Staff Software Engineer - NLP

Overview

Lead cross-team backend architecture and large-scale modernization initiatives as a Staff Software Engineer focused on modular systems, production reliability, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

What you'll do

• Lead large backend initiatives spanning teams and remove systemic bottlenecks.
• Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture.
• Define standards for APIs, testing, security, performance, observability, and production readiness.
• Establish patterns for dependencies, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, and service maturity.
• Participate in on-call and incident response and improve systems based on incidents.
• Mentor engineers and guide technical debt reduction and reusable patterns.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows with appropriate guardrails.

What you'll need

• Sustained technical leadership across multiple teams or a broad product area.
• Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms.
• Experience modernizing monoliths or legacy backend architectures in production.
• Ability to align teams through written proposals and decision records without formal authority.
• Experience balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through reviews, documentation, and example.
• Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, Kubernetes, Rust, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, distributed systems, or messaging.
• Experience with security-sensitive products or software supply chains.
• Experience across SaaS, single-tenant, self-managed, or air-gapped deployments.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Remote-first organization.
• Full-time role.