Tech leadership roles portfolio (Mumbai)

Elevation Capital 3; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevation Capital 3 is seeking a Director/Head of Engineering to lead, build and operate exciting products with a passionate team.

The ideal candidate will ship cloud-scale mobile and web products with delightful user experiences, backed by scalable distributed compute, microservices architecture and big data infrastructure. You will mentor engineers and shape release plans in a fast-paced, design-forward environment.

Qualifications

• Lead a small engineering team (6–12 members).
• Experience delivering large-scale mobile and web products.
• Plan releases, track deadlines and mitigate risks.
• Strong technical and architectural skills across platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead, build and operate exciting products with a passionate team.
• Ship cloud-scale mobile and web products with delightful UX.
• Develop and deploy software focusing on end-user experience.
• Scale infrastructure to support rapid customer/data growth.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

Big data infrastructure

Product delivery

End-user experience

Education

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

Job description

Thisroleiswithoneofourportfoliocompanies, and we will also evaluate for roles in other portfolio companies.

Role description:

• 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.
• "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees

Requirements

• BS/MS/Ph.D. degree in engineering/technology.
• Ideally, 4+ years leading a small team of 6-12 members in engineering team.
• He/she should have 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.