Director of Engineering

To apply : https://forms.gle/ip4N2s8rzA5d9PQa6

Director of Engineering

Position Overview

Director of Engineering

The ideal candidate brings strong architectural depth, system design expertise, and the ability to drive engineering excellence across applications, infrastructure, data, messaging, DevOps, and security. This role also requires exceptional communication and client-facing capability.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and mentor engineering teams across Platform, DevOps, Database, and Java backend.
• Define the long-term architecture vision, engineering roadmap, and team scalability plan.
• Build and reinforce a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Promote

  Agile development practices

  across teams to improve delivery velocity, collaboration, and product quality.
• Work closely with Product, Security, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure solutions.

Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Own high-level and low-level

  system design

  for distributed microservices using

  Python (FastAPI)

  and

  Java (Spring Boot)

  .
• Drive best practices for

  REST APIs

  ,

  WebSockets

  ,

  async models

  , and

  event-driven architecture

  .
• Ensure platform scalability, performance, resilience, observability, and high availability (HA/DR).
• Standardize architectural patterns across microservices, API contracts, and integration workflows.

Cloud, Infrastructure & DevOps

• Lead AWS workload design and governance across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and monitoring.
• Govern Kubernetes deployments including orchestration, auto-scaling, cluster governance, and resiliency.
• Mature SRE and DevSecOps practices across CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure automation, and operational playbooks.
• Drive

  Cloud Cost Optimization

  through data-driven architecture and resource utilization strategies.

Data, Storage, Messaging & Integration

• Develop strategy for supporting

  OLTP and OLAP workloads

  across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Oversee performance, HA/DR, and scaling across

  PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and analytical data platforms

  .
• Govern

  Kafka and RabbitMQ

  messaging frameworks for distributed and event-based workloads.
• Scale

  Change Data Capture (CDC)

  pipelines for real-time data synchronization across services.
• Lead

  data pipelines and ETL/ELT flows

  with a focus on reliability, encryption, lineage, and compliance.
• Ensure Redis-based caching delivers consistent low-latency performance for critical workloads.

Security & Compliance

• Champion secure SDLC, zero-trust engineering, and secure-by-design architecture.
• Enforce IAM governance, encryption, tokenization, secret management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Support fintech regulatory and audit frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, etc.

Execution & Delivery

• Drive predictable execution using

  Agile development frameworks

  , sprint planning, and continuous delivery.
• Ensure milestone-based planning, risk management, and efficient dependency coordination.
• Track key engineering KPIs: performance SLAs, uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency, defect density, and cloud spend KPIs.
• Promote blameless postmortems and structured RCA programs to improve engineering maturity.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent Engineering on

  client calls, technical escalations, architecture reviews, and roadmap discussions

  .
• Provide clear articulation of trade-offs, timelines, technical risks, and delivery expectations.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technical plans and cross-team execution.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with

  5+ years in leadership roles

  across cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record designing and scaling distributed microservices-based systems.
• Deep technical expertise in:

• Python FastAPI & Java Spring Boot

• REST APIs and WebSocket-based real-time systems

• System design, async programming, event-driven architecture

• Kubernetes (EKS preferred) & AWS

• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and OLTP/OLAP database systems

• Kafka & RabbitMQ

• Redis

• CDC and high-throughput data pipelines

• Strong understanding of

  Agile development methodologies

  (Scrum/Kanban) and scaled agile delivery.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Helm), monitoring, and observability.
• Proven ability to execute

  Cloud Cost Optimization

  at scale.
• Experience working in fintech or other regulated industries with sensitive data requirements.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in enterprise architecture.
• Experience supporting PCI DSS, ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR controls.
• Experience scaling high-growth SaaS or multi-tenant cloud platforms.
• Must be from Tier1 college or Product company (SaaS/Fintech) background.

To apply : https://forms.gle/ip4N2s8rzA5d9PQa6