Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend (10+ years of experience)

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about 3 hours ago

Hyderābād, India

Senior / Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

Architect and evolve distributed, service-oriented systems focusing on scalability and resiliency.
Identify performance bottlenecks, systemic risks, and reliability gaps before they impact customers.
Lead large, cross-team technical initiatives from concept through production.
Drive planning, estimation, milestone tracking, and delivery discipline.
Align engineering, product, and platform stakeholders to ensure successful execution.
Break down complex systems into clean service boundaries and sustainable architectures.
Raise the quality bar through strong testing, reviews, and operational excellence practices.
Mentor senior engineers and elevate technical standards across the organization.

Minimum 10+ years of experience building and scaling distributed backend systems.
Deep expertise in cloud-native and service-oriented architectures.
Strong system design skills with long-term architectural thinking.
Proven track record of leading complex, multi-team initiatives.
Operational thinking to ensure smooth customer experience through focus on monitoring and metrics.
Exceptional ownership, accountability, and execution discipline.
Strong planning, tracking, and delivery management capabilities.
Ability to influence without formal authority and communicate effectively across technical and executive audiences.
Ruby/Go experience is preferred but not mandatory.

Highly competitive salary.
25 days annual vacation time plus sick time and casual leave.
Group medical policy coverage for employees and up to 5 eligible family members.
OPD benefit covered up to INR 10,000.
Life insurance and personal accident insurance at 3x annual CTC.
26 weeks of maternity leave pay and 15 days of paternity leave pay.
Opportunity to be part of company success via the RSU program.
Diversity and inclusion programs promoting employee resource groups.
Employee referral bonuses.
Fun company and team outings.

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