Director, Engineering
Tekion (company site, opens in a new tab)12+ yrsChennaiOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–70 LPA
Posted 3h ago
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About This Role
- Lead and manage Chennai engineering comprising ~20 engineers across backend, frontend, AI, and QA via two Scrum teams and platform resources, owning delivery and team health.
- Own delivery accountability including sprint cadence, risk tracking, cross-team dependency management, and executive engineering progress reporting.
- Serve as primary technical liaison to US-based Product leadership, manage cross-team coordination with platform teams, hire and develop talent, and drive technical roadmap, especially AI capabilities integration.
Minimum Requirements
- 12+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership managing teams of 15+ engineers including managers.
- Strong technical expertise in Java backend, distributed microservices, event-driven architecture, and SaaS platform operation on AWS with multi-database stacks (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis/Aerospike).
- Experience enforcing hexagonal architecture at scale and cross-functional leadership working with distributed US-India teams.
- Work Experience Required: 12+ years software engineering with 5+ years leadership; Notice Period: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced leader capable of managing large, geographically distributed engineering teams with a focus on delivery and cross-team collaboration.
- Technically deep individual able to engage in architecture/design reviews and maintain technical depth across backend, AI, and platform integrations.
- Proven ability to build SaaS products in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and to recruit and develop senior engineering talent in competitive markets.