Director of Software Engineering

We're Hiring: Director of Software Engineering – AI-First Products & Platforms

Location: Hyderabad, India

Experience: 15+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead and scale high-performing engineering organizations responsible for next-generation AI-first software products and cloud platforms.

This role combines engineering leadership, product ownership, technical strategy, organizational development, and AI-driven transformation. The ideal candidate will have experience building engineering leaders, modernizing enterprise-scale platforms, and delivering measurable business and customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering organizations through engineering managers, architects, principal engineers, and senior technical leaders.
• Build, develop, and retain high-performing engineering teams, with a strong leadership and succession pipeline.
• Drive cloud modernization, platform scalability, reliability, maintainability, and engineering excellence.
• Lead AI-first transformation across software product development and engineering operations.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Design, and Business teams to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Establish strong engineering practices to improve delivery predictability, quality, productivity, and accountability.
• Influence technology strategy, architecture decisions, and long-term platform investments.
• Lead organizational growth and contribute to global engineering strategy.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading large engineering organizations, ideally involving 60–150 engineers through engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Experience leading monolith-to-SaaS migration in high-trust domains such as tax, payments, banking, or ERP.
• Strong technical expertise in Java/Spring Boot or C#/.NET, with Python experience for AI.
• Hands-on understanding of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps, Terraform, SQL/NoSQL, and Snowflake.
• Strong knowledge of system design, architectural patterns, object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms.
• Understanding of multithreading, asynchronous programming, synchronization, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled products and implementing AI-first engineering practices.
• Strong business acumen, executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

If you have the experience to lead large-scale engineering organizations and build the next generation of AI-first enterprise platforms, we'd love to connect!