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Director of Engineering

1 day, 3 hours ago
India
Full-time
Lead
Director of Engineering
Software Development
AWS CI/CD Docker GitHub Actions GraphQL Kubernetes Microservices Python React REST API Terraform
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Construction & Engineering
11-50
Founded 2020
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Description

  • Own and evolve core platform services, including document ingestion pipelines, search and retrieval infrastructure, API layers, and data models.
  • Deliver features from design through production with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Participate in architecture reviews and propose improvements to the codebase and system design.
  • Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and enforce quality through rigorous code review.
  • Build and maintain AI-powered capabilities such as RAG pipelines, LLM-based document analysis, entity extraction, regulatory signal detection, and summarisation.
  • Evaluate and integrate new AI models, embedding techniques, and orchestration frameworks as the field evolves.
  • Debug and improve AI pipeline quality, including retrieval relevance, hallucination detection, and output accuracy.
  • Act as deputy to the Senior Director / Head of Engineering and maintain engineering momentum when needed.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and help define engineering standards for reviews, testing, deployment, and documentation.
  • Partner with regulatory operations, product, and design teams to translate domain workflows into technical requirements and refine features.

Requirements

  • 7–11 years of software engineering experience, including 3–5 years on production SaaS platforms.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML integrations.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered features, including prompt engineering and RAG architectures.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector, and LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source equivalents.
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, with AWS preferred.
  • Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD practices, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform or equivalent.
  • Experience designing REST and/or GraphQL APIs that other teams depend on.
  • Comfort with modern frontend frameworks such as React and ability to contribute across the stack when needed.
  • Strongly preferred: experience with regulatory life sciences or healthcare domains, including FDA, EMA, ICH, guidance documents, eCTD, dossiers, and compliance workflows.
  • Preferred alternative: experience building software for regulated life sciences environments such as clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, healthcare informatics, or medical device compliance.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with periodic on-site collaboration.
  • Full-time role with a senior-level scope and clear growth path.
  • Competitive salary range of ₹30,00,000 to ₹1,20,00,000 per year.
  • Opportunity for increased scope over architecture, mentorship, and stakeholder representation.
  • High ownership of meaningful parts of a production platform.
  • Direct impact in a mission-critical regulatory compliance domain with real-world consequences.

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