Director of Engineering - Microservices Architecture (15-22 yrs)

We are looking for a Director of Engineering for an AI Powered B2B Platform.

Job Profile :

- Direct a team of engineering managers and developers creating highly scalable, performant, easily maintainable & well-tested product features.

- Lead a team of 40+ based out of Bangalore largely, extended in the US.

- Develop and maintain an extremely strong culture of engineering innovation.

- Exude a strong sense of feature & delivery ownership, agility, and an urge for continuous learning.

- Ensure the delivery of multiple technical initiatives, from design to agile development & delivery phases.

- Collaborate closely with the DevSecOps team to help optimize the operations pipeline.

- Help creatively solve business problems by supporting the necessary backend, frontend, and API infrastructures.

- Empower the delivery teams to self-organize.

- Constantly lookout for engineering talents that can help us scale newer heights.

- Deeply involved in talent acquisition practices.

- Evaluate engineering requirements and design proposals in a technical capacity, in collaboration with Product Management, System Architecture, QA & Customer Success teams.

- Effectively collaborate with other teams across the organization to meet the release expectations.

- Be in touch with the latest frameworks in the industry, and be influential in all choices related to the SaaS application stack.

- Evaluate requirements and work with PMO to create delivery plans.

- Effectively facilitate daily stand-ups, early risk identification, and mitigation, dependency resolution, follow-ups for gap-closure, etc.

- Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross-functional teams, architects, product owners, and engineer.

- Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product.

- Proactive in foreseeing & resolving issues before they occur.

- Responsible for operating a development process that enforces best practices.

- Constantly scout for and operationalize the necessary tools required to enable a highly efficient engineering process.

Requirement :

- 15+ years of professional software development experience, which includes substantial & demonstrable implementation expertise using Stack: Java + Microservices + Distributed Systems.

- 6+ years of direct people management experience in a techno-managerial capacity.

- Strong HLD/LLD + Agile/Scrum/Jira.

- Any Cloud exp is mandatory (4+ yrs) / AWS preferred.

- Strong ability to write and evaluate code.

- Strong track record of delivering complex projects on time.

- Extensive prior work with cloud-based SaaS platform(s); broad experience developing high-throughput backend systems, microservices, API layers, etc.

- Working experience in Spring, Spring Boot, or related java frameworks, RESTful API design and development, event-driven architecture.

- Knowledge of distributed systems, proficiency working in Linux environment.

- Strong Software development fundamentals, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.

- Deep understanding of observability concepts and tooling.

- Excellent written and verbal communication, strong organizational skills, and attention to details.

Preferred :

- Experience working with HTML/CSS, React/Angular frameworks.

- Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB.

- Experience working in a load-balanced, large, stateless microservices environment.

- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field.

Skills :

- Java,microservices,saas,cloud,agile development,scrum master.