Director Engineering
AppZen
Software Engineering
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Jan 8, 2025
AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or wasteful spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense, and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses. To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com.
Description:
- We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Leader to lead the development of existing and new applications. We believe in building the right product, we believe in using best practices, we believe in everybody's input. You will help drive us to a continuously delivered microservice environment.
- You will share our passion and great pride in managing an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale and performance, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation enterprise software. If you are someone with a passion for technology and a track record in leading engineering teams, building scalable infrastructures and platforms, enjoy closely collaborating with stakeholders in adjacent organizations, this is the place for you!
- Our teams are fast, innovative and flexible; agile release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our managers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. External & Confidential We have customers and we are growing quickly. Join us in making the best back office artificial intelligence available to businesses.
Your day to day is:
- Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and team
- Collaborate with other engineering teams, Senior Engineering Management, Architects and Technical Operations team to help define and refine core team’s roadmap
- Drive execution and delivery of roadmap items with high quality by working with cross-functional teams
- Provide regular feedback, technical guidance, and mentoring to team members
- Foster collaborative, engaging and inclusive team environments
- Define and abide by coding standards and guidelines for all engineers to follow
- Maintain and improve our culture by sourcing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity & inclusion
- Maintain a high standard of work quality and encourage others to do the same
- Energetic individual with enthusiasm to learn new tools, technologies & processes
Must Have:
- 14+ years of experience in enterprise cloud software development, including 5+ years of hands-on technical management experience.
- Proven expertise in system design and microservices architecture, with a deep understanding of distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including the trade-offs between relational and non-relational models.
- Prior hands-on experience (not necessarily recent) with programming languages such as Golang (Go) and Java
- Prior hands-on experience (not necessarily recent) with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS cloud services
- Familiarity with distributed workflow engines or state machines for managing complex processes.
- Ability to work with product and program managers to align on objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and risks.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to drive technical discussions and align teams. External & Confidential
- Demonstrated leadership skills in recruiting, mentoring, and retaining engineers to build high-performing teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (Master’s degree is a plus).
- Able to work onsite in Pune
You’ll be successful in this role if you have:
- Must be a self-starter who truly enjoys working in a fast-paced start-up environment
- Must have a big picture of how a FinTech organization would work - what are all the critical metrics to drive business optimization
- Architectural / Software Design Experience
- Experience with asynchronous architectures
- Work well in an Agile/Scrum environment
- UML and design experience
- Startup experience