Staff Software Engineer

Lever, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 8,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in Bengaluru is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for the engineering org, owning our most critical, high-stakes architectural bets and driving AI-native platform strategy at scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, raise the engineering bar, and partner with product leadership to align technology with long-term business goals while ensuring reliable, scalable systems across distributed architectures.

Qualifications

• Experience setting technical direction for a large engineering org.
• Strong distributed systems and reliability focus.
• Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural strategy for complex problems across teams.
• Drive multi-year platform decisions and scale.
• Lead AI and autonomous agents strategy across the stack.
• Raise engineering bar with standards and patterns.

Skills

Distributed Systems

System Architecture

Kubernetes

AI Fluency

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Ruby on Rails

Python

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

This role is for one of our clients

Industry: B2B SaaS platform

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Min Experience: 8+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

Working Model:Hybrid (Bangalore office) with required global overlap hours (Monday–Thursday, 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM IST)

₹80,00,000 - ₹1,20,00,000 a year

We are a high-growth, Series D B2B SaaS platform that empowers revenue and growth teams worldwide to find, engage, and convert their ideal customers. Backed by top-tier global venture capital firms with over $250M in funding and a valuation exceeding $1.5B, our platform handles massive global scale, serving over 500,000 businesses and millions of active users. We are profitable, rapidly expanding, and actively rebuilding our entire product ecosystem around generative AI and autonomous agents.

Requirements

Role & Mission

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for the entire engineering organization. You will own our most critical, high-stakes, and ambiguous technical bets—decisions that will shape our product architecture and engineering trajectory for years to come. Acting as a force multiplier across multiple teams, your technical judgment and architectural standards will create an impact felt org-wide.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Direction:Own the architectural strategy for complex, ambiguous problems across team and organizational boundaries.
• Multi-Year Architectural Bets:Make foundational platform decisions that scale our product over multiple years, taking full accountability for their long-term execution and reliability.
• AI Platform Strategy:Drive the technical strategy to rebuild our platform around AI capabilities and autonomous agents, translating high-level vision into actionable execution plans.
• Raise the Engineering Bar:Establish org-wide engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices that elevate overall system quality.
• Force Multiplier:Multiply the output of senior engineers across the organization through design guidance, rigorous code/architecture reviews, and active mentorship.
• Strategic Partnership:Partner as a peer with Engineering and Product leadership to align technology strategy with long-term business goals.

How We Work: AI-Native by Default

We expect our Staff Engineers to set the benchmark for what AI-native engineering looks like at the highest level. You will utilize AI agents and automated workflows to accelerate complex design, investigation, and implementation work. Beyond personal productivity, you will define the AI engineering practices adopted across the company and identify step-change bets where AI fundamentally reshapes how we build software.

What We Are Looking For

• Org-Wide Impact:A proven track record of setting technical direction that shaped a product or platform across an entire engineering organization.
• Distributed Systems Mastery:Deep technical expertise in distributed systems architecture, with a firm command of reliability, scalability, performance, and cost tradeoffs behind company-defining decisions.
• Leadership Under Ambiguity:Excellent judgment to make high-stakes technical calls under ambiguity, along with the influence needed to align cross-functional engineering teams behind them.
• Talent Multiplier:A strong record of mentoring, coaching, and elevating the capabilities of senior engineers around you.
• AI Fluency:Genuine, hands-on fluency with AI-assisted software development and a clear vision for the future of AI in modern engineering practices.

Technical Stack

• Frontend:React
• Backend Languages:Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python
• Databases & Data Stores:MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Containerization & Orchestration:Kubernetes, Docker
• Infrastructure & IaC:Terraform
• Cloud Platform:Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Work Schedule & Overlap Requirements

Setup:Hybrid arrangement based out of our Bangalore office.

Hours:Ability to work required global overlap hours fromMonday through Thursday, 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM IST.

Must-have skills

Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Kubernetes

Good-to-have skills

AI, Generative AI, AI agents