AD/Director - Technology

Skills

: Backend Development - Java

Experience:

Must have 12+ years of industry experience in building low-latency & highly scalable applications with efficiency at core

Location:

Gurgaon

Education:

B.E/B.Tech from good pedigree

Industry

: Technology, Information and Internet

About us:

Nurtured from the seed of a single great idea - to empower the traveller - MakeMyTrip went on to pioneer India’s online travel industry Founded in the year 2000 by Deep Kalra, MakeMyTrip has since transformed how India travels. One of our most memorable moments has been to ring the bell at NASDAQ in 2010.

Post-merger with the Ibibo group in 2017, we created a stronger identity and traction for our portfolio of brands, increasing the pace of product and technology innovations. Ranked amongst the LinkedIn Top 25 companies 2018.

GO-MMT is the corporate entity of three giants in the Online Travel Industry—Goibibo, MakeMyTrip and RedBus. The GO-MMT family celebrates the compounded strengths of their brands. The group company is easily the most sought after corporate in the online travel industry.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Own end to end full life cycle development and operations of highly scalable platforms/components.
• Architecting and scaling engineering platform to reduce technical debt and improve performance and agility.
• Experience with various technology stacks, including web application development, middleware, integration, enterprise architecture.
• Foster culture of innovation and fast execution, leading by example and hands-on execution.
• Build best in class data/machine learned algorithms and platforms for solving complex problems.
• Interface with business & product team to define requirements, deliverables, and provide the necessary engineering expertise & support to ensure on-time delivery of product.
• Be the technical owner for a set of highly scalable platform components (like Pricing & Booking, hotel platform etc.,), micro services written in java, data related engineering initiatives and many more.
• Continue to develop and improve delivery processes.
• Commit to fostering a quality-focused development culture while leading managing a team of engineers.
• Lead the talent management effort for Technology, including hiring, developing, training and retaining a best in class team.

Requirements:

• Should be a hands-on technology person with eye for details and scale.
• Ability to multi task in an ambiguous and very dynamic start-up environment.
• Must possess traits of thriving to work in a start-up environment.
• Must have experience in developing applications using multiple stacks.
• Must have experienced scale in building web applications and SOA (micro services) based large scale setups
• Proven experience in architecture, design and delivery of data & scale intensive applications.
• Should be good on coming up with high-level & low-level design for problem statement and defend on design & tech choices.
• Must have curiosity and passion to solve challenging problems and keeping customer centricity at core.
• Should have excellent prioritization and project management skills
• Sound knowledge and experience working in a variety of agile frameworks and project tools (e.g. Atlassian, git)
• Expert knowledge in language (Java) and web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, CSS, HTML).
• Experience with modern web UI frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
• Experience leading a QA / testing function and developing automation techniques to improve ongoing quality of delivery
• Experience of building high throughput, low latency web-services over Strings and Binary Protocols.
• Expert level knowledge of Data Sources from RDBMS to NoSQL ( MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra )
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Expertise in Linux.
• Experience with architecting systems for AWS is a big plus.
• Experience with web paradigms such as REST, Responsive Web Design, Test-driven
• Development (TDD), Dependency Injection etc.
• Understanding of data engineering and machine learning is a plus.

Leadership Experience:

• Strong people management skills – Ability to build high performing teams, mentoring team members, building a strong second line, ability to attract & retain talent.
• Need to have prior experience in managing team of 30+ people comprising of engineers, leads, engineering managers, etc.