Staff Engineer

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to drive the design and development of highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems. As a Staff Engineer, you will work on complex technical problems, influence architecture and engineering practices, and collaborate closely with engineering, product, and other cross-functional teams. This role requires strong hands-on engineering capabilities along with the ability to provide technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and own scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend services and systems.
• Drive architecture and technical design decisions for complex, large-scale systems.
• Solve challenging problems related to scalability, reliability, performance, distributed systems, and data consistency.
• Lead the development of critical backend components from design through deployment and production ownership.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and performance.
• Identify technical bottlenecks and drive initiatives to improve system performance, availability, and developer productivity.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to senior engineers and engineering teams.
• Conduct and contribute to design and code reviews, ensuring high engineering standards.
• Influence technical roadmaps and contribute to long-term architecture and platform strategy.
• Take ownership of ambiguous, cross-team technical challenges and drive them towards resolution.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in backend/software engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise in at least one of the following: Java, Golang, Python.
• Strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Design, and System Design.
• Proven experience designing and building distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, databases, caching, messaging systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working with systems handling high scale, traffic, data volume, or complex business workflows.
• Strong understanding of performance optimisation, observability, reliability, and production engineering.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions while balancing scalability, reliability, complexity, and business requirements.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise the overall engineering bar.

Good to Have:

• Experience working in a high-growth product or technology company.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with distributed databases, Kafka or other messaging systems.
• Experience driving large-scale technical migrations or platform modernisation initiatives.
• Contributions to engineering standards, architecture frameworks, or developer productivity initiatives.

Expectations:

• Building backend systems that are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and performant.
• Driving meaningful architectural and technical improvements across teams.
• Successfully owning and delivering complex, high-impact engineering initiatives.
• Improving engineering quality, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Becoming a strong technical point of reference for backend engineering within the organisation.