Senior Staff Software Engineer – Backend
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hyderabad • India
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About the role
- Architect and evolve distributed, service-oriented systems with a focus 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.
Requirements
- Min 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, metrics and building accountability around SLA and SLOs
- Exceptional ownership, accountability, and execution discipline.
- Strong planning, tracking, and delivery management capabilities.
- Ability to influence without formal authority. Clear and effective communication across technical and executive audiences.
- Ruby/Go experience is preferred but not mandatory.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- 25 days annual vacation time + sick time and casual leave
- Group medical policy coverage available to 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 that promote employee resource groups like OWN+ (Outreach Women's Network), Adelante (Latinx community), OBX (Outreach Black Connection), Mosaic (AAPI community), Pride (LGBTQIA+), Gender+, Disability Community, and Veterans/Military
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- Fun company and team outings because we play just as hard as we work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
distributed systemsservice-oriented architecturecloud-native architecturesystem designRubyGoperformance optimizationtesting practicesoperational excellencemonitoring
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringaccountabilityexecution disciplineplanningcommunicationinfluencecollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder alignment