Engineering Manager

Job Description:

You will lead and mentor a scrum team in OneXtel Engineering team. You are tasked to

build an omni channel (SMS, Email, Voice and social) messaging product built with the

cutting-edge technology with an objective to support billions of txns every day.

Primarily, you need to be a technology guru and a champion of the engineering

processes and team management. You should have a minimum of 10 years of

experience in core software development, out of which 3 years should be in the

managerial role. Strong analytical ability and effective verbal and written

communication skills are required to succeed.

Key Responsibilities

You are to engineer a set of extremely scalable, extremely reliable, high volume

messaging products for SMS aggregation & other communication channels. You

hold accountability for your respective team(s) and product(s).

Work closely with business teams and align product deliveries along with business

demands. You are one of the key contributors in achieving Onextel's goals and

growth.

Understanding Customer requirements and delivering it with your team will be

primary objective of the role.

Define, measure and adhere to quality of deliverables by team

Help your team to follow Scrum as a delivery mechanism

You will be growing your teams by thoughtful planning, strategic decision making

and using your eye for talent to hire the best engineers and engineering

managers. You will also need to manage your team member's career plan.

You develop your teams by promoting intellectual rigour, identifying skill gaps

and providing training where required.

Drive Customer Satisfaction through Delivery within Cost, Schedule & expected

quality.

Create technical requirement documentation and be responsible for traceability of

requirements at the system level.

Drive your teams forward by being objective and supportive, as well as raising

the bar continuously by striving for the excellent delivery and code quality

Managing and ensuring that the requirements and design are understood and

implemented correctly by the project team. Ensure that engineering processes

such as version control, release management, QA etc. are followed to the letter

and spirit.

Contribute in defining solution and subsystem architecture under considerations

of platform constraints. Detects common architectural and functional components

in order to enable reuse and maintainability Execute various POCs and

benchmarking exercises.

Analyse product(s) issues from the operations and take complete ownership in

providing a relevant solution(s)

Responsible for driving strategic initiatives like Productivity, Automation,

Outsourcing, & Location in order to be competitive

Skills Set

Deep knowledge with Hands-on skills on

Design and deliver scalable solutions in any high level language

Design Review and Code Review of Team Members

Deep knowledge of one high level language like C++/Java/Python

Message-oriented middleware

PostgreSQL

Knowledge of Functional programming paradigm if a big plus

Thorough understanding of

How does the Internet work from application layer till the physical layer

Cloud architecture, DO, AWS, Azure (Any one is sufficient)

Architecture and working of a virtual machine

Single Page Architecture

Socket level programming

REST API designing

Sprint based delivery, Test-driven development

CI/CD

QA lifecycle

JIRA, Github