[Hiring] Director of Engineering @Weekday

Role Description

This role is for one of our clients.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Min Experience: 8 years
• Location: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: ₹30,00,000 - ₹1,20,00,000 a year
• Position: Senior Director of Engineering
• Domain: Regulatory Intelligence — Life Sciences & Healthcare

The Context: An AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform built for life sciences and healthcare compliance professionals. It aggregates, structures, and surfaces insights from global regulatory bodies — helping teams navigate complex agency guidance, submissions, and compliance requirements.

As the Senior Director of Engineering lays out the architectural vision and scales the team, this role is the execution anchor. You will be the person who turns that vision into shipped, production-grade software — owning critical platform components end-to-end and being the engineer others look to when things get hard.

Qualifications

• 7–11 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years working on production SaaS platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Python for backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML integrations.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered features: prompt engineering, RAG architectures, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), and LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source equivalents).
• Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with REST and/or GraphQL API design and a track record of building APIs that other teams depend on.
• Comfortable with modern frontend frameworks (React) — not required to be a specialist, but should be able to contribute across the stack when needed.

Requirements

• Strongly Preferred: Understanding of the regulatory landscape in life sciences or healthcare — familiarity with FDA, EMA, ICH, or equivalent agencies, document types (guidance, eCTD, dossiers), and compliance workflows.
• Acceptable Alternative: Experience building software for a regulated life sciences environment — clinical trial platforms, pharmacovigilance, healthcare informatics, or medical device compliance.
• Valued Mindset: Ability to read and reason about regulatory documents, understand their structure, and think about what intelligent extraction and retrieval would look like.

Benefits

• Real Ownership: You will own meaningful parts of a production platform — not just tickets in a queue.
• AI at the Core: LLMs and intelligent retrieval are the product, not an add-on. You will build the intelligence layer.
• Clear Growth Path: An explicit path is built into this role from day one.
• Impactful Domain: Regulatory compliance directly affects patient safety. The work has real-world consequences worth caring about.
• Small Team, Big Scope: Your contributions are highly visible and directly shape company outcomes.

Company Description

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