Associate Director

Job Description

Job Description

The role partners across Engineering, Product, Architecture, QA, and other cross-functional teams to deliver products with strong reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic goals into executable roadmaps with clear priorities, milestones, dependencies, and resource plans.
• Own end-to-end delivery, ensuring commitments are met with quality, predictability, and operational rigor.
• Drive execution discipline, clear accountability, and proactive risk management across teams.
• Communicate status, risks, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to stakeholders.
• Measure delivery performance, identify improvement opportunities, and optimize engineering processes.
• Build and lead high-performing teams across microservices, UI/UX, and large-scale data platforms.

• Translate product strategy and requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to understand user needs and deliver customer value.
• Balance delivery commitments, engineering quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Influence prioritization and scope decisions to maximize business impact.
• Drive alignment across globally distributed cross-functional teams.

• Provide technical leadership for cloud-native applications and platforms.
• Guide teams building distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and data-intensive services.
• Champion engineering excellence in architecture, automation, testing, observability, security, and operational readiness.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, DevOps, and AI-enabled development practices to improve productivity and quality.

• Build, develop, and retain high-performing engineering teams.
• Establish a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Hire top talent and support growth through coaching, mentorship, and career development.
• Lead teams using Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering
• 7+ years in engineering leadership and people management roles.
• Experience leading teams delivering enterprise-grade software products.
• Strong experience in cloud-native development on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with cloud security, monitoring, observability, and production operations.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data models, distributed data systems, and query performance.
• Exposure to at least one modern language such as Python or Java.
• Exposure to large-scale databases and data platforms, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, StarRocks, ClickHouse, and distributed data engines.
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering practices.

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and solve real-world challenges.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.