Director of Engineering

Position Overview -  Director of Engineering 

As the Director of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our company. This multifaceted role combines technical proficiency with entrepreneurial spirit, as you work alongside other co-founders to build and manage the engineering team while driving the development of innovative products or services.

You will collaborate closely with our product team to create user experiences that cater to our clients and their end consumers. Your pivotal role will involve enhancing the value of our platform through the efficient development and delivery of product features. 

This role is a unique combination of technical expertise, leadership, and entrepreneurship, making it essential for driving the growth and success of an early-stage company. As a Co-Founder and Engineering Manager, you will have the opportunity to shape the company's technical direction, build a talented team, and contribute to its overall vision and success.

What is in store for you?

Influence and Leadership: You will have the opportunity to shape the technical direction of our company. Your visionary leadership will drive innovation, enabling us to stay at the forefront of our industry.

Technical Leadership:  A chance to lead a high-performing engineering team and a robust product. It will be a key focus to nurture talent and ensure that our engineers have the tools and support they need to succeed.

Continuous Growth: Your role isn't just about managing a team; it's about fostering their growth and development. Mentor and inspire the next generation of engineering leaders while continuously enhancing your skills.

Impactful Projects: Lead a talented engineering team to work on cutting-edge projects directly impacting our clients and their end consumers. Your contributions will be instrumental in creating transformative software solutions.

Create an Impact: ZenTrades gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

Start-Up Spirit: Enjoy the dynamic and entrepreneurial atmosphere of a SaaS startup. Here, your ideas will be heard, and your contributions will directly and visibly impact our growth trajectory.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

The role entails dynamic involvement in strategy, partnership building, technical enhancements, and effective communication within the team of accomplished domain experts from ZenTrades' founding team.

Technical Strategy:

Develop and execute the technical roadmap.

Define the technical architecture and guide its evolution.

Align technology vision with business objectives.

Team Management:

Set clear goals and expectations for team members.

Provide regular feedback and performance evaluations.

Participate in agile development processes.

Product Development:

Oversee end-to-end development, from concept to deployment.

Set development priorities and manage resources effectively.

Ensure product quality and alignment with business goals.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Collaborate with product management, sales, marketing, and customer support.

Ensure the product aligns with market needs and customer feedback.

Scalability and Reliability:

Implement strategies for platform scalability while maintaining performance and reliability.

Innovation:

Stay current with technology trends and integrate emerging technologies into our product.

Budget and Resource Management:

Manage the engineering budget efficiently.

Optimize costs while maintaining product quality.

You will fit right if you have:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical field (e.g., Computer Science,  information systems, or equivalent)

You have 6+ years of software development experience and are an engineer at heart

Required skills and experience

Experience in building a scalable product

Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit high-performance talent

High technical credibility - the ability to audit technical decisions and push for the best solution to a problem

Experience building E2E Applications right from the backend database to the persistent layer

Experience UI technologies Angular, react.js, Node.js or full-stack environment will be preferred

Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, Dynamodb, etc.)

Strong understanding of modern technology architecture

Should have a strong grasp of one of the following languages - (Javascript/Golang/Java/Python3). Javascript will be preferred

Good understanding of Cloud Services (AWS is preferred). 

Should have hands-on experience in setting up an infrastructure from scratch

Good System design skills considering scalability and fault-tolerant applications

Successfully built and managed high-performance distributed team/s

Experience in successfully delivering complex software products, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment

A problem-solver attitude where you like to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes, and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution

Ambitious to make an extra effort to go above and beyond the traditional growth paths    

Strong ability to drive and encourage talent and performance 

As an owner of the product you will be required to plan and execute the product roadmap and provide technical leadership to the engineering team

Cross-team collaboration, you will have to collaborate with Product Management and Implementation teams and build a commercially successful product

You will be responsible for recruiting & lead a team of highly skilled software engineers and providing strong hands-on engineering leadership