Role Overview: As a Software Architect at Kickdrum, you will be an engineering leader with deep technical expertise working at the core of everything the company builds. You will have the opportunity to work across various business domains such as Logistics, Healthcare, IoT, etc. Additionally, you will apply cloud architecture using AWS to power great user experiences for web, mobile, and desktop enterprise applications. Your role will involve working closely with the founders to design and deliver game-changing value to customers and users, finalize architecture and technology choices with customers, and lead a team of smart engineers as their coach and guru. You will also be part of the Kickdrum India Leadership team to strategize and grow the company's footprint in India in terms of people, business, and products. Moreover, you will be exposed to all aspects of running a business while still staying technical. Key Responsibilities: - Be an engineering leader with deep technical expertise - Work across various business domains such as Logistics, Healthcare, IoT, etc. - Apply cloud architecture using AWS for web, mobile, and desktop enterprise applications - Collaborate with founders to design and deliver value to customers and users - Finalize architecture and technology choices with customers - Lead and coach a team of smart engineers - Strategize and grow Kickdrum's footprint in India - Gain exposure to all aspects of running a business while staying technical Qualifications Required: - Experienced in architecting and building high availability enterprise-grade systems with at least a decade of industry experience - Ready to solve business and technology problems of any size and domain - Passionate about applying a design-driven approach to problem-solving - Advocate of delivering game-changing value to customers and users - Experienced in code reviews, engineering best practices, and mentoring/coaching engineers - Capable of designing and architecting original and innovative highly scalable systems - Proficient in effectively working with remote/hybrid teams - Obsessed with customer success and a complete sense of ownership and accountability - Mastery of AWS and cloud expertise,
As a Senior Software Project Manager at our Bengaluru, India location, reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will have the opportunity to manage multiple software projects and work with distributed internal and customer teams across India and US time zones. Your key responsibilities will include: - Overseeing two or more software projects simultaneously - Acting as the primary liaison for project teams, representing them with customers and internal stakeholders - Setting expectations, providing detailed project status reports, and regularly communicating progress, updates, and changes to stakeholders - Coordinating scoping and high-level estimation activities during pre-sales or for incremental projects - Leading all Scrum events and coaching and assisting engineers on Agile processes - Making decisions to ensure the project delivers maximum value to customers and stakeholders In addition, you will be responsible for requirement gathering and analysis, working with customers to elicit project requirements and priorities, creating clear and detailed requirement documents, and prioritizing user stories working with customer and technical stakeholders. You will also own the project management runbook, contribute to the improvement of project management best practices at Kickdrum, and mentor and guide junior project managers. Your qualifications should include: - A minimum of 12+ years of experience, with the recent 5+ years in project management - Hands-on experience with driving software development projects with high-caliber distributed and cross-functional teams - Working and interacting with customers at the Engineering Director and Exec levels - Proven experience in project estimation, planning, and metrics-based tracking - In-depth knowledge of various SDLC methodologies and project technology choices - Prior hands-on experience using project management and development tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Git, Jenkins, etc. If you love owning all aspects of managing software products and projects, working with top-notch software engineers, and are detail-oriented and methodical in your approach, you are one among us. Apply now and be a part of our team that fosters collaboration, promotes an open exchange of ideas, and encourages a culture of continuous improvement.,