What You Will Do: 

• Hire and lead a team of software development engineers while being a hands-on engineer. 
• Build and grow the team as dictated by the priorities of the business. 
• Collaborate with architects and business leaders to understand the requirements for providing security services for the platform, design solutions, and empower as well as enable the team to implement them 
• You will vet various open source and closed source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable, and easily manageable system 
• Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple domain areas, providing mentorship to other team members 
• Demonstrate leadership by taking responsibility and ownership of software components and deliver a complete product satisfying functional, scale, performance, and manageability requirements 
• Hands-on coding in multiple languages while considering performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility 

Qualifications: 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering and development experience
• 10+ years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing strategic projects, with 4 years of supervision/team leadership role.
• Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases 
• Hands on experience with multiple computer programming languages such as Golang, Python, NodeJS, Typescript 
• Strong understanding of CI/CD methodologies.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms AWS and GCP 
• You should be self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take new challenges in an enthusiastic manner 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production use cases and running applications at scale in Kubernetes.
• Experience in dealing with ambiguity and drive organizational consensus/alignment in a cross-functional and fast-paced team environment.