Role: Director - Software Engineering
Location: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru
Reporting to: CDIO
Team name: Digital Operations and Engineering (DOPE)
About the Team and the Role:
The Digital Operations and Engineering (DOPE) team at Ather is responsible for architecting, building, and delivering software products across front end, back end, quality engineering, cloud vehicle data pipelines, and over-the-air updates.
This role is for a Director of Software Engineering to own the end-to-end software craft, design an AI-native engineering organization, establish system-level architecture, and lead scalable full-stack engineering teams across the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities
- Own the reference architecture across front end, back end, and services, setting guardrails for scalable, secure, and privacy-by-design software products.
- Function as the single accountable leader across backend engineering, QA, and release management to close operational seams.
- Drive CI/CD pipelines, trunk-based workflows, automated quality gates,



and DORA delivery metrics for fast and reversible releases.
- Architect an AI-native SDLC by embedding AI capabilities into coding, test generation, code reviews, documentation, and release workflows.
- Establish quality and reliability by design through automated testing discipline, observability, coverage standards, and error budgets.
- Formulate long-term software product strategies and technology roadmaps while actively tracking and retiring tech debt.
- Oversee cloud vehicle data pipelines, sub-millisecond latency architectural optimizations, and over-the-air (OTA) update deployments.
- Build and scale a pod-based value-stream engineering organization using data-centric metrics to drive velocity and craft standards.

Experience and Qualifications
- Solid educational foundation with a degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline.
- 15-20+ years of software engineering experience in product-based companie

📌 Head - Software Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 the Team and the Role
📍 Bengaluru