Staff Software Engineer (Remote, Full-Time) [HR135]

About Smart Working

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Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally.
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About the role

We’re offering an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping a high-impact customer acquisition and e-commerce platform. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership across critical initiatives, working closely with product, design, data, and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable, and future-proof systems.

You’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership—guiding architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and embedding engineering best practices. This is a role for someone who wants to make a tangible business impact while raising the technical bar across teams.
You’ll take ownership of two major initiatives: Modernising the customer sign-up experience across multiple markets, improving personalisation, compliance, and mobile parity while decoupling legacy systems; Enabling marketing teams through CMS-driven, SEO-optimised landing pages and improved attribution, reducing engineering dependency and accelerating campaign delivery.

Responsibilities:
• Coach and mentor engineers, promoting best practices such as XP, TDD, and pair programming through hands-on leadership
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, API-based and event-driven architectures
• Drive technical excellence by improving system architecture, solution quality, and developer productivity
• Guide and de-risk the delivery of large-scale technical initiatives, ensuring alignment with architectural patterns and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate closely with product, design, data, and platform teams to solve complex business challenges with effective technical solutions
• Align engineering efforts with wider business objectives while maintaining architectural integrity
• Advocate for continuous improvement, helping evolve engineering culture through XP principles, DORA metrics, and DevOps practices
• Promote shared ownership and operational excellence across teams

Requirements:
• Strong track record as a hands-on senior/staff-level engineer delivering scalable, secure systems
• Proven experience leading or influencing architecture and technical direction across teams or domains
• Experience working with API-based and event-driven systems, cloud services, and a mix of relational and NoSQL databases
• Comfortable collaborating with architects, principal engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong advocate of Agile and XP practices, including iterative, feedback-driven development
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term system sustainability
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across teams
• Strong alignment with DevOps culture, shared ownership, and improving developer experience through tooling and process improvements

Nice to have:
• Experience guiding multi-team or cross-domain technical initiatives
• Exposure to improving engineering effectiveness using DORA metrics
• Background in customer-facing platforms such as e-commerce, acquisition, or marketing systems.

Benefits:
• Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
• No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
• Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
• Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
• True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued

At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.

Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.

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