Director Engineering

What you'll do: Our business is built on finding great people and getting out of their way while they build and improve our award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. We are looking for a hands-on Director of Engineering to join the Indias Engineering organization; you will help scale and build the next generation of platform and services/products. As a technology leader, you will help build a top-tier software organization that is responsible for the development and upkeep of highly scalable, reliable, and available (5 nines) systems. This position is a people manager role reporting to the VP, Product & Technology. Responsibility: Hire and develop great talent while building a solid engineering organization that thrives on execution, innovation and learning. Deliver products that delight customers while managing the health of the code base through continuous refactoring and management of technical debt. Champion the culture, processes, and tools required to maintain a frictionless high-quality development environment while being an expert at agile continuous delivery, DevOps and TDD/BDD Dive deep into technology and are on the forefront of the latest tools, technologies, and strategies and help evaluate, prototype, and introduce them to our team Provide coaching and leadership in software best practices, automated test strategies, and work toward flattening the cost of change curve for our software products and services Prioritize great user experiences and be a partner to product management and engineering, sales, operations, and other parts of the business Be a hands-on technical resource who directs product and technology teams to conceptualize, build and deploy products in a fast-paced agile environment. What you Bring: Basic: 12+ years of combined software development & management experience across multiple languages and frameworks or equivalent experience. 8+ years hands on software development or equivalent experience. 3+ years managing software organizations over 25 people or equivalent experience. Demonstrated track record of building and leading 25+ size global engineering teams in India while collaborating heavily with teams based in the US and other global locations. Demonstrated track record of innovating on v1 products - driving them from ideation to usage by millions of users in a startup-like environment. You obsess over customer experiences and will be a partner to product management/engineering, sales, operations, and other parts of the business. You thrive in a fast paced, execution driven environment. Preferred: Experience managing direct reports that are people managers. Experience with full stack SaaS development - prior experience in Enterprise SaaS companies. Experience building an integration platform and infrastructure to seamlessly integrate 1st and 3rd party applications. Experience with distributed backend systems that involved REST API abstraction layers in complex enterprise environments with SOA and ROA or equivalent. Knowledge and experience in high scale, highly available (99.99+) system Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it.