Manager, Engineering

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As Manager, Engineering, you will be leading a team of senior engineers that is responsible for delivering features and enhancements for scale-out distributed systems and applications. The role requires improvement and involvement across the full product development lifecycle from product roadmap planning, requirements specification, design, delivery, test, documentation, and release management to support and maintenance. In addition, you will be responsible for talent management activities including, mentoring, feedback through regular 1-1s, performance appraisals, etc.

Key Skills:

• 10-15 Years of Experience with a consistent track record in development projects involving product development as an individual contributor and team/tech lead. Experience of managing, motivating, developing / coaching, and appraising the team assigned to the project.
• 3+ years managing a team of 5+ people.
• Experience in leading the development of complex, scale-out, distributed systems based on Service Oriented Architecture/Microservices (preferred).
• Understand modern programming languages such as Go/Python programming and concepts such as multi-threading, data-intensive applications, NoSQL DB's
• Demonstrated experience in building products in the areas of FS /NAS/ Virtualization (preferred) and storage.
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.

Desirable Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in building products in the areas of Virtualization (preferred), Cloud/SaaS services, Storage, or Networking/Security.
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS preferred ) is plus Start-up development and/or management experience is nice to have.
• Experience in managing, motivating, developing / coaching, and appraising the team assigned to the project.

Role And Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Product Management, UX and architects to come up with high level design for the features, estimates, plan and timelines for the delivery.
• This is a hands-on role that involves understanding the product at a detailed level and contributing to design discussions and code reviews.
• Define release scope in conjunction with product mgmt., own end-to-end delivery of new features and service releases, often in parallel.
• Help with ongoing escalations as required Establish lean engineering practices such as CI/CD, TDD, effective code reviews, etc.
• Defining the team structure and hiring and strengthening the team to support product roadmap and company vision.
• Coach, mentor and provide regular & timely feedback to direct reports.

Qualification:

• B.Tech/ B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.