We provide innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.

We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets.

Role:

We’re seeking an accomplished Director of Engineering to lead and grow our engineering team in India. You’ll initially oversee 5 engineers across product development, SRE and InfoSec, scaling further as we expand. If you’ve led high-performing engineering and product teams, have a growth mindset, and bring at least 5 years of people-management experience, we’d love to talk.

Responsibilities:

Technical Vision & Execution: Own the roadmap for products, solutions, internal tools and operational capabilities—ensuring scalable, secure, and performant delivery.

Lead & Scale: Manage an initial team of 5 engineers, structuring, mentoring, and scaling effectively as we grow. Foster a culture of continuous learning, hiring top talent, holding rigorous technical discussions, and promoting high standards.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with US stakeholders in product, data science, infrastructure, and executive team to align engineering efforts with strategic business goals.

Operational Excellence: Implement best practices for engineering workflows— scalability, observability, incident response, and reliability of all applications.

Strategic Innovation: Drive innovative architectural decisions and platform evolution to support product differentiation and speed to market.

Requirements:

A business mindset that involves thinking strategically to align engineering efforts with the overall business goals, prioritizing high-ROI projects, and cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit of ownership and continuous improvement within the team.

5+ years leading engineering teams (managing 10+ people), ideally within fast-growth tech environments.

Experience building teams in India for US based organizations.

Hands-on technical fluency in Python, Golang, React, and AWS; comfortable enough to be a credible voice in system design without being a bottleneck.

Proven track record of building and scaling high-functioning teams with high hiring and retention standards.

Experience in API based products in a SaaS based environment is a big plus.

Strong communicator; capable of collaborating across product, data, and executive functions.

Bonus: Experience in fintech, fraud/risk or identity systems.

Location & Reporting:

Location: Gurugram or Bengaluru (India). Hybrid working model; in-office presence expected

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer (US-based)

Team: Engineering, India

Perks:

Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents

401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)

Flexible paid time off

Regular company-wide in-person events

Home office stipend, and more!