Tekonika - Staff Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive the architecture, design, and development of scalable, high-performance software solutions.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in software engineering, system design, cloud technologies, and distributed systems while mentoring engineering teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

As a Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in defining technical strategy, solving complex engineering challenges, improving engineering practices, and ensuring the delivery of reliable and scalable products.

Key Responsibilities :

Technical Leadership :

- Provide technical direction and architectural guidance across multiple engineering teams.

- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.

- Define engineering standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.

- Drive technical decision-making and technology selection.

- Conduct architecture and design reviews to ensure quality and scalability.

- Identify technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.

Software Development :

- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade applications.

- Write clean, efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.

- Lead the development of complex backend services, APIs, and microservices.

- Build highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling large volumes of traffic.

- Optimize application performance, reliability, and security.

- Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions.

System Architecture :

- Design cloud-native applications and modern software architectures.

- Build resilient, fault-tolerant, and high-availability systems.

- Improve application scalability, observability, and maintainability.

- Design event-driven and service-oriented architectures.

- Optimize databases, caching strategies, and system performance.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.

Engineering Excellence :

- Establish coding standards and development best practices.

- Conduct code reviews and maintain high engineering quality.

- Improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment processes.

- Promote test-driven development and automated testing.

- Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and performance standards.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering teams.

Collaboration :

- Work closely with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, UX Designers, and Business Stakeholders.

- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

- Participate in sprint planning, technical discussions, and architecture reviews.

- Provide technical guidance during product roadmap planning.

Mentorship :

- Mentor and coach senior and mid-level software engineers.

- Help engineers improve coding standards, design thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

- Support hiring by conducting technical interviews and evaluating candidates.

Required Skills :

- Strong expertise in software engineering principles, design patterns, and object-oriented programming.

- Extensive experience building distributed systems and scalable enterprise applications.

- Hands-on experience with Java, .NET, Go, Python, or other modern programming languages.

- Deep understanding of microservices architecture and API design principles.

- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

- Strong knowledge of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Azure

Service Bus.

- Expertise in relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.

- Knowledge of caching technologies such as Redis and Memcached.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

- Experience implementing observability solutions including logging, monitoring, and tracing frameworks.

- Solid understanding of software security principles, authentication, authorization, and compliance

standards.

- Proficiency in Agile methodologies, Scrum, and modern software development practices.