Director, Software Engineering Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

The Director of Software Engineering will oversee large aspects of software engineering activity for Diligent in our new Technology Centre of Excellence. This role will lead teams of highly talented engineers developing the industry leading products which form the Diligent product portfolio and deliver on our ambitions to redefine the way organizations are governed. This role will serve as senior technical authority within the software development team.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a community of actively engaged and highly performant teams.
• Work effectively with product management, project management, and senior management to allocate resources appropriately, juggling tactical needs with longer term strategic needs.
• Ensure technical excellence across the group by ensuring common engineering practices like design reviews, security reviews, and others are performed at a high level across the organization.
• Recruit a world class software development team, while utilizing existing resources as appropriate.
• Foster creation and adherence to technical standards.
• Define new solution architectures and technology roadmap.
• Take a hands-on approach and stewardship to the entire software development life cycle.
• Lead software architecture and technical design, and set the technical direction for the team.
• Serve as a senior authority within the software development team.
• Mobilize the team to effectively resolve major customer issues.
• Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation and excellence, while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our software development organization.
• Embrace SRE mindset with development scrum teams where ownership of applications and platform are core to team.
• Continuously stay up to date with all industry changes and bring new ideas to the team.

Required Experience/Skills:

• 7+ years in software development or software engineering leadership roles including predominantly SaaS product experience in recent years.
• Successful track record in building successful SaaS products within innovative, growth-oriented companies.
• Familiarity with software architecture and database development.
• Experience with containerization technologies and processes. Docker and Kubernetes or equivalent.
• Experience managing several software development teams at once.
• Experience with executing agile at scale.
• Drive an agile and DevOps culture.
• Ability to take a collaborative and business-oriented approach and to establish the ability to build strong relationships and influence at senior management levels of the organization.

What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients.
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few.
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.

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