Engineering Director - Mapping & Navigation

🌍 Now Hiring : Head of Engineering – Maps, Navigation & Traffic Intelligence

📍 Location : Delhi | 💼 Experience : 12-18 Years | 🚀 Full-time | Leadership Role

SBU : Startup

🧭 About the Opportunity

⚙️ What You’ll Lead

🗺️ Define & drive the technical roadmap for location search, routing, and traffic intelligence systems.

🧩 Architect next-gen graph-based routing engines for real-time, multimodal, and EV-aware navigation.

🚦 Lead development of dynamic traffic models , forecasting , and real-time visualisation using AI / ML.

🔍 Enhance search & discovery – geocoding, POI ranking, and personalised location intelligence.

☁️ Ensure platforms are cloud-native, scalable, and low-latency , built on modern microservices & streaming data pipelines.

📡 Integrate multi-source data (GPS probes, IoT sensors, crowdsourced traffic, and government feeds).

🧠 Apply machine learning for ETA prediction, congestion detection, demand forecasting, and route personalisation.

🧑 💻 Build, mentor, and scale high-performance engineering and data science teams .

🛠️ Set engineering best practices for reliability, observability, and security of real-time systems.

💡 Drive IP creation in routing algorithms, data pipelines, and APIs that redefine mobility.

🤝 Partner with product, business, and automotive stakeholders to align tech execution with market vision.

🧬 What You Bring

🔹 Proven expertise in graph algorithms , shortest-path routing , and traffic-aware navigation .

🔹 Strong understanding of geospatial systems — map data structures, PostGIS, Elasticsearch, spatial indexing.

🔹 Hands-on with AI / ML for traffic forecasting, ETA, and mobility analytics.

🔹 Experience building large-scale, real-time distributed systems with Kafka, Spark / Flink, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP / Azure .

🔹 Track record of leading high-impact engineering teams and delivering production-grade platforms.

• 🔹 Strategic thinker — balances innovation with execution;

understands mobility, logistics, and automotive use cases deeply.

🔹 Inspirational leader — able to mentor, motivate, and scale cross-functional tech orgs .

🔹 Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with a strong product sense.

💡 Why to Join Us