Hybrid Director, Software Engineering

at Bazaarvoice

• Job title: Director, Software Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bengaluru, India

About the role

• Director of Software Engineering at Bazaarvoice leading engineering teams and implementing strategic roadmaps. Foster collaboration across global teams to drive performance and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire and grow a high-calibre team of frontend & backend engineers, and their line managers.
• Define and implement a roadmap based on critical business need, that delivers the valuable features, scale, and reliability our clients need, as well making systems more resilient and scalable.
• Drive business-significant and complex initiatives by collaborating across geographically distributed teams and partners.
• Coach and mentor engineers globally in support of their growth and adherence to best practices.

Requirements

• 10-15 years in software engineering or hands-on site reliability engineering of large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• 5+ years of Engineering and software development leadership experience at Sr. Manager or Director Level (have led front line managers). Management experience with Full-Stack is a must (Front-End, Back-End).
• Experience operating SaaS software systems in a production environment, AWS or other major cloud providers and with CI/CD, observability, scalability and high performance.
• Experience across multiple development platforms and services (e.g., microservices, APIs).
• Proven ability to lead new product development teams in an incubator environment.
• Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leads.
• Experience establishing and measuring OKRs, KPI’s and team goals.
• A nuanced understanding of diverse and inclusive hiring practices.
• Critical thinking and communication. Including ability to clearly and crisply write and verbally communicate.
• Comfortable leading multiple and often contending priorities including making and communicating decisions.
• Comfortable with the 10Kft view as well as diving into the details.
• Regularly consider business lens and trade-offs even for deeply technical engineering problems.
• Technical and Industry (eCommerce) experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + good benefits (insurance, annual leave, bonuses, referral rewards, and more).
• Hybrid work model (3 days in office – Prestige Tech Pacific).