Team Lead - India - MEGA The Privacy Company

Description

Position: Software Engineering Team Lead

Reports to: SDK Engineering Manager

Functional Relationships: Local and international Engineering team members; Design, Mobile, API/backend, SDK, QA, and Helpdesk teams.

Position summary

The Team Lead manages a team of Software Engineers to successfully contribute to MEGA's SDK, which is the engine of the mobile apps and the desktop apps. MEGA SDK is an open source product :

Key accountabilities

Be responsible for creating a work environment that developers thrive in, find their motivation, and keep on growing professionally while supporting each other towards common goals.

Encourage growth and engagement within your team through leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

Help improve team's software delivery by following and improving existing delivery processes and agile methodologies.

Hands-on coding, developing robust, testable, and scalable code. Architect your code to be efficient, reliable, maintainable, and reusable.

Contribute to engineering best practices, guidelines, and our technical infrastructure to help enhance infrastructure, reliability, and efficiency.

Cross-team collaboration, with product, design, and QA teams, to ensure we create great user experiences whilst also adhering to our high security and privacy standards.

Person specification

Qualifications, experience and knowledge

Knowledge of theories and applications of Software Engineering, Computer Science , and/or a degree in Software Engineering.

15+ years of experience in Software Engineering development industry.

7+ years building high-productivity cohesive teams that release high quality C++ software in time-scoped scenarios.

8+ years of experience developing in Modern C++ systems, capable to work with C++17, and interested in catching-up with newer C++ standards.

Basic knowledge about profiling apps and identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

Experience in best practice software engineering. In particular, software delivery methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite is a plus).

Experience in database, distributed, multi-threaded, multi-platform, and algorithmic programming.

Personal attributes

Actively demonstrates MEGA's values.

Takes initiative and has an 'enabler' attitude who understands the importance of the Team over the Leader.

A problem solver with strong attention to detail. Team delivering of algorithmic excellence is a must.

Strong cross-collaborative focus; a company player, who understands the job is done by people, for people, and with people. Including colleagues from different departments.

Comfortable working and leading remotely and asynchronously.

An appetite to understand the bigger picture, team's mission, individual contribution, along thinking of ways to improve the alignment and its delivery.

About MEGA

MEGA The Privacy Company provides global services from its Head Office in Auckland. Built with Privacy by Design, MEGA provides a range of zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage and communication solutions for individuals and businesses.

We launched in 2013 and have grown to a global team of more than 240 people who are motivated by next-generation technology and design, supporting nearly 300M registered users on our desktop and mobile apps across all major platforms.

Our architecture is unique, our userbase is constantly growing, and we are preparing for the release of several landmark products and feature updates in the short-term future. We are looking to support this success by hiring a talented, self-motivated DevOps Engineer to build and improve upon the functional systems delivering seamless software solutions to our massive global userbase.

What MEGA offers:

Along with the freedom of remote and flexible working, continuous development, and opportunities for future growth, youll enjoy a competitive remuneration package.

This is a stable role within a secure industry, with the opportunity to work with passionate and experienced engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders across the globe.

We have great and responsive leadership, a fun, hardworking team, and plenty of ongoing learning opportunities that mean youll continue to grow with us.