Director of Engineering

• Direct a team of engineering managers and developers creating highly scalable, performant, easily maintainable & well-tested product features
• Develop and maintain an extremely strong culture of engineering innovation
• Exude a strong sense of feature & delivery ownership, agility, and an urge for continuous learning
• Ensure the delivery of multiple technical initiatives, from design to agile development & delivery phases.
• Collaborate closely with the DevSecOps team to help optimise the operations pipeline.
• Help creatively solve business problems by supporting the necessary backend, frontend, and API infrastructures
• Empower the delivery teams to self-organize
• Constantly lookout for engineering talents that can help Ushur scale newer heights.
• Deeply involved in talent acquisition practices
• Evaluate engineering requirements and design proposals in a technical capacity, in collaboration with Product Management, System Architecture, QA & Customer Success teams
• Effectively collaborate with other teams across the organization to meet the release expectations
• Be in touch with the latest frameworks in the industry, and be influential in all choices related to Ushur's SaaS application stack
• Evaluate requirements and work with PMO to create delivery plans
• Effectively facilitate daily stand-ups, early risk identification, and mitigation, dependency resolution, follow-ups for gap-closure, etc.
• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross-functional teams, architects, product owners, and engineer
• Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
• Proactive in foreseeing & resolving issues before they occur
• Responsible for operating a development process that enforces best practices
• Constantly scout for and operationalize the necessary tools required to enable a highly efficient engineering process

Requirements:

• 15+ years of professional software development experience, which includes substantial & demonstrable implementation expertise using Java/Node. JS/Golang
• 6+ years of direct people management experience in a techno-managerial capacity
• Strong track record of delivering multiple, complex projects on time
• Excellent written and verbal communication, strong organisational skills, and attention to details
• An expert scrum master and an Agile practitioner
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams of highly skilled developers & managers
• Strong ability to write and evaluate code
• Extensive prior work directing cloud-based SaaS platform(s); broad experience developing high-throughput backend systems, microservices, API layers, etc.
• Working experience in Spring, Spring Boot, or related java frameworks, RESTful API design and development, event-driven architecture
• Knowledge of distributed systems, proficiency in working in a Linux environment
• Strong Software development fundamentals, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of observability concepts and tooling
• Experience with Amazon AWS services, CICD
• Understanding of distributed systems, asynchrony, and message-based architectures
• Experience working with HTML/CSS, React/Angular frameworks
• Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Experience working in a load-balanced, large, stateless microservices environment
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related

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