Staff Software Engineer

PowerToFly; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way

Career Growth

Competitive Benefits

Social Impact

Job summary

PowerToFly is seeking a Staff Software Engineer I in Hyderabad to lead AI-driven software initiatives, define strategic roadmaps, and apply modern SDLC practices to design enterprise-grade architectures. You will mentor teams and coordinate multi-team efforts across the lifecycle.

You will drive technical direction, optimize cloud costs, evaluate AI models, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure timely delivery and business value.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with distributed teams.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft C++ (MFC, COM, Win32) and OO design (SOLID/DRY/DDD).
• Hands-on experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, REST APIs.
• CI/CD and DevOps exposure; GitHub workflows.
• Public cloud experience (AWS); containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong communication across formats and mentoring abilities.
• Willingness to learn and support legacy code during platform transition.

Responsibilities

• Guide AI-enabled software initiatives and roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate multi-team efforts.
• Optimize cloud resource costs and evaluate AI model suitability.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to specify activities and milestones.
• Convey the value of Software Development Engineering to the business.
• Apply modern SDLC practices across the end-to-end lifecycle.

Job description

As a Staff Software Engineer I, you will be a key technical leader, guiding software initiatives with significant AI components. Your role involves developing strategic AI implementation roadmaps, focusing on core software engineering and innovative AI integration. You will apply modern software development practices across the end-to-end software development life cycle, utilizing your deep technical expertise to design enterprise-grade architectures and coordinate multi-team efforts.

About The Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• You'll optimize cloud resource costs and develop a deep understanding of AI model evaluation and selection. Your ability to mentor engineering teams and evaluate AI suitability ensures alignment with business objectives.
• You will drive technical direction and innovation while addressing performance and scale challenges, including AI model drift.
• As part of your role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including senior stakeholders, to deliver projects, specify development activities, and manage milestones and timelines.
• Your communication skills will be key in articulating the role of Software Development Engineering and its value to the business.
• Influences multiple cross-functional project teams to execute and adopt a point of view for ideas and initiatives.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Trains and mentors colleagues, including Sr. Software Engineers.
• Collaborates with senior stakeholders to deliver projects and manage milestones.
• Communicates the value of Software Development Engineering to the business.
• Applies modern software development practices across the end-to-end software development life cycle.
• Designs enterprise-grade architectures and coordinates multi-team efforts; Optimizes cloud resource costs and develops deep understanding of AI models.
• Drives technical direction and innovation while addressing performance and scale challenges
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including senior stakeholders, to deliver projects, specify development activities, and manage milestones and timelines.
• Articulates the role of Software Development Engineering and its value to the business.
• Leads significant projects, programs and business initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity.
• Determines work priorities based on general direction from managers.
• Provides specialist advice to middle and senior management to resolve complex issues related to emerging technologies.
• May informally lead the daily work of assigned work group / team.
• Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team.
• Models curiosity and displays passion to constantly learn new things in rapidly evolving technology landscape.
• Demonstrates adaptability and growth mindset when facing technological changes.

About You:

You are a fit for the position of Staff Software Engineer if your background includes:

• 10+ Years of software engineering experience, including work with both co-located and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft C++ (MFC, COM, Win32) with solid object-oriented design and development skills. Sound grasp of object-oriented programming principles, including SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), as well as core database design fundamentals.
• Experience with agentic coding tools and AI-native software engineering workflows.
• Hands-on experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, and REST APIs.
• Solid working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (RDBMS).
• Practical experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices and tools such as GitHub workflows. Comfortable with unit testing and test automation disciplines.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (EC2, S3, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, SQS). Familiarity with containers (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Strong communication skills across formats—in-person, phone, email, chat, whiteboarding, and other collaboration platforms with the ability to clearly explain, inform, and coordinate.
• Willingness to learn and support our legacy codebase during the transition to our next-generation platform.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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