.

- Multiple Machine Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), Bot frameworks (Microsoft Bot Framework, DialogFlow) and Computer Vision frameworks (OpenCV, Google Cloud Vision API).

- Critical Traits and Qualities: Ability to get things done, being transparent and willing to learn are crucial to success in dynamic cultural environment

- Exceptional ability to execute - get hands dirty, generate/manage resources, work within constraints

Key responsibilities: Design and lead the development of an education-technology product spanning web and mobile front ends and a micro-services back-end.

The users would include teachers, students, parents and school owners.

- Projects Delivery: Quality, on time delivery of agreed deliverables. Pay high attention to detail in all work.

- Manage QA activity: Work with QA team to use automated frameworks to perform all testing.

- Agile Process Management: As an Agile engineering manager, you- ll need to outline expectations, have faith that your team will be self-organizing, remove impediments to their success, offer support and assistance where necessary, and solicit estimations of time/resources needed for them to do their job.

- Hands-on Coding: Participate in the development of the architecturally significant components of the software system and/or interfaces. 

- Own coding for one or more modules of the project

- under development. Also, participate in and own data centre upkeep and expansion plans (DevOps activities).

- High Performance: Obsessively chase app performance. Employ industry-leading tools to monitor, report and improve app performance, like NewRelic.

- Mentor: Act as a mentor for the developers on the team. Maintain high team morale Encourage creativity and risk-taking. Monitor team performance, reward accomplishments and report on metrics, which can be used for appraisals.