Engineering Manager

Job Description – Engineering Manager -Rebel Foods

GROUND RULES

1. Kindly note that all the processes of the 10 Step Executive Search has to be followed as your sourcing/recruitment process moves ahead. KEEP referring to it to avoid any deviation
2. You Should conduct multiple searches (atleast 8-10 fresh searches with various combinations or salary/exp/company/keywords) to get the right candidates
3. You should explore Monster/LinkedIn/Referencing extensively, apart from mining Naukri. If needed, you will resort to headhunting as well – NO OPTIONS SHOULD BE LEFT UNEXPLORED IN ARRIVING AT THE RIGHT CANDIDATE
4. You will create a mailing format to instantly contact candidates you have not been able to touch base on Naukri/monster – at the outset, it should not mention client name.
5. As you send profiles, you will mention the sources you have explored for the day and number of searches made

Salary: LPA. For candidates with 13-15 years with good background share profile for evaluation

About The Position:

We are in the lookout for someone who can come on board and understand company needs to define system specifications and work through thick and thin in the next sprint of our journey. You should be passionate about technology and well versed with new technologies and the global best practices. You will be responsible for all products shipped out by engineering team including selection of technologies, architecture, development, QA, dev-ops and their performance. Innovation and challenging the status quo are two of our core values. You will nurture and grow the team in order to deliver path breaking solutions, as outlined above, for the business in coming years. Experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large-scale applications and 4 + years' experience in team management You will work closely with Product and Data teams and will report to the CTO of the company - a founding member at Rebel.

Key Reasons for Rejections till Date: 8-10 People Interviewed, Reason for rejection are 

• lack of team handling, 
• Scalable product development, 
• Mobile, FullStack, DevOps, Infrastructure development knowledge.
• Relocation to Mumbai
• Smart Innovative Candidate

Must Have:

Product Based company, don't pitch from Consulting background & Finance companies.

Good To Have:

Data Analytics, AI or ML experience

Job Specific Questions to be probed on (in addition to the regular questions of the candidate qualification Script):

Standard Questions, applicable for any role:

1. If selected and offered by the client, what are the factors which may prevent you from joining our client if you get selected
2. What if their current organization tries to retain them with a higher salary and/or promotion? What will be their response to it? (if they say, they will choose a current company, then please drop them)
3. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being eager to make a job change, 5 meaning you are not motivated for a change at all, what number are you?
4. Is this role presenting you an opportunity that you are really excited about?
5. Why would you consider making a job change at this time? Listen for but don't prompt - an opportunity to grow, location, challenge, security etc. If its's money alone – please drop the candidate.

About Client:

Rebel Foods

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Client Website:

Rebel Foods (Parent Company of Faasos), our seven-year-old start-up, commonly known for its larger brands – Faasos & Behrouz Biryani, is at the cusp of revolutionizing the business of building and running virtual restaurant brands, globally. In the last two years, we have opened internet restaurants in India across 8 brands in 20 cities – thus creating a completely disruptive model of building restaurants on the cloud. At 50 MN USD+ revenue and 110% YoY growth, we are the world's largest and fastest growing Internet Restaurant / Cloud Kitchen Company, by a very wide margin.

The secret behind this growth is our model of one kitchen = multiple brands. In two years, we have built India's only national Biryani brand – Behrouz, on top of Faasos, our first brand.

Subsequently, we have launched national brands across Pizza, World Cuisine, Desserts, Beverages and Chinese – and these brands are now scaling super-fast. This gives us the ability to play across all customer food missions/occasions through the same infrastructure base. Because of our asset lite model and no incremental investments for subsequent brands, our economic engine is producing tremendous results from payback to capital efficiency to kitchen profitability. Also, we have taken out the biggest risk from opening restaurants – location dependence. 100% on delivery, we have no location risk. While 65% of restaurants shut down in year 1, globally, we have never had to shut down any of our locations. This way, we have

completely changed the way restaurant businesses are built and are spearheading the

revolution globally for building RESTAURANTS ON INTERNET.

We would also recommend you go through the following links and blogs to know

more:

The Rebel Culture:

Finally, but most importantly, Rebel is not your usual workplace. The following slides will give you a sense of our culture, how Rebel conducts itself and who will be the best fit for our company. We suggest you go through it before making up your mind. It's not everyone's cup of tea.

Engineering History @ Rebel:

In order to understand more about the challenges that you might face at Rebel, it's important that we go back to the inception and get acquainted about our journey till date. From the times when excel sheets served as our POS system at stores having one brand, to our evolution as a company that uses smart kitchens - we have traversed the phone, web and app channels over time. From being a single brand restaurant, we moved to being a parent company with a dozen restaurant brands under the umbrella, while simultaneously moving our operations from a single kitchen to more than 250 locations across 20 cities.

The team of engineers at Rebel has built one of the most unique platforms in the world that can not only help operate a kitchen with multiple brands, but also aids in operating business at scale. To give you an additional perspective, the team has built more than 30 products in the last 3 years. The innovation spans through technologies like polygon architecture (dynamic delivery radius) for a multi-brand operation from a kitchen, to managing each step of the kitchen ops—queuing, load / prep time, batching of orders, out of the door algorithms; inventory prediction based on consumption data, personal recommendation engine, deep integration with every aggregator, last mile delivery app, CRM systems, multiple brand websites and apps, reporting and analytics systems, and more. Everything that was mentioned has been built on a tech stack developed by our Engineers. This enabled us to tackle the massive complexity of a multi-brand operation while keeping all parts of the business supremely efficient and optimized.

Future of Engineering @ Rebel

We are now building Engineering 2.0 at our company. The vision is to make technology the Brain ( AI, Machine Learning, analytics to drive every business decision of the company), the Body (robotics led automation at our Kitchens, driving tremendous operational efficiency) and the Mind (building an AI/ ML driven virtual personal butler for customers across app, web and voice, like Netflix of food) at Rebel. This will mean working across technologies and product/engineering teams to build solutions that would be "first -time" in the world. Engineering @ Rebel will break new grounds.

Position Details| Engineering Manager | Rebel Foods

• Designation: Engineering Manager
• Country: India
• Job Location: Mumbai.
• Language Proficiency: English
• Education/Qualification: No, Specific Mandate
• Overall years of Experience Required: 8-15 years
• Reporting to: CTO, but there will a Head of Engineering soon whom this person will report
• Team Size: 10-15 team members
• Industry Preference: Look for candidates from Product Development companies, only. Any industry will work other than consulting OR service background
• Career Prospects: Can become Sr. Engineering Manager or any senior position with large team size
• Interview Process:
• HR Screening
• CTO interview (Telephonic/F2F)
• Leadership Level (Telephonic/F2F)
• Notice Period: Immediate join is great or any notice period will work.

Skill Set:

Finally, our ever-changing Stack DB - Mongo, Mysql, Redis

Programming languages - Node, Angular, Express, Jquery, ROR, Rails, Python, React, Go

Cloud - AWS, GCP and GCP.

Mobile Application - Java, Objective C and Swift

Monitoring tools - New Relic, Datadog, Airbrake, Instana, Grafana, Pingdom

Logging system - Papertrail

Architecture - Microservice based architecture on multi -cloud. Using containers and spots.

Code/Project management - Bitbucket, Jira and Slack

Tools - Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins

Others - Lambda, SQS, S3, SNS, API-gateways, Elasticsearch, Athena etc.