Software Development Manager

Head of Engineering

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Role Overview Description

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Organization: Living Things by Icapo Tech Pvt. Ltd

Location: Bengaluru, India

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Senior-Level (8-10+ years experience)

About Us:

Living Things is a pioneering IoT platform by iCapotech Pvt Ltd, dedicated to accelerating the net zero journey towards a sustainable future. We bring mindfulness in energy usage by our platform. Our solution seamlessly integrates with existing air conditioners, empowering businesses & organisations to optimise & reduce energy usage, enhance operational efficiency, reduce carbon footprints, and drive sustainable practices. Analysis of Electricity consumption across all locations from Electricity Bills. By harnessing the power of real-time data analytics and intelligent insights, our energy saving algorithm helps in saving a minimum of 15% on Air Conditioners energy consumption.

About the Role

As the Head of Engineering at Living Things, you will shape the technology vision and lead the development of scalable, cloud-native, and data-driven systems that power our clean-tech solutions. You’ll drive innovation across IoT, AI/ML, and data platforms, enabling real-time insights, automation, and measurable sustainability impact. Beyond building complex systems, you will mentor and grow a world-class engineering team, establish best practices, and foster a culture of ownership and innovation—ensuring Living Things delivers reliable, customer-centric solutions that reduce carbon footprint and transform how businesses consume energy.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Technical Leadership:

• Define and own the long-term technology vision and roadmap aligned with business and sustainability goals.
• Enable data-driven decision-making by partnering with the analytics team to design modern data platforms, data lakes, and real-time pipelines.
• Ensure alignment of engineering strategy with business outcomes and environmental impact objectives.

Building Complex Systems:

• Lead the design and development of large-scale, complex web applications from scratch, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Drive event-driven architectures and microservices patterns to support real-time analytics and operational workflows.

Cloud-Native Execution:

• Architect and manage multiple microservices across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), leveraging both managed services (e.g., serverless, managed databases) and self-managed infrastructure (containers, Kubernetes, observability stacks, etc.).
• Define best practices for data streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis) and batch processing pipelines, enabling real-time insights and reporting.

Analytics Enablement

• Enable the analytics and data science teams by building robust data infrastructure, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, and real-time dashboards.
• Automate data workflows and operational processes for high efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborate with analytics leadership to ensure data governance, quality, and observability.
• System Architecture & Scalability: Drive decisions that enable modular, distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Innovation for Sustainability: Champion adoption of emerging technologies to optimize energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and deliver measurable environmental impact.
• Team Building & Mentorship: Grow, inspire, and lead a high-performing
• engineering organization spanning backend, frontend, IoT, AI/ML, and data domains.
• Operational Excellence: Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD testing, monitoring, reliability, and security at scale.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Data Science, and Operations to deliver customer-centric, mission-driven solutions.
• Execution & Delivery: Ensure projects are delivered with high quality and on time, balancing speed of innovation with system stability.
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicate progress, risks, and strategy to leadership, investors, and external partners.
• Culture & Values: Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and sustainability within the engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

• B.Tech degree or a Master’s in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
• 8-10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven track record in building complex web applications from scratch and scaling them to production-grade reliability.
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture, including deployment and orchestration across cloud platforms.
• Experience with both managed services (serverless computing, managed DBs, cloud-native APIs) and self-managed systems (Kubernetes, container orchestration, observability stacks).
• Hands-on proficiency in backend development (Node.js, Python) and frontend frameworks (Angular, React, or Vue).
• Strong knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and distributed systems.
• Exposure to IoT, AI/ML, and big data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with streaming/event-driven technologies such as Kafka or MQTT.
• Bonus: Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi) and
• multi-cloud strategies.

Leadership:

• Proven ability to build, scale, and lead engineering teams in fast-paced environments.
• Strong decision-making skills balancing deep technical knowledge with business priorities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.

What We Offer

• Mission-Driven Impact: Lead engineering initiatives that directly contribute to reducing carbon emissions.
• Innovation-First: Shape groundbreaking solutions with AI, ML, IoT, and data at the core.
• Empowered Culture: Work in a human-first workplace that values creativity, growth, and collaboration.
• Leadership Opportunity: Drive the technical strategy of a company solving one of humanity’s most pressing challenges.

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