Staff Engineer Software [T500-28193]

Albertsons Companies India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Albertsons Companies India is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our full-stack engineering teams in Bengaluru. This role demands deep hands-on expertise across the stack, architecting complex systems, and driving technical strategy with mentoring for senior engineers.

You will own critical technical decisions, set coding standards, and partner with Product and Platform leadership to deliver high-impact, production-grade software at scale from India.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack focus.
• Expert-level React and modern front-end ecosystems.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and back-end frameworks; RESTful, GraphQL, or event-driven APIs.
• Mastery of PostgreSQL and MongoDB; advanced query optimization and transactions.
• Experience with Graph databases (Neo4j) or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with Python and Java and Spring Boot.
• Distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Leadership across teams and influence without authority.
• Strong focus on security best practices and data protection.
• Experience with containers, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and evolve scalable full-stack systems.
• Lead technical design for complex initiatives including data models and API contracts.
• Define deployment strategies and service boundaries for multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Establish coding standards, patterns, and observability practices across teams.
• Own performance, reliability, and scalability of core services.
• Mentor senior engineers through architectural guidance and code reviews.
• Champion testability, CI/CD maturity, and production readiness.
• Collaborate with Product and Platform leadership to translate problems into roadmaps.
• Evaluate new technologies to improve developer velocity and resilience.
• Communicate trade-offs and risks to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

React

Node.js

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Security best practices

Cloud-native applications

CI/CD

Leadership across teams

Data modeling

System design

Observability

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Neo4j

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Spring Boot

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week. We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers' problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons Companies India:

At Albertsons Companies India, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers' lives every day.

At the Albertsons Companies India, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons Companies India, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for our full-stack engineering teams. This role demands deep hands-on expertise across the stack, combined with the ability to architect complex systems, drive technical strategy, and elevate the engineering practice across the organization. You will own critical technical decisions, mentor senior engineers, and partner with leadership to align technology with business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and evolve scalable, high-performance full-stack systems
• Lead technical design for complex, multi-quarter initiatives — defining data models, service boundaries, API contracts, and deployment strategies.
• Drive engineering excellence by establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and observability practices across teams.
• Own the performance, reliability, and scalability of core services; diagnose and resolve deep systemic issues across the stack.
• Mentor and elevate senior and advanced engineers through architectural guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Champion testability, CI/CD maturity, and operational readiness — ensuring teams ship production-grade software consistently.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Platform leadership to decompose ambiguous problems into executable technical roadmaps.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies that improve developer velocity and system resilience.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional forums; communicate trade-offs, risks, and technical strategy to non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to data architecture decisions — optimizing relational schemas, document structures, replication, and partitioning strategies.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record in full-stack development.
• Expert-level proficiency in React and modern front-end ecosystems — performance optimization, state management, and scalable component architecture.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and back-end frameworks; extensive experience designing RESTful, GraphQL, or event-driven APIs.
• Mastery of both PostgreSQL and MongoDB — advanced query optimization, indexing strategies, transactions, replication, and schema evolution at scale.
• Experience working with Graph Database like Neo4j or equivalent
• Hands-on Experience in other programming languages like python, Java etc
• Experience working with Springboot framework
• Demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across team boundaries and influence without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of system design, scalability patterns, caching strategies, and data consistency models.
• Strong grasp of security best practices, authentication/authorization patterns, and data protection standards.
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, and modern DevOps practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in high-growth or enterprise-scale environments with strict reliability and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ).
• Exposure to observability and AIOps tooling — metrics, tracing, alerting, and SLO-driven operations.
• Experience leading platform or infrastructure initiatives that improve developer productivity.
• Background in data engineering, ETL pipelines, or real-time analytics systems.
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical community engagement.