Head of Engineering

Regional guard companies acquired since 1979 make up about half of today's branches. Account managers oversee large clients with dozens of posts.

Position summary:

This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. The Head of Engineering will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Mumbai office Tuesday to Thursday.

Main duties:

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Nice to have:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Compensation: ₹28,50,000-₹37,00,000 per year

Why work with us:

• Hybrid working.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Soffit Protective Services.