Staff Engineer

Overview

Staff Engineer role leading technical direction, mentorship and architecture for the foundational content platform, with a particular focus on the SCM domain.

What you'll do

• Shape technical roadmaps, explore new problem spaces, and set direction for initiatives that span across teams, with a particular focus on the SCM domain.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, sponsor opportunities for growth, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Design Angular/TypeScript/.. solutions that simplify, scale, and improve long-term maintainability across the foundational content platform.
• Identify what matters most for Showpad's future, such as reducing infrastructure costs, building resilient data pipelines, or unlocking new product capabilities.
• Advocate for resilience, performance, and security, ensuring the technical bar is always raised.

What you'll need

• Experience solving complex technical challenges (impact matters more than time in role).
• Deep, production-grade proficiency in Angular and TypeScript, with a strong command of scalable fullstack architecture, component design patterns, and performance optimization.
• Proven track record in technical leadership, architecture, and strategy.
• Proven track record for mentorship, clear communication, and long-term thinking.
• Ability to see both the big picture and the fine detail, knowing when to zoom out to strategy and when to dive deep into technical issues.
• Pragmatism: making deliberate decisions, balancing speed and sustainability.
• Hands-on experience working in AWS environments, comfortable with core services (e.g. Lambda, S3, RDS, Kinesis, Terraform) and cloud-native architectural patterns.
• Deep understanding of database systems (Postgres, Aurora, ..).
• Open to engaging with full stack topics, able to contribute meaningfully to full-stack conversations, API design, and data pipeline decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience working with design systems.
• Deeper engineering experience in other areas like Node.js, Python, Kotlin, PHP or similar, beyond familiarity, able to own those components when needed.
• Background in enterprise SaaS or sales enablement platforms.
• Exposure to GraphQL, real-time data streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), or observability tooling.

Details

• Location: Pune.