Description:
Initially 4 days/week in office, transitioning to 3 days/week over time.
About Infilect:
- Infilect is an enterprise SaaS company building AI-first products for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail verticals.
- Our platform has been in market for ~5 years and is now entering a critical scale phase moving from single-digit million ARR to double-digit million ARR over the next three years.
- We are EBITDA and cash-flow positive and are preparing for strategic investments, making engineering leadership central to our growth journey.
- We are looking for a growth-oriented, hands-on engineering leader who can help scale our platform, teams, and engineering practices to world-class standards.
Ideal Candidate:
- Prior experience in a startup or scale-up environment, with demonstrated success in scaling an engineering platform across multiple dimensions.
- Not more than 8 to 12 years of experience.
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams through rapid growth phases.
- Experience building and operating enterprise-grade SaaS platforms.
- Exposure to analytics-heavy or data-intensive systems is a strong plus.
Technical Foundation:
- Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and reliability engineering.
- Ability to guide teams on trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.
- GenAI Experience: At least 1 year of hands-on exposure to using generative AI coding assistants (e.g, Copilot-like tools).
- Strong belief in and vision for AI-augmented engineering productivity.
- Willingness and ability to institutionalize GenAI-driven practices across teams.
Leadership Style:
- A people-first manager who genuinely cares about team well-being and growth.
- Inspires engineers to raise the bar on quality, ownership, and impact.
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels.
Education:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Role Overview:
- The Head of Engineering will own engineering & AI strategy, execution, and culture across the organization.
This leader will be responsible for scaling the engineering platform across:.
- Scale of AI.
- Scale of operations.
- Scale of customizations.
- Scale of analytics and data.
- Availability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- This role requires a people-first leader who can build and sustain a high-trust, high-performance engineering culture, while also driving speed, quality, and scalability of product delivery.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Competitive in-hand salary.
- ESOPs aligned with long-term value creation.
- Annual performance bonuses.
- Opportunity to play a foundational leadership role in a profitable, scaling AI-first SaaS company.
Key Responsibilities :
Engineering Leadership & Platform Scaling:
- Scale the platform to support rapid ARR growth, increased customer complexity, and higher data volumes.
- Ensure best-in-class scalability, reliability, security, and availability.
- Drive engineering decisions that balance speed, robustness, and long-term maintainability.
People & Culture:
- Foster a people-first culture with psychological safety, ownership, and accountability.
- Coach engineering managers and senior engineers to grow into leaders.
- Motivate teams to deliver robust, production-grade releases, not just fast code.
Engineering Excellence & Best Practices:
- System design and architecture.
- DevOps, SRE, and cloud operations.
- Observability, monitoring, and incident management.
- Release management and quality assurance.
Raise the bar on engineering discipline and execution rigor across teams.
GenAI-Driven Engineering Transformation:
- Increase engineering velocity.
- Improve code quality.
- Reduce development and maintenance costs.
- Dramatically optimize cloud and infrastructure costs.
- Design and implement world-class GenAI-enabled engineering workflows.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development as a core engineering capability.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Translate business and customer needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Support enterprise customers with complex customization and analytics needs.
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