Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of about 15-20 software engineers and be responsible for the design, architecture, and delivery of two of the product with the highest quality and with inputs from the architect.
• Drive innovations in the platform constantly & remain ahead of the curve
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features
• Demonstrate ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements
• Estimate efforts, identify risks, device and meet project schedules
• Run review meetings effectively and drive the closure of all open issues on time
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise within team and cross-team.
• Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them
• Do performance management and career development for the team
• Rise above details to see broader issues and implications for the whole product/team.

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute
• 8 to 12+years of strong design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
• 5+ years' experience leading engineering teams (including a combination of experience hiring, mentoring, managing performance, and providing technical leadership and design guidance)
• Comfortable with hands-on design/coding assignments to effectively guide team members.
• Has a clear view of engineer's pain points to build a strong bottom-up view of tech debts and tech areas of investment
• Good experience in working with Big Data technologies likeApackeSpark, Kafka, Flink, and NoSQL systems, etc
• Excellent Java programming skills and expertise in multi-threading and performance-oriented programming.
• Excellent computer fundamentals andproblemsolvingskills
• Excellent data structures & algorithms skills
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks, and broader cutting-edge technologies around server-side development in Java and Big Data
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast-growing, and start-up workplace
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment
• Provide good attention to details
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of massivelyscalable& distributed system
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• Experience with building high-scale systems in Cloud
• Prior people management experience
• Prior start-up experience