Director of Engineering

As the Director of Engineering, you will own the technology roadmap for ApnaMart across offline retail, omnichannel customer experience, supply chain optimisation, and data-driven operations. You will lead high-performing teams, architect scalable systems, and ensure that technology becomes a key differentiator in ApnaMart's 10x growth journey. This role requires strong technical depth, strategic thinking, hands-on problem-solving, and the ability to build engineering excellence in a fast-paced retail-tech environment.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the technology strategy aligned with ApnaMart's rapid scale targets (100 1000+ stores).
• Architect highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems across retail operations, POS integrations, supply chain, inventory, and the consumer app.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Build, mentor, and scale a world-class engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, velocity, and high engineering standards.
• Set up strong processes for code quality, design reviews, testing, deployments, and observability.
• Oversee the development of reliable systems used in store operations, supply chain, and warehousing.
• Drive automation-first thinking to reduce operational overhead and eliminate manual inefficiencies.
• Ensure systems uptime, performance, and reliability across high-traffic periods and distributed retail environments.
• Partner closely with Product, Business, Operations, and Retail teams to deliver solutions that directly impact customer experience and store performance.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead engineering involvement in strategic initiatives such as new store rollouts, digital payments, logistics optimisation, and personalisation.
• Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for critical projects and product lines.
• Prioritise engineering efforts, ensure roadmap visibility, and drive strong execution discipline.
• Implement robust CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
• Play a central role in shaping ApnaMart's technology foundation for the next decade.
• Contribute to business expansion decisions with data-driven insights and technical foresight.
• Champion innovation in retail-tech and bring in best practices from high-scale consumer and commerce platforms.