Director of Software Engineering (India)

Overview

As Director of Engineering, India, you will lead and grow Karat’s India-based engineering organization, reporting to the Vice President of Engineering and working closely with engineering leaders and teams in the United States. You will own engineering delivery for multiple product areas and features, from technical approach through dependable launch and ongoing operation.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow Karat’s India-based engineering organization.
• Own engineering delivery for multiple product areas and features, from technical approach through dependable launch and ongoing operation.
• Lead the design and development of intuitive enterprise workflows and self-serve hubs that streamline the hiring process.
• Deliver the HM Experience App, Recruiter Hub, ATS integrations, active candidate funnel management, and post-interview decisioning portals.
• Enhance delivery operations tooling, cost-saving initiatives such as messaging and notifications infrastructure, and payment operations.
• Identify and apply emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to advance Karat’s interviewing platform and technical-assessment capabilities.
• Develop senior technical talent and engineering managers, build strong local leadership, and delegate meaningful product and feature ownership across teams.
• Build effective working relationships across India and global teams, helping India-based employees and their counterparts operate smoothly as one company.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience.
• 5+ years as a manager.
• Demonstrated experience shipping and operating customer-facing, hosted SaaS software products in production.
• Strong technical depth and experience in AI-driven technologies, with the ability to contribute credibly to architecture, design reviews, code reviews, and consequential technical tradeoffs.
• Experience leading the end-to-end software development lifecycle for customer-facing products, from product planning and technical design through launch, operation, and iterative improvement.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and performance-managing engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to develop senior engineering leaders and delegate meaningful product, technical, and people-leadership responsibilities.
• A track record of improving engineering culture, development processes, and technical systems while balancing customer delivery, platform health, reliability, security, and technical debt.
• Experience working effectively across geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the judgment and empathy needed to build trust across functions, teams, and time zones.
• The ability to operate as a trusted local leader while aligning India-based teams and employees with global company priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience managing engineering managers is strongly preferred.
• Significant collaboration between India and U.S.-based engineering organizations is ideally preferred.

Details

• This position is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore).
• The team operates 100% remotely.
• The position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.
• The role is limited to candidates residing in Bengaluru; applications from other cities in India will not be considered.