Director Engineering

As a technical leader, you own the engineering vision and oversee the technical standards your team thrives on. As a manager of engineers, you coach and develop our promising, young talent and ensure their collective energy is applied effectively and efficiently to accomplish not only the organizational goals, but also their individual career goals.

• Own the development practices and standards for your team
  


• Own the technical architecture, drive engineering design and shoulder critical decisions
  


• Interface with Architects and technical leads to steer them to continuous Feature Improvements
  


• You have experience in managing, coaching software developers to help them level up
  


• You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
  


• Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on if required and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent
  


• You will hire, mentor and coach your direct reports to be the best they can be, both in their current roles and in their career
  


• Working in related domains especially on eCommerce applications
  

Requirements

Experience: 7 - 11 years

Talents from eComms Only

Role: Director Engineering (Mobile)

Key Skills: Java/Python, Android, iOS, Design Patterns, AWS, OOP, SDLC, Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Cocoa

You Are:

• You have a strong technical background, with 7+ years of experience with software engineering predominantly working on mobile applications (Android, iOS)
  


• Should have worked on at least one of these programming languages (Python/Java)
  


• Extensive experience in product, user experience, architecture, design and implementation of innovative, engaging, top quality, insight driven solutions for customers in collaboration with different teams within the organization
  


• You possess strong knowledge of Android, Java, JSON, Kotlin, Objective-C, PL/SQL, SQL and XML.
  


• You have strong expertise in Mobile Development, Software Development and Web Technologies
  


• You have strong communication and interpersonal skills and a solid track record in IT business partnering roles and driving technology initiatives and programmes across the business
  


• Experience designing and implementing large, scalable distributed systems
  


• Highly proficient in OO programming (Java preferred)
  


• Excellent understanding of Android design patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms, iOS