Staff Backend Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 7 years

Location: Remote (India)

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a seasoned Staff Engineer to lead the end-to-end delivery of complex software applications. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural instincts, and the ability to mentor and elevate engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture, driving technical decisions, and implementing best practices to ensure high-quality, scalable software solutions. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver impactful systems and frameworks that enable engineering efficiency across the organization.

Requirements

• Lead the full lifecycle of complex software applications from design and development to deployment ensuring quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Create scalable frameworks, abstractions, and tooling that reduce friction for other engineers and promote code reusability and consistency.
• Drive architectural decisions and introduce innovative solutions to complex technical and systemic challenges.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate business requirements into scalable and efficient technical solutions.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, offering actionable feedback to uphold high coding standards and maintainable systems.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve engineering processes and development workflows.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, and introduce relevant tools or approaches to improve engineering capabilities.
• Serve as a technical thought leader, mentoring senior engineers and promoting best practices across teams.
• Champion tools, technologies, and practices that boost team-wide productivity and efficiency.

• 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years focused on designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.
• Expertise in Golang , along with experience working with MongoDB , Kafka or other queue-based messaging systems.
• Familiarity with React and experience contributing to frontend applications is a plus.
• Strong understanding of microservice design patterns , inter-service communication, and building fault-tolerant, high-reliability systems.
• Experience with setting up and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems in large-scale production environments.
• Solid foundation in computer science principles , including data structures, algorithms, and systems design.
• Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure components such as containerization, service discovery, secret management, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven ability to write technical documentation and effectively communicate complex technical concepts.

• Golang
• MongoDB
• Kafka
• React
• Microservices
• Cloud-native systems
• Distributed architecture
• Monitoring & observability tools