Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership:

- Build, scale, and lead a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and career development.

- Create an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture.

- Attract, retain, and develop top engineering talent.

- Conduct regular performance reviews and support engineers in achieving their career goals.

Technical Leadership:

- Define and execute the team's engineering strategy, architecture, and technical roadmap.

- Drive technical excellence across system design, software architecture, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

- Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction, platform modernization, and security improvements.

- Review architecture, design proposals, and code to ensure engineering quality.

- Provide technical guidance and actively contribute to architectural discussions and critical implementation decisions.

Product Delivery:

- Partner with Product Managers and UX Designers throughout product discovery and delivery.

- Contribute technical insights during roadmap planning, prioritization, and estimation.

- Ensure timely delivery of scalable, secure, and customer-focused software solutions.

- Drive ownership of complex technical problems from design through production.

Agile & Engineering Excellence:

- Champion Agile principles and continuously improve engineering processes.

- Promote engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, observability, and continuous delivery.

- Establish engineering metrics to improve productivity, quality, and operational efficiency.

- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams to ensure alignment across multiple products and initiatives.

- Work closely with Product, UX, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and HR to support business objectives.

- Communicate technical direction effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering.

- 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.

- Proven experience building engineering teams from the ground up.

- Strong experience delivering enterprise-scale software products in Agile environments.

- Excellent leadership, mentoring, coaching, and people management skills.

- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native application development.

- Experience working with globally distributed teams.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong execution mindset with the ability to deliver business outcomes.