Vice President Of Software Engineering

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 50–100+, 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.