Director - Platform Engineering

2 months ago

bangalore, India Dotdash Meredith Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead our technical team for the Services platform and Publishing platform. The vision of the services platform team is to provide a robust platform with the foundational building blocks and capabilities that enable flexible, reliable, performant, and scalable products across the organization. Our in-house publishing platform serves as an umbrella for all of our internal tools that manage documents, document data, and publishing workflows.


The Director of Engineering will oversee all engineering activities within the platforms, ensuring efficient project delivery, team collaboration, and technical innovation. This role requires a strong leader who can motivate and guide teams towards achieving ambitious goals while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.



Primary responsibilities :

Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership to the engineering team.

Team Management: Manage and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.

Technical Excellence: Ensure the technical feasibility and integrity of projects through sound architecture, code reviews, and best practices.

Collaboration: Work closely with product management, design, and other cross-functional teams to deliver on product roadmaps and business goals.

Innovation: Drive technical innovation and excellence in engineering processes.

Recruitment: Lead recruitment efforts to attract top engineering talent, conducting interviews and making hiring decisions.

Performance Management: Establish KPIs and metrics to measure engineering performance and productivity.

Required Skills:

  • Proven experience of 12 years in a leadership role within engineering, with a track record of successfully leading and managing high-performing teams.
  • Experience working in multiple back-end technology frameworks in multiple languages. Practical knowledge of languages such as Java, REST, Python, Angular, NodeJS, VueJS and cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) is preferred. Knowledge of databases like PostgreSQL.
  • Strong understanding of system design for highly performant systems. Experience with service architecture, horizontal scalability, and managing large data sets is preferred.
  • You are communicative, highly organized, facilitative, assertive, situationally aware, enthusiastic, continually improving, who values transparency, is able to foster a cohesive team culture, and strives to empower your teams.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts and strategies to non-technical stakeholders.
  • You are comfortable operating in ambiguous situations and helping teams arrive at a decision.
  • You are willing to roll up your sleeves and have a “can-do” spirit.


Good to Have:

Prior experience working in a major publishing company.

Relevant certifications are a plus.


What will you learn on this job ?

You will learn about best in the class brands that touch every aspect of peoples lives

You will experience successful application of state-of-the-art technology in the publishing world incl. AI

Designation : Director of Engineering

Working Hours : 1 PM – 10 PM IST

Work Location : Eco World, Bengaluru

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