Staff Engineer - Backend Architecture

Description :

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. Youll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.

- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locuss technical strategy.

- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.

- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.

- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locuss technology foundation.

- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate :

Mandatory Experience :

- Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and scalable systems with clear production scale or reliability impact (latency, throughput, uptime, etc.) mentioned in the resume

- Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years (should be there in the resume titles)

Mandatory Tech skills :

- Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving

- Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems with architecture

ownership and experience in core backend/platform services rather than feature teams

- Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing

- Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring

- Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders

- Mandatory Company : Top product companies (logistics, supply chain, e-commerce, or B2B SAAS at large scale)

- Mandatory (Stability) : Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies

- Mandatory (Education) : B.Tech in computer science or related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

- Mandatory (Note 1) : Education can be ignored for candidates with proven experience in strong, reputed product companies