Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

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Mumbai
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Created Date: 2026-05-27

End Date: 2026-07-25

Experience: 10 - 11 years

Salary: 3000000

Industry: Financial services / Banks/ NBFC/ BFSI

Openings: 1

Primary Responsibilities :

Job Description – Staff Software Engineer

Location

India (Remote)

Employment Type

Full-Time

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to strengthen engineering delivery, improve platform scalability, and drive technical excellence across distributed systems and cloud-native applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on backend engineering expertise, experience with microservices architecture, cloud technologies, event-driven systems, and production-grade software delivery. This role involves close collaboration with engineering leadership, product teams, QA, operations, and external vendors to build scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems.

Experience Requirements:

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Application Engineering

Design and implement scalable and high-performance backend components across multiple microservices.

Contribute to architecture planning, solution design, and technical decision-making.

Define service boundaries, API standards, and integration patterns.

Improve system resilience, concurrency handling, fault tolerance, and maintainability.

Review architecture, design, and code changes across internal and external teams.

Build end-to-end technical solutions aligned with business requirements.

Microservices & Cloud Infrastructure

Develop and maintain production-grade microservices and asynchronous workflows.

Work with cloud-native technologies and containerized deployments.

Support Kubernetes-based environments and container orchestration.

Contribute to infrastructure scalability and operational stability.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

Improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, rollback strategies, and deployment reliability.

Enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms.

Participate in production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.

Prepare and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and architecture notes.

Promote sustainable engineering practices and operational readiness.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, Cloud, and Operations teams.

Coordinate with external vendors and distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Drive adoption of coding standards, best practices, and engineering governance.

Required Experience

10+ years of software development and engineering experience.

Strong hands-on backend development experience.

Experience building and maintaining enterprise-grade distributed systems.

Technical Skills

Backend Technologies

Strong expertise in:

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Experience in backend performance tuning and optimization.

Database Knowledge

Strong practical and theoretical knowledge of relational databases.

Hands-on experience with:

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MS SQL

Similar relational databases

Cloud & DevOps

Experience with cloud platforms such as:

AWS

Azure

GCP

Hands-on experience with:

Docker / Podman

Kubernetes

Helm

Strong understanding of CI/CD and modern deployment practices.

Architecture & Systems

Experience with:

Microservices architecture

Event-driven systems

API design

Distributed systems

Fault-tolerant systems

Additional Preferred Skills

Understanding of frontend technologies such as:

React

TypeScript

Experience working in fintech or high-availability environments is an advantage.

Qualification

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

Personal Attributes

Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.

Ability to work independently in distributed and remote environments.

High ownership and accountability.

Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.

Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

Communication Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to collaborate effectively with global teams and external stakeholders.

Comfortable working across multiple time zones.

Key Competencies

Backend system design

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices engineering

CI/CD and DevOps practices

Distributed systems

Production support and incident management

Technical leadership and mentoring

Performance optimization

Vendor coordination and collaboration

Why Join

Opportunity to work on mission-critical enterprise technology platforms.

Exposure to global engineering environments and large-scale distributed systems.

Collaborative and innovation-driven work culture.

Opportunity to contribute to advanced AI and next-generation technology initiatives.

Strong career growth and leadership opportunities.

Location

: Alliance Recruitment Agency UAE

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