Engineering Manager

Summary of Position:

Lead and manage the engineering work of the digital product build

Provide development expertise to Agile team in the definition, design, development, and implementation of eCommerce solutions. Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including Production Support, BAs, Architect, Project Managers, and Product Owners to deliver high quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Alcon’s digital products
• Contribute to enhancements and changes to existing B2B/B2B2C applications codebase.
• Contribute to front end technologies using MERN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS) stack and integrations
• Lead the Design, Code, Unit Test, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs.
• Ensure the code complies with design specifications and meets security and Typescript best practices.
• Set up and manage coding standards
• Comfortable working in a loosely structured, fast-paced organisation.
• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodologies.
• Work closely with project team and other stakeholders
• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate, to ensure the quality of work delivered by self and teammates are in accordance with development standards.
• Interact with business units to define requirements/modifications and use case to utilise in designing appropriate solutions.
• Create and maintain scalable infrastructure leveraging modern AWS cloud platforms
• Knowledge of all development aspects within an Agile SDLC framework, including; estimation, design, development, unit test, code reviews, and documentation

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of applicable experience
• Experience: 9 + years of applicable development experience and people management
  • Responsive applications using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery
  • Modern AWS architecture, ecommerce platforms, Node JS
  • API Development using REST, JSON and GraphQL
  • Experience with version control systems, Bitbucket/Git

Specific Job Posting Content

• Strong collaboration skills for effective communication across multiple teams and stakeholders, both internal and external
• Experience in leading and managing the engineering group
• Experience in Node.js/Typescript and Serverless Framework.
• Experience in AWS cloud provider.
• Experience in API Development using REST, JSON and GraphQL.
• Experience in BitBucket/Git
• Experience in RDBMS and No-SQL
• Ability to solve complex software development/architecture/ design issues
• Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred
• Extremely proficient with Mongo, Express, React.js, Node.js, OOP & MVC principles, architectural design patterns
• Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Caching, and Micro-Services
• Proven experience with data validation, form submission & processing, and performance tuning
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, JSON, and multi-threaded web services
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment, along with JIRA, Bitbucket, Slack, and Git.
• Strong written and technical communication skills
• Integration development experience with Third-Party systems (e.g. payment gateways, SAP ECC, Mulesoft, etc.)
• Familiarity with React-Native
• Experience with SAP Hybris or other eCommerce applications is a plus

Language

The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English.

Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST

Relocation assistance: Yes

Employment Scams: Alcon is aware of employment scams which make false use of our company name or leader’s names to defraud job seekers. Alcon does not offer any positions without interview and never asks candidates for money. All our current job openings are displayed here on the Careers section of our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly.

If you have encountered a job posting or been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond, send money or personal information, and check our website for current job openings.

ATTENTION: Current Alcon Employee/Contingent Worker

If you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please click the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site.

Find Jobs for Employees

Find Jobs for Contingent Worker

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or any other reason.