About Tekion:
Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.
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 10+ 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
Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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What We Do
At Tekion, we believe that business applications don’t have to be boring. In fact, they should be simple, fun and cool! They should be as delightful to use as your favorite social or consumer application, yet powerful enough to seamlessly and efficiently run global businesses that provide unparalleled consumer experience without compromise.
Founded by visionary entrepreneur and innovator Jay Vijayan, we are building the world’s best business applications on the cloud starting with the automotive retail industry. We inherently use cutting-edge technologies like big data, machine learning/AI, and human computer interaction (voice, touch, vision, sensors and IoT). We are inventing new technology along the way to overcome barriers and solve big problems, all while having a blast doing it!
Our flagship product offering, Automotive Retail Cloud ™- an industry-first cloud-native retail platform, including all functionalities of a Dealer Management System (DMS) launched recently.
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