Head of Engineering

Essential Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 -5 years in senior engineering leadership (Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, or Engineering Director).
  
• Proven track record of leading and scaling distributed engineering teams of 50+ engineers across multiple locations.
  
• Deep hands -on technical background in backend engineering, distributed systems, and mobile platforms (iOS/Android).
  
• Experience in a consumer -facing marketplace, e -commerce, food tech, or logistics platform at scale.
  
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, cloud -native infrastructure, real -time data pipelines, and API -first design.
  
• Demonstrated success in hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent.
  
• Strong commercial instinct — ability to balance engineering quality with speed to market.
  

Requirements

• Experience working in a challenger/scale -up environment
  
• Familiarity with EPOS/POS systems, payment gateway integrations, or restaurant technology.
  
• Experience leading offshore or near -shore engineering teams, particularly in India.
  
• Hands -on experience with AI/ML product features in consumer apps — recommendation engines, search ranking, dynamic pricing, and personalisation at scale.
  
• Practical experience integrating and shipping AI -powered features using LLMs (such as Claude, GPT, or Gemini), including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and responsible AI deployment in production environments.
  
• Familiarity with AI developer tooling and emerging standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot), and agentic workflows — with the ability to champion their adoption across engineering teams.
  
• Track record of driving engineering culture transformation and introducing modern DevOps/engineering practices, including establishing AI -augmented development workflows as a core part of the engineering culture.