Engineering Manager - Python Backend

Role: Engineering Manager

Location: Gurugram

Relevant experience: 2-5 years of Engineering Management

Shortlisting criterion: Excellence in Backend Engineering, Proven leadership success for a team of 4-20 Software Engineers. Should have solved real world problems with technology at scale.

Type of Role: Work From Office

Hiring Company (our client): Parentune

About Parentune

India's Largest & #1 Parenting Platform. Parentune is a prompt & verified Helpline for Parents. They are the only Platform that provides trustworthy advice to parents within minutes, 24x7. Parentune empowers this through a combination of its verified parents' community, Comprehensive & verified Content & Courses, its proprietary Technology & empaneled Doctors.

Parentune solves 96% of parents concerns in under 45 min & 30% of them instantly. Parentune is the #1 Parenting APP in India for more than 4 years now, rated 4.9/5 on Android Playstore & 4.8/5 on Apple App store. Parentune has been featured by Google as an Indian APP with global potential, recognised as a Nasscom Emerge 50 Technology Startup, awarded by Business World as a Technology company to watch out and is one of the very few Indian Tech startups to be recognised by Wall Street Journal as a Global Startup Showcase.

More about Parentune here:

https://www.parentune.com/

Play Store - Android APP (4.9)

App Store - Apple (5)

You should not apply if

You should not apply If you are just looking for a man management/project management role. If you are not well versed with working in a startup environment.

Who will thrive in the role & enjoy the challenge ‍

Here's an example of a challenge faced by parents

My child is a picky eater. I've tried blogs, videos, and books. Can you give me an effective alternative to handle an extremely picky eater?"

Imagine receiving this/similar question every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day. How would you solve this particular challenge for a few thousand parents daily? Your solution should resolve each query in under 1 minute with a personalised response that is appreciated by the parent for its usefulness.

You can leverage technology to solve this promptly and solve this at scale. To give you a context of the scale, there are more than 400 million parents in India raising 500 million children and 67,000+ babies are born every day in India. Now given this scale, How would you approach this challenge

Expectations from the Role

5+ years of experience in developing products with a strong and handson Backend Engineering experience. At least 2 years of experience in leading a team of 4-15 or more software engineers. Should have a good understanding of Front end and should also be able to guide the front end team In this role. EM will be responsible for leading a team of application and Front-end and Back-end engineers to drive innovation in full-stack product development. The role will expect you to relentlessly improve performance & scalability. Should have the Knack to proactively learn about the system & fuel innovation. You are the one if you take pride in your work, love working with a compact team, and are committed to the product vision and producing high-quality code together with your team. You are expected to be Technically Hands-on, with prior experience in scalable Architecture, and good at inspiring your team to achieve their best. You are the one if you believe that you can make the World better by solving real World Problems. Strong problem solving skills and working closely with other stakeholders like the Product Manager would help in a big way to succeed in this role.

Technology stack:

MySQL, NoSql, redis, Python, Linux, AWS / GCP.

Desired Skills

• Programming languages - Python (Django), NodeJs, ReactJS
• Microservices
• RESTful Server development
• JMS (ActiveMQ, Kafka/RabbitMQ)
• NoSql Databases - MongoDB / CouchDB / CouchBase / Cassandra / Redis
• Docker
• Expertise of relational databases
• CI/CD - Jenkins
• Git
• Exposure to Android APP and ReactJS would be a bonus

Hiring Process

OTT (Onboarding Top Talent) funnel, which has 5 steps:

• 1st Round: Technical Discussion - Online or in person
• 2nd Round : Tech exercise followed by a discussion- in person (at parentune Office Gurgaon)
• 3rd Round : Tech & Non Tech mixed discussion- in person or online
• 4th Round :Tech & Non Tech mixed discussion- in person or online
• 5th Round : in person (at parentune Office Gurgaon)

Some of these in-person rounds are coupled and done on the same day/visit.

We finish our process within 7-10 working days.

Note: We work alternate Saturday half days.

1st, 3rd Saturday half day working, 2nd and 4th Saturdays are off.

If you have any inhibitions with working half days alternate Saturdays or working in a full time work from office role, please do not apply for this role.

30-60-90 days Plan

30 Days Plan

To have the first cut Roadmap ready in line with the Product Vision & Goals

To continue the Sprints effectively

60 Days Plan

To go live with the 1st Sprint in line with the Roadmap

90 Days Plan

Evidence of early traction on various routes taken, especially in engagement & funnel conversion rates

Note: This is a work from office role, based out of Gurgaon