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Talent500 is hiring.Job Description:We are excited to announce an opening for Director of Engineering at Talent500 - Tech.Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.Skills Required:Python, Django, AWS, React, React.js, Elasticsearch, distributed systems, scalabilityExperience Range:12 - 15 yearsWE ARE TALENT 500:We help companies hire, build and manage global teams. We are trusted by the world’s leading companies - from Fortune 500s and larger enterprises (Walmart, Target, Nike, Pepsi etc) to industry leaders (Airbnb, Twitter, Uber) and some of the world’s fastest-growing start-ups from the portfolios of investors such as Accel, Sequoia andTechstars.Our suite of proprietary AI-enabled tools and products provide businesses with an end-to-end platform to build their global teams. This includes:Access to a “Global Talent Network” of 300,000+ professionals globallyOur AI based screening engine which predicts the “right-fit” candidate with ~80% accuracy helping companies hire 2.5x fasterTools to manage contracting, payroll and benefits without the hassle of setting up legal entities or infrastructureWe are backed by Accel Partners & ANSR, a global leader and enterprise transformation platform. For the last 15 years, the world’s leading organizations have trusted ANSR to transform their businesses by building technology and innovation hubs in talent-richlocations. ANSR is today one of the largest drivers of FDI into India with over $1.5B of capital investments.Responsibilities:- Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems - Design and develop robust solutions for trade negotiation and execution, real-time market data, chat messaging, authentication, and security - Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation - Drive technology choices for the backend code base such as languages, frameworks, providers, and partners - Support leadership in high-level technology investment decisions (build vs. buy, technical debt, etc.) through well-articulated, factual proposals - Champion quality of our solutions and lead efforts to measure and improve it along dimensions such as test coverage, security, and customer satisfaction - Drive the culture of metrics-driven delivery on established priorities in full partnership with Product, Program, and Engineering Management - Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams - Lead and participate in iterative, self-contained, cross-functional, customer-facing teams according to the release plan - Ensure that technical expertise is appropriately distributed throughout the tech stack team via documentation, information sharing sessions, and project experience.Requirements:- 12+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team - Strong understanding and strong experience developing API's with Python Django, DRF, Understanding of frontend frameworks (Java script, React JS) - Experience working with messaging systems like kafka, RabbitMQ - Understanding and experience of working with mid to large scale database systems (MySQL, elasticsearch, mongoDB) - Experience managed owned infrastructure on AWS and set-up high availability systems - Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes - Experience shipping large-scale projects and complex systems - Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems