? Hiring: Staff Software Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for senior full-stack engineer with sound hands-on to provide technical leadership and join our engineering team. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports.

The ideal candidate will lead cross-team and cross-product initiatives, contribute directly to production software, establish engineering guardrails, build reusable frameworks and AI capabilities, and mentor senior engineers and technical leads. AI-assisted engineering is a baseline expectation. Robust experience with AWS, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, distributed systems, data architecture, security, and AI Engineering is required.

? Key Responsibilities

✅ Lead cross-team and cross-product initiatives from design through production adoption

✅ Design, develop, test, deploy, debug, and operate critical production software

✅ Define architectural principles and guardrails while preserving team autonomy

✅ Review high-risk designs for trade-offs, failure modes, security concerns, and integration risks

✅ Build shared frameworks, libraries, services, and tooling that improve quality and delivery speed

✅ Create reusable AI workflows, evaluations, validation mechanisms, and safety guardrails

✅ Apply AI responsibly across design, coding, testing, documentation, debugging, and analysis

✅ Establish standards for design, testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and release readiness

✅ Improve reliability, scalability, performance, security, and observability

✅ Lead major cross-product incident response and drive preventive actions

✅ Design APIs, event-driven systems, distributed workflows, integrations, and data models

✅ Translate product direction into technical strategies and implementation plans

✅ Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and contribute to technical hiring

? Required Skills & Experience

✅ Demonstrated Staff Engineer-level impact across multiple teams, products, or domains





✅ Experience leading complex initiatives through production delivery and adoption

✅ Strong hands-on full-stack engineering skills and willingness to contribute directly to implementation

✅ Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native, scalable, secure, and observable architectures

✅ Strong proficiency in:

- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
- React
- Next.js
- Frontend architecture
- Microservices

✅ Strong understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, including:
- Consistency
- Idempotency
- Retries
- Concurrency
- Failure recovery

✅ Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows ✅ Ability to:
- Decompose work for AI agents
- Engineer context and constraints
- Define success criteria
- Automate evaluation processes
- Understand AI limitations, trust boundaries, failure modes, data sensitivity, and human review requirements

✅ Strong knowledge of:
- Application security
- IAM
- Threat modeling
- Secure software development
- Data protection

✅ Experience designing reliable, scalable, observable, and operationally supportable systems ✅ Strong architectural judgment and experience building reusable capabilities adopted across multiple teams

✅ Ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical decisions without formal authority

✅ Strong communication skills across engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams

⭐ Preferred Skills

✅ Experience building internal AI agents, evaluation systems, context frameworks, or AI safety guardrails





✅ Experience defining engineering standards across multiple teams

✅ Experience improving developer productivity through shared platforms, automation, or paved-road solutions

✅ Experience with AWS services such as:

- Lambda
- ECS
- EKS
- API Gateway
- EventBridge
- Step Functions
- S3
- DynamoDB

✅ Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, automated quality gates, and progressive delivery ✅ Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, distributed tracing, service-level objectives (SLOs), and incident reviews

✅ Experience modernizing complex systems or building B2B SaaS and enterprise software platforms

? Ideal Candidate Profile The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can seamlessly move between organization-level architecture and production implementation. They define technical direction, build foundational software, and help multiple teams adopt it successfully.

They think in systems, lead through influence, and mentor technical leaders. They apply AI Engineering with discipline, using context, constraints, evaluations, and human review boundaries to improve delivery safely. They are motivated by building reusable systems, developing stronger engineers, enabling safer delivery, and creating more reliable products.

?️ Tech Stack

Area

Technologies & Practices

Backend

TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, .NET, C#

Frontend

React, Next.js

Architecture

Distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture

Cloud

AWS, serverless and cloud-native services, Infrastructure as Code

Data

Relational and NoSQL databases, data integration, and data integrity

Security

IAM, threat modeling, application security, cloud security

Engineering Practices

CI/CD, automated testing, observability, reliability, code reviews, design reviews

AI Engineering

Coding agents, agent workflows, context engineering, evaluations, validation, and guardrails

📌 Staff Engineer (Bangalore Urban)
🏢 First American (India)
📍 Bangalore Urban