Staff Engineer - Chennai
19 hours ago

Job description
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer (Level 4)
The Impact You Will Create As a Staff Engineer, you are a technical anchor and a multiplier for the entire engineering organization. You will move beyond building features to architecting the platforms and systems that drive our business forward. Your work will directly result in:
- Architecting for Scale: Designing and building highly resilient, distributed systems and micro-frontends/microservices that effortlessly handle massive scale and high availability.
- Engineering Excellence: Setting the gold standard for code quality, system design, and performance optimization across the engineering org.
- Multiplying Team Output: Elevating the technical competence of your peers through deep mentorship, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
- Bridging Product & Technology: Applying deep "Product Sense" to translate complex business requirements into elegant, scalable technical solutions that directly impact our customers.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership & Strategy: Act as the technical authority for your domain. Drive the High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) for large-scale, distributed applications.
- End-to-End Ownership: Lead end-to-end component building (from database schema and backend microservices to frontend delivery) ensuring seamless integration and performance.
- System Resilience & Optimization: Proactively identify bottlenecks, failure points, and performance issues across the entire stack. Implement solutions for fault tolerance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other engineering leaders to gather functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring technical roadmaps align with business goals.
- Mentorship & Culture: Champion a culture of continuous improvement. Mentor mid-level and senior engineers, guiding them through complex technical deep dives and architectural decisions.
- Best Practices: Establish, maintain, and advocate for engineering best practices, including SOLID design principles, advanced testing strategies, and efficient CI/CD integrations.Qualifications
Key Skills
- Advanced System Design: Deep expertise in building distributed systems, Large-scale Apps, and complex API/database schema designs. Mastery of High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
- Core Engineering & Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Capable of solving hard-level Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) problems with highly optimized time and space complexity.
- Full-Stack / Backend Depth: Extensive experience with advanced web development, microservices, microfrontends, and performance monitoring.
- Scalability & Resilience: Strong background in building systems designed for high availability (HA), fault tolerance, and low latency.
- Product Thinking: The ability to look beyond the code to understand the user impact, market needs, and business metrics.
- Communication & Articulation: Excellent ability to clearly explain complex architectural thought processes and align stakeholders on technical vision.
Qualifications
- Education: A Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 9+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing, building, and deploying complex, large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Technical Track Record: Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Lead level, where you have successfully driven the architectural vision for critical business systems.
- Hands-on Mastery: A hands-on mindset you still love writing production-level code, debugging complex distributed systems, and conducting rigorous technical reviews.
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