Staff Software Engineer

Good co India; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking a senior software leader to own the technical strategy and architecture for complex products and platforms. You will design scalable, secure systems and guide end-to-end solutions from requirements to production operations.

You will lead architecture across distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure, mentoring engineers and driving best practices in CI/CD, observability, and security.

Qualifications

• Experience owning complex technical systems and providing technical leadership.
• Strong expertise in software architecture and distributed systems.
• Hands-on development with Java, C++, Python, Go, or Node.js.
• Solid understanding of DS & Algorithms and design patterns.
• Experience with Microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Proven ability to mentor teams and influence architecture without formal authority.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field; higher degrees preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap for complex products and platforms.
• Design and build scalable, highly available, secure, high-performance software systems.
• Own end-to-end technical solutions from requirements through deployment and production operations.
• Lead architecture decisions across microservices, APIs, databases, cloud infra, and integrations.
• Solve complex issues in scalability, reliability, performance, security, and resilience.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and set standards.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, DevOps, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into robust tech solutions.
• Conduct reviews (architecture, design, code) and technical assessments.
• Establish best practices for software development, testing, observability, security, and reliability.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and Tech Leads to raise overall capability.
• Address technical debt, architectural gaps, and performance bottlenecks.
• Evaluate new technologies and drive adoption with measurable value.
• Contribute to engineering standards, docs, reusable frameworks, and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure architectural consistency.
• Participate in incident analysis and long-term production fixes.
• Balance technical excellence with delivery timelines and business priorities.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

High availability design

Programming languages

Java

C++

Python

C#

Go

Node.js

REST APIs

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Data Structures & Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE/EC

B.E./B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

DynamoDB

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jenkins

Terraform

Git

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap for complex products and platforms.
• Design and build scalable, highly available, secure, and high-performance software systems.
• Own end-to-end technical solutions from requirements and system design through development, deployment, and production operations.
• Lead architecture and design decisions across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and integrations.
• Solve complex technical problems involving scalability, reliability, performance, security, and system resilience.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and influence engineering standards and best practices.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, DevOps, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments.
• Establish best practices for software development, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and production reliability.
• Mentor Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and other engineers and help raise the overall technical capability of the organization.
• Identify and address technical debt, architectural gaps, performance bottlenecks, and engineering risks.
• Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools and drive their adoption where they provide measurable technical or business value.
• Contribute to engineering standards, technical documentation, reusable frameworks, and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure consistency in architecture, engineering practices, and technology decisions.
• Participate in incident analysis and drive long-term solutions for critical production issues.
• Balance technical excellence, delivery timelines, business priorities, and maintainability when making engineering decisions.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Software Engineering, with significant experience owning complex technical systems and providing technical leadership.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, distributed systems, and scalable application development.
• Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Java, C++, Python, C#, Go, or Node.js.
• Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, and Software Engineering principles.
• Hands-on experience with Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, API Design, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB.
• Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Terraform, and DevOps practices is preferred.
• Proven experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, reliability, security, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and influencing architecture and engineering decisions without relying solely on formal authority.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Architects, DevOps, Data, and other cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of ambiguous and technically challenging problems and deliver measurable business impact.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical discipline.
• B.E./B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, or architecture certifications are an added advantage but not mandatory.