Lead Software Engineer/Early Manager

Location: Pune (Hybrid role: 3 days onsite) 

Overview

Guidepoint is looking for a lead engineer to lead and manage a globally distributed team of PHP engineers of various levels, located in the US, Europe, and India. The lead will be managing Insights Admin, an in-house built content and permission management system for the customer-facing business-to-business web portal. 

The lead is expected to be hands-on about 50% of the time, and spend the other 50% managing the team, running scrum ceremonies, conducting 1-on-1s, coaching, developing the team, and working on the architecture design, as well as working together with the product managers on requirements, roadmaps, and prioritization. 

About Us 

• Team Overview: The team consists of 7 full stack and front-end engineers located in the US, Europe, and India. It’s a healthy mix of employees and contractors.
• Team Function: The team is developing, improving, and maintaining Insights Admin.
• Reporting Structure/Direct Reports (if applicable): This role will be reporting to Engineering Manager based in United States 

Your Impact 

• Develop and install best code practices on the team.
• Foster trust and teamwork within the team, upstream and downstream teams, and other stakeholders.
• Take ownership of the technology behind the product, drive improvements, and design new solutions for business
• Introduce and drive step-by-stem system architecture redesign focused on performance improvements and stability.

Breakdown Of What You'll Do  

• Hands on Development in PHP(Symfony): Develop, maintain, and improve the existing PHP code base for web, APIs, and scheduled back-end jobs. Perform pull request reviews from the team, and work closely with product managers, QA, and other stakeholders.
• QA and Maintenance: The role involves close work with the QA engineers, manual and automation. The role also requires providing production support when needed, and to solve system and data problems.
• Developing and implementing processes and procedures: Introducing and implementing software development best practices, coding standards, testing and quality assurance standards.
• Decomposing legacy applications into API’s: One of the major goals for this role is to introduce and incorporate software development best practices. Reworking the APIs, data contracts, and improving systems’ performance is a big part of the role.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Product Management and Product Design: The role requires strong collaboration with other development teams, as well as with QA, DevOps, product managers, and other stakeholders.

Business Need 

• Revamp the existing Insight Admin product, a CRM component for the past 8 years. There is a clear business need to revamp the system, one part at a time, and make it a standalone business application within a reasonable
• This role will be responsible for understanding the current system, workflows, and terminology.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

• Initial Phase (3-4 months): 80-90% coding focused on learning and documenting existing codebase and preparing foundation for the architecture design of the next version of the software.
• Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers 
• Architect highly scalable/transaction-heavy web/API applications 
• Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to full-stack PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/jQuery (deprecation), Socket.io and server side NodeJS. 
• Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team 
• Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads 
• Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs. 
• Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications. 
• Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns. 

Growth and Success 

• Developing best coding practices.
• Owning the product's technology.
• Taking care of the product.
• Building trust and teamwork.

Minimum Technical Qualifications

• 10+ years of development experience as an IC or Lead developer with at least 5+ years of expert hands-on experience in PHP 7 and above with OOPs concept and design patterns like factory, observer, adapter, strategy & decorator.
• APIs & web-based applications development experience in the Symfony 3+ framework along with the integration of unit test cases (via PHPUnit etc).
• Strong working experience with RDBMS preferably with MS SQL Server (but ok with MySQL, Postgres, etc)
• NoSQL experience with Cosmos DB is required but MongoDB can also work.
• Experience in solving scaling problems with caching (Redis), message brokers (RabbitMQ), and search (Elastic Search), etc
• Prefer experience designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
• Understand branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or GitHub)
• Proficiency in working with CLI on Linux Servers with commands like awk, grep, and other important networking tools – netstat, iptables, nslookup, curl, wget, etc
• Experience working with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) with services like IAM, S3, EC2, VMs, SQS, Elastic Bean Stalk, etc.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and other important DevOps tools like Jenkins, Travis or CircleCI, SonarQube, Synk, Ansible, Maven, Gradle,

Competencies Required 

• Maintain problem-solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & candid communication skills
• Independent contributor with drive
• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented
• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks.
• Able to balance strategic and tactical methodologies in delivery.
• Exhibits judgement when it comes to prioritization and overall team management.

What We Offer 

• Competitive Compensation: Rewarding your talent and dedication.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including employee medical coverage.
• Central Location: Conveniently located for easy access.
• Innovative Environment: Empowering autonomy, fast decisions, and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Casual Culture: Embrace a relaxed work environment that fosters creativity.

About Guidepoint: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

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