Staff Software Engineer

Uplers; Gurugram District; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the engineering team. The successful candidate will define technical architecture and make foundational decisions that shape the platform's trajectory while staying hands-on with coding and development. Key responsibilities include leading modernization efforts of legacy systems and guiding less experienced engineers to enhance technical decision-making. Candidates should have substantial experience in software architecture and system design, as well as exceptional communication skills.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in software engineering with proven track record of delivering production systems.
• Deep expertise in software architecture and system design.
• Exceptional communication skills to convey complex tradeoffs.
• Experience with legacy-heavy codebases, diagnosing issues and guiding large-scale modernization.
• Excellent communication skills to convey tradeoffs to both engineers and business stakeholders.
• High ownership orientation with autonomy in fast-moving environments.
• Required knowledge of Python, Django/Flask/FastAPI, Javascript/Typescript, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, system design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term technical architecture of the platform.
• Lead assessment and modernization of legacy systems.
• Establish and steer engineering standards across the team.
• Serve as technical authority across engineering and guide less experienced engineers.
• Develop fluency in business domain and ensure tech strategy aligns with outcomes.
• Surface systemic risks and technical debt, driving organizational action to address them.
• Partner with operations, product, and leadership to translate tradeoffs into clear decisions.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Software Architecture

System Design

Cloud

Reliability

Python

JavaScript

Cloud

AWS

Azure

GCP

API

ERP

Warehouse Management

Logistics

Supply chain

3PL

Cloud server

Legacy

Education

6-12+ years of professional software engineering experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Job Details

Experience: 6+ years

Salary: Confidential (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 15 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position (Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: A reverse-logistics and IT asset disposition)

Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - A reverse-logistics and IT asset disposition

Must have skills required:

• IMS
• WMS
• Software Architecture
• System Design
• Platform Engineering
• Reliability
• Python
• JavaScript
• Cloud
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• API
• ERP
• Warehouse Management
• Logistics
• Supply chain
• 3PL
• Cloud server
• Legacy

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior individual contributor and technical anchor on our engineering team. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of deep technical execution and broad architectural vision - making foundational decisions that shape the long‑term trajectory of our platform.

This is not a management role. You will remain hands‑on - writing production code, leading complex technical investigations, and driving critical features from concept through deployment. But your scope extends beyond any single system or project: you will be expected to hold a platform‑level view, proactively influence technical direction, and serve as a force multiplier for the engineers around you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the long‑term technical architecture of our platform, making high‑stakes decisions on system boundaries, data flow patterns, service design, and integration strategy.
• Lead the assessment and modernization of legacy systems, bringing principled judgment to decisions about when to refactor, replace, extend, or isolate existing architecture - and building the roadmap to execute on those decisions.
• Establish and steward engineering standards across the team: architecture patterns, code quality expectations, testing strategies, documentation practices, and review norms.
• Serve as a technical authority and thought partner across engineering - providing guidance on complex design problems, elevating technical decision‑making, and actively developing the judgment of less experienced engineers.
• Develop deep fluency in the business domain - including operations workflows, fulfillment systems, client requirements, and executive priorities - and ensure technical strategy is tightly aligned with business outcomes.
• Proactively surface systemic risks, technical debt, and compounding inefficiencies across the platform, and drive the organizational will to address them.
• Partner with stakeholders across operations, product, and leadership to translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear, actionable decisions.

Qualifications:

• 6‑12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering and maintaining production systems at scale - including systems with significant operational, business, or reliability stakes.
• Proven experience operating as a senior IC at or above the staff level: setting technical direction, influencing engineering culture, and driving cross‑cutting improvements without a management mandate.
• Deep expertise in software architecture and system design, including the ability to reason across service boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and long‑term platform evolution.
• A strong record of working effectively within complex, legacy‑heavy codebases - diagnosing systemic issues, designing incremental improvement paths, and executing on large‑scale modernisation efforts with minimal disruption.
• Exceptional communication skills, with demonstrated ability to convey complex technical tradeoffs to both engineering peers and non‑technical business stakeholders - and to build alignment around difficult decisions.
• High ownership orientation: self‑directed, accountable, and comfortable operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous or fast‑moving environments.
• Required knowledge of Python, Django or Flask or FastAPI, Javascript/ Typescript, five local applications, legacy APIs, hundreds of database functions, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, system design and architecture.

Nice to Have:

• Deep experience in database architecture, query optimisation, and data pipeline design (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Background in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform/reliability engineering.
• Prior experience in operations technology, logistics, supply chain, or device lifecycle management industries (WMS, IMS, ERP, etc.).
• Experience designing and maintaining systems that serve both internal operational users and external client‑facing interfaces, with an understanding of the divergent requirements each brings.
• A track record of defining engineering standards, technical strategy, or platform roadmaps at an organisational level.

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