Head of Engineering - Remote

Immediate joiners only.Compensation: ₹18L to ₹50L per annum, and it grows with every milestone we hit.Xuman.AI is a social app where people post content about what they are open to sharing and experiencing. Someone can discover them by scrolling, and if it resonates and vibes with them, they can connect instantly.On the surface, it collapses fragmented workflows into one system.Underneath, we are building something far deeper: The Human Experience Engine, our Persona Compatibility layer. This engine matches the right person with the right fit at the right time, based on who they are, what they want, and how they connect.The founder's vision is to layer cognitive science into human persona compatibility, leading to hyper-personalized, real-time human connections.Xuman.AI is the productization of the founder's previous bootstrapped venture: ideation, market research, pilots, MVP, and a technical foundation built to scale. The product is built and live on both app stores. We are past the building phase and into distribution: getting it in front of real users and turning it into a repeatable business.Why this role matters:Most engineering leaders inherit someone else's org and spend years working around it. Here you build it: the teams, the bar, the pace a live product ships at. The founders decide what gets built. You decide how it gets built and who builds it, and in two years the product still looks the way you set it up to look.What you'll own:- The eight teams and everything they ship, across both apps and the web- Jira, the sequence of the work, and what actually lands each week- The technical standard, and the judgement calls that set it- Hiring, growing and holding accountable every engineer here- A direct line to the founders on how the product gets builtMust have:- Seven years or more in engineering, and you have led teams that shipped products real people depended on- You have run several teams in parallel, fifteen or more engineers reporting to you directly or through leads- Technical enough to hold an architecture argument and land on the right side of it- Product judgement: you catch a wrong requirement before it becomes code- You have treated a ticketing system as the real plan, not as reporting- Delivery accountability you carried personally, including the weeks it slipped- You get work done through people without being lenient or harsh- You can hire engineers and tell the good ones from the fast ones- Difficult conversations as a routine part of your week- An estate comparable to ours: 16 backend services, two apps on both stores, a web front- You use AI tools (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) daily to write, debug, and ship faster. Not optional; this is how we work.What you'll get:- An engineering org with your name on it, built from the first hire- The founders on a call when you need a decision, not a steering committee- A product live on both stores, so your calls land in real hands within days- The people you hire growing under you, and pay that grows with the milestones- Claude, Copilot and the budget to use them properlyYou are joining before growth, not after. What you own here is real, and it grows as fast as you do.If this seat reads like yours, apply with confidence. Every application is reviewed personally.