Reports to: CTO

Location: Bangalore (in-office)

This role exists because the team needs dedicated leadership. The Staff Engineer has been shouldering managerial responsibilities, and we need someone who can take that load - protecting the team from chaos, improving how we ship, and reducing production incidents.

What You will Do?

Drive Faster, Higher-Quality Delivery

• Own cycle time from "ready for dev" to "production"—identify bottlenecks, remove them, measure improvement
• Reduce production incidents through better practices (not more bureaucracy)
• Balance shipping fast with shipping safely—know when to push and when to slow down

Protect the Team from Chaos

• Establish how work enters the team—triage requests from Sales, CS, Support, and other stakeholders
• Maintain a single prioritised backlog with the PM
• Say "no" (or "not now") professionally while keeping relationships intact

Partner with the Staff Engineer

• Clear division: Staff Engineer owns cross-cutting architecture and technical direction; you own execution, process, and people
• Neither of you should be a bottleneck to the other
• Together, you're accountable for the team's outcomes

Develop Engineers

• Run effective 1:1s, give real feedback, help people grow
• Identify and address performance issues early
• Build a team people want to stay on

Hire and Grow the Team

• Own hiring for your team—source, interview, close great engineers
• Build a high-caliber team that raises the bar

What It Takes ?

Required

• Strong IC foundation first
  • 4-5+ years as an engineer at scale or startups before moving to management; you have built platforms, done firefighting, and grew into leadership on merit (not just early promotion into people management)
• 3+ years managing engineers at teams of 3-8 people - seasoned enough to hit the ground running
• Tenure and commitment
  • you have grown teams and stayed with them, not just passed through
• Startup experience (Series B-D)
  • you know how to operate with urgency and limited resources
• B2B SaaS or similar complexity
  • you understand enterprise customer expectations (or have dealt with equivalent technical/business complexity)
• Track record improving velocity
  • you can point to specific changes you made and the results
• Track record on quality
  • you have reduced incidents or improved reliability (with numbers)
• Stakeholder management skills
  • you have handled competing requests from GTM teams without burning bridges

Preferred

• Experience with cross-functional teams (front-end, back-end, platform, AI)
• Familiarity with data-intensive or analytics products
• Companies with strong engineering cultures (you have reference points for "good")

Why Enterpret?

• Real problems to solve
  • The team needs you. This isn't a maintenance role; it's a turnaround.
• Strong technical partner
  • You will work with a Staff Engineer who owns technical vision. You don't need to be the best engineer; you need to be the best manager.
• Direct CTO access
  • You report directly to the CTO with full visibility into company direction
• AI-native product
  • Work on a product using LLMs at its core (OpenAI, Anthropic), serving customers who care deeply about what we build
• Modern stack
  • Go for performance services, ClickHouse for analytics, AWS (Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, S3), and coding agents to automate engineering workflows
• Meaningful ownership
  • Significant equity in a venture-backed company with real traction