Director of Software Engineering

The Role

Director of Software Engineering

What You'll Do

Leadership & Strategy

• Promote the multi-year engineering strategy, OKRs, and investment roadmap for a domain within D2C business line, in consideration of product outcomes and business growth.
• Lead teams (managers, architects, engineers) across Hyderabad, establishing a practice of

  excellence, accountability, and inclusion

  .
• Manage headcount planning, hiring bar, vendor strategy, and budget; build a engineering leadership bench.
• Bridge the gap in the product and technology efforts between US and India teams within your domain
• Promote platformization and leverageprioritize reusable frameworks, automation, and internal tooling to accelerate delivery across teams.
• Work with your counterparts in US while driving the OKRs (business and technology).

Architecture & Platform Direction

• Guide end-to-end architecture with emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and rapid experimentation.
• Champion modern patterns: micro frontends, server-driven UI (SDUI), BFF, serverless, API design, and AWS-native systems.
• Shape the platform owned by teams in Hyderabad while promoting the AI-first mindset and latest trends in agentic system design.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Establish engineering fundamentals: secure SDLC, reliability (SLOs), incident response, change management, and cost optimization.
• Ensure platforms meet stringent standards for

  security, privacy, and compliance

  ; partner with cybersecurity, risk, and data governance.
• Set bar for code quality, architectural reviews, design docs, and measurable delivery cadences.
• Promote

  experimentation

  velocity with safe rollout strategies (feature flags, canaries, progressive delivery).
• Promote the mindset of using DORA metrics as one of the factors in recognizing trends in development

People, Culture & Enablement

• Mentor managers, staff/principal engineers, and architects; develop clear career paths and succession plans.
• Promote the hybrid and in-person collaboration in our Hyderabad office
• Promote the Product Operating Model, experimentation, discovery and rapid development
• Promote the Exponential Engineer initiativescale AI-first engineering through reusable agents, prompt abstraction, and internal enablement platforms.
• Promote adoption of tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and LLM-integrated workflows; measure impact on lead time and quality.

Collaboration & Influence

• Be a trusted partner to Product, Data, Design, Cybersecurity, and SRE to deliver cohesive consumer experiences.
• Coordinate with other D2C engineering leaders to align standards, reference architectures, and shared services.
• Communicate crisply with executivespresent trade-offs, risk, and Return on investment; make the data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading managers and multi-team organization
• Build multi-year strategy, OKRs, budgets, and portfolio planning for consumer platforms (mobile & web), with clear delivery outcomes
• Expertise building and scaling engineering teams: hiring bar, succession planning, performance management, and leadership development for managers, staff/principal engineers, and architects
• Data-driven org leadership using outcome and flow metrics (e.g., availability/latency, DORA, quality, cost/unit economics) to drive continuous improvement
• Hybrid work environment in Hyderabad: Comfortable leading in a hybrid, not-remote setup with regular in-office presence; ability to collaborate across US and India time zones
• Platform strategy oversight for microservices, micro frontends/BFF, serverless, and AWSable to review/approve architectures and set reference patterns (not just individual contribution).