Director, Engineering

Responsibilities:

Responsible for architecture, design, development, quality and performance engineering of one or more enterprise software products.

Provide technical and strategic leadership for one or more enterprise product engineering teams.

Ensure quality of one or more product/application code bases and alignment with development standards.

Development of highly complex cloud native applications, interfaces and integration with other systems.

Lead/Own the complete development life cycle with agile principles for the respective products.

Review and recommend changes to the architecture/design/code.

Head the development of enterprise platform and application features/services with micro services, micro frontend patterns, using Azure cloud services, C# .NET Core, ReactJS, PostGres etc, implementing AI-DevSecOps principles.

Own and be accountable for the Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Sustainability of the respective enterprise platform/products.

Guide the POCs/Technical Solution Approach using the combination of open source, closed source, commercial technology/toolset.

Evaluate and recommend software development tools.

Strive for self-excellence along with managing, coaching/mentoring, enabling success of the development/engineering teams.

Requirements:

12+ years of product development experience with enterprise grade products

6+ years of hands-on and strategic experience in leading cloud native product engineering teams

Extensive experience with C#, .NET Core, Azure Cloud Services and DevOps

Working knowledge of the JS frameworks – React, TypeScript etc

Proven experience in automating development lifecycle using combination of AI tools - Claude + CoPilot + MCP

Strong experience in Micro-Services and/or Micro-Frontend architecture

Strong experience in container-based development, AKS, Service Fabric etc

Strong experience in messaging queue systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka

Experience in architecting, building event driven and distributed software applications using cloud native services – preferably Azure

Strong experience in Relational and No-SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server

Preferable experience in integrating LLMs, vector databases, RAG into production apps

Experience in owning/driving end to end development of multiple products/solutions (incl testing, performance testing, deployment)

Strong knowledge of implementing Code Quality, Code Monitoring, Performance Engineering, Test Automation Tools

Experience in coaching/guiding/leading one or more teams of full stack engineers

Experience working with cross-functional teams - Product Management, Quality, Exec leadership