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Staff Engineer - Backend

Quince· E-commerce Platform Engineering
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BengaluruFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer (Backend) to drive architecture, scalability, and reliability of critical backend systems across multiple teams, define long-term technical vision, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve multiple critical applications/services, ensuring long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability
  • Lead the design and architecture of complex, large-scale distributed systems, frameworks, and platforms across teams
  • Define and drive the roadmap for engineering and operational excellence at an organizational level
  • Conduct deep performance analysis and lead system-wide optimizations to ensure high scalability and efficiency
  • Drive technical planning, system design reviews, and estimation for large, cross-team initiatives
  • Collaborate with product, data, and infrastructure stakeholders to define ambiguous requirements and translate them into scalable system designs
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers across teams
  • Establish and enforce best practices for coding standards, system design, observability, and reliability
  • Review and guide critical architectural and code decisions across multiple teams
  • Stay ahead of emerging technologies and introduce new architectural patterns to improve system capabilities
  • Raise the engineering bar by actively contributing to hiring, team building, and technical culture

Qualifications

  • Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and advanced system design
  • 8+ years of experience working on backend and distributed systems
  • Deep expertise in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and SQL/NoSQL databases
  • Proven experience designing and scaling highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems across multiple services/teams
  • Strong understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and high-performance system design
  • Deep knowledge of system architecture, design principles, and trade-off analysis at scale
  • Experience driving organization-wide technical initiatives and architectural decisions
  • Strong focus on code quality, latency optimization, observability, and system reliability
  • Ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous, fast-paced environments with significant ownership
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams
  • Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture

Skills

Required:JavaSpring/Spring BootSQL/NoSQL databasesDistributed systems designSystem performance and observabilityLeadership & mentorship

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations available on request
  • Security-conscious recruitment practices and standard background checks
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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