Engineering Manager - Backend

Responsibilities:

• Be a member of a very small group of people to think, strategize, and execute a transformation for a larger cause.
• Define a technology roadmap for the product you will own.
• Set up, measure, and optimize engineering processes for productivity.
• Hire and build teams, and influence the people processes for the continuous evolution of the team.
• Mentor and develop engineers for effective delivery of business goals.
• Manage operations to monitor and ensure SLA adherence and continuous reduction in KTLO.
• Collaborate with Academics, Product Managers, Content Operations, and Business team members.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software product development.
• You thrive in building and developing great teams, people, and great products.
• Learner and looking to explore uncharted territories to solve problems.
• Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, and distributed systems.
• You are either an experienced manager or a senior individual contributor with strong people skills and leadership experience.
• Passionate about software engineering best practices.
• Hands-on technical leader with a minimum of 2 years of experience in people management.
• A proven track record of leading the architecture and delivery in a consumer internet domain.
• Must have exposure to leading product development and engineering practices and developing systems and web applications from scratch.
• Experience in distributed systems, highly scalable products, performance, and reliability.