Senior Engineering Manager

About the Role:

At Kshema, we are re-imagining agricultural insurance with the power of Public Cloud, GIS, Remote sensing and cutting-edge AI-based algorithms to assess, model and price insurance risks for farmers adequately. We are taking the latest advances in Mobile, Geospatial technologies and the web to empower the next generation of agricultural insurance. As a fast-paced and learning-oriented environment, we value individuals who are eager to stay ahead of the curve and embrace new technologies, Would you like to be part of a dynamic team using cutting-edge technology to unlock value for our clients? Then we would love to get to know you!

What you will work on

· Lead a talented engineering team & build/enhance the technology platform for agriculture insurance

· Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving insurance technology to provide scale and efficiency.

· Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by thousands of users of our platform

· Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.

· Provide technical leadership to mobile and web development engineers. Help level up the team; share knowledge, conduct code and design review; drive code quality and process improvement initiatives.

· Write clean and well-abstracted code that you are proud of, with extensibility and performance in mind.

· Work in cross functional teams with product managers, UX designers and QA engineers to ship quality software on-time

· Collaborate with product management, leadership, research and other teams to create the technical vision, and road map for the team.

· Contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.

· Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice cloud environment

· Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team

What we look for

· Proven track record of building and shipping high-quality technology components with a minimum of 8 years of experience preferably in Java, Spring Boot and JPA.

· Integration experience preferably using Kafka, Camunda and distributed caching is a nice to have.

· Deep knowledge in selecting, configuring and integrating 3rd party SaaS or COTS solutions as well as coordinating the development of such solutions

· Technical skills include Hands-on development on Java, Python, or NodeJS

· Strong SQL skills and experience and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgres/Oracle/Mongo).

· Broad experience in building interfaces between (cloud) solutions (Azure/AWS), API management and development.

· Detailed real-world experience with Scrum or similar agile methodologies

· Experience with the Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure Infra, and DevSecOps.

· Experience in Debugging and Monitoring the application.

· At least 2 years of experience managing high-output engineering teams with 5+ members.

· Outstanding communication skills and emotional intelligence

You will be a great fit in the team if:

· You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.

· You have a “can do” attitude