Associate Engineering Director

Weekday 1; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday 1 for a client in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, seeks an Associate Engineering Director to lead large-scale engineering initiatives, drive technical strategy, and build high-performing teams. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on C++ and Python expertise with software architecture and engineering leadership experience.

You will partner with engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders while focusing on scalability, reliability, and innovation across complex products.

Qualifications

• 21-25 years of software engineering experience in technical/leadership roles.
• Expertise in C++ including modern features, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Strong Python skills for automation, tooling, and backend services.
• Experience designing large-scale, distributed, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute engineering strategy aligned with product and business goals.
• Lead multiple engineering teams and provide technical direction across projects.
• Drive architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and improvement of scalable systems.
• Guide C++-based development with performance, concurrency, and system-level programming focus.
• Leverage Python for automation, tooling, data processing, and testing frameworks.
• Mentor senior engineers and engineering leaders across teams.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, observability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product management, QA, DevOps and cross-functional teams.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and delivery priorities across programs.

Skills

C++

Python

System architecture

Leadership

SDLC/Agile

Distributed systems

Job description

This role is for one of Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 21+ years
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an accomplished and technically strong Associate Engineering Director with 21-25 years of experience to lead large-scale engineering initiatives, drive technical strategy, and build high-performing engineering teams. The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on expertise in C++ and Python, combined with extensive experience in software architecture, system design, engineering leadership, and delivering complex products at scale.

This role requires a leader who can operate effectively at both strategic and technical levels - working closely with engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders while maintaining a strong focus on engineering excellence, scalability, reliability, and innovation.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute engineering strategy aligned with broader product and business objectives.
• Lead multiple engineering teams and provide technical direction across complex software development initiatives.
• Drive architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of highly scalable systems.
• Provide deep technical guidance on C++-based software development, including performance optimization, concurrency, memory management, and system-level programming.
• Leverage Python for automation, tooling, backend services, data processing, testing frameworks, and engineering productivity initiatives.
• Review and influence technical architecture, design decisions, coding standards, and development methodologies.
• Build and mentor senior engineering leaders, architects, and experienced software engineers.
• Establish engineering best practices around code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Program Management, QA, DevOps, and other cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies, resource planning, and delivery priorities across multiple projects.
• Promote a culture of innovation, ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, development velocity, system performance, and overall product quality.
• Stay current with evolving technologies, architectural patterns, development practices, and industry trends.

Must-Have Skills

• 21-25 years of overall software engineering experience, with substantial experience in technical and engineering leadership roles.
• Strong and demonstrable expertise in C++, including modern C++, object-oriented programming, STL, multithreading, concurrency, memory management, debugging, and performance optimization.
• Strong proficiency in Python for software development, automation, scripting, tooling, testing, or backend engineering.
• Extensive experience designing and developing large-scale, distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable software systems.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
• Proven experience leading large or multi-disciplinary engineering teams and mentoring senior technical talent.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, engineering processes, and software quality practices.
• Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders and translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and organizational skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, microservices, containers, and modern DevOps practices.
• Exposure to AI/ML, data-intensive applications, embedded systems, networking, or other technically complex domains.
• Experience managing engineering managers, architects, and senior technical leaders.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and production reliability practices.
• Experience working in global or geographically distributed engineering organizations.

What You'll Bring

You will bring a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural thinking, and engineering leadership. You should be comfortable diving into complex technical problems when required while also setting long-term engineering direction, developing leaders, and ensuring teams consistently deliver high-quality software.