Engineering Manager (Hybrid)

CometChat Overview

Our mission… Fuel customer growth through meaningful user-to-user engagement. CometChat builds advanced digital communications infrastructure to help thousands of businesses around the world create customized in-app messaging experiences. Our products allow developers to seamlessly add voice, video, and text chat to their websites and mobile apps so that their users can communicate with each other, resulting in a unified customer experience, increased engagement and retention, and revenue growth.

In 2019, CometChat was selected for the exclusive Techstars Boulder Accelerator. CometChat (Industry CPaaS: communication-platform-as-a-service) has also been listed among the top 10 best SaaS companies by G2 Crowd. With solid financials, strong organic growth, and increasing interest in developer tool-focused companies (from the market and with top technical talent), we’re heading into an exciting period of growth and acceleration. CometChat is backed by seasoned investors such as iSeed Ventures, Range Ventures, Silicon Badia, eonCapital, and Matchstick Ventures.

A global business from the start, we have 100+ team members across our Denver and Mumbai offices serving over 50,000 customers around the world. We’ve had an exciting journey so far, and we know this is just the beginning!

CometChat’s Mission

Fuel customer growth through meaningful user to user engagement.

CometChat’s Products

CometChat offers a robust suite of cloud hosted text, voice and video options that meet businesses where they are–whether they need drag and drop plugins that can be ready within 30 minutes or if they want more advanced features and can invest development resources to launch the experience that will best serve their users.

• Quickly build a reliable & full featured chat experience into any mobile or web app
• Fully customizable SDKs and API designed to help companies ship faster

At every step, CometChat helps customers solve complex infrastructure, performance and security challenges, regardless of the platform. But there is so much more! With over 20 ready to use extensions, customers can build an experience and get the data, analysis and insights they need to drive their business forward.

CometChat’s solutions are perfect for every kind of chat including:

• Social community – Allowing people in online communities to interact without moving the conversation to another platform
• Marketplace – Enabling communications between buyers and sellers
• Events – Bringing thousands of users together to interact without diminishing the quality of the experience
• Telemedicine – Making connections between patients and providers more accessible
• Dating – Keeping people engaged while they connect with one another
• And more!

CometChat is committed to fostering a culture of innovation & collaboration. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Join us if you are looking to be a part of a high growth team!

Position Overview & Priorities

As an engineering leader you will be the tech evangelist and drive adherence to best practices in coding and architectural guidelines.

Your will inspire and attract key talent, deliver large scale engineering solutions with quality. You will be responsible for leading engineering teams, leveraging modern cloud technology, setting long term technical vision, and creating a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• Responsible for mentoring, people management and team building
• Participating in strategic business and product planning process
• Managing multiple small teams by setting requirements, goals and timelines.
• Provide technical direction on all development activities
• Recruiting, managing and owning the responsibility to develop a top-class team.
• Being aware of new technologies and issues including platforms, standards and methodology

Work Location 

Hybrid /in-office, 2-3 days per week in-office in Mumbai

Prioritized Experiences and Capabilities

• 10-12 years of industry experience
• 4+ years of experience managing and leading development teams.
• Self-initiative to take up responsibility and ownership of tasks and ensure end to end delivery and completion with the highest level of quality.
• Prior experience in developing products and solutions around latest technologies in frontend and backend with Cloud, and managing very high concurrency.
• Proven track record of leading application development and engineering for high growth companies.
• Excellent communication & leadership skills with a passion to solve real life problems.
• Good aptitude / logical thinking
• Strong people management and team building skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, coordinate dependencies, and interact with other internal teams such as Product/Sales/Marketing.
• An inspirational leader with a passion for solving real problems.

Core Values

• Go above and beyond for the customer: We are obsessed with ensuring every customer is taken care of, no matter how big or small they are. We truly believe their problems are our problems, and will stop at next to nothing to see them succeed.
• Act with integrity: Be honest, be authentic and genuine, be open and do the right thing, no matter who’s watching. We know what we know, and what we don’t know, we’ll let you know. And then we’ll do our darndest to figure out a solution.
• Be relentless: Never stop innovating. Be relentless in trying new things, and improving our product. Challenge the status quo, embrace learning curves, and don’t be afraid to fail. Focus on the outcome and everything else will fall into place.
• Be curious: Practice empathy. Anticipate customer needs, and solve them before they get there. If you don’t understand something, ask questions and learn.
• Have fun: Laugh. Be positive and kind. Make people feel good. Life is too short to not spend time doing what you love with folks you enjoy being around.

Interview Process

Our goal is to make sure you have the chance to get to know CometChat as we learn more about you. Through a series of conversations with CometChat’s founders and key stakeholders, we’ll want to learn more about your strategic and functional expertise, and your passion. We hope that you’ll bring questions and ideas to each conversation and suggest ways that we can get to know you and your capabilities better.