Staff Software Engineer

Posted 4 weeks ago

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 9000000 – Rs 13000000 (ie INR 90-130 LPA)
Min Experience: 9 years
Location: Remote (India)
JobType: full-time

Requirements

Responsibilities:

Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24×7
Produce a high-quality framework that is thoroughly tested, code reviewed, and resilient, and improves upon developer productivity.
Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and cross-team critical projects.
Mentor junior engineers, grow their capabilities to the next level, and spread your expertise for a stronger engineer team practice of mentorship and sponsorship. Maintaining relationships and developing a positive team culture.
Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying relevant design patterns, write high-quality code, and deliver business impact through fast iteration.
Provide objective and helpful quarterly performance feedback for engineers.

Outcomes:

Impact customer metrics: Have a strong understanding of what the most important customer metrics are and achieve a big impact for improvement by working with Product Managers and through multiple agile iterations.
Tech lead projects: Become the recognized subject matter that your team owns, set up team technical roadmap with managers, and lead the execution.
Strong productivity: Demonstrate strong productivity for fast iteration to impact core metrics even under challenging code bases.
High-quality implementations: deliver high-quality implementations and act as an example of engineering excellence within the team.
Communication: Achieve alignment with cross-team stakeholders for squad planning.
Scalable and reliable systems: Architect and develop services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place.

Requirements:

Strong background in working with MongoDB at scale.
Interest in building features with performance, accessibility, and scalability in mind.
Strong product sense with the ability to negotiate the right MVP Ability to write comprehensive, well-structured, highly performant code.
Robust understanding of working on message queues and background jobs.
Monitoring and Metrics gathering (GCP Logs, Prometheus, NewRelic).

Nice to Have:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of relevant work experience in software development.
Experience in software development using a general-purpose programming language (e. g., Java, Python, Ruby, etc).
Experience working on 3rd party API integrations, with error handling, rate limiting, and monitoring.