Staff Software Engineer

The Staff Software Engineer role offers a unique opportunity to combine your technical expertise with strategic thinking, guiding the team in making architectural decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and actively contributing to the evolution of our technology stack.  This role is the SME and “go-to” person in the team, and the individual works well under pressure, responds with urgency and operates with a high degree of autonomy, accountability, and maturity. As a Staff Software engineer, you are the domain expert in multiple areas, and can provide regular insight to product and design leads of all levels that are working within these areas. You can identify, tackle and deliver on strategically important problems for the group whether it is Product, Platform, or Infrastructure.

This role affords opportunities to lead and contribute to design and implementation of multiple large projects or lead a large org or company-wide objective, including the possibility of (technically) leading multiple small(er) teams, or a large team. Overall, this role has all the ingredients for the incumbent to command and hold respect as an expert and to develop a track-record of deep and/or broad impact to a product or technology area.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Architecture Design:

•  Define and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance software architectures.
•  Develop architectural blueprints and technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
•  Ensure best practices, design patterns, and architectural principles are followed.
•  Technology Strategy:
•  Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks.
•  Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
•  Ensure technology alignment with enterprise standards and business goals.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Work closely with development teams, product managers, and stakeholders to translate requirements    into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, scalability, and performance tuning.

 Governance & Compliance:

• Define and enforce architectural governance, coding standards, and security policies.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure compliance with architectural guidelines.
• Identify potential risks and create mitigation plans.

Performance Optimization:

• Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks to improve efficiency.
• Ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and maintainable.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 11+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven track record of delivering sophisticated software solutions in a leadership capacity with high quality.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical and business problems.
• Experience in Java, SpringBoot development, preferably Kotlin
• Experience in Front-End development like Angular.
• Experience in relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB and SQL
• Experience in NoSQL databases like Mongo DB
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes (like EKS) for orchestration
• Experience working on cloud services like AWS
• Experience working with Gradle, writing 100% code coverage through unit and integration tests.
• Experience with working on APM tools for observability and alerting like Datadog/New Relic/Dynatrace/Splunk or something equivalent.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools that allow you to visualize and analyze data and coming up with metrics that would help make decisions to improve the system.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems/requirements and create POCs and develop code.
• Ability to make informed technical design decisions that consider long-term maintainability, scalability, and performance.
• Capability to assess and identify all impacted components during architectural or framework upgrades.
• Experience with user behavior analytics, including event instrumentation, analysis, and deriving actionable product insights.
• Ability to identify and debug web server issues, including analyzing error patterns, performance bottlenecks, and misconfigurations using observability tools and server logs.
• Solid grasp of version control systems, such as Git.
• Knowledge in OAuth2.
• Proven ability to mentor and lead a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a remote working environment.
• Flair to identify improvisation areas and provide solutions with newer technologies

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS or Azure, is highly desirable.
• Experience in working on Authentication and Authorization with any Identity Providers.
• Experience in automation with Web Driver IO.
• Knowledge/experience in working with DevOps/CICD.
• Knowledge/experience in working with Databricks

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