VP, Software Engineering

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MISSION

Raise the technical bar instill disciplined engineering practices strengthen product partnership and elevate the Bangalore center alongside an existing leadership team. This is a collaborative leadership role focused on building a next-generation engineering organization that delivers measurable business value and accelerates Alegeus strategy.

KEY CHALLENGES to SOLVE:

A successful leader must be prepared to collaborate with peers and materially improve the following areas:

• Talent quality & hiring discipline: Implement rigorous hiring practices raise the talent bar and strengthen engineering depth across all roles.

• Urgency & accountability: Shift the mindset from activity-based to outcome-driven delivery with a culture of commitment.

• Engineering maturity: Advance the organization from a service-provider approach to a true product-engineering model with business value alignment.

• End-to-end ownership: Reinforce understanding of why features matter not just what is being built.

• Mature the Quality discipline: Strengthen QA strategy automation test frameworks and release reliability.

• Partner with leadership to drive platform modernization: Support re-architecture API evolution data modernization and cloud-native enablement.

• AI adoption: Apply AI across product capabilities and engineering workflows to improve quality and reduce cost.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Co-lead engineering and QA teams with existing India VP leadership ensuring alignment and shared accountability.

• Drive urgency ownership and disciplined execution across the engineering organization.

• Improve delivery predictability and establish clear goals KPIs and operating rhythms.

Product Partnership

• Work with product management to translate priorities into actionable engineering plans.

• Ensure teams understand business value user needs and partner ecosystem requirements.

• Contribute to new product development and platform modernization roadmaps.

Technical Excellence

• Provide architectural and technical guidance across APIs data web systems and cloud-native designs.

• Improve engineering quality through stronger design reviews coding standards automation and SDLC practices.

• Engage hands-on in deep technical reviews and problem solving as needed.

AI & Modern Engineering Practices

• Promote adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and workflows.

• Support the development of AI-driven features and data-powered product capabilities.

• Foster continuous improvement experimentation and innovation.

People Culture & Talent

• Build a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership accountability and excellence.

• Partner with India leadership on hiring strategy capability development and succession planning.

• Manage performance rigorously and strengthen the engineering and QA leadership bench.

Operational & Financial Management

• Support engineering budget planning resource allocation and operational governance.

• Improve engineering KPIs delivery metrics and cross-team operational effectiveness.

• Optimize cost structure while improving velocity and product quality.

Global Collaboration

• Partner closely with US-based product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment and seamless execution.

• Strengthen communication planning and coordination across time zones and product lines.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

Leadership & Organization

• 15 years of progressive engineering leadership experience across Engineering Manager Director and VP roles.

• Proven ability to scale engineering organizations from 20 to 50100 including hiring organizational design and leadership development.

• Experience operating within a multi-VP or matrixed leadership structure collaborating rather than operating as the sole executive.

• Demonstrated success building high-performance accountable engineering cultures.

Product & Engineering Execution

• Deep experience leading product-engineering teams delivering commercial software (SaaS preferred).

• Strong track record driving predictable delivery and managing complex roadmaps.

• Effective partner to Product Management in prioritization planning and value-based decision-making.

Technical Expertise

• Hands-on background earlier in career as a developer or architect.

• Experience modernizing legacy systems including architecture upgrades API evolution UI/UX modernization cloud migration and data modernization.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems modern web and data technologies security fundamentals and operational readiness.

Quality & SDLC Maturity

• Experience maturing QA functions automation frameworks and quality governance.

• Familiarity with DevOps CI/CD observability SRE principles and production operations.

AI & Data Experience

• Experience leading teams that delivered AI-enabled product capabilities (e.g. automation classification extraction personalization).

• Practical exposure to implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Operational & Financial Acumen

• Experience contributing to budget planning capacity management and operational governance.

• Ability to establish engineering metrics KPIs and governance frameworks.

Global Collaboration

• Experience leading and/or partnering with engineering teams across multiple countries including cross-time-zone execution.

Domain Experience (Preferred but not required)

• Exposure to banking payments healthcare or regulated markets.

Location: Bangalore

BECAUSE WE CARE WE OFFER:

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