Software Engineer Staff

Staff Software Engineer

Important: Candidates must have experience working currently with product-based companies only.

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience: 11-15 Years

Notice Period: Up to 60 Days

Employment Type: Full-Time

Main Skills :- java, Cloud (AWS / Azure), API design, TypeScript

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to provide strong technical leadership while remaining hands-on in software development. The ideal candidate will have a strong backend engineering background, excellent expertise in Java, and experience driving architecture, API design, technical direction, and engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for the teams sprint and continuously refine the product backlog.
• Own and provide technical authority across design and code reviews for the teams engineering surface.
• Break large initiatives and complex requirements into well-defined, estimable, and deliverable user stories.
• Own API contracts and ensure protocol/version compatibility across supported product releases.
• Establish and enforce a strong Definition of Ready, ensuring work begins with sufficient clarity to enable successful delivery.
• Mentor, coach, and onboard engineers while helping intermediate-level engineers grow technically.
• Collaborate closely with architects, product managers, and engineering leadership on product direction, architecture, and sequencing.
• Remain hands-on with development, spending approximately 50% of the time on coding and technical implementation.
• Drive engineering excellence through effective design reviews, code reviews, technical documentation, and development practices.
• Contribute to scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable backend services.

Required Skills & Experience

• 1115 years of overall software engineering experience, preferably with significant experience in product-based organizations.
• Strong backend software engineering experience with Java.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript.
• Proven experience providing technical leadership and setting the technical direction for an engineering team.
• Strong experience designing REST APIs, service interfaces, and database schemas for services consumed by other teams or products.
• Demonstrated ability to decompose large and complex initiatives into smaller, actionable, and deliverable pieces of work.
• Experience making technical and compatibility decisions across multiple supported product versions.
• Strong experience conducting design and code reviews and establishing engineering standards.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and support technical growth within a team.
• Hands-on experience with Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and AI-Assisted Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) practices, or an equivalent modern software development methodology.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, agile engineering practices, and production-quality software delivery.

Good to Have

• Experience with AWS and cloud-native application development.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerized deployment technologies.
• Experience building distributed systems and scalable backend services.
• Exposure to CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and production engineering practices.
• Experience working in SaaS or enterprise product environments.

Why Join Us

Join a product-focused engineering environment where you can influence technical direction, solve complex engineering problems, mentor talented engineers, and build scalable products used by customers globally.

If interested contact ([phone removed])

Thanks and Regards,

Vaishnavi S