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Karat is the world's largest technical interviewing platform, serving companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi. The company provides live expert-led interviews, analytics, and the industry's most robust interview performance dataset to help organizations hire top engineering talent and build stronger teams.
As Director of Software Engineering for India, you will lead and grow Karat's India-based engineering organization, reporting to the Vice President of Engineering. You will own engineering delivery for multiple product areas while building and scaling the India team. Initially hands-on, you will progressively delegate product and feature ownership as the team grows. You will also serve as a cross-company leader for India-based employees, fostering strong working relationships between India and U.S. teams and ensuring effective global collaboration.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading design and development of enterprise workflows and self-serve platforms (HM Experience App, Recruiter Hub, ATS integrations, candidate funnel management, post-interview decisioning portals)
- Enhancing delivery operations tooling, cost-saving initiatives (messaging/notifications infrastructure), and payment operations
- Identifying and applying emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to advance the interviewing platform and technical-assessment capabilities
- Developing senior technical talent and engineering managers; building strong local leadership and delegating meaningful ownership
- Building effective cross-functional relationships across India and global teams to operate as one cohesive company
Note: This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours. The role is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (Bangalore); remote work is 100% but location-restricted to this city.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with 5+ years in a management role
- Demonstrated experience shipping and operating customer-facing, hosted SaaS software products in production (required qualification)
- Strong technical depth and experience with AI-driven technologies; ability to contribute credibly to architecture, design reviews, code reviews, and technical tradeoffs
- Experience leading end-to-end software development lifecycle for customer-facing products (planning, design, launch, operation, iteration)
- Experience hiring, coaching, and performance-managing engineers; experience managing engineering managers strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to develop senior engineering leaders and delegate meaningful product, technical, and people-leadership responsibilities
- Track record of improving engineering culture, development processes, and technical systems while balancing delivery, platform health, reliability, security, and technical debt
- Experience working effectively across geographically distributed teams, ideally with significant India-U.S. collaboration
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with judgment and empathy to build trust across functions, teams, and time zones
- Ability to operate as a trusted local leader while aligning India-based teams with global company priorities
