Engineering Lead

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the founding team of KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

Product Development: Partner with the founder & product team to create a product roadmap. Play a key role in influencing customer journey, experience & specs (requirements) with UX designer. Develop front end & back end systems and product.

Project Management: Ensure product development roadmap timelines are achieved in a timely way with the right quality with progress being reported daily.

Technology Excellence: Ensure that products have best in class performance on technology driven aspects (load times, latencies, uptimes, etc.).

Hiring & Developing: Hire junior engineers, divide project workloads & mentor them to continuously improve.

Continuous Improvement: Establish intake mechanism to convert user feedback into actionable upgrades in product design, track feature improvements & their progress and create rapid improvement cycles.

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who –

Has 4+ years of experience in a digital product company

Should have managed teams before & can attract talent

Has experience in front end & back end technologies across web & app development

Has studied computer science or engineering with at least a B.Tech or B.E degree

Preferably is skilled in at least one performing art or is a hobbyist

Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed

Moves fast to launch & fix issues

Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal