# (Services) Engineering Director at Backbase

(Services) Engineering Director at Backbase in Hyderabad. Posted September 3, 2026.

- Company: Backbase
- Location: Hyderabad
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workatbackbase/jobs/8176140
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/services-engineering-director-backbase-hgq70t

## Requirements

- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (50+ engineers) through Engineering Managers.
- Experience operating large-scale software delivery organizations across multiple concurrent projects.
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including architecture governance, CI/CD, testing strategies, observability, operational excellence and engineering metrics.
- Demonstrated success building and coaching engineering leaders
- Experience leading organizational transformation and driving measurable engineering improvements.
- Strong customer-facing leadership with the ability to build trust while navigating difficult delivery situations.
- Hands-on understanding of AI-assisted software engineering, developer tooling and Agentic SDLC with the ability to pragmatically introduce these practices across engineering organizations.
- Excellent communication skills with both executive stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Bias for ownership, continuous improvement and data-driven decision making.

## Description

### **The Job in short**

As an Engineering Director at Backbase, you will lead a multi-project engineering organization delivering complex digital banking solutions for leading financial institutions in the Middle East region. You are accountable for building a high-performing engineering organization that consistently delivers predictable, high-quality software while developing future engineering leaders.

This is not only a delivery leadership role. You are expected to continuously improve how engineering operates by introducing modern engineering practices, scaling engineering excellence across teams and driving AI-assisted software development.

You will lead Engineering Managers and Technical Leaders across multiple customer engagements, balancing customer success, engineering quality and organizational growth.

 

### **Meet the Job**

- Lead and grow an engineering organization of 100+ engineers across multiple customer programs.

- Coach, develop and raise the bar for Engineering Managers through regular mentoring, feedback and performance management.

- Drive engineering excellence by improving delivery predictability, quality, developer experience, operational readiness and engineering metrics.

- Establish consistent engineering governance, release readiness, architecture and quality practices across multiple teams.

- Partner with customers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leaders, Architects and Product leadership to build trusted engineering relationships and resolve complex delivery challenges.

- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement and technical excellence.

- Lead engineering transformation through adoption of AI-native development practices, Agentic SDLC, automation and modern platform capabilities.

- Develop engineering capability for the region through hiring, succession planning, technical communities and career development.

 

### **What success looks like**

You build an organization where:

- Engineering Managers grow into exceptional leaders.

- Teams deliver predictably with a balance of quality.

- Engineering decisions are driven by data.

- Customers trust engineering commitments.

- AI measurably improves engineering productivity and quality.

- Engineering standards scale consistently across projects and teams.

- Difficult organizational changes are implemented when required to improve long-term outcomes.

 

### **How about you**

- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (50+ engineers) through Engineering Managers.

- Experience operating large-scale software delivery organizations across multiple concurrent projects.

- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including architecture governance, CI/CD, testing strategies, observability, operational excellence and engineering metrics.

- Demonstrated success building and coaching engineering leaders

- Experience leading organizational transformation and driving measurable engineering improvements.

- Strong customer-facing leadership with the ability to build trust while navigating difficult delivery situations.

- Hands-on understanding of AI-assisted software engineering, developer tooling and Agentic SDLC with the ability to pragmatically introduce these practices across engineering organizations.

- Excellent communication skills with both executive stakeholders and engineering teams.

- Bias for ownership, continuous improvement and data-driven decision making.

 

### **Leadership principles**

Engineering Directors at Backbase:

- Build leaders.

- Measure outcomes, not activity.

- Solve systemic problems rather than local optimizations.

- Raise engineering quality without slowing delivery.

- Challenge the status quo and continuously improve how engineering works.

- Embrace AI as an engineering multiplier while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals.