Staff Engineer

Experience : 9 Years - 12 Years of Experience

Location : Bangalore

Mode : 5 days WFO

Outstation Candidates : Not Allowed

Notice Period : Immediate to 45 Days maximum

Mandatory Requirements :

- Strong staff engineer profile

- Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and scalable systems

- Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years

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

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

- 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

- Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)

- Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies

- B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Role & Responsibilities :

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

Key Responsibilities :

- To 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 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 Locus's technology foundation.

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