Director of Engineering — Platform & Team Lead

We are on the lookout for smart people who are enthusiastic about building great products, scalable platforms, growing a world leading SaaS brand and making customers happy.

We are looking for "Director of Engineering" to lead our engineering team and help us build great products. You will also manage our infrastructure and ensure all internal systems operate securely and effectively. To be successful in this role, you should be confident managing our teams while, at the same time, setting goals, budgets and timelines for various projects. In this role you are also in charge of our integrations with external partners and oversee all software development plans from ideation to execution.

• Experience on scalable architecture, distributed systems, multi‑tenancy and multi‑threading.
• Prior experience on managing team of up to 30 Engineers, mentoring and coaching them.
• Experience on LAMP or MERN Stack. Hands on experience on Laravel, Code Igniter & Slim Framework.
• Experience on building web applications using Node.js and React.js
• Strong MySQL database knowledge. Knowledge of Clustering, Replication, Stored Procedures, DBMS
• Hand‑on experience of Server technologies [AWS] like setup S3, EC2, load balancers, code deployment and scaling, DNS Management, Database Management, Payment Gateway Integration
• Understanding of Multi‑tier architecture of the application
• Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN.
• Experience in developing and consuming web services like REST, SOAP, XML
• Proficient on API documentation tools/framework such as Postman, Swagger.
• Adaptive to Start‑up culture and fast paced growing environment.

• Hire and build a globally‑distributed, happy, and successful engineering team.
• Oversee Front‑end and Back‑end development teams of 40+ Engineers including Engineering Managers and their projects.
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s)
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools

We are looking for proactive "Engineering Manager" with proven leadership skills. You are expected to work on many projects at the same time, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers. Your responsibilities will include researching and developing new designs and products, proposing budgets for projects, and overseeing all the activities related to each project.

• 8 to 10 years of working experience in Laravel, Code Igniter, Slim Framework.
• Solid PHP basic and OOPs concepts, PHP higher version
• Strong MySQL database knowledge. Knowledge of Clustering, Replication, Stored Procedures, DBMS – added advantage
• Hand‑on experience of Server technologies [AWS] like setup S3, EC2, load balancers, code deployment and scaling, DNS Management, Database Management, Payment Gateway Integration
• Understanding of Multi‑tier architecture of the application
• Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN.
• Knowledge of React.
  
  JS will be an added advantage.
• Experience in developing and consuming web services like REST, SOAP, XML
• Proficient on API documentation tools/framework such as Postman, Swagger.
• Development experience as per SOLID principles.
• Experience in Client Communication
• Adaptive to Start‑up culture and fast paced growing environment.

• Hire and build a globally‑distributed, happy, and successful engineering team.
• Managing a team of 20+ Engineers including Technology leads.
• Closely work with the product team to transform the product roadmap to engineering plan.
• Convert high‑level engineering plan into an agile sprint plan with accurate effort estimation ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the project.
• Manage a team of software engineers and technical leads from various disciplines such as frontend, backend, and QA.
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the…