Head of Engineering

About the role :

We are seeking a highly accomplished Head of Engineering to lead our engineering organization across multiple product lines. This leader will be responsible for building scalable, secure, and reliable SaaS products and platforms while driving architectural modernization, cross-product integration, and innovation. The role demands strong technical leadership, people management, and operational excellence, reporting directly to the CTO.

This role is ideal for a seasoned engineering leader passionate about building scalable and reliable products. in a fast-paced environment while fostering a culture of innovation, efficiency, and teamwork.

Key Responsibilities-

Hands-On Technical Leadership :

- Actively contribute to code, design reviews, architecture decisions, and complex debugging.

- Coach engineers to improve velocity, quality, and problem-solving approaches.

- Strong ability to validate solutions designs, new ideas, and ensure faster iteration cycles.

- Stay deeply familiar with the codebase across ERP and POS to guide teams with practical solutions.

- Proven skills in working with distributed systems by way of APIs webhooks and other industry standard integration patterns.

- Familiarity with data pipeline using ELT/ETL tools.

Accelerating Development Velocity :

- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in delivery pipelines

- Introduce modern engineering practices to reduce lead times.

- Champion productivity tooling (IDEs, CI/CD optimizations, code quality gates, AI-assisted coding tools).

- Measure and improve engineering throughput using metrics like cycle time, Product Release lead time, and deployment frequency.

Team Enablement & Unblocking :

- Helping unblock critical design, scaling or performance issues.

- Mentor engineers by showing how to solve problems, not just telling them.

- Encourage creative problem-solving and introduce fresh approaches from modern SaaS engineering playbooks.

Strategic & Technical Leadership :

- Define and execute the engineering vision aligned with Ginesys One's long-term product and business strategy.

- Lead modernization efforts : migration from monoliths to microservices, cloud-native architecture, event / API integrations.

- Ensure enterprise-grade scalability, security, performance, and compliance across all products.

- Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams across ERP, POS and Integration platforms.

- Foster a progressive engineering culture based on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Innovation & Ecosystem :

- Champion AI/ML and data-driven innovation within the Ginesys ecosystem.

- Explore emerging technologies (serverless, low-code, event streaming, API economy) for adoption.

- Collaborate with key enterprise customers, marketplace partners, and internal stakeholders to align technical roadmaps.