Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership - Lead a pod of 5-8 engineers across backend and frontend.
• Architect and review, not just approve.
• Delivery - Drive sprint cadence, unblock bottlenecks, and ship features that enterprise customers stake their operations on.
• AI Tooling Adoption - Champion the use of AI coding tools across your team. Measure productivity. Present findings. Drive decisions.
• Quality and Reliability - Own the team's quality bar: automated test coverage, performance benchmarks, RCA rigour.
• Mentorship - Run 1:1s with intent. Grow senior engineers toward staff, mid-level toward senior. Make learning a team ritual.
• Cross-Team Influence - Work with Principal Architects, Product, and CSM to shape roadmap, surface technical risks, and defend the right calls.

Requirements:

• 8-14 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years leading a team.
• Deep hands-on backend experience (Java preferred; Python acceptable).
• Proven ability to design and deliver distributed, multi-tenant SaaS systems.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at production scale.
• Demonstrable use and measurement of AI coding tools in a team context.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you will interact with enterprise customers and founders.
• B. E / B. Tech in CS, IS, ECE or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• A fundamentally strong, unbounded problem solver, someone who sees a hard constraint and looks for a way around it, not a reason to stop.
• Bonus: awareness of Operations Research techniques linear programming, heuristics, metaheuristics, VRP variants.
• You do not need to know all of this. You need to lead engineers who do, and you need to learn fast what you do not.

Skills:

• Backend: Java, Python.
• Messaging: Apache Kafka.
• Databases: PostgreSQL (PGBouncer), MongoDB, Redis / Hazelcast, ClickHouse, Elastic
• Search.
• Cloud: Azure (AKS, ADLS, Service Bus).
• Frontend: React, Redux.
• AI/ML: Familiarity with embedding pipelines, RAG, and agentic frameworks is a bonus.
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines.