Senior UI Engineering Manager

 

ABOUT AVIATRIX AND THE ROLE: Aviatrix is the cloud networking expert. We’re on a mission to make cloud networking simple so companies stay agile. Trusted by more than 500 of the world’s leading enterprises, our cloud networking platform creates the visibility, security, and control needed to adapt with ease and move ahead at speed. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program, the industry's leading multicloud networking and security certification, Aviatrix empowers the cloud networking community to stay at the forefront of digital transformation.

We are expanding our Global UI Engineering team to India. We are searching for a UI Engineering Manager to build the Aviatrix CoPilot UI team in India.

The CoPilot product leverages the intelligence and advanced network and security services delivered by Aviatrix’s multi-cloud network platform to provide enterprises with a single control console to observe, manage and analyze their multi-cloud environment. As a UI Engineering Manager, you will hire a small talented engineering team with an opportunity to design and develop the functionality of user interfaces, ensuring they are visually appealing, intuitive, and aligned with Aviatrix’s corporate brand’s vision. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, including UX designers, product managers, and developers and this role reports directly into the Director of UI Engineering.

 

Location: Bengaluru

Aviatrix Systems India Private Limited 02-103, 2nd floor, WeWork Princeville, Embassy Golf Links Business Park Challaghatta, Bengaluru

Work Model: In-Office Preferred

 

Key Responsibilities:

• You will attract, develop, manage and retain a small team of UI engineers, who thrive working in innovative, user-focused, fast paced start-up environment.
• Contribute to tracking of team goals, writing and tracking OKRs.
• Strive to improve our product security, quality, ease of operations, reliability and performance by highlighting key projects and ensuring we find the time to work on them.
• Align the team to existing processes work to establish new ones as needed.
• Oversee new projects, reviewing PRDs and designs, helping the team uncover unknowns, and estimate delivery to ensure we start development with a clear picture of what we are building and how long it will take us to get there.
• Champion engineering best practices as a mentor within the team.
• Can inspire and rally engineers around a vision strategy and team goals. 
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, excellence and innovation to develop high-quality software with a focus on front-end development and supporting services.
• Encourage a culture of continuous learning and adaptability to new technologies and methodologies. 
• Attend and participate in customer facing discussions to gather feedback. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the company including UX designers and product engineers to build best-in-class interfaces for all Aviatrix products.

Qualifications:

• Experience working in cloud networking.
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of full stack development experience in enterprise software with an emphasis on building customer facing user interfaces.
• 2+ years of technical leadership and software management experience
• Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and experience in popular frameworks (ie. React, AngularJS).
• Expertise of REST APIs.
• Experience working closely with UX Designers to deliver large projects.
• Experience working with or creating in-house design systems.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Excellent communication skills and eagerness to work in a team-oriented environment.
• A passion for problem-solving, an eye for detail, and a keen interest in learning and improving.

 

Preferred Experience:

· Experience in any of the following: Elasticsearch, GRPC, gRPC-web, Go.

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