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Director of Engineering for an AI Powered B2B Platform
Director of Engineering for an AI Powered B2B Platform
The Director of Engineering will lead a team of 40+ engineers, primarily based in Bangalore, to develop and deliver highly scalable, performant, and maintainable product features for an AI-powered B2B platform. This role involves directing engineering managers and developers, fostering an innovative engineering culture, and ensuring the successful execution of multiple technical initiatives from design to delivery, while also being deeply involved in talent acquisition and making critical product decisions.
About the role
Job Profile
- Direct a team of engineering managers and developers creating highly scalable, performant, easily maintainable & well-tested product features
- Lead a team of 40+ based out of Bangalore largely, extended in the US
- Develop and maintain an extremely strong culture of engineering innovation
- Exude a strong sense of feature & delivery ownership, agility, and an urge for continuous learning
- Ensure the delivery of multiple technical initiatives, from design to agile development & delivery phases. Collaborate closely with the DevSecOps team to help optimize the operations pipeline.
- Help creatively solve business problems by supporting the necessary backend, frontend, and API infrastructures
- Empower the delivery teams to self-organize
- Constantly lookout for engineering talents that can help us scale newer heights. Deeply involved in talent acquisition practices
- Evaluate engineering requirements and design proposals in a technical capacity, in collaboration with Product Management, System Architecture, QA & Customer Success teams
- Effectively collaborate with other teams across the organization to meet the release expectations
- Be in touch with the latest frameworks in the industry, and be influential in all choices related to the SaaS application stack
- Evaluate requirements and work with PMO to create delivery plans
- Effectively facilitate daily stand-ups, early risk identification, and mitigation, dependency resolution, follow-ups for gap-closure, etc.
- Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross-functional teams, architects, product owners, and engineer
- Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
- Proactive in foreseeing & resolving issues before they occur
- Responsible for operating a development process that enforces best practices
- Constantly scout for and operationalize the necessary tools required to enable a highly efficient engineering process
Requirement
- 15+ years of professional software development experience, which includes substantial & demonstrable implementation expertise using Stack: Java + Microservices + Distributed Systems
- 6+ years of direct people management experience in a techno-managerial capacity
- Node.JS/ Golang preferred
- NoSQL / MongoDB preferred
- React.js – preferred
- Strong HLD/LLD + Agile/Scrum/Jira
- Any Cloud exp is mandatory (4+ yrs) / AWS preferred
- Strong ability to write and evaluate code
- Strong track record of delivering complex projects on time
- Extensive prior work with cloud-based SaaS platform(s); broad experience developing high-throughput backend systems, microservices, API layers, etc.
- Working experience in Spring, Spring Boot, or related java frameworks, RESTful API design and development, event-driven architecture
- Knowledge of distributed systems, proficiency working in Linux environment
- Strong Software development fundamentals, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
- Deep understanding of observability concepts and tooling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, strong organizational skills, and attention to details
Preferred
- Experience working with HTML/CSS, React/Angular frameworks
- Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
- Experience working in a load-balanced, large, stateless microservices environment
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field