Role description: This role is with one of our portfolio companies.

We are hiring a Director of Engineering for one of our late-stage portfolio companies. This is the top engineering leadership role within the organization. In this position, you will oversee the entire technical function, establish the engineering culture, and make the hard calls that separate companies that scale from those that stall.

This is not a role for someone who manages from a distance or inherits a clean system. You will walk into technical debt, ambiguity, and high expectations — and be expected to thrive.

Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Strategy — Define and execute the technical roadmap aligned with business priorities; make deliberate decisions on what to build, what to defer, and what to deprecate
Technical Debt — Audit the existing architecture, prioritize remediation without halting product velocity, and establish a sustainable path forward
Culture & Process — Build engineering practices from a low-maturity baseline, including hiring standards, delivery cadences, incident response protocols,



and code quality benchmarks.
Team Leadership — Lead and grow a mid-sized engineering team; building a strong leadership layer beneath you.
Stakeholder Communication — Be the technical voice to the Founder, business teams, and external stakeholders; translate complexity into clarity
Hands-on Architecture — Stay close enough to the system to challenge decisions, review critical architecture, and prevent the team from making expensive mistakes
Familiarity with quick-paced, rapidly iterating, design-forward, and product-focused companies.
A "roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial attitude, along with a team player mentality and a proven record of leading and mentoring employees.

What We're Looking For:
Non-negotiables
Master’s or PhD degree in Engineering or Technology.
8+ years of engineering experience with at least 3–4 years in a senior engineering leadership role
Proven 0-to-scale journey —

📌 Director of Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Elevation Capital
📍 Bengaluru