Director - Engineering

Director, Technology Scale the engineering organization that turns two products into one platform. Function: Product & Technology Reports To: CPO / CTO Location: Gurugram, onsite Work timings: India hours with sustained US overlap Experience: 10+ years, including 4+ years leading engineers and at least 2 years managing leads or managers Scope: 3 to 5 pods, 20+ engineers, through Technology Leads and Engineering Managers Domains open: Vini agents · Studio vision platform · Dealer data and integration platform Key Partners: CTO, Head of Product, Post-GTM and Customer Success, Forward Deployed Engineering, Security and Legal, Finance About Spyne Spyne builds AI software for US car dealerships. Studio AI turns a phone walk-around of a vehicle into a complete, publish-ready listing. Vini AI runs dealership sales and service engagement across voice, chat and messaging, and writes the outcome back into the dealer’s own systems. We are further building two human-in-the-loop lines, Lot Service and AI Contact Service, which sit on top of them, so the dealer buys the outcome instead of a license. Founded: 2020, headquartered in Gurugram with a US field presence Scale: More than 3,600 dealerships and automotive brands, reach into 70+ countries, majority of revenue from the United States Team: 200+ people, the large majority in India Integrations: 70+ live across CRM, DMS, inventory, service scheduling and finance, including a live integration with Tekion Automotive Retail Cloud Trust posture: ISO, SOC and GDPR attestations published Backing: $25M+ raised from Accel, Vertex Ventures, Storm Ventures and Alteria Capital What you own The domain and its architecture 3 to 5 pods through Technology Leads and EMs. You set architecture across the domain, own the seams with adjacent domains, make the build-versus-buy calls on model providers, telephony, eval tooling and memory infrastructure, and decide what gets deprecated. You are expected to say no to a second way of doing something that already exists. Reliability and unit cost at scale SLOs, error budgets, on-call health, incident command, and written postmortems that produce a change rather than a document. You own the cloud and inference bill for your domain, and you are expected to bring per-unit cost down while volume goes up. Security, compliance and enterprise readiness Threat modeling in design, tenant isolation, secrets and access, PII across transcripts and traces, vulnerability and dependency management, audit evidence. You own your domain’s part of the security pack that lets a Top 150 dealer group reach a contract instead of stalling at the questionnaire. You will sit in front of a group CIO. In a regulated contact environment, consent, recording and TCPA are design inputs. The hiring engine Interview loop design, calibration of interviewers, a written bar, and a funnel you measure: pass-through, time to close, and 12-month retention of…