Vice President/Head - Engineering - Product Development - Health & Fitness Domain

Company Profile:

- Company is a leading Product Development focusing in Health and Fitness domain.

- The Product (SaaS) uses domain knowledge, Machine Learning(ML) to provide AI-based Recommendations and predictions.

Job Profile:

Head of India R&D centre, you will:

- Provide technology leadership and oversight on technical design, development and implementation of the Domain Infused - AI-driven Customer Intelligence platform.

- Lead, coach and work with multiple teams of backend and front-end developers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists, DevOps Engineers and Test Leads, and work closely with the Architects, in a fast-moving, collaborative set up.

- Analyze the requirements and provide impact assessment for new features or bug fixes.

- Provide code estimates, resource needs, milestones, and risks; ensure effective delegation, monitor tasks, identify risks and handle mitigation and escalations.

- Provide hands-on technical inputs to design, maintenance, build, integration, and testing of complex software according to functional and technical design specifications

- Follow software development methodologies and release processes

- Represent and lead discussions and build relationships with all stakeholders.

- Enforce quality processes, perform technical root cause analysis and outline corrective action for problems, measure them and take corrective actions

- Ensure all the project agreed deliverables are completed to the required level of quality

What we are looking for:.

- A solid engineer at heart with excellent abstraction, coding, system design and problem-solving skills

- A proven track record of product development and delivery in a high growth & matrix environment

- Hands-on experience in Python/ Java, NoSQL DBs and Relational Database

- Experience in Big Data Technologies / Spark / Hadoop

- Experience in delivering scalable complex technical products

- Strong mentorship experience with developers in best practices, providing guidance for implementation strategies.

- Strong understanding of systems using real-time interactions (web sockets, long-polling, server-sent events)

- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications.

- Implementation of security and data protection.

- Experience managing multiple services and modules with distributed and scalable systems.

- Experience working in an agile team environment and proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

You can be a great fit if you have:

- Are extremely self-motivated

- Have the ability to learn quickly

- Are Passionate about the possibilities at the intersection of AI/ML/Big Data

- Have outstanding problem-solving abilities

- Have a proactive outlook for ways to make the solution better

- Proactive outlook for ways to make the solution better

- Willingness to learn new technologies