Job Description

Job Profile: Director of Engineering

Location: Bangalore | Karnataka

Years of Experience: 12 - 16

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE:

Swiggy's Revenue & Growth Engineering team helps customers enjoy personalized discovery and purchase experiences across multiple product lines (Stores, Food, Genie, and Instamart). The team is enabling this by developing thoughtfully crafted applications, smart cataloging, relevance-based search & intent-driven merchandising, checkout management solutions, and payment systems.


You will be the technical leader in the company. It will be your responsibility (and pleasure) to guide the team in adding new features, updating existing ones, enhancing reliability and performance, optimizing processes, and recruiting and training new team members.

As a Senior Technical Leader, you will be responsible for

Leading development teams that are responsible for delivering accurate and timely data in innovative ways for our Engineering teams. The successful candidate will have influence over the vision, features and design of the critical data used to drive the business. You will own all phases of the development lifecycle from gathering business requirements, design and modeling, development, deployment, and support. You are responsible for all things people on your team - hiring and developing a high performing team of software engineers.

What qualities are we looking for?

12+ years of progressive technology experience in Software Engineering functions and have/show leadership initiatives Proven ability in architecture and building scalable systems. Understand software architecture and system design very well Good at problem-solving and innovative thinking. Love to be Hands-on. The ability to envision the future engineering needs of the company - Plan and implement accordingly The creativity to do things differently The ability to think and plan strategically for the technical needs of the company Skill at collaboratively overcoming objections from team members with dominant personalities

What will you get to do here?

Predictably deliver high-quality, scalable software Provide engineering execution excellence, as well as technical vision and direction, to ensure the development team is aligned with the strategy of the company Define objectives and track results for team members in a supportive, motivating, and fact-driven way Proactively identify and resolve issues relating to people, product, tech, and process. Work across other departments to get alignment on dev-related items Coach team members on coding practices and in making business-driven decisions. Lead and manage an effective engineering function to support product development and quality of life for the development team Build a development dream-team, including recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and performance management Work closely with the company leaders including the technical founder, product, operations, and Customer Care to strategically Use fact-based analyses to deliver recommendations Make decisions related to managing the software development process and team

Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some of the challenges we deal with:

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https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-tech-that-brings-you-your-food-1a7926229886



We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.