About Alegeus
Alegeus is the market leader in consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, powering millions of consumer benefit accounts including FSAs, HSAs, HRAs, dependent care, and wellness programs through a modern SaaS and payments platform. We are investing aggressively in modernization, API-first integration, real-time data access, and AI-enabled automation to redefine how consumers save and spend on healthcare. With industry expectations shifting rapidly, Alegeus is at a pivotal inflection point, we are transforming our platform, elevating engineering rigor, and building a next-generation product and engineering.
The Opportunity
Raise the technical bar, instill disciplined engineering practices, strengthen product partnership, and elevate the Bangalore center alongside an existing leadership team. This is a collaborative leadership role focused on building a next-generation engineering organization that delivers measurable business value and accelerates Alegeus strategy.
Key Challenges to Solve
A successful leader must be prepared to collaborate with peers and materially improve the following areas:
- Talent quality & hiring discipline: Implement rigorous hiring practices, raise the talent bar, and strengthen engineering depth across all roles.
- Urgency & accountability: Shift the mindset from activity-based to outcome-driven delivery with a culture of commitment.
- Engineering maturity: Advance the organization from a service-provider approach to a true product-engineering model with business value alignment.
- End-to-end ownership: Reinforce understanding of why features matter, not just what is being built.
- Mature the Quality discipline: Strengthen QA strategy, automation, test frameworks, and release reliability.
- Partner with leadership to drive platform modernization: Support re-architecture, API evolution, data modernization, and cloud-native enablement.
- AI adoption: Apply AI across product capabilities and engineering workflows to improve quality and reduce cost.
Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership & Delivery
- Co-lead engineering and QA teams with existing India VP leadership, ensuring alignment and shared accountability.
- Drive urgency, ownership, and disciplined execution across the engineering organization.
- Improve delivery predictability and establish clear goals, KPIs, and operating rhythms.
Product Partnership
- Work with product management to translate priorities into actionable engineering plans.
- Ensure teams understand business value, user needs, and partner ecosystem requirements.
- Contribute to new product development and platform modernization roadmaps.
Technical Excellence
- Provide architectural and technical guidance across APIs, data, web systems, and cloud-native designs.
- Improve engineering quality through stronger design reviews, coding standards, automation, and SDLC practices.
- Engage hands-on in deep technical reviews and problem solving as needed.
AI & Modern Engineering Practices
- Promote adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and workflows.
- Support the development of AI-driven features and data-powered product capabilities.
- Foster continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation.
People, Culture & Talent
- Build a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and excellence.
- Partner with India leadership on hiring strategy, capability development, and succession planning.
- Manage performance rigorously and strengthen the engineering and QA leadership bench.
Operational & Financial Management
- Support engineering budget planning, resource allocation, and operational governance.
- Improve engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, and cross-team operational effectiveness.
- Optimize cost structure while improving velocity and product quality.
Global Collaboration
- Partner closely with US-based product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment and seamless execution.
- Strengthen communication, planning, and coordination across time zones and product lines.
Required Experience & Qualifications
Leadership & Organization
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience across Engineering Manager, Director, and VP roles.
- Proven ability to scale engineering organizations from 20 to 50100+, including hiring, organizational design, and leadership development.
- Experience operating within a multi-VP or matrixed leadership structure, collaborating rather than operating as the sole executive.
- Demonstrated success building high-performance, accountable engineering cultures.
Product & Engineering Execution
- Deep experience leading product-engineering teams delivering commercial software (SaaS preferred).
- Strong track record driving predictable delivery and managing complex roadmaps.
- Effective partner to Product Management in prioritization, planning, and value-based decision-making.
Technical Expertise
- Hands-on background earlier in career as a developer or architect.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems, including architecture upgrades, API evolution, UI/UX modernization, cloud migration, and data modernization.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, modern web and data technologies, security fundamentals, and operational readiness.
Quality & SDLC Maturity
- Experience maturing QA functions, automation frameworks, and quality governance.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, SRE principles, and production operations.
AI & Data Experience
- Experience leading teams that delivered AI-enabled product capabilities (e.g., automation, classification, extraction, personalization).
- Practical exposure to implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Operational & Financial Acumen
- Experience contributing to budget planning, capacity management, and operational governance.
- Ability to establish engineering metrics, KPIs, and governance frameworks.
Global Collaboration
- Experience leading and/or partnering with engineering teams across multiple countries, including cross-time-zone execution.
Domain Experience (Preferred but not required)
- Exposure to banking, payments, healthcare, or regulated markets.
What Success Looks Like (12 Months)
- Stronger engineering and QA leadership bench in India.
- Predictable, high-quality delivery across modernization and product roadmap initiatives.
- Improved engineering culture with urgency, ownership, and measurable accountability.
- Visible progress in QA maturity, automation, API modernization, architecture upgrades, and UI/UX improvements.
- Demonstrated adoption of AI tools and practices with measurable productivity gains.
