Hybrid Senior Director, Software Engineering

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineering managers
  • Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
  • Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
  • Partner with Product Management to align with objectives, priorities, trade offs, and risk
  • Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
  • Lead and mentor a high-performing team of quality/performance engineers and operational staff in India.
  • Develop and execute quality strategies, performance metrics, and continuous improvement plans.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership globally to align quality and performance objectives with business goals.
  • Ensure alignment with corporate quality standards and customer expectations, adapting processes to meet the needs of the local market.
  • Establish and maintain a comprehensive quality management system.
  • Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for defects and performance bottlenecks.
  • Manage testing and validation processes, ensuring the highest levels of quality in deliverables.
  • Oversee the implementation of automation tools to streamline testing and quality processes.
  • Develop and implement metrics to measure performance, efficiency, and scalability of products and services.
  • Drive performance optimization initiatives across the organization, using data analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to guide decision-making.
  • Ensure products meet both local and global performance standards, with a focus on scalability and reliability.
  • Work closely with R&D, engineering, operations, and customer-facing teams to deliver high-quality, high-performance solutions.
  • Act as the key liaison between the India team and global counterparts, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration.
  • Partner with customers to understand their quality and performance needs and translate them into actionable goals.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying inefficiencies and developing solutions to enhance quality, reduce costs, and improve timelines.
  • Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging the team to implement new quality and performance management methodologies.
  • Stay current with industry trends and best practices, applying them to the organization's processes and products.

Requirements

  • A related technical degree required
  • 12 + years of proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
  • Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
  • Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that’s been released for public consumption
  • Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers
  • Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies. Scrum Master experience required
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Senior Director, Software Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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