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As a SVP Engineering, You be responsible for setting the technology vision, architect scalable solutions, and ensure our platforms are built for performance, reliability, and growth. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on solving complex engineering challenges, optimizing system performance, and fostering a culture of technical excellence. If you have a track record of building and leading large-scale, high-availability systems, we’d love to connect with you.Key Responsibilities:Enable the team to create systems that are architecturally built to handle the large scale that our high user concurrency demands, handling high availability/resiliencyAbility to create a best in a class technology environment, with a focus on learning and mentoring, and growing the team by identifying and hiring top-notch talentDefine the vision and roadmap for the entire engineering teamBuild systems under the Platform engineering umbrella that are capable of powering multiple businesses under the Locus ecosystem, Like DRS (AB Testing), CDP (Customer Data Platform), Microservice Frameworks etc.Engage deeply with Product/Design/Data stakeholders to make sure the Backend strategy and roadmap is in complete sync with Business goals and prioritiesStreamline development and operational processes to be more tooling oriented to avoid manual interventions and make dev-experience frictionless.Qualifications:Experience in building from scratch and leading engineering teams of around 70+ members15+ years of experience in Technology with at least 8+ years of experience in leadership positionsExpert in Distributed Systems design, Application performance and Cloud computing. Must have built systems that serve millions of rpm at single-digit millisecond latency, using No SQL Databases of the likes of Aerospike, Cassandra, Ignite, Hbase etc. as well as relational databases like MySQL/PostgraExperience in setting up processes within his teams / cross-functional teams, to get the best out of the talent in the teams and maximise productivityExperience in building Reactive Systems.Worked with JavaScript frontend framework/libraries like Backbone, Angular JS, Ember JS, Knockout, React or similar stackAbility to create cost-efficient architectures and design decisionsAny experience in leading functions like Devops and SDET/QA.