Engineering Lead (Remote)

As an Engineering Lead, you will lead Engineering at Dost as we scale to 1 million families by 2025.

How will you be making an impact?

• Building great experiences for caregivers and partners.

  • Develop and maintain a dynamic engineering roadmap that serves the organizational goals
  • Independently scope and lead large technical projects, design architecture, and laying the groundwork for products to evolve and scale iteratively.
  • Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance.
  • Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.

• Sprint Management

  • Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
  • Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
  • Delegating tasks and achieving bi-weekly sprints and quarterly goals.
  • Ensuring high velocity and code quality of the engineering team.

• Build a high quality Engineering team and Culture at Dost

  • Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
  • Hire, mentor, and grow the Engineering team at Dost
  • Work with other senior team members to develop tooling and processes to streamline operations

You’ll be a great fit if you:

• Have a solid technical background, including 5+ years of experience designing and engineering backend production systems
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust and buy-in from co-workers and stakeholders at all levels
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
• Have at least 1-year of experience leading a small engineering team
• Have experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
• Have a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven

Tech Stack

• Application and Webhooks - Python - Flask, HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Everything Data - PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Data Studio, DBT, Airbyte, Spreadsheets
• Telephony & Messaging- Exotel, Ozonetel, Rapidpro, Whatsapp Business APIs
• Everything Cloud - GCP, Apache, Linux/Ubuntu
• We are looking for individuals with strong fundamentals who can ramp up on the job, even if they have less or no experience with our tech stack

Brownie Points

• Served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• Have experience working in a startup
• Have some experience with Data Engineering

How long will the process take?

• Intro round with the Product Lead (20 mins)
• Live Coding and Algorithms round (50 mins)
• Live Design & Architecture round (50 mins)
• Culture fit round with CTO (50 mins)
• Reference checks
• Offer

The entire process can take 2-3 weeks from application to offer.

Perks and Benefits

• Create a meaningful lifelong impact on the lives of lakhs of children
• Generous leave policy
  • 17PTOs
  • Unlimited Sick Leaves
  • 10 National Holidays of your choice
  • 1-week company-wide winter vacation
  • mental health leaves
  • sabbaticals
  • and more
• Health insurance
• Yearly stipend to spend on your wellness
• Work from anywhere
  • Flexible work hours
  • Stipend for home office setup and internet
  • Credits for working out of cafes and co-working spaces
• Monthly team dinners and Half-yearly retreats
• Compensation - Rs. 18-24 LPA