Head of Engineering

The opportunity :

This is a Fast Fashion start-up by 3 IIT Delhi Alumni, with collective experience of 75 years; imagine creating next Zara from India

Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new challenges on a daily basis

Be part of the technology leadership and founding team and be directly responsible for driving the company's success

What you will be responsible for -

Making decisions on the evolution of technical architecture

Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code

Help your engineers grow their skills and experience

Author project plans for epics

Run agile project management processes

Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features

Actively seek and hire distributed talent

Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to do technical interviews

Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team

Generate and implement process improvements

Hold regular 1 : 1's with all members of their team

Give regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance

Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary

Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs

Improve product quality, security, and performance

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

7+ years of full-time software engineering experience

Proven experience leading and growing a team of 5+

Experience in hiring strategies and team retention

You've run internal programs for growth and learning

Experience building scalable platforms (you've owned & built features from start to finish before)

Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS

Working knowledge of frontend and mobile apps

Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases

Understands CI / CD pipelines

Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure

Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges

About You

Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when something is off.

You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.

Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable moving across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy figuring stuff out.

High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're opinionated, but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all possible outcomes.

What's in it for me

Be directly responsible for driving company's success

Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new challenges on a daily basis

Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities on both IC and management track

Work-life balance and fun team events