Overview
Director of Engineering to lead E-Commerce and Platform Engineering organizations, driving both customer-facing commerce technical strategy and internal platform/developer productivity systems.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor Engineering Managers and build a pipeline of future engineering leaders.
- Own hiring, performance management, career development, succession planning, and compensation processes.
- Drive high-quality, high-velocity delivery for customer-facing commerce experiences with Product and Design.
- Define and evolve foundational engineering capabilities (APIs, service frameworks, authentication, data platforms, developer tools).
- Set engineering standards, architectural principles, and technology strategy, including critical architecture reviews.
- Define and execute AI/GenAI adoption strategy across the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with cross-functional and executive leaders to align engineering investments and communicate strategy, priorities, and trade-offs.
What you'll need
- 12–16 years of software engineering experience.
- At least 5–7 years in engineering leadership roles managing managers.
- Experience leading organizations of 20–40+ engineers through multiple leadership layers.
- Proven success hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent and leaders.
- Deep experience building and scaling e-commerce/marketplace/consumer internet platforms at significant scale.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and high-scale architectures, including database technologies, caching strategies, and service-oriented architectures.
- Hands-on technical depth in Java, Go, Python, Node.js/TypeScript, or Kotlin.
Nice to have
- Experience at high-growth D2C, e-commerce, marketplace, or consumer technology companies.
- Experience leading platform-as-a-product organizations with measurable adoption and satisfaction metrics.
- Experience with headless commerce, composable architectures, or large-scale commerce platform modernization efforts.
- Active participation in the engineering community through conferences, open-source, technical writing, or thought leadership.
- Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve engineering productivity and customer experiences.
Details
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
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