Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• The person will drive thought leadership in designing, implementing, and delivering products to scale to current requirements and for expected future needs, based on a very rapid pace of growth.
• Lead and manage a technical team to design and implement highly reliable, scalable, extensible, maintainable, and operable products and platforms.
• Assess the current technology state, evaluate options, and define the technology strategy for the future in his areas.
• Drive technology innovations to derive much higher efficiencies and greater customer delight.
• Anticipate and manage the risks associated with day-to-day technology operations.
• Ensure ongoing operational stability of the current applications and systems.
• Build a highly motivated and skilled technology organisation that brings together domain knowledge, Technology excellence, and Data sciences with a strong penchant for problem-solving through sustainable solutions.
• Lead the team to build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity.
• Work closely with product management and design teams to define the next generation of products and platforms for the Indian e-commerce industry.

Requirements:

• Experienced in managing a large and diverse organization and motivating the team to achieve desired outcomes in a very quick and agile manner
• Proven experience in building and scaling engineering teams with direct experience in managing teams of teams.
• Should have a total of 13 to 18 years of technology experience, having spent significant time in building highly scalable and high-performance online and offline applications and applying various design patterns.
• Strong prior experience in the software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
• Strong exposure and experience in rolling out new technology solutions in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Should have managed teams with senior-level engineers and architects.
• Must have proactively driven product and/or technology planning exercises for the organisation.
• Must have proven experience in driving dramatic product and/or process improvement changes within the organization.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Align well with Flipkart's culture - customer focus, drive, enthusiasm, honesty, humility.
• BTech/B. E. or M. S. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or related fields).
• Experience with building systems at a very large enterprise scale or at consumer Internet scale.
• Understanding of large-scale distributed systems.
• Expertise in leading teams that have delivered large system implementations.
• Demonstrated leadership in at least some of the technologies that are core to Flipkart's tech products (distributed systems, cloud computing, supply chain systems, databases, web services, multi-tier client-server architectures, business intelligence, data analytics, enterprise applications, mobile devices, and communications protocols).
• Analytical skills: complexity, capacity planning, performance engineering, statistics, and data analysis within large teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills coupled with demonstrated prior leadership.