Job Description

Head of Engineering (India)

Location: Hyderabad, India

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Target industries: AI, Computer Vision, Video Surveillance, Enterprise SaaS, Industrial IoT, Healthcare Technology, Safety Technology, or similar product-based companies.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

- Own application architecture and system design decisions across Organisation's RVA platform, balancing scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Set and enforce engineering standards, coding practices, and architectural patterns across .NET, front-end, and video-processing systems.
- Stay hands-on: participate in design reviews, code reviews, and complex technical problem-solving alongside the team.
- Evaluate and modernize the technology stack, including cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and video delivery systems.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted tools and practices across the SDLC — code generation, testing, code review, and documentation — to improve engineering velocity and quality.

Team Building & People Leadership

- Build and lead the full in-country Software Engineering team, currently and going forward, reporting directly to the CTO.
- Recruit, hire, onboard, and mentor a cohort of Junior Engineers, creating a structured growth path from junior to senior levels.
- Manage performance, career development, and day-to-day leadership for engineers, tech leads, and QA within the team.
- Foster a culture of ownership, technical rigor, and continuous learning.

Delivery & Cross-Functional Collaboration





- Partner with the CTO and U.S.-based product/business stakeholders to translate roadmap priorities into technical execution plans.
- Own sprint planning, delivery timelines, and quality across the India engineering organization using Agile/Scrum practices.
- Ensure production systems (web applications, video pipelines, and supporting infrastructure) are reliable, monitored, and well-documented.
- Represent India engineering in leadership discussions, providing visibility into risks, tradeoffs, and delivery status.

Required Skills & Experience

- 10–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role.
- Deep expertise in application architecture and system design for production, customer-facing software.
- Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET, Python and contemporary web application development (e.g., ASP.NET, React/Type Script, or comparable stacks).
- Proven experience building, scaling, and managing engineering teams, including hiring and developing junior talent.
- Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI tools throughout the software delivery lifecycle (e.g., AI-assisted coding, code review, testing, or documentation tools).




- Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production support practices.
- Strong track record of Agile/Scrum delivery and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical and U.S.-based stakeholders.

Desired Skills

- Experience with video applications: encoding/decoding, streaming, or video delivery pipelines (e.g., ffmpeg, video browsers, media processing tools).
- Familiarity with AWS or other major cloud platforms.
- Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Octopus Deploy, Team City, Redis, or Elastic search.
- Background in industrial safety, healthcare, manufacturing, or another regulated/compliance-driven industry.
- Experience working in a distributed organization with U.S.-based leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10–12+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as both a strategic leader and a hands-on technical contributor.

Work Hours & Collaboration

- Based in Hyderabad, India, with regular overlap with U.S. Eastern Time (EST) to collaborate with the CTO and U.S.-based teams.
- Self-driven leader who can operate with autonomy while maintaining tight communication with U.S. leadership.

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