Product & Platform
/Senior leadership
Director of Engineering — Product
Product Engineering Leadership
Compensation
INR 45 - 70 LPA + equity.
Engagement
Full-Time
Permanent role. Full-time commitment. Primarily on-site, with limited remote flexibility.
Scope of role
Set direction within your domain. Build and mentor a team. Own outcomes at the function level.
01 — The role
Why this role exists at EduRankAI
Lead the product engineering teams behind edurankai.in, the applicant portal, and AquinTutor. Three Engineering Managers report to you. Outcomes you own: ship velocity, code quality, user-visible reliability, recruiting at the senior IC level. This is a role for an engineer who became a leader on purpose, not by accident. You should still be the person on your team most likely to spot the design flaw in a complicated RFC.
02 — The work
What you will own
- 01 Lead three product engineering teams through their EMs — frontend, backend, mobile.
- 02 Own quarterly OKRs and the product roadmap jointly with the PM org.
- 03 Own the front-end and back-end architecture for everything user-facing.
- 04 Hire Senior ICs and Engineering Managers.
- 05 Set and enforce the code review + testing bar across product engineering.
- 06 Own production reliability for the product layer (uptime, error budgets, perceived performance).
- 07 Run quarterly engineering health reviews — retention, burnout signals, on-call fairness.
03 — The expertise
What we look for
04 — The bar
Who thrives here
- → You have led a product engineering org of at least 15 ICs and 2 EMs for at least 2 years.
- → You have shipped a feature in the last 12 months that you can describe with a specific user-impact metric.
- → You can name three engineers whose careers materially benefited from working with you.
- → You can describe the last time you reversed a technical decision after new information.
- → You write your own RFCs.
05 — Hiring process
What to expect after you apply
- 01
Application review
Every application is read personally within five business days. We respond either way.
- 02
Take-home or live exercise
Role-specific. Time-boxed. Real problems we are actually working on, not invented puzzles.
- 03
Conversations
Deep technical and values conversations with the team you would join. No trick questions. No panel ambushes.
- 04
Offer or honest no
If yes: digital offer letter, signed in-portal, transparent terms. If no: written feedback if you want it.
Before you start
What we will collect. What it costs. What we will not do with it.
We will collect
- Name, email, phone — Account + application updates. No marketing.
- Resume / portfolio link — Human review of your work.
- Date + place of birth — Identity verification only.
- Your written responses — Selection rubric. Read by humans.
- Government ID (later) — Anti-fraud at offer / interview stage. Not at signup.
We will never
- Sell your data
- Share with third-party recruiters
- Use for advertising
- Train models on it
- Send marketing email
Our situation
EduRankAI is a small, independent organization building long-term capabilities in educational intelligence, advanced AI systems, and research infrastructure. We take no advertiser money, no donations with strings attached, and no investor pressure on hiring decisions. Applying is free, and every application is read by a human — recruitment, technical, academic and leadership teams. It buys us the right to be honest.
Ready to apply?
We read every application personally. If you are the right person for this role — regardless of pedigree, background, or where you are based — you will hear back from us within five business days.
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