Director of Software Engineering
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KaratSaaS interviewing
Remote (India - Bangalore ONLY). This position is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore)., This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.Full-TimeDirector
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience with 5+ as a manager
- Required Skills
- Software EngineeringEnglish communicationSaaS
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 5+ years as a manager.
- Have demonstrated experience shipping and operating customer-facing hosted SaaS software products in production.
- Bring technical depth and experience in AI-driven technologies, including the ability to contribute to architecture, design reviews, code reviews, and consequential technical tradeoffs.
- Have experience leading the end-to-end software development lifecycle for customer-facing products, from planning and technical design through launch, operation, and iterative improvement.
- Have experience hiring, coaching, and performance-managing engineers; experience managing engineering managers is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrate the ability to develop senior engineering leaders and delegate product, technical, and people-leadership responsibilities.
- Have a track record of improving engineering culture, development processes, and technical systems while balancing customer delivery, platform health, reliability, security, and technical debt.
- Have experience working effectively across geographically distributed teams; significant collaboration between India and U.S.-based engineering organizations is preferred.
- Have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Be able to operate as a trusted local leader while aligning India-based teams and employees with global company priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow Karat’s India-based engineering organization.
- Own engineering delivery for multiple product areas and features, from technical approach through dependable launch and ongoing operation.
- Lead design and development of enterprise workflows and self-serve hubs, including the HM Experience App, Recruiter Hub, ATS integrations, candidate funnel management, and post-interview decisioning portals.
- Improve delivery operations tooling, cost-saving initiatives such as messaging and notifications infrastructure, and payment operations.
- Identify and apply emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to advance the interviewing platform and technical-assessment capabilities.
- Develop senior technical talent and engineering managers, build strong local leadership, and delegate product and feature ownership.
- Build effective working relationships across India and global teams.
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