Tech leadership roles portfolio (Mumbai)

Elevation Capital; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent technology portfolio company in Mumbai is hiring a Director/Head of Engineering. The role involves leading engineering efforts, delivering cloud solutions, and fostering an exceptional user experience. Ideal candidates should have a graduate degree and extensive experience in scalable product development and leadership. This position offers an opportunity to build innovative products in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading an engineering team of 6-12 members.
• Experience with large-scale mobile & web products.
• Strong technical and architectural skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and operate product engineering with a passionate team.
• Develop and deploy software focused on user experience.
• Scale technology infrastructure to support growth.

Skills

Software development

Cloud solutions

Microservices architecture

Big Data infrastructure

Team leadership

Education

BS/MS/Ph.D. degree in engineering/technology

Job description

This role is with one of our portfolio companies, and we will also evaluate for roles in other portfolio companies.

Role description:

Responsibilities

• The Director/Head of Engineering will be leading, building, and operating exciting products with a passionate team.
• We are looking for someone who has developed and deployed software with a strong focus on end-user experience and someone with proven experience and a proven track record of shipping web-scalable products.
• The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and delivering cloud solutions with delightful consumer experiences, combined with ease of implementation/reliability.
• Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
• Experience with micro services-oriented architectures, experience with scaling Big Data infrastructure.
• Experience delivering platform technology and creating an ecosystem of applications and services across multiple verticals and solution offerings.
• Experience successfully scaling technology infrastructure to support rapid customer /data growth.
• Experience with fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, design-forward, product-focused companies.
• A "roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/Ph.D. degree in engineering/technology.
• Ideally, 4+ years leading a small team of 6-12 members in an engineering team.
• Prior work on large-scale mobile & web complex products.
• Strong track record of being able to develop and set release plans, track deadlines, deliverables, resource allocations, issues/risks and create mitigation strategies as needed to deliver quality products on time.
• Strong technical and architectural skills in wide areas of platform engineering with a proven ability to dive deep into any area as needed.