Staff Engineer

First American (India); Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

First American (India) seeks a senior full-stack engineer to provide technical leadership and join a hands-on engineering team. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, guardrails, and scalable architectures.

You will mentor senior engineers and drive cross-team initiatives across AWS, TypeScript/Node.js, and React/Next.js. The ideal candidate will design, build, and operate production software while defining standards for delivery, security, and observability.

Qualifications

• Senior full-stack engineer with hands-on leadership and no direct reports.
• Lead cross-team and cross-product initiatives from design through production adoption.
• Proven ability to build reusable frameworks and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team initiatives from design to production adoption.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate critical production software.
• Define architectural guardrails while preserving team autonomy.
• Review high-risk designs for trade-offs, security, and integration risks.
• Build shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling to improve quality and delivery speed.
• Create reusable AI workflows, evaluations, and safety guardrails.
• Apply AI responsibly across design, coding, testing, and analysis.
• Establish standards for CI/CD, reviews, and release readiness.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, and observability.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decisions without authority.

Skills

AWS

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Next.js

Distributed systems

Data architecture

Security

AI Engineering

Job description

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. Strong experience with AWS, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, distributed systems, data architecture, security, and AI Engineering is required.

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

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
• 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
• Understand AI limitations, trust boundaries, failure modes, data sensitivity, and human review requirements

Strong knowledge of:

• Application security
• IAM
• Threat modeling
• 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

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

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.

Area

Technologies & Practices

Frontend

React, Next.js

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

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

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