Director of Engineering

6 days ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, 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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