Let’s decode this
We're not looking for someone who has "been around for 8+ years". We're looking for someone who has raised the bar for eight years.
raises_bar(team) → The people around you write better code because you are there. You mentor through pairing and feedback, not hierarchy.
depth >= LEGENDARY → You have gone deep enough to hold robust opinions, and humble enough to change them.
ships_code → You still build. Regularly. In production.

This role isn’t for everyone. It’s for engineers who want to stay close to the code, go deep, and do meaningful work. If that sounds like you - Apply.

What the work looks like
We can't promise which problem you'll pick up, but the menu right now looks something like this:
Redesign a ClickHouse schema so an ad buyer can query 85 billion rows in under two seconds, and discover that pre-exploding the rows 168x is actually the right answer.
Keep a vehicle telemetry platform moving billions of messages a day without the Kafka consumers falling over.




Build the engineering spine of a mobile wallet used by more than two billion people across four continents.
Ship the data product behind peer-review submissions for one of the world's largest scientific publishers.
The list changes every quarter. The pattern doesn't: data-heavy, distributed, and often sitting on top of something that already exists and isn't perfect.

What you will actually do
Design and build systems that deal with real-world complexity (not toy problems)
Write production code frequently, not just review or direct
Work across languages when needed, not just your comfort zone
Break down messy problems into clean, maintainable systems
Push back on bad ideas, including ours
You won’t be:
A people manager
A “review-only” architect
Someone removed from the code

How we think about engineering
We care about:
Code that is simple, testable, and built to change
Engineers who can explain their design decisions clearly
TDD, refactoring, and continuous improvement - not as rit

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Sahaj Software
📍 Hyderabad