About Us :
We operate in over 70 countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. We are looking for a Technical Leader who will be responsible for keeping projects across multiple squads on track, solving technical issues that arise, communicating with other teams and acting as an overall leader for the team.
The role reports to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) based in Singapore. The position requires the candidate to be based in India, with the flexibility to work remotely.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing clear direction to the engineering team on their deliverable, supervising their work, and driving product releases / project completion as per the timelines decided.
- Lead technical solution designs with the entire team; be a sounding board & guide the team for any tech-related issue.
- Work closely with the product managers, engineering managers, architects and designers to refine stories, discuss, and finalize release timelines, and attend relevant meetings with stakeholders.
- Communicate technical direction to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide guidance to ensure the overall architecture and solutions are very well designed for the long-term while also driving a pragmatic approach to deliver results in phases that are aligned with business value.
- Ensure optimal application of engineering resources to meet product development and consumer requirements and ensure the implementation of agile processes.
- Design the entire solution from ideation and visual design through the SDLC, life cycle activities such as extending or updating a system, planning retirement of a system.
- Hire, onboard and build a team of capable engineers, both in-house and through outsourced agencies.
Requirements
15+ years of Engineering experience, with at least 3 years as a Sr. Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering / Head of Engineering preferably across a start-up / mid-sized company.Experience of building and growing a team is highly preferred.Excellent communication, able to manage multiple stakeholders across other departments in the organization.At least 3 years experience operating and managing production systems in a Kubernetes environment is a must have.Hands-on software engineer who can just roll up his / her sleeves anytime to make various changes in the code and design, as necessary.Excellent knowledge in following tech stack : Java, Springboot, Javascript, HTML, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS / GCP, microservice architecture.Why Join Us?
We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role.