Team Lead - Commerce Intelligence

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

MiQ is looking for a Team Lead to work in our Development team that builds our proprietary platform AiQ. 

AiQ is a Cloud only Microservice based platform that handles our real time and API based integrations with our buying platforms as well encompasses our front end business operation products such as our campaign management, optimisation and visualisation products. Our team is constantly building more such new products, platforms and systems for internal and external business consumption. 

You will have the opportunity to design and develop end to end software components and systems from ground up and have ownership of them. You will have the opportunity to utilize a variety of latest Web application frameworks, Big Data technologies, Angular/React UI frameworks. You will be part of agile teams that utilizes CI and CD pipelines to speed up the products’ time to market.

You will be leading a team to build a next generation mar-tech solution builder which adapts well in the microservices ecosystem. Expectation would be to lead architecture / design and impact the choices we make in a big way. You will be holding the technical ownership of the product.

Your key stakeholders would include the leads of various teams (campaign, trading, sales/marketing, analytics).  You will be supported by your peers and experts across many fields who will help you succeed.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and drive business features into  technology requirements

• Work closely with Product Managers, Customers to align technology choices with business requirements

• Planning of multiple projects and good understanding record of time estimate vs actual delivery.

• Spearhead and mentor the team towards a product success story.
• 100 % adherence to scrum and devops practices.
• Raising the bar in engineering practices such as Code Quality, Reviews, Agility etc.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and apply them to our products

• Hands on experience in end to end technology stack design and development

• Quickly create quality prototypes

• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team 

• Evangelist for high quality products and driver of best practices towards the same 
• Interact with stakeholders (Developers and Product Managers in other teams) to understand their requirements and to gather feedback.
• Train stakeholder and other developers on the solutions we develop for them.
• Conduct internal dev talks to share interesting experiences with some technology stack or on some new tool/framework which can benefit everyone.

• Manage performance and learning aspects of a team.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE 

• Excellent grasp of one or more languages including an OO language
• Experience building multi-tier web applications, experience working on all layers of the stack is a plus
• 8+  years experience bringing innovative products to the market
• Excellent understanding of Object Oriented Design & Design Patterns, algorithm & data structures, 
• Experience with cloud technologies, SaaS, PaaS & IaaS
• Good understanding and experience of Distributed systems
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
• Prior experience with Microservices based architectures is a plus
• Prior experience in Advanced Analytics is a plus
• Good knowledge of Linux environment
• Internalized and practices agile best practices from software architecture to product deployment 

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Stay abreast with the latest technologies and then apply them in relevant products
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Ability to collaborate  across multiple functions
• Interest & ability to influence all areas of software development from software best practices, CI, CD, Sustainability, documentation etc.
• Eagerness to mentor the team and be a go-to technology leader
• Extreme attention to detail 
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritise workload
• Analyze technology, resource needs etc to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.
• Working knowledge of event based programming.

• Working knowledge on Front-end technologies like React or Angular.

• Constructs effective team structure that allows individuals and teams to succeed.
• Should have experience in managing a decent sized team in the past.
• Experience with microservice architectures.
• Knowledge of container technologies.
• Experience with Cloud platforms like AWS.

GOOD TO HAVE SKILLS

• Working Knowledge on React and Redux
• Apache Kafka
• Graph Databases
• Devops
• Scrum
• AWS
• Gitflow
• Qubole

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering is a must