Product Engineering Manager

Role : Product Engineering Manager

Experience : 10 to 15 Years

Job Location : Chennai

About OJ Commerce: 

OJ Commerce is a fast-growing, profitable online retailer based in Florida, USA with a full-fledged India office based in Chennai driven by a sophisticated, data-driven system to run the operations with virtually no human intervention. We strive to be the best-in-class ecommerce company delivering exceptional value to customers by leveraging technology, innovation and brand-partnerships to provide a seamless & enjoyable shopping of high-quality products at the best prices to our customers.

This innovative leadership team with a track record of establishing fast growth e-commerce ventures is now planning to leverage their decades of learning to incubate a new product in the ecommerce space.

The service involves building a highly scalable system from scratch. The system will integrate buyers, sellers and intermediaries seamlessly with no human intervention.

We are technology agnostic.

Job Role
The Product Engineering Manager will own the product and will do all that is necessary to translate the vision into the product. The incumbent will be responsible for architecting, designing, delivering and maintaining the product.

This venture is a start-up and we need a very hands-on person who can deliver superior results with a small, multi-talented team.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall product development lifecycle.
• Create and own technical roadmap and architectural standards which optimally aligns with business objectives
• Justify engineering decisions to stakeholders backed by solid rationale and conviction
• Learn and adopt the best technology that is suitable for the product
• Frequently contribute to the low-level design and code review activities
• Roll up sleeves and contribute to code and design if required
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team
• Management of the departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, enhancing and maintaining a best of class engineering team
• Work closely with the team to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Contribute substantially to innovation and overcome technology limitations to deliver on customer experience
• Ensure healthy delivery and development culture with agile mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on development experience with latest web technologies
• 5+ years of Engineering leadership experience
• 5+ years of experience of working in SaaS (software as a service) industry
• Well versed with data structures and algorithms
• Hands on experience in product development (full stack) with solid understanding of both server-side and front-end technologies
• Must have the ability to understand the technical and non-technical aspects of product development
• Experience developing technology solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
  

What we Offer

• Competitive salary

• Medical Benefits/Accident Cover

• Flexi Office Working Hours

• Fast paced start up