Head Engineer at ZUMI

About the role:

As Head Engineer at ZUMI, you will have the opportunity to develop and oversee the roadmap for their front-end platforms. Leading engineering at an early stage startup demands a multi talented individual who can skillfully balance hands-on projects with strategic thinking.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leading the software architecture for ZUMI:

• Design and implement a software architecture that supports the product roadmap, long term vision and scales as the business grows
• Own the ZUMI tech stack
• Ensure compatibility with third-party software, always ensuring its scalability
• Always be on the lookout for new technologies and frameworks

2. Lead developer

• Develop and test applications
• Integrate with APIs, as needed, for payments and ERP
• Ensure proper documentation
• Manage any third-party services used in the application
• Select the development toolkit

3. DevOps:

• Plan software releases, managing tags and versions.
• Carry out safe and downtime-proof software releases

4. Team Lead

• Build an agile development culture up-to-date with coding methodologies and best practices; be the in-house guru of dev
• Supervise hiring of junior developers (founders will help in the sourcing and conducting of interviews)
• Lead the internal team of developers to progress and maintain ZUMI’s applications and API’s.
• Manage internal workflow, be accountable for project timelines
• Conduct code reviews
• Manage technical risk

Does this sound like you?

Must Haves:

• 4+ years experience as a Software Engineer and a track record with open source technologies. 
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying web applications in multiple languages / stacks including React JS, Node JS and Javascript. 
• Some backend experience and familiarity with Python.
• Good knowledge of RDBMS/NoSQL like MySQL, Mongo is required
• Experience with cloud providers, preferably AWS
• Experience leading a team in Agile and scrum methodology. 

Good to have:

• Management experience leading teams of two or more, preferably at an e-commerce or fintech company. 
• Experience working in a global team.

Culture Fit

• Leadership aptitude - great attitude and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Business intuition - Have a strong product vision.
• Being familiar with and able to operate in the environment of an early-stage startup.
• Strategic thinker - You understands the scaled-up B2B business that this technology is built to support 
• Empathy for users - Everything we are building comes from the user feedback. Our mission is to bring the best solution possible to our users.