? We're Hiring: Director of Software Engineering – AI-First Products & Platforms

? Location: Hyderabad, India

? Experience: 15 Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead and scale high-performing engineering organizations responsible for next-generation AI-first software products and cloud platforms.

This role combines engineering leadership, product ownership, technical strategy, organizational development, and AI-driven transformation. The ideal candidate will have experience building engineering leaders, modernizing enterprise-scale platforms, and delivering measurable business and customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead engineering organizations through engineering managers, architects, principal engineers, and senior technical leaders.
- Build, develop, and retain high-performing engineering teams, with a strong leadership and succession pipeline.
- Drive cloud modernization, platform scalability, reliability, maintainability, and engineering excellence.
- Lead AI-first transformation across software product development and engineering operations.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Design, and Business teams to deliver strategic outcomes.
- Establish strong engineering practices to improve delivery predictability, quality, productivity, and accountability.
- Influence technology strategy, architecture decisions,



and long-term platform investments.
- Lead organizational growth and contribute to global engineering strategy.

Required Skills & Experience
- 15 years of software engineering experience.
- Proven experience leading large engineering organizations, ideally involving 60–150 engineers through engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
- Experience leading monolith-to-SaaS migration in high-trust domains such as tax, payments, banking, or ERP.
- Strong technical expertise in Java/Spring Boot or C#/.NET, with Python experience for AI.
- Hands-on understanding of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps, Terraform, SQL/NoSQL, and Snowflake.
- Strong knowledge of system design, architectural patterns, object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms.
- Understanding of multithreading, asynchronous programming, synchronization, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience delivering AI-enabled products and implementing AI-first engineering practices.
- Robust business acumen, executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

If you have the experience to lead large-scale engineering organizations and build the next generation of AI-first enterprise platforms, we'd love to connect!

📌 Director of Software Engineering (Hyderabad)
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