Staff Software Engineer (Backend) 8+ Yrs ( Immediate Joiners)

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its innovative SaaS platform, empowering telco operators worldwide to effortlessly launch innovative digital brands or refresh existing ones, accelerating their transformation into techcos.

Today, Circles partners with leading telco operators across multiple countries and continents, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel, creating blueprints for future telco and digital experiences enjoyed by millions of consumers globally.

Besides its SaaS business, Circles operates three other distinct businesses:

Circles.Life : A wholly-owned digital lifestyle telco brand based in Singapore, Circles.Life is powered by Circles ’ SaaS platform and pioneering go-to-market strategies. It is the digital market leader in Singapore and has won numerous awards for marketing, customer service, and innovative product offerings beyond connectivity.

Circles Aspire : A global provider of Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solutions. Its cloud-based Experience Cloud platform enables enterprises, service providers and developers to deliver and scale mobile, messaging, IoT, and connectivity services worldwide.

Jetpac : Specializing in travel tech solutions, Jetpac provides seamless eSIM roaming for over 200 destinations and innovative travel lifestyle products, redefining connectivity for digital travelers. Jetpac was awarded Travel eSIM of the Year.

Circles is backed by renowned global investors, including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia), Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and EDBI (the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), with a track record of backing industry challengers.

Job Title: Staff Engineer Location - Bangalore (India)

Job Responsibilities:

As our Staff Engineer (Back End) ,you'll be responsible for building new features,enhancing the existing ones as well as supporting them in production. You will also be responsible for building reusable libraries or technology platforms that address multiple use cases. You will work towards delivering specific milestones and objectives in a very dynamic environment

You will be in charge of the following: Working closely with the Engineers to develop the best technical design, strategy and drive execution to build capabilities into the platform

Service ownership for the assigned services.

Owning the delivery of various timelines, ensuring that key milestones are met and deliveries are of the highest qualit

Establishing various best practices for software development and encouraging their adoption with the team and organization

Collaborate with other non-technical stakeholders of the business which includes

Product Managers, Designers, Marketing etc.

Encouraging and mentoring an excellent team of talented engineers by mentoring them and working with them to remove any roadblocks

Functional availability of the software developed, enhancing the product based on functional requirements

Managing cloud-based services, web applications for their functional correctness, availability, security

Deploy and maintain enterprise class RESTful web services

Own the engineering excellence and operational readiness of the service driving the

SLO,SLI, SLA of the relevant services

Take ownership to drive quality of the services under your purview via integration test and unit test coverage

Responsible for all microservices within your purview responsible driving their quality, security,availability, scalability and other “ilities”

Dive deep into each issue, own reactive fixes, and execute long term fixes

Assist other Support Engineers on complex RCA issues

Provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers

Provide L3 engineering support

Requirements: Around 8+ years of experience in software development of which 2 years are relevant Engineering Leadership experience

Strong design and architectural experience in building various highly-scalable and highly-available products

Strong understanding of the SDLC Activities which include Analysis, Design,

Development, Testing, Deployment and Post-Production Support etc.

Proficiency in at least one server side framework for languages such as Spring boot-java, Node.js, Golang

Experience working on NoSQL & SQL Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL,MongoDB, Redis etc

Preferred experience in Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK Stack)

Preferred experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ

Deep Dive, problem-solving, RCA and systematic thinking to reach the cause of issues

Able to work independently and multi-task effectively

Program at a system level and able to manage service stability

Excellent experience maintaining, scalable, extensible code

Methodical in maintaining up to date documentation

Metric-driven mindset and obsessive about ensuring clean coding practices

Preferred experience in product development

Preferred working experience on microservices platforms

Circles is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age.

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