Staff Software Engineer

Job highlights

• Experience building and maintaining development infrastructure and automation frameworks. . Strong programming and scripting skills,particularly in Java and APIs . . Good experience with AWS,UI,APIs and Continuous Integration tools .
• Hands-on experience implementing modern and emerging technology stacks.
• Experience in debugging,code maintenance and root-cause analysis.

Job Summary

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business and Team

The team promotes a culture of continuous learning and ensures everyone is allocated time to learn about the technologies they are passionate about, while also developing through hands-on experience.

Impact and Contribution

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical strategy and guidance across medium to complex engineering initiatives. You will drive strategic programmes of work, including proof-of-concept development, provide technical consultancy across projects and delivery teams, and establish strong engineering practices and technical direction.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide technical strategy and guidance while overseeing medium to complex engineering initiatives.
• Drive strategic programmes of work, including proof-of-concept development.
• Apply a strong understanding of business and technical strategies to deliver the best business outcomes through technical implementation.
• Provide consultancy across projects and delivery teams.
• Lead and champion strategic practice development within the team or platform.
• Follow and promote engineering best practices and industry standards.
• Identify, gain support for and execute strategic direction within areas of technical expertise.
• Take responsibility for nominated technical assets, including roadmaps and technical direction.
• Mentor and upskill engineering teams across different squads.
• Contribute to internal engineering discussions, blog posts and knowledge-base articles.
• Lead complex troubleshooting activities.
• Develop software solutions by analysing information needs, system flows, data usage, work processes and problem areas throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Remain hands-on and passionate about technology.
• Understand business needs and create appropriate technical tools and solutions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Collaborate with teams to brainstorm and create new products.
• Support software engineers through technical advice, coaching and learning opportunities.
• Positively influence solution and engineering design direction.
• Work effectively across Scrum teams, offshore teams and vendors.
• Act professionally and use sound judgement to advance the interests of the company, its customers and staff.

Essential Skills

• Hands-on experience implementing modern and emerging technology stacks.
• Experience building and maintaining development infrastructure and automation frameworks.
• Strong programming and scripting skills, particularly in Java and APIs.
• Good experience with AWS, UI, APIs and Continuous Integration tools.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience working across Scrum teams, offshore teams and vendors.
• Strong automation and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage and guide engineering teams and ensure successful project delivery.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience in debugging, code maintenance and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with build-management tools such as Maven, Gradle and Ant.

Enterprise Services Capabilities

• Application Development - Advanced: Creates and documents new and amended technology components from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed standards.
• Architecture Development - Intermediate: Designs and maintains structures to enable and guide the development of an organisation s future state.
• Business Analysis - Intermediate: Investigates, analyses, reviews and documents business processes to improve sustainability, deliver business benefits and meet business goals.
• Design Development - Advanced: Assesses and designs information systems or solutions that meet defined business needs and align with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• IT Risk Assessment and Management - Intermediate: Develops or manages controls, approaches and strategies to maintain the in…