About RockED

RockED is the premier people development platform for the automotive industry, supporting the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire and onboarding to upskilling and career transitions. With microlearning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback, RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry’s greatest business challenges.

The RockED Company Inc. is headquartered in Florida. Backed by top industry experts and investors, we are a well-funded startup on an exciting growth journey. Our R&D; team (Indian entity) is at the core of all product and technology innovation

We partner with 10000+ dealerships, empower 60,000+ learners, complete 15000+ certifications, and have crossed 11 million lesson completions.

What you’ll own

Engineering quality and standards

· Own quality end to end: code review standards, test strategy, CI/CD, observability, release governance and production health.

· Shift quality left through automation, so it’s built in rather than inspected at release.

· Drive measurable quarter-on-quarter improvement on DORA metrics.

Platform: architecture, reliability and scale

· Set architectural direction across services, APIs, data and AWS infrastructure, while letting teams decide without bottlenecks.

· Own reliability, performance and security, with clear SLAs and SLOs as we scale.

Predictable delivery

· Own multi-team delivery from roadmap to production.

· Turn product goals into a technical roadmap that balances speed, platform health and tech debt.

· Spot delivery risks and cross-team dependencies early.

Process maturity

· Benchmark our engineering practices against top product organisations and close the gaps.

· Replace ad-hoc workflows with repeatable, scalable processes, using data and root-cause analysis.

The AI shift

· Drive AI adoption across the SDLC: coding, testing, code review and documentation.

· Take AI/LLM product features from prototype to production, with clear metrics for productivity and quality impact.

People and culture





· Hire, grow and retain high-calibre engineers. Run fair, timely performance cycles.

· Develop Team Leads into strong people managers and technical leaders.

· Build a culture of ownership, candour and craftsmanship that people want to join and stay in.

· Partner with Product and leadership as a strategic counterpart, and push back with data when it’s the right call.

What you bring

· 12–15 years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading [25+] engineers through managers at product companies or high-growth startups.

· Demonstrated success building engineering organisations from the ground up: hiring the first managers, designing team structures and shaping culture through high-growth phases

· A track record of multi-team delivery and of building quality cultures, not just quality checklists.

· Strong system design depth: distributed systems, microservices, API design and data at scale.

· Hands-on AWS experience and familiarity with modern backend stacks (JavaScript/Node.js preferred).

· Working knowledge of application security (OWASP) and infrastructure governance.

· AI fluency: you use AI tools yourself and know how to ship AI features responsibly.

· Bias for action, sound judgement, and the resilience to drive hard initiatives to closure.

Strong plus: B2B SaaS or mobile-first product experience.

Why RockED

· Real influence. Work closely with RockED’s founders and US leadership. Your voice shapes company strategy, not just engineering execution.

· Build what lasts. Shape the engineering operating model, hiring strategy and standards as the India org grows.

· Proven product-market fit. You’re scaling a business that works, not searching for one.

· AI-first mandate. Leadership backing and room to experiment.

· A solid team. Engineers from Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, IITs and NITs, in a culture of high ownership and fast decisions.

· Ownership. A competitive leadership package with equity.

· Care. Fully sponsored health insurance for you and your family.

· Work setup. Hybrid / on-site in Jayanagar

📌 Director of Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 RockED
📍 Bengaluru