Staff Engineer

GreyOrange; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GreyOrange in Gurugram is seeking a seasoned backend architect to take end-to-end ownership of critical systems. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in building scalable systems and a strong grasp of cloud-native development.

Responsibilities include ensuring high code quality, implementing DevOps practices, and aligning technical vision with business goals. This role offers an opportunity to lead and influence technical transformation within an innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with scalable backend systems.
• Expertise in architecting high-performance systems.
• Mastery of cloud-native development and infra-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Own design and architecture of multiple components.
• Collaborate with senior leadership on technical direction.
• Implement healthy DevOps processes within the team.

Skills

Backend system architecture

Java/Golang

Cloud-native development

SQL and NoSQL databases

REST APIs

GraphQL API

DevOps processes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of multiple components' design and architecture.
• Design, build, unit test, and deploy critical product areas and features, and improve existing features.
• Do code reviews with the team and ensure the highest quality of the codebase.
• Establish and own relevant healthy DevOps processes and practices within the team.
• Collaborate and share knowledge within the team to promote technical and self-sufficient teams.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
• Solve deep technical challenges at scale with innovation.
• Work closely with senior leadership to align technical direction with business goals.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with successfully building scalable backend systems.
• Expertise in architecting large-scale, high-performance, and fault‑tolerant systems (preferably in Java/Golang).
• Mastery of cloud‑native development, container orchestration, and infra‑as‑code.
• Experience with working with large‑scale SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, etc).
• Well‑versed in system performance, scalability, and observability practices.
• Conceptual understanding and strong grasp of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with REST APIs and GraphQL API design and development.
• Experience with healthy DevOps processes and practices (Docker / Kubernetes / CI/CD, etc.).
• Ability to define and drive long‑term technical vision despite evolving business needs.
• Ability to lead and influence a team with tech transformation and architecture evolution.