Director of Engineering

Responsibilities

• Complexity: Lead one or more technical projects with high complexity.
• Ability to lead up to 3 teams of size up to 20 engineers, with each team consisting of 5-8 engineers and testers.
• Ability to lead engineers and technical leads.
• Collaborate with multiple internal Agile teams to execute the projects successfully.
• Adept in one or mode coding languages and open-source frameworks.
• Ability to create distributed systems using micro-services and event driven architecture.
• Ability to create solutions with high availability, resilience and scalability.
• Ability to stay on top of technology trends and experiment/implement cutting-edge technologies.
• Encourage innovation, critical and out-of-box thinking and self-organisation.
• Coach, mentor and lead the developers and technical leads.
• Ability to lead, manage and grow teams up to size 20
  

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Min 5 years of people management experience.
• Job specific skills Java Spring-Boot microservices.
• Experience building streaming data applications (Spark Streaming, Kafka, Kinesis etc. )
• Experience using CI/CD practices.
• At least 3 years of experience with AWS.
• Ability to build Cloud Native applications.
• Strong understanding of AWS services (Rt53 Compute, S3 Lambda, Database).
• Good understanding of Dockerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification.
• Participate in interviews and contribute to hiring.
• Ability to attract and retain top latent.
• At least 5 years of experience using agile methodology practices.
• Ability to assess a and improve velocity of teams.
• Able to remove team impediments.