LeadSquared
Website:
leadsquared.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadsquared
Industries: Software Development
Job details:
AVP – Engineering
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 15–20 years
About LeadSquared
LeadSquared is a rapidly growing SaaS platform powering high-velocity sales execution across global industries, including BFSI, Education, Healthcare, and Marketplaces. We build large-scale, mission-critical systems focused on performance, reliability, and innovation. To support our next phase of growth, we are expanding our engineering leadership team.
Role Overview
We are looking for an AVP – Engineering who brings strong leadership experience along with exposure to multiple technology stacks, including Java, .NET, cloud platforms, and modern databases. This is a technology-agnostic leadership role, focused on engineering excellence, system scalability, and building high performing teams.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership & Delivery
• Lead multiple engineering teams across backend, frontend, and platform groups.
• Drive the design and delivery of scalable SaaS systems using Java, .NET, and cloud-native architectures.
• Translate business requirements into actionable engineering roadmaps.
• Ensure engineering best practices across coding, architecture, testing, performance, DevOps, and security.
Technical Strategy & Architecture
• Provide architectural guidance across services built using Java and .NET stacks.
• Oversee the design and optimisation of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Drive cloud strategy and adoption across AWS/Azure/GCP for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate new technologies and tools that improve engineering velocity and product performance.
People & Culture Leadership
• Mentor engineering managers, architects, and senior engineers; build a strong leadership pipeline.
• Develop a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Drive hiring, competency building, and career development across the engineering organisation.
Operational & Delivery Excellence
• Own engineering KPIs: uptime, quality, incident response, velocity, release cadence, cloud cost optimisation.
• Establish strong observability, monitoring, and disaster recovery practices.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and automation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Product, Design, QA, Security, Data, and Business teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Influence product roadmap priorities based on engineering feasibility and strategic outcomes.
• Represent engineering in leadership discussions and customer conversations when required.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Background
• Strong experience with Java and .NET ecosystems (hands-on background earlier in career is preferred).
• Expertise in database design, tuning, and scaling (SQL & NoSQL).
• Solid understanding of cloud architectures and cloud-native practices (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, performance engineering, and secure development.
Leadership
• 15–20 years of total experience, with 5+ years leading engineering managers and multiple teams.
• Proven success in scaling engineering organisations in fast-paced SaaS or product environments.
• Strong decision-making, stakeholder communication, and strategic thinking.
• Ability to balance technical depth with business outcomes.
Why LeadSquared?
• Build and scale a global SaaS platform used by thousands of enterprises.
• High ownership, freedom to innovate, and a performance-driven culture.
• Opportunity to shape engineering strategy and work with world-class product teams.
• Competitive compensation and accelerated career growth.
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