Director of Engineering | AI B2B SaaS | Bengaluru

Bangalore Permanent View Job Description
Join a Series B B2B HealthTech company building an enterprise AI platform for leading healthcare providers across the US. Reporting to the CTO, you'll lead the engineering organisation, driving platform scale, reliability, and delivery. This hands-on leadership role will shape technical strategy, strengthen engineering excellence, and build the systems, processes, and teams that power the company's next phase of hypergrowth.
  • Own engineering at a Series B AI leader
  • Join a 10× growth journey

About Our Client

Our client is a Series B B2B HealthTech company building an enterprise AI platform for leading healthcare providers across the United States. The platform leverages agentic AI to transform complex clinical data into intelligent workflows, helping healthcare organisations automate high-value, data-intensive processes.

Having raised US$36M+ in funding, the company is backed by leading institutional investors including Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Y Combinator. It has achieved 10x growth over the past year and now processes millions of clinical documents each month through its production platform. With multiple enterprise deployments live across the US healthcare ecosystem, the business is entering its next phase of rapid growth and platform scale.

Job Description

The Director of Engineering will lead a team of approximately 20 engineers across product engineering, platform, infrastructure, reliability, and frontend development. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will take day-to-day ownership of how engineering plans, builds, ships, and operates.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Own end-to-end engineering execution across product and platform teams.
  • Drive architecture, design reviews, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Improve platform reliability, observability, incident response, and release quality.
  • Build scalable deployment capabilities across cloud and enterprise environments.
  • Establish planning, release, and on-call processes that improve delivery without slowing teams down.
  • Partner closely with Product and AI/ML leadership to deliver reliable, production-grade software.
  • Hire, coach, and develop engineering leaders while shaping the future organisation structure.

The Successful Applicant

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years leading engineering managers or multiple teams.
  • Experience running engineering for a high-growth B2B SaaS company operating at production scale.
  • Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, or evaluation platforms.
  • Strong architectural understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and large-scale backend platforms.
  • Proven success improving engineering quality, reliability, testing, observability, and operational maturity.
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering leaders and senior engineers.
  • Excellent communication skills, strong ownership, and the ability to make decisions in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • A hands-on leadership style with the ability to dive into architecture reviews and production issues when required.
  • Willingness to work from Bengaluru in a highly collaborative, co-located environment.

What's on Offer

  • Join a well-funded Series B company backed by leading global investors.
  • Own engineering during one of the company's most important phases of growth.
  • Build software used by leading healthcare organisations across the United States.
  • Partner directly with the CTO and founding leadership team.
  • Solve complex AI, data, and platform engineering challenges at enterprise scale.
  • Receive best-in-industry compensation within a high-ownership, execution-focused culture.
  • Play a defining role in shaping the next generation of AI infrastructure for healthcare.
Quote job ref
JN-062026-7050294

Job summary

Function
Information Technology
Sub Sector
CIO / IT Director
What is your area of specialisation?
Technology & Telecoms
Location
Bangalore
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-062026-7050294

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