Staff Engineer

HappyFox Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HappyFox is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across a growing engineering team in Chennai. You will mentor engineers, drive scalable architectures, and deliver complex features for enterprise SaaS products.

You will collaborate with product, design, and operations to ensure solutions align with business goals and maximize customer value. You will lead efforts to improve code quality, automate deployments, and strengthen monitoring and alerting systems while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in SaaS enterprise applications.
• Track record of architecting and delivering complex features with significant business impact.
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive alignment and decisions.
• Excellent communication skills for teamwork and stakeholder updates.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and Ruby with web frameworks such as Django, Gin, or Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB databases.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Deep understanding of trade-offs between product value, reliability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy and execution for a product or major module to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Drive large-scale projects from inception through delivery with broad impact.
• Solve complex problems by planning and delivering value for customers.
• Collaborate with product, design, and operations to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Champion code quality through reviews and reducing technical debt.
• Optimize internal tooling and CI/CD pipelines to improve engineering efficiency.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence.

Skills

SaaS enterprise development

Architecture of complex features

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Python

Go

Ruby

Django

Gin

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

Tools

Django

Gin

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership to our growing engineering team at HappyFox. You should have prior experience of being responsible for building sufficiently complex products / services for enterprise saas products and mentoring software engineers.

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Engineer at HappyFox, you will:

• Lead technical strategy and execution for an entire product or a significant set of modules, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Drive large-scale technical projects from inception through delivery, creating complex features that have a broad impact across the organization.
• Solve complex problems and wage issues, by carefully planning and executing projects that meet customer needs, ensuring strong technical execution and delivering maximum value.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including product, design, and operations—to ensure technical solutions align with business goals and deliver measurable results.
• Champion code quality by leading comprehensive code reviews, identifying improvement opportunities, and addressing technical debt.
• Optimize internal tools and processes to enhance the efficiency of our engineering teams, which may include automating deployments, refining CI/CD pipelines, or improving monitoring and alerting systems.
• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning within the team.
• Stay at the forefront of industry practices by continuously learning, sharing knowledge, and contributing to the growth of your peers through mentorship, tech talks, and workshops.

Who You Are

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with deep expertise in SaaS enterprise application development.
• A proven track record of architecting and designing products or complex features that have delivered significant business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders to build alignment and drive decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work well in a team, share ideas openly, and keep everyone informed about progress and challenges.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Ruby, with experience in web application frameworks such as Django, Gin, or Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
• A deep understanding of the trade-offs involved in building for product value, reliability, and performance.
• A pragmatic approach to technical decisions, ensuring they align with business needs.
• Experience in mentoring engineers and a strong ability to give and receive constructive feedback effectively.