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Director - Engineering
About Amber (amberstudent.com)
Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student
housing). Amber helps 80M+ students worldwide, find and book full-time
accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-
standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are the
largest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, with 1M+ units listed in 6
countries and across 100+ cities. We are growing rapidly and targeting $500M in
annual gross bookings value by 2022.
If you are passionate about making international mobility and living, seamless and
accessible, then - Join us in building the future of student housing!
(We are amogst the fastest growing companies in Asia Pacific as per Financial
times https://www.ft.com/high-growth-asia-pacific-ranking-2022)

About the role

We, at Amber, are looking to hire a Director of Engineering, who is a thought leader,
and a world-class engineer who has a proven record of creating an impact on business
and engineering with little or no help. You will own the technology vision and
significantly contribute to building the engineering team and culture. You will partner with

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 the product and business teams to understand product features and specifications,
translate them into high-level and low-level designs, thereby facilitating the team in
building mission critical applications.

Key responsibilities

To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reliable, and scalable.

Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.

Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design

concepts.

Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and
prototypes.

Work closely with Product managers, designers, and the business team to
implement solutions.

Maintain a very high standard of product quality, ensuring a delightful experience for
users.

Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.

Technical Skills

6+ years of experience, working with web technologies and building scalable and
distributed software products and infrastructure

Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to

scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures

Sound knowledge of design patterns and practices for writing clean, linted,
maintainable, and reusable code

Experience in working with both backend and frontend web technologies

Experience with infrastructure deployment and maintenance

Keeps an eye on new platform and ecosystem changes

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 We Value

Entrepreneurial spirit - Everywhere you go, you can’t help but mobilize people,
build things, solve problems, roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond, raise the
bar. You are self-starter, an insatiable doer and driver.

Strong execution and organization - Your team will be working with engineers
and product leads at the bleeding edge of the development cycle. To be successful
in this role, you should be comfortable executing with little oversight and be able to
adapt to problems quickly

Strategic mindset - you’re comfortable thinking a few steps ahead of where the
team is at now

Obsession - with what you are building, and with an eye for detail

High Ownership - taking complete responsibility for the growth via the respective
channels

Ability to Hustle - can multi-task, work in a fast-paced start-up environment, and

get-things-done

What will you get from Amber

Fast-paced growth (can skip intermediate levels)

Total freedom and authority (everything under you, just get the job done)

Great Compensation and ESOPs

Amazing work culture. Checkout:

https://www.instagram.com/lifeatamber/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/amberstudent/

https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Reviews/AmberStudent-Reviews-E2361890.htm

How to apply

Reach-out to saurabh@amberstudent.com or visit the following link -

amberstudent.com/careers

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