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swatee paithankar

Founder at Benchire

Last Active: 07 August 2026

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1720273

Director - Engineering

Benchire.9 - 14 yrs.Gurgaon/Gurugram
Posted 2 weeks ago
Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Description:

Role & Responsibilities:

- Create a vision and an executable charter for multiple engineering teams.

- Map business objectives to an optimum engineering structure, including correct estimation of resource allocation.

- Ensure that the platforms operate at a very high degree of reliability and resiliency by focusing on monitoring/observability, automation, capacity planning, performance testing, etc.

- Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering teams.

- Work closely with the Product Managers and help them in getting relevant inputs from the engineering team.

- Plan and track the development and release schedules, proactively assess and mitigate risks.

- Work individually with engineering managers to help them with correct time estimation and scoping of tasks to timely achieve business objectives.

- Drive good coding practices in the team, like good quality code, documentation, timely bug fixing, etc.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with senior leadership, sales, finance, operations, and HR to ensure smooth project execution and alignment across departments.

- Build teams and hire the best talent with the right dynamics.

- Foster a result-oriented, performance-driven culture by setting clear goals, career paths, core competencies, and reward and recognition mechanisms for the engineering team.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of strong experience in full-stack software product development, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership positions.

- Experience with building production systems for a start-up or an organization.

- Good command over Node.js and its internals is expected.

- Experience in RESTful web services/ APIs using ExpressJS.

- Experience with server-side technologies as well - Python, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, etc.

- Good command over cloud infrastructure AWS (preferred), MS Azure, or Google Cloud.

- Experience working with high-performance technical teams and the ability to create a culture based on those best practices.

- Experience in working with Product Managers and UX Designers.

- Excellent people manager. Strong in building relationships and collaborating with others.

- A strong vision and ability to deliver quickly in a fast-paced start-up culture.

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Posted by

swatee paithankar

Founder at Benchire

Last Active: 07 August 2026

Job Views:  
278
Applications:  92
Recruiter Actions:  0

Posted in

IT & Systems

Job Code

1720273

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