Company Profile:

Tekion Corp, founded in 2016 by former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan, is a cloud technology company headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Specializing in the automotive retail industry, Tekion offers a comprehensive cloud-native platform known as the Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC). This platform integrates various aspects of automotive retail operations, including sales, service, and customer engagement, aiming to enhance efficiency and customer experience.

Job description:

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead our backend or full-stack engineering team. This team building the API's and services to power our back-end experiences across web, as well as front-end web development.
• You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 10-15 top notch engineers.
• You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs.
• As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.
• Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening.
• Our world-class software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
• You are their default mentor.
• You work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time.
• Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
• Work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment.
• Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations.
 

Skills & Qualifications:
• Above 9 years of experience with technology depth as well as good people skills.
• 3+ years of combined professional software engineering experience as an engineering manager or tech lead.
• A BE/BTech in Computer Science or some equivalent academic stance.
• Good experience in Product development using Java, Spring boot, Spring MVC, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis Cache, Javascript ( Reactjs/Redux.js ) etc.
• Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you.
• Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.
• Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Superior project management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience of delivering high quality projects on time.
• Able to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly and provide longer term vision and motivation
 

Perks and Benefits:
• Competitive compensation.
• Generous stock options.
• Medical Insurance coverage.
• Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful
companies.