Director of Software Engineering (India)

Karat; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Karat is seeking a Director of Engineering for its India-based team. You will lead and grow the engineering organization, own delivery across product areas, and partner with global teams. Initially hands-on, you will delegate ownership as the team scales, building strong leadership and cross-functional relationships.

This role requires overlapping with U.S. business hours and a track record shipping hosted SaaS products, with deep AI-enabled capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience with 5+ as a manager.
• Experience shipping and operating customer-facing hosted SaaS products.
• Strong depth in AI-driven technologies and architecture

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the India-based engineering organization and own delivery across product areas.
• Start as hands-on leader and delegate ownership as the team scales while collaborating with global teams.
• Build senior technical talent and improve cross-functional relationships, including with US teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

AI/ML

Job description

We'reKarat, the world's largest interviewing company.

Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.Come join our Engineeringteam

Our Engineering team builds the infrastructure, reporting, and data products that turn Karat’s unique interview and performance data into meaningful insights. We partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and the business to create a reliable data foundation and to improve how Karat understands, uses, and delivers data.

What you will do

As Director of Engineering, India, you will lead and grow Karat’s India-based engineering organization. You will report to the Vice President of Engineering and work closely with engineering leaders and teams in the United States.

You will own engineering delivery for multiple product areas and features, from technical approach through dependable launch and ongoing operation. You start as a hands-on leader while you grow the India engineering team so that you can delegate product and feature ownership over time. You will also be a cross-company leader and resource for India-based employees and their global counterparts, helping teams build strong working relationships, navigate local needs, and operate effectively as one company.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

Lead the design and development of intuitive enterprise workflows and self-serve hubs that streamline the hiring process. Key initiatives include the HM Experience App, Recruiter Hub, ATS integrations, active candidate funnel management, and post-interview decisioning portals.

Enhance delivery operations tooling, cost-saving initiatives (e.g., messaging and notifications infrastructure), and payment operations.

Identify and apply emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to advance Karat’s interviewing platform and technical-assessment capabilities.

Develop senior technical talent and engineering managers, build strong local leadership, and delegate meaningful product and feature ownership across teams.

Build effective working relationships across India and global teams, helping India-based employees and their counterparts operate smoothly as one company.

The experience you will bring

Technical foundation and product delivery

• 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience with 5+ as a manager
• Demonstrated experience shipping and operating customer-facing, hosted SaaS software products in production. This is a required qualification.
• Strong technical depth and experience in AI-driven technologies, with the ability to contribute credibly to architecture,