Head Of Engineering

Job title: Head of Engineering/ Director of Engineering

Location: Goregaon West, Mumbai

Working days: 5 days (Monday to Friday)

About the company:

We are a technology-driven scientific communications & localization company. Crimson offers a robust ecosystem of services with cutting-edge AI and learning products for researchers, publishers, societies, universities, and government research bodies worldwide. With a global presence, including 9 international offices, we cater to the communication needs of the scientific community and corporates.

Crimson flagship product

At Crimson, we are laser-focused on building AI-powered tools and services that significantly boost the productivity of researchers and professionals. Every researcher or professional goes through the stages of knowledge discovery, knowledge acquisition, knowledge creation, and knowledge dissemination. However, each stage is cognitively heavy and is tightly coupled. In this direction, we have our flagship product Trinka that focuses on making all these four stages easy and fast.

About Trinka

Trinka (www.trinka.ai) is an AI-powered English grammar checker and language enhancement writing assistant designed for academic and technical writing. Built by linguists, scientists, and language lovers, Trinka finds and corrects thousands of complex writing errors — so you don’t have to. Trinka corrects contextual spelling mistakes, and advanced grammar errors, enhances vocabulary usage, and provides writing suggestions in real-time. Trinka goes beyond grammar to help professionals and academics ensure professional, concise, and engaging writing. With subject-specific correction, Trinka understands the nuances in the expression of each subject and ensures the writing is fit for the subject. Trinka's Enterprise solutions come with unlimited access and great customization options to all of Trinka’s powerful capabilities.

About the team

We are a bunch of passionate researchers, engineers, and designers who came together to build a product that can revolutionize the way any research-intensive projects are done. Reducing cognitive load and helping people to convert information into knowledge, is at the core of our mission. Our engineering team is building a scalable platform that deals with tons of data, AI processing over the data, and interactions of users from across the globe. We believe research plays a key role in making the world a better place, and we want to make it easy to approach and fun to do!

Role overview

• Building a scalable SAAS platform which is used across the eco-system on the cloud, word plugin, mac plugin, browser plugin, API’s etc.
• Drive the vision, design, strategy of the engineering team and work closely with the CEO to build a strong and world-class technology team.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering teams as well as the management & execution of projects against delivery commitments and project plans.
• Provide technical guidance and direction, as well as hands-on resource and project management, for all development activities.
• You manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.
• Be the default mentor for your team, executing regular performance evaluation and creating clear career paths for team members to help them grow
• Providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace, to product & business teams

Technical expertise:

• At least 10-15 years of experience in building scalable cloud products
• Strong experience is new edge technologies - Microservices architecure, Websocket, Restful architecture, Dockerization
• Strong working knowledge with Performance Optimizations, , Transaction Management, Data Security
• Drive the entire technology architecture for scalability, resilience and performance
• Strong experience working in large data volumes
• Strong experience building data architectures for data analytics
• Strong cloud technologies experience especially with AWS and GCP
• Strong experience in data structures and algorithms and OOPs concepts
• Strong working knowledge of advance Java programming language with Spring Boot, Multithreading, Concurrency, Python, Angular
• Strong experience best practices in software development and high quality code
• Strong working knowledge of best practices in data security, QA culture, DevSecOps culture
• Strong experience with incident management

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in Scrum and Agile practices
• Experience working in DevOps culture
• Experience with containerization concepts and Serverless architectures is an advantage
• Experience using version control tools like GitHub, etc.
• Must be a hustler and self-motivated
• An avid thinker who believes in innovation
• Qualification should be B.Tech / M.Tech from reputed Engineering college

kindly share your CV on ruchita.patankar@crimsoni.com so we can discuss further