Development Manager

As an Engineering Manager you will be responsible for leading a team of talented engineers in building and maintaining our GenAI based technology platform. This role requires a deep understanding of our tech stack, strong leadership skills, and experience in leveraging GenAI, Cloud and Data Warehousing technologies.
The purpose of this role is to lead, develop and improve teams of software engineers with various skills, so that a high-quality end product is delivered. To provide technical guidance, to support analysis and design in order to deliver products aligned to the customer’s requirements and company standards.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities:

• Participates in the entire software development cycle - requirements analysis, design and development, testing and documentation - across multiple projects
• Accountable for timely delivery and code quality of agreed projects
• Sets objectives for team members and empowers team to achieve them. Monitors progress. Ensures appropriate individual objectives are aligned and set to team objectives
• Works with Lead Engineers to encourage technical and personal growth of the team members and to ensure effective skill set distribution in the team
• Delivers trainings and participates in knowledge sharing
• Responsible for long-term code reusability and stability
• Responsible for compliance and following of the code review process across teams
• Leads initiatives related to optimizations in various areas (processes, tools, approaches)
• Responsible for overall quality of the product
• Proactively identifies issues in the team and formulates strategies to resolve them
• Ensures lines of succession are in place
• Adopts industry best practices and industry standards as best suited to the organization
• Evaluates new technologies

• Technical Expertise:
  • Should have developed and deployed solutions on cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Should have worked on containerized deployment of apps on infra such as AWS EKS or AWS ECS or similar
  • Should have worked on asynchronous, loosely coupled architectures leveraging Apache Kafka or similar
  • Provide technical guidance and leadership in cloud native technologies: Serverless, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Python, and React JS.
  • Drive the adoption and integration of GenAI and data warehousing technologies.
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Platform Development:
  • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of our technology platform.
  • Ensure the platform is scalable, secure, and performant.
  • Implement best practices in software development and DevOps.
  • Should have experience with non-functional requirements such as performance benchmarking and application security
• Stakeholder Collaboration:
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize features.
  • Communicate project status, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders.

Location:

Pune

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent