Director of Engineering

Please note: This role is with one of our portfolio organizations based in Mumbai

Role description:

• The Director/Head of Engineering will be leading, building, and operating exciting products with a passionate team.
• We are looking for someone who has developed and deployed software with a strong focus on end-user experience. and someone with proven experience and a proven track record of shipping web-scalable products.
• The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and delivering cloud solutions with delightful consumer experiences, combined with ease of implementation/reliability.
• Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
• Experience with micro services-oriented architectures, Experience with scaling Big Data infrastructure.
• Experience delivering platform technology and creating an ecosystem of applications and services across multiple verticals and solution offerings
• Experience successfully scaling technology infrastructure to support rapid customer /data growth.
• Experience with fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, design-forward, product-focused companies.
• "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees

Requirements

• BS/MS/Ph.D. degree in engineering/technology.
• Ideally, 4+ years leading a small team of 6-12 members in engineering team.
• He/she should have prior work on large-scale mobile & web complex products.
• Strong track record of being able to develop and set release plans, track deadlines, deliverables, resource allocations, issues/risks and create mitigation strategies as needed to deliver quality products on time.
• Strong technical and architectural skills in wide areas of platform engineering with a proven ability to dive deep into any area as needed.