Director of Engineering [T500-21905]

Talent500 is hiring.

Job Description :

We are excited to announce an opening for Director of Engineering at Talent500 - Tech.

Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.

Skills Required :

Python, Django, AWS, React, React.js, Elasticsearch, distributed systems, scalability

Experience Range : 12 - 15 years

WE ARE TALENT 500 :

We help companies hire, build and manage global teams. We are trusted by the world’s leading companies - from Fortune 500s and larger enterprises (Walmart, Target, Nike, Pepsi etc) to industry leaders (Airbnb, Twitter, Uber) and some of the world’s fastest-growing start-ups from the portfolios of investors such as Accel, Sequoia and

Techstars.

Our suite of proprietary AI-enabled tools and products provide businesses with an end-to-end platform to build their global teams. This includes :

Access to a “Global Talent Network” of 300,000+ professionals globally

Our AI based screening engine which predicts the “right-fit” candidate with ~80% accuracy helping companies hire 2.5x faster

Tools to manage contracting, payroll and benefits without the hassle of setting up legal entities or infrastructure

We are backed by Accel Partners & ANSR, a global leader and enterprise transformation platform. For the last 15 years, the world’s leading organizations have trusted ANSR to transform their businesses by building technology and innovation hubs in talent-rich

locations. ANSR is today one of the largest drivers of FDI into India with over $1.5B of capital investments.

Responsibilities :

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems
• Design and develop robust solutions for trade negotiation and execution, real-time market data, chat messaging, authentication, and security
• Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation
• Drive technology choices for the backend code base such as languages, frameworks, providers, and partners
• Support leadership in high-level technology investment decisions (build vs. buy, technical debt, etc.) through well-articulated, factual proposals
• Champion quality of our solutions and lead efforts to measure and improve it along dimensions such as test coverage, security, and customer satisfaction
• Drive the culture of metrics-driven delivery on established priorities in full partnership with Product, Program, and Engineering Management
• Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams
• Lead and participate in iterative, self-contained, cross-functional, customer-facing teams according to the release plan
• Ensure that technical expertise is appropriately distributed throughout the tech stack team via documentation, information sharing sessions, and project experience.

Requirements :