Company Profile:

A global conglomerate, the Aditya Birla Group is in the League of Fortune 500. Anchored by an extraordinary force of over 140,000 employees belonging to 100 nationalities, the Group is built on a strong foundation of stakeholder value creation. With over seven decades of responsible business practices, our businesses have grown into global powerhouses in a wide range of sectors – metals, pulp and fibre, chemicals, textiles, carbon black, telecom, cement, financial services, fashion retail and renewable energy. Today, over 50% of Group revenues flow from overseas operations that span 36 countries in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Aditya Birla Group’s flagship manufacturing conglomerate, Grasim has announced its foray into B2B e-commerce last year to capitalize on the large and growing opportunity in the construction procurement industry (INR 7 lakh crore procurement market in India, with only 1% digital penetration). The company has committed to investing $250 Million (INR 2000 crores) over the course of 5 years for buidling the business. The platform will enable contractors and retailers (SMEs) get access to a variety of quality construction material, access to credit, reliable delivery and tracking. For the suppliers (OEMs and distributors) the platform will enable a pan-India digital channel which would help them build a wider network and opportunities to expand their sales. This is a unique venture which operates like a startup with all the benefits of being a part of a large conglomerate and draws from the equity of the Aditya Birla brand. The platform has already witnessed rapid growth in the first few months of launch, and is building towards the next phase of growth. The transformative nature of venture means that business disruption is going to be created at scale and technology needs to be the engine to drive the same. Please join our team to be a part of this exciting journey, make a business impact and accelerate your learning and growth.

Job description:

Job Purpose:

Sr. Engineering has responsibility for tech design, integration design, engineering best practices compliance,
development, tech quality, deployment, rollout and engineering support.
Responsible for
• Own technical design, build, test, deployment and support of system functionality and features
• Mentor and train junior engineers and enable peers
• Support NFRs (e.g. reliability, scalability, responsiveness, security) in technical design and build

Key Responsibilities

Technology strategy and design
• Know the domain/ business: Stay on top of business process, customer value prop and technology
enablement for respective domains
• Technology strategy and plan: Stay on top of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering
and best practices
• Technology ways of working: Ensure adoption of engineering best practices
• Own technology and system integration design and build

Technology delivery
• Own delivery of functionality, system integration, usability and NFR
• Own techno-functional design, code quality, flexible/ modular design and rules driven behavior
• Directly responsible for quality roll out, production support and stabilization

Technology team building
• Train and mentor junior engineers and peer

Critical Competencies for Success:

• Educational background – Software Engineering with 6+ years of experience
• Strong experience in hands on software engineering for business applications
• Full stack engineer (data modelling, multiple back-end languages incl. Java, Python, dev ops)
• Dexterity to quickly pick up and work on multiple languages and tech stacks
• Clarity of thinking and detail orientation
• Agile, flexible, resourceful mindset along with a best practices and safe deployment approach
• Experience in all aspects of software lifecycle – requirement, solutioning, dev, QA, roll-out and adoption
• Experience in digital commerce and retail
• Preference for experience in tech start-up (small company)
• Good verbal and written communication with interpersonal skills
• Preferred experience in front-end development, dev ops