Product Engineer Lead

What are we looking for?

We are looking for Product Engineering leads who are strong engineering leaders, with the ability to lead a group of highly ambitious and high performing engineers to amazing outcomes for the product and the business - both on the B2B and the B2C side. As a lead you are required to drive strong collaboration between product managers, engineers and business leaders, to help with critical decision making and delivery with a singular focus of - "Getting things done" - in the best way possible.

• 6+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems
• 1-4 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams
• BE / B.Tech / M.Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science
• Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams
• The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders
• Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our fintech products
• Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders

What You Will Need:

• Experience with DevOps techniques and philosophies
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast paced environment
• Good conceptual understanding of the building blocks of modern web-based infrastructure: DNS, TCP/IP, Networking, HTTP, SSL/TLS
• Strong Linux skills
• Experience with automation of code builds and deployments
• Strong command line skills to automate routine system administration tasks
• An eye for monitoring - our ideal candidate should be able to look at complex infrastructure and be able to figure out what to monitor as well as how
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL and cloud-based relational database solutions like Amazon RDS, database replication and scalability
• High Availability: Load Balancing (ELB), Reverse Proxies, CDNs etc.
• Scripting Languages: Python/Bash/Shell/Perl
• Experience with Virtualisation and Docker
• CI/CD automation experience

What you will do:

• Act as an entrepreneur - taking ownership of the problem statement end-to-end
• Deliver direct value to the customer - and not just stop with internal delivery
• Lead a diverse team of high performing engineers - who set new standards everyday
• Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team
• Estimate, plan, divide and conquer customer problem statements - through sturdily developed & performant technical solutions
• Handle multiple competing priorities and ambiguity - all in a fast-paced, high growth environment

Experience

6 - 9 years experience

Employment Terms

Full time, at our HQ in Bangalore, KA