Technology Lead, Esg Flo

Bain & Company is seeking a Technology Lead for its Baincubator in Dubai. The role involves leading engineering development for a venture, focusing on performance, scalability, and security. Responsibilities include managing a team, delivering production-ready products, translating product objectives into engineering strategies, and ensuring quality engineering practices. The position requires collaboration with various teams and a deep understanding of the product codebase.
ABOUT US:
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• WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:
In 2019, Bain created its corporate incubator ("Baincubator") to incubate new business ideas and launch new ventures.
• WHAT YOU’LL DO:

- This is an opportunity to be a part of Bain’s corporate incubator. This position will be dedicated to one venture in the current Baincubator cohort.
- Responsibilities will include leading the engineering development of the Baincubator venture:

- Solving complex challenges such as performance, scalability, and security
- Leading a team of Bain engineers (or contractors) and working closely with product, operations, and sales team members
- Development will be focused on delivering a production-ready product that extends beyond proof-of-concept / mínimal-viable-product
- Developed product is expected to be used by both Bain teams and external clients
- The person in this role will need to:

- Lead the engineering work, building an innovative solution for complex organizations, at scale
- Translate product objectives into engineering strategy, infrastructure, and tasks to deliver desired customer experience
- Communicate with Baincubator central team and other venture leadership to share key learnings and grow Bain’s product development capabilities
- Lead back-end and front-end development effort, including input into hiring, training, and managing engineering resources
- Have ultimate responsibility for quality of engineering efforts, including reviewing pull requests, finding and raising bugs, and specifying engineering approaches
- Have detailed understanding of full product codebase - should be able to write and deploy code to aid feature development
- Propose high-level architecture for the product, and work with engineers to implement the architecture
- Develop proof of concept code that can be used to guide engineers
- Ensure engineering best practices are followed
- Collaborate with sales and operations team to support customers
- Provide first line of defense for diagnosing and triaging customer issues
- Ensure engineers are provided with the necessary information to resolve bugs
- Implement bug-fixes for time critical bugs for high value customers
- Create mínimal-viable-product for venture team to validate concepts
- Identify appropriate technology stack to solve business problem
- Develop a mínimal SaaS product using full stack development tools, including database, backend, and frontend engineering
- Write initial codebase in a way that will allow future engineers to improve the product
- Collaborate with product team on feature roadmap
- Determine technical feasibility of proposed features
- Highlight alternative approaches which provide the business value while limiting required engineering time
- Ensure features that improve engineering efficiency are prioritized appropriately
- Assess and qualify vendors (contractors, tools, data) / keep abreast of new technologies to ensure venture maintains state-of-art architecture / Codify learnings and best practices (5%)
- Select appropriate engineering contractors to achieve business goals
- Identify new technologies that can meaningfully improve the business objectives
- Encourage experimentation within engineering team, and ensure learnings from successful experiments are implemented in production
- Create documents that engineers can leverage to improve the engineering process
• ABOUT YOU*:

- Bachelor’s, Master’s Degree or PhD with significant relevant experience providing advanced analytics solutions. The degree should be in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or a related data centric field
- Excellent software engineering talent: 5+ years of experience with software development in a consumer or SaaS product
- Demonstrated deep technical and data science expertise, acute strategic and analytical skills, ability to lead and persuade, drive and energy, and desire