Staff Software Engineer

Overview

Provide technical leadership across teams, shape engineering strategy, and drive the design of scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions. Influence without direct authority, mentor engineers, and align technology decisions with customer, product, security, operational, and commercial outcomes.

What you'll do

• Lead technical direction across multiple teams and strategic initiatives.
• Design and govern scalable, cloud-native, distributed systems and platforms.
• Define architectural patterns, engineering standards, and reusable solutions.
• Drive design reviews, technology roadmaps, and architectural decision-making.
• Identify and address technical debt, scalability risks, operational challenges, and security concerns.
• Develop and support production-grade applications using Java (17+), Spring Boot, and/or Node.js with TypeScript.
• Design robust REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD), clean architecture, and modern engineering principles.
• Build highly available systems leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Redis Streams, SNS/SQS, and other messaging platforms.
• Champion quality through automated testing, performance engineering, and secure coding practices.
• Design and operate solutions on AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP.
• Leverage Kubernetes, Docker, and modern platform engineering practices to enable scalable and resilient services.
• Build reusable platform capabilities, self-service tooling, and developer-friendly engineering experiences.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or FluxCD.
• Drive automation and continuous delivery practices across the software lifecycle.
• Establish observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and operational insights.
• Define and improve reliability measures including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Champion secure-by-design engineering, cloud security, API security, and DevSecOps practices.
• Lead incident investigations and transform learnings into lasting improvements.
• Set standards for architecture, maintainability, testing, performance, and security.
• Mentor senior engineers through technical reviews, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to technical strategy, communities of practice, and capability uplift across engineering teams.

What you'll need

• Significant software engineering experience operating at Senior, Lead, Principal, or Staff Engineer level.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, TypeScript, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, and cloud-native development.
• Proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and platform engineering practices.
• Strong background in software architecture, DDD, SOLID principles, observability, reliability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across teams, mentor engineers, and balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.

Nice to have

• Frontend technologies including React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
• AI and Generative AI technologies including LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and AI platform engineering.
• Platform engineering, Internal Developer Platforms, SRE, and large-scale enterprise modernisation.
• Experience within highly regulated, security-focused enterprise environments.
• AWS, Kubernetes, Security, Architecture, Cloud, or AI-related certifications.
• Experience building high-volume customer-facing platforms and enterprise-scale systems.

Details

• Employment type: Permanent.
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka.
• Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company.