About the Role:

Smart Food Safe, a global Quality and Food Safety Management SaaS company, is looking for a Director of Software Engineering with a proven track record of building and scaling SaaS products in startup or high-growth environments.

We are looking for a hands-on technology leader and product builder, not simply a people manager. The ideal candidate combines strong SaaS architecture, engineering leadership, product delivery, cloud, security, and team-building experience. Experience building or integrating AI into SaaS products is a strong advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the technical vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap aligned with business and product strategy.
• Lead the end-to-end SDLC, including Agile execution, development, QA, CI/CD, release management, and production operations.
• Design and evolve a scalable, secure, high-performance, multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Drive rapid and predictable product delivery while balancing speed, quality, technical debt, scalability, and security.
• Lead architecture across APIs, databases,



integrations, cloud infrastructure, performance, and distributed systems.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers and build a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, and engineering excellence.
• Establish engineering KPIs covering delivery, quality, reliability, performance, and productivity.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, security, privacy, and enterprise customer requirements.
• Manage engineering budgets, cloud costs, technology vendors, and third-party services.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive their practical adoption across the product.

AI Leadership - Solid Advanatage

Work closely with AI engineers to integrate LLMs, RAG, AI agents, Intelligent Document Processing, predictive analytics, and AI-powered workflows into the core SaaS platform.

Experience building or scaling AI-enabled SaaS products in production is highly preferr

📌 Director of Software Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Smart Food Safe
📍 Bengaluru