Director of Engineering at Apna

Bengaluru, karnataka, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

10 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

10 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Engineering Leadership, Go, GCP, Microservices, Data-Driven Decision Making, Stakeholder Management, Architecture, Search Systems, Recommendations, Ranking, A/B Testing, Cloud-Native Architectures, Distributed Systems, Team Management, Technical Strategy, Collaboration

Industry

technology;Information and Internet

Description

Location: Bengaluru (WFO - Onsite) Function: Engineering Reports to: Head Of Engineering / CTO Role Summary We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the Engineering team and efforts for Marketplace Business at Apna – owning end-to-end journeys for both employers and candidates. You’ll drive strategy, architecture, and execution across multiple pods building job discovery, matching, and conversion on top of our Go + GCP stack. You’ll work closely with Product, Data, Design, Analytics and Business to build a high-liquidity, high-trust jobs marketplace at scale. Key Responsibilities Lead Marketplace Pods (Employer + Candidate) Own the engineering roadmap for all marketplace pods: employer funnels (posting → hires) and candidate funnels (discovery → apply → hire). Ensure pods are mission-aligned, autonomous, and deliver outcomes tied to marketplace health (fill-rate, time-to-hire, retention). Drive strong collaboration between PMs, EMs, tech leads, and data within each pod. Technical Strategy on Go + GCP Set the technical direction for Go-based microservices running on GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/Spanner, etc.). Define service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts that allow pods to move fast without breaking each other. Champion best practices in performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency on GCP. Architecture & Scale Own architecture for search, recommendations, ranking/matching, eligibility, and billing/workflows across the marketplace. Ensure systems are highly available, low latency, and horizontally scalable for millions of users. Partner with Data/ML teams to productionize models (ranking, fraud/abuse, quality scoring) within Go services. Execution & Engineering Excellence Lead and grow Engineering Managers and senior Go engineers across multiple pods. Implement strong delivery practices: OKRs, roadmap planning, design/code reviews, SLIs/SLOs, on-call, and incident management. Balance experimentation (A/B tests) with platform stability and technical debt management. Stakeholder & People Leadership Partner with the Head of Product, Business, and Operations to translate marketplace strategy into clear technical plans. Represent marketplace engineering in leadership reviews with clear narratives on trade-offs and progress. Build a culture of ownership, speed with quality, and data-driven decisions; define career paths and growth for EMs and ICs. What We’re Looking For Must-Have 10–15+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years leading managers and multi-pod / multi-team orgs. Experience owning a two-sided marketplace or large-scale consumer/B2B2C product. Strong hands-on background in Go and cloud-native architectures on GCP (or similar, with willingness to go deep on GCP). Proven track record of shipping distributed systems / microservices at scale. Comfort with experimentation and data: funnels, cohorts, A/B testing, marketplace health metrics. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Nice-to-Have Experience with search, recommendations, ranking, or ads-like systems. Prior work in India-focused high-growth startups. Exposure to React / React Native frontends and mobile-heavy products.

Responsibilities

Lead the Engineering team for the Marketplace Business, owning the engineering roadmap for employer and candidate funnels. Drive collaboration across multiple teams to ensure successful outcomes tied to marketplace health.