Director of Engineering
On-siteDelhi, Delhi, India
Job Summary
Lead and level up a shared engineering team of 15–20 across app, web, backend, and QC while operating as the single point of accountability for technology delivery. Translate business problems into specs, own outcomes rather than tickets, and co-own analytics pipelines and event instrumentation in a GCP/BigQuery environment. Architect and ship LLM-powered products end to end, including WhatsApp-first conversational agents and internal automation, while owning cloud architecture, cost, reliability, and security on Google Cloud. Build internal tools and AI agents that speed up sales, support, logistics, and clinical operations. Instrument what you build, argue from numbers, and ship working solutions quickly with first-time-right discipline.
Required Qualifications
- Recent hands-on coding. Has personally shipped production code within the last 12 months.
- Full-spectrum builder. Has built and shipped technology for both consumer-facing audiences (mobile apps, web, commerce) and internal audiences (ops tools, dashboards, automations), and is deep in at least two of backend, app, web, data, and cloud, conversant in all.
- AI-first in daily practice. Uses AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) as a default way of working, and can drive AI-assisted engineering practices across a team without sacrificing quality.
- Has shipped AI products, not just experimented with them. Can design and deliver production LLM systems end to end: prompt/agent architecture, model selection and cost tiering, conversation orchestration, evaluation and safety, and integration with messaging channels and payments.
- Solution mindset at pace. Bias to shipping working solutions quickly, paired with strong first- and second-order thinking that anticipates downstream effects and edge cases before they happen.
- First-time-right discipline. A track record of low-regression delivery: testing rigor, careful rollouts, monitoring, and root-cause habits, so that speed does not come at the cost of breakage.
- Data-driven. Instruments what they build and argues from numbers. SQL fluency is expected, with experience in product analytics (Firebase/GA4, BigQuery or similar) strongly preferred.
- Independent operator with leadership. Comfortable taking a one-line problem statement from the CEO, structuring it independently, and shipping a solution, with sound judgment on when to check in versus when to just decide.
Desired Qualifications
- Healthtech or digital health experience, particularly at a direct or adjacent competitor: chronic care, diagnostics, connected devices, telehealth, or GLP-1/weight management programs.
- Startup experience spanning both 0→1 (built something from nothing) and 1→10 (scaled a working product and team).
- Experience with connected hardware or IoT device ecosystems, including BLE devices and device-cloud sync.
- Experience with WhatsApp Business API, payment gateways (Razorpay), Shopify or e-commerce platforms, or contact-centre/IVR systems.
- Experience running engineering against GCP cost and reliability constraints.
- 7–12 years of experience overall, drawn from senior engineer, engineering manager, or founding engineer roles at Series A–C consumer startups, or from a founder/CTO background at a smaller startup seeking scale and stability.
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