Associate Director

Associate Director - Engineering (SOF04146) Software Engineering PuneAbout UsZycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer: Zycus is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. All hiring decisions will be based solely on qualifications, skills, and experience relevant to the job requirements.Job DescriptionWe are seeking a technically hands-on Associate Director of Engineering to lead and inspire our engineering teams while actively contributing to the development process. Candidates with deep knowledge on concepts of Java 11, Spring, Spring boot, Hibernate, Java Transactional API and transaction management in complex, high-transaction environments. Should have knowledge to design and implement asynchronous processing mechanisms within the application to enhance performance and responsiveness. Key Roles and Responsibilities: Should have proficiency in Java 11 . Good understanding of JDBC API . Experience on High Availability (HA) Software Development. Expertise in Performance Management - to handle massive volumes of transactions, scaling beyond a billion transactions per day. Work with messaging systems (, RabbitMQ, Kafka) to handle asynchronous communication between services. Ensure the correct handling of transactions in asynchronous workflows, maintaining data integrity and consistency. Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes to manage high availability across microservices. Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices to support high availability in production environments. Job Requirement Bachelor's, Master's, or , Engineering or other related fields. Graduate/Post Graduate from Tier I institutes 12+ years of experience in software engineering and 5+ years of leadership experience High technical credibility - ability to audit technical decisions and push for the best solution to a problem. Experience building E2E Application right from backend database to persistent layer. Hands-on technical leadership with proven ability to recruit high performance talent. Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, Dynamodb, etc.) Elastic Search, Kibana, ELK, Logstash. Experience in developing Enterprise Software using Agile Methodology. Good understanding of Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Solr etc. SaaS cloud-based platform exposure. Ownership E2E design development and also quality enterprise product/application deliverable exposure A track record of setting and achieving high standards Strong understanding of modern technology architecture Excellent team building, mentoring and coaching skills are a must-have. Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (worlds leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.