Director, Engineering

About the role

We are seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Chennai engineering organization for 2 scrum teams, shared platform resources (Architect, ML Engineer, SDET), and a team of ~20 engineers across backend, frontend, AI, and QA disciplines. You will own delivery accountability, team health, technical quality, and the cross-team coordination that keeps two scrum teams moving in the same direction.

What you'll do

• Lead the full Chennai engineering organization (~20 engineers): two Scrum teams, two Engineering Managers, Staff/Senior engineers, Applied ML, and Staff SDET
• Own delivery accountability: sprint cadence, cross-team dependency management, risk tracking, and executive reporting on engineering progress
• Set and enforce technical standards: hexagonal architecture discipline, AI-native integration patterns, code quality gates, and observability standards across both teams
• Act as the primary technical counterpart to US-based Product leadership — translate business requirements into engineering execution plans, surface trade-offs early
• Own the cross-team coordination interface to platform teams (Agentic Engine, Core Platform, ARC backend, Design) — ensuring product dependencies are tracked, escalated

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• Java
• AWS
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• Microservices
• Kafka
• Any graduate

Good to have

• LLMs
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Machine learning