This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer based in India.

This is a high-ownership engineering role for an experienced software professional joining a small, technically ambitious team. You will take complex and ambiguous problems from initial exploration through architecture, implementation, production, and continuous improvement. The role is primarily backend-focused while offering broad exposure across frontend, infrastructure, data systems, AI, and LLM integrations. You will have significant influence over product architecture, engineering practices, internal tooling, and technical culture. The setting values experimentation, autonomy, strong product judgment, and practical use of modern AI-assisted development workflows. It is an opportunity to solve challenging problems while helping raise the technical bar across a fast-moving startup.

Accountabilities:
- Own complex engineering problems end-to-end,



from understanding the problem and defining the approach through architecture, implementation, production deployment, and iteration.
- Design simple, scalable, reliable systems and make sound architectural decisions based on technical and product requirements.
- Build primarily backend systems while contributing across frontend, infrastructure, data, AI, and other technical areas when required to solve broader problems.
- Rapidly prototype and test multiple approaches, using evidence, benchmarks, and experimentation to guide technical decisions.
- Work with AI tools, LLMs, agents, APIs, and external providers to identify and implement meaningful product and engineering improvements.
- Build automation, internal tooling, and workflows that increase individual and team productivity.
- Improve engineering quality, architecture, development practices, and technical processes across the organization.
- Identify opportunities to simplify systems, improve

📌 Staff Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India