Director, Engineering - Marketplace & Dev Ecosystem

Engineering Leadership and Team Development

• Mentor and coach Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and Tech Leads, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and ownership.

• Lead performance reviews, define clear career development paths, and support the growth of engineering talent across the marketplace organization.

• Build and develop resilient teams capable of operating high-traffic public APIs and reliable financial transaction systems.

• Strategic Planning and Execution

  • Translate business objectives into scalable engineering roadmaps for the marketplace and developer ecosystem.

  • Improve processes for managing hundreds of integrations and thousands of developer applications throughout their lifecycle.

  • Establish effective agile delivery practices while maintaining rigorous security, governance, and reliability standards.

  • Architecture and Technical Oversight

    • Oversee public API architecture, including versioning strategies, backward compatibility, scalability, and high availability.

    • Guide the development of monetization infrastructure, including automated payouts and usage-based billing systems.

    • Maintain high engineering standards across SDKs, sandbox environments, native integrations, and developer-facing tools.

    • Drive architectural decisions that support platform extensibility, operational resilience, and long-term growth.

    • Business Strategy and Cross-Functional Collaboration

      • Partner with Product Managers and other business stakeholders to define the strategy for the app marketplace and partner program.

      • Design extensible integration architectures that support major third-party platforms, including Google, Meta, and Slack, as well as custom solutions.

      • Align technical investments with business priorities, developer needs, platform adoption, and revenue growth.

      Requirements:

      • Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership or management roles overseeing multiple teams or other managers.

      • Technical expertise: Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and Vue.js, or comparable modern front-end frameworks such as React or Angular.

      • Developer ecosystem experience: Demonstrated success building or managing public APIs, developer platforms, app marketplaces, or complex third-party integration ecosystems.

      • SaaS background: Experience in a high-growth Software-as-a-Service environment is highly desirable.

      • Architecture and systems design: Strong judgment in API versioning, backward compatibility, system security, scalability, and high-availability architecture.

      • Leadership capabilities: Proven ability to mentor engineering leaders, develop high-performing teams, manage complex delivery portfolios, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

      • Strategic execution: Ability to translate business needs into technical roadmaps and balance rapid delivery with quality, security, and governance.

      • Collaboration: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business functions.

      • Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

      Benefits:

      • Remote work: India-based remote position within a globally distributed organization.

      • Leadership impact: Opportunity to shape the engineering strategy for a large marketplace and developer ecosystem.

      • Technical scale: Work on complex systems involving public APIs, distributed services, integrations, developer tooling, and monetization infrastructure.

      • Professional development: Opportunities to mentor engineering leaders, influence architectural direction, and help build high-performing teams.

      • Global collaboration: Work with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple countries and functions.

      • Compensation and additional benefits: Salary range, healthcare coverage, leave policies, and other benefits were not specified in the available job description and should be confirmed during the hiring process.