Staff Engineer

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Staff Engineer Location: Bangalore, India

(Hybrid) Job ID: 49430

Profile Summary: We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Engineer – Backend Lead with 12+ years of experience in designing and building scalable backend systems using Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, and AWS cloud technologies. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on development expertise, and ownership of end-to-end service architecture and delivery. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and developing cloud-native services, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring teams. They will balance technical depth with strategic thinking, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

Who are we? HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,000 worldwide employees. Check us out: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hidglobal/mycompany/

About HID Global, Bangalore At HID Global, we are a bunch of passionate Engineers working on a product that helps integrating multiple physical access controls and logical access systems for Identities. Our product provides a common way of provisioning cards and access to identities across the organisation. We work on exciting integration and design problems using latest Microsoft Technologies in an inclusive environment. It is a great place to make a career, learn and have fun.We develop best-in-class access control and authentication solutions that help governments and organizations stay ahead of an ever-changing threat landscape. Most of our products are supported on both on premise and cloud environments. Our products protect more than 85 million user identities and issued more than 50 million credentials to date. It is a great place to become security domain expert and work on latest technologies.

Identity and Access Management Solutions (IAMS) HID Global IAM products protect more than 85 million user identities. HID Global Identity and Access Management Solutions products protect more than 85 million user identities. At HID Global, we understand that no person, device, or workplace can go unprotected. This philosophy of Zero Trust drives us to create new advances in risk-based multi-factor authentication, leads us to secure user identities in converged access environments and drives the need to expand implementations with our industry-leading digital certificates and PKIaaS solution to manage them at scale.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services using Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js
• Develop cloud-native applications leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, and related infrastructure
• Take full ownership of the software lifecycle: design, development, testing, deployment, and production support
• Architect and implement microservices and event-driven systems
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following TDD and best engineering practices
• Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and architectural guidelines
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to refine requirements and deliver solutions
• Lead system design discussions and ensure scalable, resilient architecture decisions
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback across teams
• Ensure observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting practices are implemented
• Work in a fast-paced Agile environment with a focus on continuous delivery

Qualifications :-

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for backend systems
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and accountability
• Drive design and development of distributed systems and RESTful APIs
• Develop and maintain AWS-based infrastructure and serverless applications with Lambdas
• Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning
• Define best practices for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure management
• Ensure proper documentation of systems, architectures, and processes
• Collaborate with leadership and product stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals
• Support production systems, ensuring uptime, reliability, and incident resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Exposure to event streaming systems (Kafka, SNS/SQS)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, etc.)
• Prior experience leading large-scale cloud migration or transformation initiatives
• Exposure to security best practices in cloud-native applications
• Experience working in high-scale, high-availability systems

Education and/or Experience: -

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• 12+ years of experience in backend development
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js
• Experience designing and building microservices architecture
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, especially Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, DynamoDB/RDS
• Experience with serverless architectures
• Proficiency in REST APIs, distributed systems, and scalable application design
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Experience with source control systems (e.g., Bitbucket/Git)
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• An Engineering degree or equivalent and a minimum of 12+ years of related experience

Why apply?

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted. This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements. HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go! On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it. When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.