Vice President of Software Engineering

About Alegeus

Alegeus is the market leader in consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, powering millions of consumer benefit accounts including FSAs, HSAs, HRAs, dependent care, and wellness programs through a modern SaaS and payments platform. We are investing aggressively in modernization, API-first integration, real-time data access, and AI-enabled automation to redefine how consumers save and spend on healthcare. With industry expectations shifting rapidly, Alegeus is at a pivotal inflection point, we are transforming our platform, elevating engineering rigor, and building a next-generation product and engineering.

The Opportunity

Raise the technical bar, instill disciplined engineering practices, strengthen product partnership, and elevate the Bangalore center alongside an existing leadership team. This is a collaborative leadership role focused on building a next-generation engineering organization that delivers measurable business value and accelerates Alegeus strategy.

Key Challenges to Solve

A successful leader must be prepared to collaborate with peers and materially improve the following areas:

• Talent quality & hiring discipline:

  Implement rigorous hiring practices, raise the talent bar, and strengthen engineering depth across all roles.

• Urgency & accountability:

  Shift the mindset from activity-based to outcome-driven delivery with a culture of commitment.

• Engineering maturity:

  Advance the organization from a service-provider approach to a true product-engineering model with business value alignment.

• End-to-end ownership:

  Reinforce understanding of why features matter, not just what is being built.

• Mature the Quality discipline:

  Strengthen QA strategy, automation, test frameworks, and release reliability.

• Partner with leadership to drive platform modernization:

  Support re-architecture, API evolution, data modernization, and cloud-native enablement.

• AI adoption:

  Apply AI across product capabilities and engineering workflows to improve quality and reduce cost.

Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Co-lead engineering and QA teams with existing India VP leadership, ensuring alignment and shared accountability.
• Drive urgency, ownership, and disciplined execution across the engineering organization.
• Improve delivery predictability and establish clear goals, KPIs, and operating rhythms.

Product Partnership

• Work with product management to translate priorities into actionable engineering plans.
• Ensure teams understand business value, user needs, and partner ecosystem requirements.
• Contribute to new product development and platform modernization roadmaps.

Technical Excellence

• Provide architectural and technical guidance across APIs, data, web systems, and cloud-native designs.
• Improve engineering quality through stronger design reviews, coding standards, automation, and SDLC practices.
• Engage hands-on in deep technical reviews and problem solving as needed.

AI & Modern Engineering Practices

• Promote adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and workflows.
• Support the development of AI-driven features and data-powered product capabilities.
• Foster continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation.

People, Culture & Talent

• Build a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and excellence.
• Partner with India leadership on hiring strategy, capability development, and succession planning.
• Manage performance rigorously and strengthen the engineering and QA leadership bench.

Operational & Financial Management

• Support engineering budget planning, resource allocation, and operational governance.
• Improve engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, and cross-team operational effectiveness.
• Optimize cost structure while improving velocity and product quality.

Global Collaboration

• Partner closely with US-based product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment and seamless execution.
• Strengthen communication, planning, and coordination across time zones and product lines.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Leadership & Organization

• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience across Engineering Manager, Director, and VP roles.
• Proven ability to

  scale engineering organizations from 20 to 50100+

  , including hiring, organizational design, and leadership development.
• Experience operating within a

  multi-VP or matrixed leadership structure

  , collaborating rather than operating as the sole executive.
• Demonstrated success building high-performance, accountable engineering cultures.

Product & Engineering Execution

• Deep experience leading product-engineering teams delivering commercial software (SaaS preferred).
• Strong track record driving predictable delivery and managing complex roadmaps.
• Effective partner to Product Management in prioritization, planning, and value-based decision-making.

Technical Expertise

• Hands-on background earlier in career as a developer or architect.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems, including architecture upgrades, API evolution, UI/UX modernization, cloud migration, and data modernization.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, modern web and data technologies, security fundamentals, and operational readiness.

Quality & SDLC Maturity

• Experience maturing QA functions, automation frameworks, and quality governance.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, SRE principles, and production operations.

AI & Data Experience

• Experience leading teams that delivered AI-enabled product capabilities (e.g., automation, classification, extraction, personalization).
• Practical exposure to implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Operational & Financial Acumen

• Experience contributing to budget planning, capacity management, and operational governance.
• Ability to establish engineering metrics, KPIs, and governance frameworks.

Global Collaboration

• Experience leading and/or partnering with engineering teams across multiple countries, including cross-time-zone execution.

Domain Experience (Preferred but not required)

• Exposure to banking, payments, healthcare, or regulated markets.

What Success Looks Like (12 Months)

• Stronger engineering and QA leadership bench in India.
• Predictable, high-quality delivery across modernization and product roadmap initiatives.
• Improved engineering culture with urgency, ownership, and measurable accountability.
• Visible progress in QA maturity, automation, API modernization, architecture upgrades, and UI/UX improvements.
• Demonstrated adoption of AI tools and practices with measurable productivity gains.