Director Engineering

Role & responsibilities

Create a vision and an executable charter for multiple engineering teams.

• Map business objectives to an optimum engineering structure, including correct

estimation of resource allocation.

• Ensure that the platforms operate at a very high degree of reliability and resiliency by

focusing on monitoring/observability, automation, capacity planning, performance

testing, etc.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering teams.

• Work closely with the Product Managers and help them in getting relevant inputs from

the engineering team.

• Plan and track the development and release schedules, proactively assess and mitigate

risks.

• Work individually with engineering managers to help them with correct time estimation

and scoping of tasks to timely achieve business objectives.

• Drive good coding practices in the team, like good quality code, documentation, timely

bug fixing, etc.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration, Work closely with senior leadership, sales, finance,

operations, and HR to ensure smooth project execution and alignment across

departments.

• Build teams and hire the best talent with the right dynamics.

• Foster a result-oriented, performance-driven culture by setting clear goals, career paths,

core competencies, and reward and recognition mechanisms for the engineering team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of strong experience in full-stack software product development, with at least

3+ years in engineering leadership positions.

• Experience with building production systems for a start-up or an organization.

• Good command over Node.js and its internals is expected.

• Experience in RESTful web services/ APIs using ExpressJS.

• Experience with server-side technologies as well - Python, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes,

Git, etc.

• Good command over cloud infrastructure AWS (preferred), MS Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Experience working with high-performance technical teams and the ability to create a

culture based on those best practices.

• Experience in working with Product Managers and UX Designers.

• Excellent people manager. Strong in building relationships and collaborating with others.

• A strong vision and ability to deliver quickly in a fast-paced start-up culture