Technical Lead

About Flipkart

Flipkart is India's largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 100 million. In the 10 years since it started, Flipkart has come to offer over 80 million products across 80+ categories including Smartphones, Books, Media, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Fashion and Lifestyle. Launched in October 2007, Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services like Cash on Delivery, No cost EMI and a 10-day replacement policy. Flipkart was the pioneer in offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (65 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale. With over 1,00,000 registered sellers, Flipkart has redefined the way brands and MSME's do business online.

Job Responsibilities:

· You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 6-7 top notch engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team

. Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback. Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening. Our world-class software engineers are just getting started and as a manager, you guide the way. You are their default mentor.

· You work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace. You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions

. You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment

. Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations

Must Have:

· Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you.

· Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set up.

· Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems

Strong object oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and

class-level interfaces

. Superior project management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience of

delivering high quality projects on time

· Above 8 years of experience with technology depth as well as good people skills.

. BE/BTech in Computer Science or some equivalent academic stance.