Engineering Manager (Remote)

Let’s start with who we are:

Interviews can be hard. And when it comes to the top tech companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc., they can be downright brutal. Most candidates don’t make it simply because they don’t prepare well enough. IK helps candidates nail the toughest tech interviews. At IK, current and former hiring managers at these top companies take candidates through an intense prep course to prepare them to crack the toughest Technical interviews. You could think of us as ‘the everything store’ for career transitions and interview skill development.

How do we do that, you ask?

We have a structured approach to interview success, which includes:

• Career Accelerator Course
• Comprehensive end-to-end courses and platform
• A roster of over 600+ instructors from leading Silicon Valley companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix
• A holistic approach that includes live classes, mock interviews, personalized coaching, resume refinement, career strategies, and invaluable referrals

What’s more exciting is that we are completely remote and hiring the best people we can find regardless of geography.

Role Overview:

We are seeking dynamic and experienced leaders to grow our engineering teams, scale our development & release processes, and create world-class products.

• Our platform is built on the Python Django / DRF framework along with MySQL/Redis and a bunch of other Amazon Web Services on the backend.
• The job requires the following:
• Hands-on experience in architecting and developing designing & scaling complex systems and available set-up with highly transactional, large relational and complex web based systems
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and their applications.
• Good know-how of standard coding practices, quality and review guidelines
• Building / Hiring high-performance software engineering teams
• Solid understanding of business processes and the application of technology to implement and thereafter streamline them
• Experience to present plans, updates, and risks to all stakeholders is a critical part of the role.
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Excellent knowledge on the latest technology trends and motivate the team for the same.
• Well versed in productivity and AI tools to increase productivity.
• A technologist at heart and is passionate about the latest technological developments.

What will Excite Us?

• 7+ years of experience in building software products and SaaS applications with strong hands-on development experience in web technologies.
• 3+ years of experience owning and operating high-volume production applications
• 3+ years of solid experience in designing loosely coupled and scalable architecture.
• 3+ years of collaborating experience with product design teams, customers, and other stakeholders to have timely deliverables.
• 3+ years of experience in AWS from an architecture and cost perspective.
• 2+ years of experience in building high-performance engineering teams and delivering great software.
• 2+ years of recent experience in managing software development teams with full responsibility for software releases, processes, and people management.
• Exceptionally well-organized individual with great listening, communication, and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What will You be Doing?

• Ownership – Must have trait
• Provide leadership, guidance, and support to engineers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring a positive work environment.

Technology:

• Identify key system components, interfaces, and dependencies and prepare high level overview / documentation
• Participate in designing scalable systems and provide inputs to handle scalability, data volume, concurrency and system bottlenecks.
• Review code and ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and quality guidelines.
• Implement and maintain robust testing processes to ensure the reliability and scalability of the services and the applications.
• Work on bench-marking different technology options with underlying use cases to make the right architectural decisions.
• Perform intermittent code reviews to ensure high production code quality.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Closely work with team to ensure timely, bug-free releases
• Create RCA documentation and prevent the issues in future
• Arrange for retrospective calls to discuss learnings from completed sprints

Management:

• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand the product roadmap and plan the resources.
• Strong experience with Build and Release, Agile processes, and Estimation/Planning
• Setup best practices and identify areas of continuous improvement of the product development life cycle.
• Should be able to manage the resources including creating POD charters for reutilizing the resources efficiently to improve the velocity and stability of the deliverables.
• Identify and mitigate risks in the deliverables.
• Managing the engineering team and taking care of their performance evaluations.
• Perform regular 1:1 meetings and share & seek feedback
• Work on measures to optimize team productivity and engineers’ professional development
• Clear communication and 100% visibility of project status to all stakeholders

Why you will enjoy working with us?

• Permanent remote/WFH and flexible work culture.
• Cutting-edge technology stack.
• Complete ownership and trust from the top management.
• Ideas and concerns are carefully listened to by the top management.
• Experiment, fail, and learn.
• Rapid career progression for high performers.
• High pedigree, high caliber team.
• Learn how a fast-growing startup works and scales.