Do you want to shape the future of fintech and healthtech Energized by challenges and inspired by bold goals Ready to elevate your career alongside driven and talented colleagues If that sounds like you, explore a career at Alegeus today.
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MISSION
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.
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.
Location: Bangalore
Because We Care, We Offer
- A flexible work environment
- Competitive salaries, paid vacation, and holidays
- Robust professional development programs
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial packages
SHARED AMBITION. INSPIRED FUTURE.
At Alegeus, our success is guided by our aligned vision and valuesit is how we work together and collaborate to achieve our goals.
- People First. We pride ourselves in bringing talented people together and treating one another with care.
- Partner Powered. We are committed to empowering our partners, knowing our success is shared and we win as one.
- Always Advancing. We are driven by potential and relentlessly determined to achieve our goals.
I truly believe that people who are well-skilled and talented can go wherever they want in this company. We want to create the best place anyone has ever worked. - Alegeus employee
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