Vice President of Engineering

Elevation Capital; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevation Capital, via one of its portfolio companies, seeks a VP/Head of Engineering to be the first technology leader and shape the company’s strategic product and technology direction from Bengaluru. You will build and scale critical web applications and cloud services, leading a passionate engineering team to ship customer-focused solutions.

The role requires deep technical expertise, hands-on involvement, and the ability to recruit, mentor, and align product, design, and data functions to

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on software development in a leadership role.
• Prior work on large-scale complex web products.
• Proven ability to define release plans, track deadlines, resources, risks, and mitigation.
• Strong architectural skills across platform engineering.
• Extensive experience with eCommerce platforms, cloud systems, payment solutions, and multi-device development.
• Promotes continuous learning to remove roadblocks and accelerate delivery.

Responsibilities

• Head engineering will lead, build, and operate exciting products with a passionate team.
• Develop and deploy software with focus on end-user experience; ship web-scale products.
• Build and deliver cloud solutions offering delightful consumer experiences and reliability.
• Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
• Experience with microservices architectures and scaling Big Data infrastructure.
• Deliver platform technology and create an ecosystem of applications/services across verticals.
• Scale technology infrastructure to support rapid customer/data growth.
• Work in fast-paced, design-forward, product-focused environment.
• Roll-up-your-sleeves entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, mentoring team players.

Skills

Leadership

Web-scale architecture

Release planning

Cloud platforms

E-commerce platforms

Payments integration

Digital marketing tech

Multi-device development

Mentoring

Strategic direction

Job description

Please note: This role is with one of our portfolio companies (Series B funded)

We are looking for a competent VP/Head of engineering who will be our first technology go-to expert and play an integral role in setting the company’s strategic direction and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Head engineering will lead, build, and operate 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. We seek one person with 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 that deliver delightful consumer experiences and are easy to implement and reliable.
• Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
• Experience with micro services-oriented architectures and 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

Candidate Experience: Desired skills

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience in software development in a leadership role
• He/she should have prior work on large-scale complex web 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 a quality product on time
• Strong technical and architecture skills in wide areas of platform engineering with a proven ability to dive deep into any area as needed.
• Extensive experience with eCommerce platforms, cloud systems, payment solutions, digital marketing technology, automation, and multi-device development is required.
• Competent in driving a culture of continuous learning to improve technology and remove roadblocks that hold the team back