Job Description

Overview:
Job Title: Manager, Development- UI
Function: Engineering
Location: Bangalore
Position Type: Full-time
Position Level: Managerial
Travel Requirements: Travel Required - Medium

Named among the best workplaces in the U.S. by Great Place to Work six times, honored on FORTUNE Magazine’s inaugural list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials, and chosen as the “Market Leader in Incentive Compensation” by CRM magazine, Xactly is proud to be disrupting the incentive compensation market space. We’re building a culture of success and are looking for motivated professionals to join us!

THE OPPORTUNITY
Xactly’s engineering team is growing rapidly and we are looking for engineering managers to our fast growing India office. You must be a curious engineer at heart who is adventurous enough to explore open source code, forums, meetups, vendor resources and other knowledge base avenues. You must be strongly committed to good engineering discipline and process. The ideal candidate will share our passion for SaaS products. You must strongly believe in Continuous Integration and Deployment as well as a DevOps culture. Working in a dynamic agile environment, you will collaborate daily with peer managers, product managers, software engineers and architects, technical writers, QE engineers, and data center operations engineers.
The Xactly development team executes quickly and is full of smart engineers from well-respected companies and universities. They look to their engineering leaders for mentorship, career development and organizational transparency. In order to build and ship high quality products extremely fast, efficiently and in a continuous manner, Xactly engineers rely on their leaders to remove any obstacles and guide them through engineering practices. At Xactly, we build teams that are helpful, respect each other, maintain a high level of customer focus, inclusive of everyone and we strive for strong product ownership by the team.
Not only do we offer strong growth opportunities for top performers, but we also have a top-notch culture, benefits (check them out below) and more. Our strong C.A.R.E. values – Customer Focus, Accountability, Respect & Excellence – guide our every move, allowing us to be a leader in the incentive compensation & performance management market. We set the example with excellent customer experience and deliver an award winning SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) product!

Role & Responsibilities :

• Be a highly technical manager with deep experience in software and systems

• Lead from the front during problem solving sessions by understanding and empowering the team by articulating clearly the context and business rationale.
• Partner with peer engineering managers and leads to drive continuous process improvements and innovation.
• Be a subject matter expert, lead the team by example and have a strategic influence.
• Establish trust and coordinate with distributed product management, support, data center operations and other peer engineering teams.
• Maintain balance between building high quality products and shipping code fast

• Help engineers to develop their career plans and assign project work tailored to their skillsets and aspirations.
• Metrics driven to measure and track progress of feature development, quality of the code, and productivity of the team.
• Work with other engineering leaders to continuously improve the overall development processes.
• Able to work with cross functional teams and translate functional requirements into technical design and implementations.
• Ability to pick up functional knowledge of the product at a fast pace.
• Partner with the recruiting team through the entire hiring process which includes sourcing, interviewing and onboarding.
• Provide continuous feedback and create action plans for both under and high performing team members

Required Skills :

• 2+ years of prior relevant technical lead or management experience
• Master’s plus 7 or bachelor’s plus 10 years experience in web application or platform development and architecture
• Solid hands on and management experience with Strong hands-on with Node.js, React.js and HTML5, REST
• Solid hand on experience with continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for micro services
• Solid understanding of DEVOPS tools and technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of complex user interfaces using component-based frameworks and/or native Javascript, CSS and HTML5
• Experience managing or developing engineering system software (Linux, multi-threaded and distributed systems) using a modular, common and scalable UI platform
• Experienced in mentoring, managing engineers, recruiting and retaining top talent.
• Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
• Ability to make decisions and work with minimal direction even under pressure.
• Prior experience demonstrating the ability to understand a technical architecture, review design work and provide feedback to a talented team of engineers.
• Experience establishing and reviewing business metrics with the ability to articulate and provide visibility to the team on various business metrics ensuring every new feature developed meets and is tracked towards those metrics.
• Ability to manage priorities, set appropriate expectations with peer engineering management and deliver features on time with high quality.
• Ability to identify training needs of various team members and ramp new hires on products, process, and technology.
• Experience with agile (scrum) development process as an individual contributor and/or as a functional manager
• Strong listening, written and verbal communication skills.

Highly Desired Experience:

• Experience working within a distributed engineering team including offshore
• Detailed understanding of HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JQuery and Javascript.
• Bonus points if you have contributed to an open source project
• Proven track record of identifying and championing new technologies that enhance the end-user experience, software quality, and developer productivity
• Past experience working in a fast paced environment.

WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL:

• Attend New Hire Training
• Learn the Dev and QE processes
• Gain exposure to Xactly’s Incent product suite
• Learn about Incent’s tools and technologies
• Get to know your team

WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Gain exposure to Xactly’s entire product suite
• Discussing and building out Incent product roadmap
• Prioritize team’s roadmap by partnering with other stake holders
• Work with recruitment on hiring for your team
• Participate and lead scrum meetings

WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Train and integrate your team into Xactly and dev processes
• Ensure the best dev practices are being used
• Ensure that we are releasing high quality product
• Participate and contribute in maintenance and new product development

WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Be an expert on Xactly Incent product
• Partner and work cross functionally with other dev teams and the QE team
• Take full ownership of features and processes of the product
• Continuously coach and mentor your team to achieve their career goals
• Continuously think about and work on process improvements for an always high-quality product

Benefits and Perks

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage
• Tuition Reimbursement
• XactlyFit Gym/Fitness Program Reimbursement
• Kitchen Stocked Daily with Tasty Snacks, Fruit and Drinks
• Free Parking and Subsidized Bus Pass (a go-green initiative!)

About Xactly Corporation
Xactly is a leading provider of enterprise-class, cloud-based, incentive compensation solutions for employee and sales performance management. We address a critical business need: To incentivize employees and align their behaviors with company goals. Our products allow organizations to make more strategic decisions, increase employee performance, improve margins, and mitigate risk. Our core values are key to our success, and each day we’re committed to upholding them by delivering the best we can to our customers.
Xactly is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Xactly provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. This means we believe in celebrating diversity and creating an inclusive workplace environment, where everyone feels valued, heard, and has a sense of belonging. By doing this, everyone in the Xactly family has the power to make a difference and unleash their full potential.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.