Job Description

Director – Engineering

Experience : 10 - 15+ Years

Location : Bengaluru

Exxat is a US-headquartered SaaS company delivering a cloud-based education management platform for Health Sciences. Engineering is at the heart of Exxat’s mission — building reliable, scalable, and intelligent product experiences that drive outcomes for students, institutions, and clinical partners.

As Director – Engineering, you will own end-to-end engineering delivery across independent product modules and platform domains. You will lead with an AI-first mindset — embedding intelligent tooling, automation, and machine learning-assisted workflows into how the team designs, builds, and ships software.

With 10–15+ years of broad industry experience, you bring the versatility of a generalist leader who can connect product, architecture, data, and people into cohesive engineering outcomes.

Reports to: CTO

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

- Own end-to-end engineering delivery across multiple independent product modules and platform domains
- Define and drive engineering roadmaps in close collaboration with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders
- Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, system reliability, security, and performance
- Establish agile delivery rhythms that enable predictable, high-quality releases at scale

AI-First Engineering

- Champion an AI-first culture — embedding LLMs, copilots, and intelligent automation into engineering workflows, developer tooling, and product features
- Partner with data and product teams to identify and ship AI/ML-powered capabilities that create measurable user value
- Evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools to accelerate development velocity, reduce toil, and improve decision-making
- Drive responsible AI practices including observability,



evaluation frameworks, and governance for AI-powered systems

Architecture & Platform

- Own the architecture of product modules — ensuring modularity, scalability, and maintainability across the SaaS platform
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams on cloud-native architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
- Drive technical debt prioritisation and architectural evolution without disrupting product delivery
- Ensure platform security, data privacy, and compliance with relevant standards (FERPA, HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.)

People & Team Building

- Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams across geographies and disciplines
- Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
- Partner with recruiting to attract strong engineering talent aligned to Exxat’s mission and culture

Cross-functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Communication

- Act as the primary engineering voice in cross-functional leadership discussions — translating technical constraints and opportunities into business language
- Communicate engineering status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to the CTO and executive leadership
- Partner with Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Support to close the feedback loop on product quality and reliability
- Enable data-driven engineering decisions through clear metrics,



dashboards, and outcome tracking.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience

- 10–15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in a senior engineering leadership role
- Mandatory experience working in SaaS product environments — ideally with multi-tenant, cloud-based platforms
- Proven track record of owning and delivering multiple product modules or engineering domains simultaneously
- Experience navigating the full engineering lifecycle — from greenfield builds to scaling existing products

Technical Breadth (Generalist Mindset)

- Solid foundational knowledge across backend, frontend, data, infrastructure, and security — a true jack-of-all-trades who can engage credibly across disciplines
- Fluency in modern software architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, and cloud-native design
- Hands-on familiarity with AI/ML tooling, LLM integration patterns, prompt engineering, and AI product development
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), observability, and infrastructure-as-code

Leadership & Soft Skills

- Strong people leadership and organisational skills — ability to manage, develop, and inspire diverse engineering teams
- Excellent analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities; comfort operating with ambiguity
- Exceptional communication and executive presence — ability to distil complexity and influence without authority
- Customer and outcome orientation — engineering decisions anchored in business and user impact

Updated Date

14-04-2026

Job ID

267

Department

Engineering

Location

Bengaluru, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience

10 - 15 Years

Employee Type

Permanent

📌 Director - Engineering (India)
🏢 Exxat
📍 India