Director Engineering

HealthEdge; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthEdge is seeking a Director of Software Product Engineering to lead the healthcare payer product engineering strategy and execution. You will manage 50-100 engineers, drive end-to-end delivery, and advance AI-assisted engineering adoption while ensuring high-performance culture and strong executive presence.

The role requires significant hands-on technical depth, architecture leadership, and the ability to operate across strategy and day-to-day delivery.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with 7+ years in leadership.
• Experience leading 50+ engineers across multiple product groups.
• Hands-on cloud-native development with Java/Python/.NET.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a 50-100 engineer organization across multiple payer product groups.
• Own the multi-year engineering roadmap — cloud cost optimization, platform consolidation, and AI-assisted engineering adoption.
• Raise the bar on CI/CD, release gates, and DORA metric improvements.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery across multiple products — feature releases, NFR validation, load testing, and production readiness.
• Represent engineering in executive forums, customer briefings, and technical leadership sessions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

AI tooling adoption

Stakeholder management

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Java

Python

.NET

Job description

Job Description:

Overview

Director, Software Product Engineering

Role Summary

We are seeking a Director of Software Product Engineering to lead engineering strategy and execution across our Healthcare Payer product portfolio. You will manage multiple product engineering groups, own end-to-end delivery of highly scalable SaaS platforms, and build a high-performance engineering culture. The ideal candidate brings hands-on technical depth, a track record of using AI to accelerate engineering productivity, and the executive presence to operate seamlessly across strategy and day-to-day delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Organizational Leadership: Lead and grow a 50-100 engineer organization across multiple payer product groups, including direct management of Engineering Managers and senior technical leads and architects.
• Technical Strategy: Own the multi-year engineering roadmap — cloud cost optimization, platform consolidation, and AI-assisted engineering adoption.
• Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar on quality through CI/CD standards, robust release gates, and measurable improvements in DORA metrics and defect escape rates.
• Delivery Ownership: Oversee end-to-end delivery across multiple products — feature releases, NFR validation, load testing, and production readiness.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Represent engineering in executive forums, customer briefings, and technical leadership sessions; translate technical risk and trade-offs into clear business narrative.
• People & Culture: Build talent pipelines, drive succession planning, and foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
• Domain Knowledge (preferred): Hands-on familiarity with healthcare payer workflows — claims, EDI, eligibility, enrolment, and benefits — is a strong plus.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years in software engineering with 7+ years in engineering leadership; proven track record managing 50+ engineer organizations across multiple product groups in a software product company.
• Technical Depth: Strong architectural grounding in cloud-native development (AWS or Azure); hands-on background in Java, Python, or .NET; microservices, API design, and event-driven architectures.
• Engineering Practices: Solid command of CI/CD, DevSecOps, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern Agile or SAFe delivery methodologies.
• AI Tooling: Hands-on adoption of GenAI tooling to improve engineering productivity or quality in a product engineering context.
• Leadership & Communication: Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills; demonstrated ability to lead in matrixed, distributed, or offshore-heavy engineering organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare payer products: claims, EDI, eligibility, enrolment, or benefits — in a health plan, TPA, or payer software company.
• Background in multi-tenant SaaS product development serving health plans or TPAs.

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