Engineering Manager

Min Experience

8 years

Location

Chennai

JobType

full-time

About the role

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Development

  1. Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, growth, and collaboration.
  2. Hire and onboard top-tier engineering talent to expand the team and strengthen Zocketโ€™stechnical foundation.

Technical Leadership

  1. Drive the design and development of scalable, robust, and efficient systems focused on performance, reliability, and security.
  2. Provide hands-on technical guidance for tackling complex challenges and ensure high-quality, timely deliverables.

Product Collaboration

  1. Work closely with co-founders, product managers, and designers to align engineering effortswith the product roadmap.
  2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define new features, enhance existing functionalities, and address technical debt.

Process Optimization

  1. Establish and refine best practices for development, testing, deployment, and maintenance to improve efficiency and product quality.
  2. Advocate for automation and process improvements to minimize bugs and speed up release cycles.

Technology Ownership

  1. Oversee critical platform features like ad creative generation, cost breakdowns, and international ad support.
  2. Drive innovation using cutting-edge technologies such as LLMs, SDXL, ControlNet, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
  3. Design scalable architectures that cater to the growing needs of our expanding customer base.

Required Qualifications:

  1. Proven experience in managing and scaling engineering teams, ideally within a SaaS environment.
  2. Strong expertise in backend technologies (e.g., Golang, REST APIs, SQL optimization, Gin framework).
  3. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and tools like Glue, CloudWatch, and vector databases.
  4. Deep understanding of software development best practices, including logging, unit testing,and CI/CD processes.
  5. Experience in building AI-driven or ad-tech platforms is highly desirable.

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Experience in fast-paced startup environments.
  2. Familiarity with generative AI technologies and their applications in ad creatives and campaign optimization.
  3. Proven ability to work collaboratively across teams, including product, marketing, and design.

What We Offer:

  1. Competitive salary and equity options.
  2. A flexible work environment with hybrid work options.
  3. Be part of a revolutionary team developing a product that simplifies digital advertising.
  4. Help make marketing accessible and affordable for mid-market to large enterprises
  5. Empower brands to scale their marketing effortlessly through an innovative, user-friendly platform.
  6. Drive growth and success for businesses across industries with cutting-edge marketing solutions.
  7. Collaborate with a diverse and dynamic team passionate about technology and innovation.
  8. Accelerated growth opportunities in a fast-growing company backed by top investors.

Culture at Zocket:

  1. Innovative & Fast-Paced: We thrive on creativity and quick execution, encouraging new ideas to solve challenges.
  2. Team Collaboration: Every voice matters, and teamwork is at the core of what we do.
  3. Balanced Work Life: Spontaneous chai breaks, lunch outings, and gaming sessions keep the atmosphere fun.
  4. Flexible & Open-Minded: We welcome experimentation and fresh perspectives.
  5. Ambitious & Goal-Driven: We set bold goals and work hard to achieve them.
  6. Inclusive & Supportive: Everyone feels a sense of belonging, with a focus on collaboration and support.
  7. Employee-centric: At Zocket, weโ€™re all about people first. Our employee-centric culture thrives on continuous feedback, open communication, and a genuine commitment to listening to and supporting our team. We believe that when we take care of our employees, they, in turn, take care of the product, creating a positive ripple effect throughout the organization.

Here is a Sneak Peak into the culture at Zocket:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14JcFeOcwmHhMlfnnX9rhXI15pEkupb-r?usp=sharing

What Makes You a Zocketeer?

  1. Agile: We are a fast-paced hyper-growth company, it takes agility to be able to thrive in this environment
  2. Cross-Functional: Being a 10-100-stage startup, you are bound to work with all functions, it is critical to work with all teams.
  3. Bias for Action: Get things done and get them done quickly. Period.
  4. Customer Obsession: Always keep the customer at the core of decision-making. Drive innovation by understanding customer needs and delivering value consistently.
  5. Resilience & Perseverance: Startups come with challenges, but we stay resilient. We tackle obstacles with determination, and we encourage a can-do attitude that helps us overcome difficulties
  6. Growth-Oriented: We support continuous learning and professional development.




About the company

About us
Zocket was started in the year 2021. Our mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to effortlessly launch and manage their social media ads with AI

Whether it's executing a search campaign or driving website conversions, Zocket leverages cutting-edge AI technologies to simplify the advertising for both small enterprises and large scale business.

Our suite of AI modules include:

[1] ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ: lets you harness the power of AI for stunning ad visual creation helping marketers create stunning ad copies across Facebook, Instagram, Google, Linkedin, Snapchat, Tiktok ads etc. in minutes 

[2] ๐€๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ: Adaptive clustering models to target and engage with the most relevant audience segments across channels

[3] ๐‹๐š๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ก ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ: Centralize your advertising efforts across multiple platformsโ€”including meta, Google, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and moreโ€”from a single, streamlined interface

[4] ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐‡๐ฎ๐›: Provides analytics, with customizable inputs to ensure your advertising strategies work the way you want them to

[5] ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ: Imagine slack for marketing teams! Stay organized and in control with our intuitive command centre helping marketing teams (performance marketers, graphic designers, copy writers, budget managers) operate in a well co-ordinated way

[6] ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ซ ๐‹๐š๐›: Optimize your campaigns with ease, maximizing ROI and driving impactful results with AI driven rule engine

Excited to use Zocket AI for your marketing? โœ‰๏ธ Reach out to us at support@zocket.com. We are keen to supercharge your marketing with our AI modules 

Skills

Golang
Team Building