Karat
Karat
Karat is an HR technology and SaaS company focused on improving technical hiring for organizations. Its platform combines technology with expert-led interviews to provide continuous interview capacity, consistent evaluation, and a more engaging experience for candidates. Karat helps companies expand engineering hiring without placing the full interview burden on internal teams, while supporting more equitable assessment, internal mobility, and global hiring programs. The platform is designed to fit into existing recruiting workflows and give employers a dependable way to evaluate technical talent.

Director of Software Engineering, India (Remote)

Lead Karat’s Bengaluru engineering organization as it develops SaaS workflows, interview platforms, and AI-assisted technical assessment products. Partner with teams in India and the United States to build and operate tools for hiring.

Description

  • Lead and expand Karat’s engineering organization in India.
  • Report to the Vice President of Engineering and work with engineering leaders and teams in the United States.
  • Direct engineering delivery across product areas and features, from technical planning to launch and ongoing operations.
  • Guide development of enterprise workflows and self-service hubs for the hiring process.
  • Deliver products and integrations such as the HM Experience App, Recruiter Hub, ATS connections, candidate funnel management, and post-interview decision portals.
  • Improve delivery operations tools, messaging and notification systems, cost-saving efforts, and payment operations.
  • Evaluate and use emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to advance Karat’s interviewing platform and technical assessment capabilities.
  • Mentor senior technical talent and engineering managers.
  • Grow local leadership and delegate ownership of products and features across teams.
  • Build strong working relationships across India and global teams to support a unified organization.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • At least 5 years of management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping and operating customer-facing hosted SaaS products in production.
  • Strong technical expertise and experience with AI-driven technologies.
  • Ability to contribute to architecture, design and code reviews, and consequential technical tradeoffs.
  • Experience leading the full software development lifecycle for customer-facing products.
  • Experience hiring, coaching, and managing engineer performance.
  • Experience managing engineering managers is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop senior engineering leaders and delegate product, technical, and people leadership responsibilities.
  • A record of improving engineering culture, development processes, and technical systems while balancing delivery, platform health, reliability, security, and technical debt.
  • Experience leading geographically distributed teams, ideally across engineering organizations in India and the United States.
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
  • Must live in Bengaluru, India.
  • Applications and submissions must be entirely in English.
  • Ability to overlap working hours with the United States.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work.
  • An inclusive workplace with a commitment to non-discrimination.
  • Accommodation support for disabilities or special needs.

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