Staff Software Engineer

Mojro; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Job summary

Mojro is a logistics automation platform solving NP-Hard route and load optimization at scale for enterprise customers. We seek a Staff Engineer who will own technical direction, lead a pod of engineers, and drive high-impact delivery.

You will work directly with the Head of Engineering and Principal Architects to shape architecture, improve quality, and accelerate AI tooling adoption across the team.

Qualifications

• 8–14 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years leading a team
• Strong backend experience and system design skills
• Experience delivering distributed multi-tenant SaaS products
• Proficient in Java and Python with hands-on coding
• Solid knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases at scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication for enterprise customers
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers toward staff/senior roles

Responsibilities

• Lead a pod of 5–8 engineers across backend and frontend; architect and review, not just approve
• Drive sprint cadence, unblock bottlenecks, ship enterprise-grade features
• Champion AI tooling adoption; measure productivity and drive decisions
• Own quality bar: automated tests, performance benchmarks, RCA rigor
• Run 1:1 mentorship to grow senior engineers toward staff
• Collaborate with Principal Architects, Product, and CSM to shape roadmap and surface risks

Skills

Leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

Java

Python

Communication

Mentorship

Education

B.E./B.Tech in CS/IS/ECE or equivalent experience

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

Docker

Job description

What We Do

Mojro is a logistics automation platform solving NP-Hard route and load optimization problems at scale — for enterprise customers like Asian Paints, Cargill, Unilever, and P&G. Our algorithms move goods across India smarter, faster, and with fewer kilometres wasted. If you have never seen a constraint-satisfaction engine running at 2,500 RPS on a Tuesday morning, you will at Mojro.

Why This Role Exists

We are not hiring a senior developer with a fancy title. We are hiring a leader who can do the work, explain the work, improve the work, and pull a team of sharp engineers toward harder problems — all at once.

You will join as one of a small number of Staff Engineers who collectively own the engineering quality bar at Mojro. You will report to the Head of Engineering, work directly with Principal Architects, and your decisions will ship to production.

The Person We Are Looking For

We do not manage by title. We build by trust, move by clarity, and grow by challenge. Here is what matters to us more than any skill checklist:

You are not done with the keyboard. You review PRs with comments, not just approvals. Your opinions on system design come from having built the system.

Sees the Whole Board

You track technical debt, delivery timelines, team health, and customer impact — simultaneously. You know which one to pull first.

You actively use AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code), measure their impact on your team, and make informed bets on where AI accelerates and where it misleads.

Radically Candid

You challenge ideas in the room, not in the corridor. You give feedback that is direct but kind — to your team and upward. You can disagree and commit.

You break ambiguity into clear goals, communicate them with context, and hold yourself and your team accountable. You do not need a manager to tell you what matters.

Builder of Builders

You are remembered by the engineers who grew under you. You create pull, not pressure. Your best move is making your team not need you.

What You Will Own

• Technical Leadership — Lead a pod of 5–8 engineers across backend and frontend. Architect and review, not just approve.


• Delivery — Drive sprint cadence, unblock bottlenecks, and ship features that enterprise customers stake their operations on.


• AI Tooling Adoption — Champion the use of AI coding tools across your team. Measure productivity. Present findings. Drive decisions.


• Quality & Reliability — Own the team's quality bar — automated test coverage, performance benchmarks, RCA rigour.


• Mentorship — Run 1:1s with intent. Grow senior engineers toward staff, mid-level toward senior. Make learning a team ritual.


• Cross-Team Influence — Work with Principal Architects, Product, and CSM to shape roadmap, surface technical risks, and defend the right calls.

The Stack

• AI/ML: Familiar with embedding pipelines, RAG, and agentic frameworks is a bonus


• 8–14 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years leading a team


• Deep hands‑on backend experience (Java preferred; Python acceptable)


• Proven ability to design and deliver distributed, multi‑tenant SaaS systems


• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at production scale


• Demonstrable use and measurement of AI coding tools in a team context


• Strong written and verbal communication — you will interact with enterprise customers and founders


• B.E / B.Tech in CS, IS, ECE or equivalent demonstrable experience


• A fundamentally strong, unbounded problem solver — someone who sees a hard constraint and looks for a way around it, not a reason to stop


• Bonus: awareness of Operations Research techniques — linear programming, heuristics, metaheuristics, VRP variants. Not a requirement; we will teach you. But if you already think in constraints and objectives, you will love it here

What Mojro Offers

WORK THAT IS HARD AND MEANINGFUL

Real logistics problems at enterprise scale — not CRUD apps. Your system design decisions move trucks across US, SEA and India.

RADICAL TRANSPARENCY

You will have direct access to the CTO and Head of Engineering. Company strategy, engineering capacity, and customer health are discussed openly, not filtered down.

AN ENGINEERING CULTURE IN THE MAKING

We are actively building our engineering excellence muscle — quality ownership models, AI adoption frameworks, and capability‑building programmes. You will help shape this, not inherit a done deal.

COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION

Market‑competitive salary, performance incentives, comprehensive health insurance (family coverage).

GROWTH TRAJECTORY

A clear path from Staff to Principal to Engineering Leadership — if that is what you want. If you want to stay deep in the craft, that path exists too.

If you read this and thought "this is exactly the kind of mess I want to build order from" — you are our person.