Vice President - Engineering - B2B Product - Retail/F&B Business

Category - IT & Systems

Skills - AWS, Angular, Java, Mongo, Kafka

Job Type - Permanent

Job Description :

- Opportunity to work and build highly scaleable distributed systems for multiple used cases in the Retail/F&B space.

Client Details:

- Our client is a well funded startup that has a suite of products for marketing and managing retail/F&B businesses.

Description : 

- This position would work very closely with product and business teams to understand product requirements - participate in product planning and then align technology team to deliver the product. One of the biggest responsibilities of this position would be buildingbtechnology team through timely hiring / growing existing people and ensuring team is operating efficiently and is being productive.

- This position would be responsible for building strong tech culture where people are motivated to achieve business goals by leveraging technology.

- This position would be responsible for taking long-term decisions related to technology / languages / databases and infrastructure by taking into account current product + business understanding and evaluating long-term maintenance and running costs as product scales.

- Given spread of the products and inter-product dependencies, this position would involve setting-up and reiterating processes to align all stakeholders from technology / QA / infra teams for timely delivery.

- Our business software play a critical role in marketing / operations of the restaurant so along with product delivery - stability and scalability would be another important focus area for this position.

- Along with technology, this position should also have strong business understanding to make right judgement calls related to product prioritisation / tradeoffs in technology as and when eeded. Besides tech team, this position would be responsible for sharing technology vision to their stakeholders of the company including our investors.

Profile : 

1. Strong tech background - someone who has architected applications in past and has seen chaos of scaling-up applications + has exposure in following -

a. Micro-services architecture

b. Hands on exposure in following technologies in past - Java / Mongo / MySQL /Kafka

c. Distributed systems with ~ 100 TPS

d. Updated with new technology advancements and leveraged them in recent products

e. Good to have : 

a. Exposure on building analytics products / data pipelining

b. Exposure in - Node / Couch / Python / React / Cassandra

c. Exposure in building offline applications

2. Managed infrastructure in past - handled cloud / self-managed infra in past for distributed applications and have owned costs / uptime in previous roles. Should have also built infra for continuous deployment.

3. Strong focus on quality releases - Built QA processes and implemented automation frameworks for stability of system.

4. Team management - someone who has managed team size of ~ 30 developers + QA + infra and has taken decisions independently in previous roles

a. Built strong engineering teams and culture which is demonstrated in less attrition

b. Worked directly with relatively junior people 

Contact - Akhil Varma - +91 124 452 5436

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