Director of Engineering – Backend

6 days ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Talent Nexa Consulting Full time ₹ 12,00,00,000 - ₹ 24,00,00,000 per year
Director of Engineering – Backend

Location: Bengaluru (Onsite)

Experience: 12-16 Years

Compensation: Up to ₹1.8 Cr + Equity



About the Role:

A high-growth SaaS product company is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead, scale, and drive innovation in building highly scalable, distributed backend systems. This is a leadership role for someone with deep expertise in Java, microservices, high-concurrency systems, and cloud-native architectures, who has successfully scaled teams from 10 to 100+ and built high-performance, fault-tolerant platforms in eCommerce or high-scale product companies.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Define and execute the engineering roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability.
  • Architect, develop, and optimize high-scale distributed systems for high-concurrency, low-latency, and real-time processing.
  • Lead the design and implementation of microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Champion best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and automation.
  • Scale, mentor, and manage a team of 50+ engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and ownership.
  • Collaborate with product, business, and leadership teams to align technology with business growth.


Ideal Candidate:
  • 12-16 years of experience in scaling engineering teams in high-growth product companies (eCommerce experience preferred).
  • Proven track record in building distributed systems, microservices, and high-scale architectures.
  • Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Distributed Systems, High-Concurrency Architectures.
  • Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
  • Strong leadership in scaling teams from 10 to 100+ engineers.
  • Ability to solve complex system design challenges and drive technical excellence.


Why Join?

Lead a high-impact team solving real-world engineering challenges at scale.

Competitive salary (Up to ₹1.8 Cr) + Lucrative Equity.

Work on cutting-edge cloud-native, high-scale architectures.

Be part of one of the fastest-growing SaaS product companies.

Interested? Send your resume to

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