Director of Engineering

2 days ago

Bengaluru, India Apna Full time

Location: Bengaluru (WFO - Onsite) Function: Engineering Reports to: Head Of Engineering / CTO Role Summary We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the Engineering team and efforts for Marketplace Business at Apna – owning end-to-end journeys for both employers and candidates. You’ll drive strategy, architecture, and execution across multiple pods building job discovery, matching, and conversion on top of our Go + GCP stack. You’ll work closely with Product, Data, Design, Analytics and Business to build a high-liquidity, high-trust jobs marketplace at scale. Key Responsibilities - Lead Marketplace Pods (Employer + Candidate) - Own the engineering roadmap for all marketplace pods: employer funnels (posting → hires) and candidate funnels (discovery → apply → hire). - Ensure pods are mission-aligned, autonomous, and deliver outcomes tied to marketplace health (fill-rate, time-to-hire, retention). - Drive strong collaboration between PMs, EMs, tech leads, and data within each pod. - Technical Strategy on Go + GCP - Set the technical direction for Go-based microservices running on GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/Spanner, etc.). - Define service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts that allow pods to move fast without breaking each other. - Champion best practices in performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency on GCP. - Architecture & Scale - Own architecture for search, recommendations, ranking/matching, eligibility, and billing/workflows across the marketplace. - Ensure systems are highly available, low latency, and horizontally scalable for millions of users. - Partner with Data/ML teams to productionize models (ranking, fraud/abuse, quality scoring) within Go services. - Execution & Engineering Excellence - Lead and grow Engineering Managers and senior Go engineers across multiple pods. - Implement strong delivery practices: OKRs, roadmap planning, design/code reviews, SLIs/SLOs, on-call, and incident management. - Balance experimentation (A/B tests) with platform stability and technical debt management. - Stakeholder & People Leadership - Partner with the Head of Product, Business, and Operations to translate marketplace strategy into clear technical plans. - Represent marketplace engineering in leadership reviews with clear narratives on trade-offs and progress. - Build a culture of ownership, speed with quality, and data-driven decisions; define career paths and growth for EMs and ICs. Requirements What We’re Looking For - Must-Have - 10–15+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years leading managers and multi-pod / multi-team orgs. - Experience owning a two-sided marketplace or large-scale consumer/B2B2C product. - Strong hands-on background in Go and cloud-native architectures on GCP (or similar, with willingness to go deep on GCP). - Proven track record of shipping distributed systems / microservices at scale. - Comfort with experimentation and data: funnels, cohorts, A/B testing, marketplace health metrics. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Nice-to-Have - Experience with search, recommendations, ranking, or ads-like systems. - Prior work in India-focused high-growth startups. - Exposure to React / React Native frontends and mobile-heavy products.

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