SMS-Magic - Vice President - Engineering

Vice President - Engineering

Skills Sets :

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- Good at building high performing teams

- Excellent Project Management skillset

- Excellent People Management skills

- Good knowledge of Software Engineering best practices including data structures, algorithms, design patterns

- Good Knowledge of either of Java, Python and experience in developing Web-based API-platforms (JS frameworks like angular), Git & SVN, JIRA, System/Infra/scripting skills.

- Should be Programming Language agnostic.

- Knowledge of Salesforce - Apex/Lightning is the plus.

- Databases : Good knowledge of MySQL, No-SQL like Mongo DB and In-memory databases like Redis. Should have experience in building Queue based platforms.

- AWS platform knowledge, Hands-on experience in Docker/k8s will be appreciated.

- Knowledge of RabbitMQ, Kafka, BigData technologies

Preferred Experience :

- 15-20 years- experience in SAAS Product/E-com / IT Service industry with the last role being VP or Director role

- Experience of working with CTO, CEO and executive teams is Must.

- Have experience of working in Fast paced work environment and managing multi geography

- Knows SAAS business fundamentals

- Have built & Managed team of 50+ developers & QA and someone who has scaled up team from 50 to 200 within budgets.

- Have experience of working with FTE, Consultants/Contractors/vendors

- Have experience of building & managing distributed teams (open to travel to manage multi-location teams)

- Strong understanding of Web Based Platform related products and technology.

- B Tech/M Tech from a reputed institute from Computer Science background

- Candidates with Premium Engineering Collages are highly preferred

- Must have strong start-up experience

- Must have engineered 3-4 products from scratch