Vice President - Engineering - Internet/Online/IT

Position: Vice President - Engineering

Role: Techno Functional

Technology Stack: Node.JS, JavaScript

Qualification: B.Tech / B.E / MCA

Experience: 10+ yrs

Job Location: Mumbai

Role Purpose:

VP Engineering will be a key part of the team that will define and develop products and experiences that transform education in India. We are looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecture & designing world-class technology solutions. This is an incredible opportunity to shape the product for the fastest growing education technology company right now, transforming education by integrating easy to use technology with a world-class curriculum for every student in India.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the overall software development life cycle and manage complex projects with significant business impact

- Work with the CTO, PM and Business to develop a long-term product plan and manage the release planning cycles for your products

- Instill best practices for software development, ensure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on schedule

- Project management - prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments

- Ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, translate them into technical solutions, and lead engineering efforts to meet timelines

- Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services

- Career management and development of direct reports

Skills And Qualifications

- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline from a premier institute

- 8+ years of Software Development experience

- 3+ years of experience in building and leading strong engineering teams of 50+ people

- Managed scale up and dev ops of applications of up to millions of users.

- Deep hands-on technical experience in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis

- Hands-on with JavaScript and NodeJS Stack (ExpressJS, Angular, React)

- Hands-on with SQL and NoSQL database systems

- Track record of data-driven decisions.

- Ability to prioritize competing features and requirements

Kindly Note:

- Candidates from product development companies are preferred to apply.

- The incumbent must be technically hands on and have strong people management skills.