Director - Engineering - Java/J2EE Technologies (12-22 yrs) (Phenom People Pvt Ltd)

JOB TITLE - Director Engineering

- Hyderabad

- Full-time

Company Description :

Phenom People is the leader in Talent Relationship Marketing (TRM for short.) We- re an early-stage startup on a mission to fundamentally transform how companies acquire talent. As a category creator, our goals are two-fold: to educate talent acquisition and HR leaders on the benefits of TRM and to help solve their recruiting pain points.

Position Summary :

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join our team of Phenom. We are expecting below points to full fill this role.

- Extreme empathy for customers (Internal & External)

- Does not sleep when customer is suffering

- Live & demonstrate Core Values - CRISP

- Curiosity

- Responsibility

- Intensity

- Self Confidence

- Positive Thinking

What you should expect :

Work in a high energy, crazy-fun, and agile team environment. it's a fast-paced, where you will have personal accountability. We are proud to offer employees a flexible work structure, but value responsibility and hard work above all else.

Responsibilities :

The Director of Engineering will be primarily responsible for one or more product areas and leads a team comprising of Tech leaders and problem solving engineers. The Director should be hands-on in building scalable products used by millions of users and bring extraordinary leadership in Engineering and Operational excellence. The Director should be obsessed about customer focus and curious about new possibilities and passionately explore them. The Director must be able to cope and thrive in an environment of intense pressure and pace of change. Agility is extremely important at Phenom and ability to multi-task is critical.

Description :

- Director for Engineering is ultimately responsible for the quality, on time and budget delivery of product release objectives established in conjunction with product management.

- Diving deep into projects, issues when needed to get into details and demonstrate that no task is beneath them.

- Facilitate communication upward and across project teams including project status, justifications for variances and technical information (design and implementation objectives).

- Speed matters at Phenom and calculated risk taking is valued. Manage the trade-offs between time, budget and quality and communicate when that is happening and why.

- Hiring the best talent by self-initiative, innovative methods and not just relying on Phenom recruitment team.

- Embed sound industry-standard software engineering best practices within the broader engineering team that will be grappling with multiple priorities and pressures in every release.

- Should have prior expertise in owning and delivering non-functional roadmap for complex products in terms of performance engineering, scalability, security and supportability.

- Set high standards, lead the team in a dynamic environment and deliver project timelines while adapting to change.

- Earn the trust of not only the team but cross functional teams across the board.

- Ensure all processes and procedures, both internal to the team and interaction with other teams, are followed and work to improve whenever appropriate and necessary.

- Coordinate to provide technical guidance/assistance to the team when necessary.

- Appropriately escalate any issues/concerns that require immediate attention from other affected parties.

- Identify, define, and coordinate the training needs of the team

- Plan and execute a structured approach to enhancing the skill level and productivity levels of the team.

Qualifications :

- Software Engineering expert with 10+ years of experience including 5+ years managing large (30+ people) international teams developing large transactional applications.

- Hands-on experience developing web-based consumer applications especially in the financial services industry

- Expertise in developing J2EE platforms using SOA and micro-services. Working experience on SaaS products & platforms will be added advantage

- Strong Foundation of relational and nosql databases

- Strong knowledge of frameworks like Play, Spring, Hibernate etc

- Strong technical skills covering web based development tools (Java/J2EE), scalable application development techniques to build large transactional systems, and consumer facing application development tools (HTML/CSS/Javascript).

- Has to be able to understand complex technical systems and have "good taste" in architecture.

- A sense for technical detail- know when to delegate and when to back off, but be able to make sure small things are just right

- Proven Experience on enterprise systems, modern UI/html development, big data, etc. is good.

- Good team building and management skills

- Proven experience delivering release objectives in a variety of methodologies including agile methodologies such as Scrum

- Recognized self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of winning in a rapidly changing marketplace

- Strong written and oral communication and persuasion skills

- Strong business, project management and operational skills

- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

- Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail

- Ability to communicate to all levels of the organization from senior management to engineers both internally and externally

What's in it for you?

- Competitive salary for a startup

- Gain experience rapidly

- Work directly with executive team

- Fast-paced work environment

Education - Education: BE / MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Work Experience - Experience: 10+ years of Strong Product Development/Delivery exp in Java platforms

About Phenom People :

At PhenomPeople, we believe candidates (Job seekers) are consumers. That's why we- re bringing an e-commerce experience to the job search, with a view to convert candidates into applicants. The Intelligent Career Site- platform delivers the most relevant and personalized job search yet, with a career site optimized for mobile and desktop interfaces designed to integrate with any ATS, tailored content selection like Glassdoor reviews, YouTube videos and LinkedIn connections based on candidate search habits and an integrated real-time recruiting analytics dashboard.

- Use Company career site to reach candidates and encourage them to convert. The Intelligent Career Site- offers a single platform to serve candidates a modern e-commerce experience from anywhere on the globe and on any device.

- We track every visitor that comes to Company career site. Through fingerprinting technology, candidates are tracked from the first visit and served jobs and content based on their location, click-stream, behavior on site, browser and device to give each visitor the most relevant experience.

- Like consumers, candidates research companies and read reviews before they apply for a job. Through our understanding of the candidate journey, we are able to personalize their experience and deliver relevant content from sources such as corporate career sites, Glassdoor, YouTube and LinkedIn.

- We give you clear visibility into Company's candidate pipeline. By tracking up to 450 data points, we build profiles for every career site visitor based on their site visit behavior, social footprint and any other relevant data available on the open web.

- Gain a better understanding of Company's recruiting spending and where candidates convert or drop off from Company's career site. The real-time analytics dashboard offers companies actionable insights on optimizing source spending and the candidate experience.

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