Principal Software Engineer

Hi 👋 there!

At Saleshandy, we're building the sales engagement platform of the future. We're building products toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies generate more replies/book more meetings/generate leads (faster). Since our founding in 2016, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% geographically dispersed team of 50 high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product that our customers love.

What you'll be doing?

1. Technical direction: Providing technical guidance and leadership to the development team and ensuring that the company's technology vision and goals are aligned with business objectives.
2. Architecture and design: Overseeing the design and development of software solutions, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and meet the needs of the business.
3. Team management: Managing and mentoring a team of software developers, including performance evaluations, coaching, and career development.

• Lead by example, share constructive feedback and encourage team members. 
• Set vision for the Engineering team, define & refine initiative backlog for the future. 

Project management 

• Managing software development initiatives, including defining project scope, setting project schedules, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time 
• Build a transparent system for better visibility & track high-level progress. 
• Measure & Improve key matrices which are essential for the product & services (Eg. Reduce # of 5xx by 8% in Q1 2023)

1. Code review: Conduct code reviews to ensure that the code produced by the development team is of high quality and adheres to the company's coding standards.
2. Technology evaluation: Evaluating new technologies and tools, recommending their adoption, and ensuring that the development team has the necessary resources and training to use them effectively.
3. Stakeholder communication: Communicating technical information to stakeholders, including product owners, customers, and engineering managers, and ensuring that technical decisions are aligned with business goals.
4. Be a bar raiser for overall product quality and user experience

You Should have…

• At least 5 years of total and 3 years of engineering team leadership experience 
• Have hands-on experience in Node.js, React, AWS, CICD, Docker & Microservice Architecture. 
• Have a product and user-centric mindset, which reflects in day-to-day activities.
• Have a retrospective & adaptive mindset. 
• Think about long-term relationships, e.g., 5+ years.
• Passionate about the building products 
• Be detail-oriented, organized, and great at oral/written communication.
• Be a continuous learner. 

Why should you join Saleshandy?

• Growing SaaS company on a journey from $1M to $5M ARR!
• Challenging roles to meet the changing needs of our customers.
• This role allows you to create impact beyond software quality, e.g., product strategy & positioning.
• Learning opportunities to turn yourself into a great product leader.
• Work closely with founders & business leaders 
• Work with like-minded growth-oriented teammates.
• The young and geographically distributed team across India.

How do we work at Saleshandy?

• We've adopted the OKRs methodology to define the business goals and measure progress. 
• Our product shaping process is loosely based on Shape Up.
• We're very much inspired by bootstrapped SaaS companies like 37Signals, Close, and VWO.
• We believe in building great products and businesses in the long term.

You’ll be directly working with -

Rutvik (Engineering Manager)  & Ravi (product manager, with Saleshandy for 4+ years) At times, you will find yourself working with Rahul from the solution team.

Safe to say, these folks are passionate about what they do.

Our taste in Engineering -

• Fast. Simple. Effective.
• Attention to detail ✨
• Performant, Scalable & Reliable 
• User centricity 

Tools we use

Check out our stack share profile: https://stackshare.io/saleshandy/saleshandy