Head of Software Engineering
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Role Overview Description
About Us:
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Technical Leadership:
- Define and own the long-term technology vision and roadmap aligned with business and sustainability goals.
- Enable data-driven decision-making by partnering with the analytics team to design modern data platforms, data lakes, and real-time pipelines.
- Ensure alignment of engineering strategy with business outcomes and environmental impact objectives.
Building Complex Systems:
- Lead the design and development of large-scale, complex web applications from scratch, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Drive event-driven architectures and microservices patterns to support real-time analytics and operational workflows.
Cloud-Native Execution:
- Architect and manage multiple microservices across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), leveraging both managed services and self-managed infrastructure.
- Define best practices for data streaming and batch processing pipelines, enabling real-time insights and reporting.
Analytics Enablement:
- Enable the analytics and data science teams by building robust data infrastructure, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, and real-time dashboards.
- Automate data workflows and operational processes for high efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with analytics leadership to ensure data governance, quality, and observability.
- System Architecture & Scalability: Drive decisions that enable modular, distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
- Innovation for Sustainability: Champion adoption of emerging technologies to optimize energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and deliver measurable environmental impact.
- Team Building & Mentorship: Grow, inspire, and lead a high-performing engineering organization spanning backend, frontend, IoT, AI/ML, and data domains.
- Operational Excellence: Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD, testing, monitoring, reliability, and security at scale.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
and Operations to deliver customer-centric, mission-driven solutions.
Execution & Delivery
Stakeholder Management
Culture & Values
Preferred Qualifications
- B.Tech degree or a Master’s in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
- 8-10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in senior leadership roles.
- Proven track record in building complex web applications from scratch and scaling them to production-grade reliability.
- Strong expertise in microservices architecture, including deployment and orchestration across cloud platforms.
- Experience with both managed services and self-managed systems.
- Hands-on proficiency in backend development and frontend frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of databases and distributed systems.
- Exposure to IoT, AI/ML, and big data ecosystems.
- Familiarity with streaming/event-driven technologies.
- Bonus: Experience with infrastructure as code and multi-cloud strategies.
Leadership:
- Proven ability to build, scale, and lead engineering teams in fast-paced environments.
- Strong decision-making skills balancing deep technical knowledge with business priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.
What We Offer
- Mission-Driven Impact: Lead engineering initiatives that directly contribute to reducing carbon emissions.
- Innovation-First: Shape groundbreaking solutions with AI, ML, IoT, and data at the core.
- Empowered Culture: Work in a human-first workplace that values creativity, growth, and collaboration.
- Leadership Opportunity: Drive the technical strategy of a company solving one of humanity’s most pressing challenges.
How to apply for this opportunity:
Easy 3-Step Process:
2. Upload updated Resume & Complete the Screening Form
About Uplers:
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