4540-Staff Software Engineer

Innovaccer Inc.; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovaccer Inc. in India is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead deeply technical work, own components end-to-end, and set the technical direction for your domain.

You will write production code and mentor engineers while shaping architecture and collaborating with product, clinical, and engineering peers to build scalable healthcare software. If you want to operate at Staff scope with hands-on coding and end-to-end ownership, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of building and shipping production systems.
• Hands-on coding with modern languages (Python, Java, Go) daily.
• Strong design skills across distributed systems, APIs, and data-intensive architectures.
• Experience building and integrating AI/ML into products and production.
• Hands-on ops experience: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship complex backend services and data pipelines, writing production-grade code.
• Develop AI/ML-powered features end-to-end, including model integration and data flows.
• Drive technical design for scalability, performance, security, and cost within your domain.
• Promote best practices across SDLC: testing, observability, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and code reviews.

Skills

Software engineering

Python/Java/Go

Distributed systems

AI/ML integration

Cloud platforms

CI/CD & IaC

Docker & Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Innovaccer, you'll be a senior technical leader who stays deep in the code. You'll personally design and build complex, high-impact parts of our platform — backend services, data pipelines, and the AI/ML-powered features that increasingly define our products — while setting the technical direction for your team or domain. This is a builder's role first: you'll write production code, own components end to end, and lead by doing, while also shaping architecture and mentoring the engineers around you. You'll work closely with product, clinical, and engineering peers to turn ambitious healthcare goals into robust, scalable software that ships. If you want to operate at Staff scope without stepping away from the keyboard, this role is for you.

A day in the Life

• Design, build, and ship complex, critical components of Innovaccer's platform — backend services, APIs, and data pipelines — writing high-quality production code yourself.
• Build AI/ML-powered product features end to end: integrating models, designing the systems and data flows around them, and ensuring they perform reliably in production.
• Drive technical design for systems within your team or domain, making hands-on decisions for scalability, performance, security, and cost, then implementing them.
• Model engineering best practices across the SDLC — code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational excellence — and raise the bar through the code you write and review.
• Build resilient, well-tested services that integrate cleanly across products and with external healthcare systems.
• Ensure the software you build complies with healthcare and data-protection requirements, including HIPAA and GDPR, embedding compliance and security into the implementation.
• Debug, profile, and harden production systems, taking ownership of reliability and incident response for the systems you build.
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship to engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review.
• Partner with product and clinical stakeholders to turn real-world needs into well-scoped, technically sound designs you can deliver.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tooling for your team, balancing capability, cost, risk, and time-to-value.

What you Need

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of personally building and shipping production systems.
• Deep, current, hands-on coding expertise in one or more modern languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar) — this role writes code daily.
• Strong software design skills across distributed systems, backend services, APIs, and data-intensive architectures.
• Experience building and integrating AI/ML into products — connecting models to real systems, handling data flows, and operationalizing them in production (you don't need to be a research scientist, but you should be comfortable building AI/ML-powered features).
• Hands-on experience operating production systems: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7) and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR), or the ability to ramp quickly on a regulated domain.
• Strong problem-solving skills and clear communication, with the ability to align engineers and stakeholders around a technical approach.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization-orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).