Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Technical Vision and Execution: Own the roadmap for products, solutions, internal tools and operational capabilities, ensuring scalable, secure, and performant delivery.
• Lead and Scale: Manage an initial team of 5 engineers, structuring, mentoring, and scaling effectively as we grow. Foster a culture of continuous learning, hiring top talent, holding rigorous technical discussions, and promoting high standards.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with US stakeholders in product, data science, infrastructure, and the executive team to align engineering efforts with strategic business goals.
• Operational Excellence: Implement best practices for engineering workflows: scalability, observability, incident response, and reliability of all applications. Strategic Innovation: Drive innovative architectural decisions and platform evolution to support product differentiation and speed to market.

Requirements:

• A business mindset that involves thinking strategically to align engineering efforts with the overall business goals, prioritising high-ROI projects, and cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit of ownership and continuous improvement within the team.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams (managing 10+ people), ideally within fast-growth tech environments.
• Experience building teams in India for US-based organisations.
• Hands-on technical fluency in Python, Golang, React, and AWS; comfortable enough to be a credible voice in system design without being a bottleneck.
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-functioning teams with high hiring and retention standards.
• Experience in API based products in a SaaS based environment is a big plus.
• Strong communicator; capable of collaborating across product, data, and executive functions.
• Bonus: Experience in fintech, fraud/risk or identity systems.