Manager, Front End Technologies
Job Description
About Kinaxis
Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it's really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we're serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.
In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers based in Ottawa, Canada. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, and support 40,000+ users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries.We are expanding our team in Chennai and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Our journey in India began in 2020 and we have been growing steadily since then! Building a high-trust and high-performance culture is important to us and we are proud to be Great Place to Work CertifiedTM.Our state-of-the-art office, located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai, offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.
Location
Bangalore, India (Hybrid)
About The Team
Kinaxis is on the lookout for an engineering manager for the Front end team . The team consists of collaborative, high-performing engineers with the mandate to build out a modern platform and web client. We build user-friendly features to help our users visualize their supply chains, empowering them to make informed decisions to resolve their challenges effectively.Performance is a top priority as we need to handle our customers large complex datasets efficiently. We have designed our code architecture to be robust and easily maintained, while supporting a large team of engineers. You will be working closely with the director of front-end technologies and other managers to execute and plan on our strategic roadmap to further position Kinaxis as a leader in supply chain management.
What you will do- You will lead an engineering team dedicated to creating full stack solutions that will be used across our product
- You will guide your team to design, build and automate applications to meet the business roadmap for Maestro
- Collaborate closely with other teams in frontend, product managers, UX designers
- Assist in producing the detailed functional requirements and specifications for roadmap features
- Promote software development best practices and participate in code reviews
- Set challenging and achievable goals for team members and provide feedback on performance
- Java, TypeScript, React
- Junit, Jest, TestCafe
- C#, .NET
- GoJS, Highcharts
- Bachelors/master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Total 16+ years of industry experience, predominantly in building full stack applications for the web
- 5+ years in leading an engineering team
- Experience in automation of Enterprise grade web applications
- Strong understanding of Java and .NET
- Experience in building REST APIs
- Worked previously with tools like Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket
- Experience with a variety of web automation frameworks like Selenium , TestCafe, Junit
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript (Typescript preferred)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
# Senior #Fulltime, #Full-time
Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world's supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every daywhen we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.
Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Ford, Unilever, Yamaha, P&G, Lockheed-Martin, and more.
Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we're committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term.We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs and training and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company's blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com .
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