Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer 
Location: Hyderabad, India
Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried 
Compensation: Base Salary, Bonus, Medical

Innovapptive is a category-defining SaaS company building the world’s most advanced AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for the industrial sector. Headquartered in Houston, TX, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Innovapptive is on a mission to reimagine how industrial work gets done — connecting frontline workers, back-office systems, and assets in real time to drive higher safety, reliability, and productivity.

Our platform is trusted by some of the world’s largest enterprises — including Shell, Hess, Cenovus Energy, W.R.Grace, Westlake Chemicals, UNICEF, Kimberly Clark, Scott Miracle Gro, and Newmont Mining to name a few, and across chemicals, energy, mining, and manufacturing industries. These enterprises have achieved tangible, hard-dollar results, such as:

• Over $40 million in annual EBITDA savings at a single enterprise.
• 10× frontline productivity improvements through mobile-first and AI-enabled workflows.
• 15–20% maintenance cost reductions and significant uptime gains across plants and sites.

Innovapptive is recognized by leading industry analysts for its differentiated value creation model:

• Named a Leader in the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Connected Worker Radar.
• Featured by Gartner in “Connected Factory Worker” research and the Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy.
• Cited by LNS Research for delivering 3–5× greater value than point solutions through unified OT–IT execution, AI/vision innovation, and field-proven ROI.

Our growth is backed by Tiger Global Management and Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s premier software investors, known for scaling high-performance SaaS companies. Together, we are building the next-generation AI Powered Connected Worker Platform, combining cutting-edge technologies — SLM’s, Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Intelligent Orchestration — into a unified system that transforms plant operations globally.

Today, with over 300+ employees across the U.S., India, and ANZ, Innovapptive stands at a pivotal inflection point: with an ambition to scale to $100M ARR within the next 3-4 years by industrializing every aspect of our product, engineering, and customer delivery systems.

When a technician in a refinery, a mine, or a chemical plant opens one of our apps, they are trusting that it works, every time, on a shift where the stakes are real. As a Staff Engineer, you are one of the people who earns that trust.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will not manage a team on an org chart. You will lead through the quality of your designs, the depth of your code, and the engineers you make better. You will own the technical direction of major areas of our Mobile and Web platform, set the engineering bar for the teams around you, and turn ambiguous business problems into simple, scalable, dependable solutions.

You will work across our product suite and across the stack, from Node.js microservices and data models to Angular/React and React Native experiences, on AWS. You will also help us bring AI-enabled capabilities into products that frontline workers use every day.

We believe quality depends on the people making the design decisions. At Staff level, you own the "-ilities": scalability, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability. You build them into the design instead of testing them afterwards.

•  Own architecture and design. Lead the design of complex, cross-team features and platform capabilities. Write clear HLDs and LLDs, drive design reviews, and make the trade-offs explicit.
•  Build what matters, hands-on. Write production-grade code in Node.js, MongoDB/DynamoDB, and Angular or React (including React Native) for the hardest, highest-impact problems. You lead from the code.
• Design APIs and microservices that last. Define RESTful and OData API contracts, service boundaries, and data models that scale across customers, industries, and SAP and IBM Maximo integrations.
• Raise the engineering bar. Set standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation. Use tools like SonarQube and strong unit and integration testing so that quality is measurable.
• Be the multiplier. Mentor Senior Engineers and Leads, grow future architects, and make every design and code review a teaching moment.
•  Drive reliability and performance. Own the non-functional requirements of your area. Lead root-cause analysis on complex production issues and fix the system, not just the symptom.
• Deploy with confidence. Shape how we ship on AWS (and Azure/GCP where needed) with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.
• Partner across the company. Work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, UX designers, QE, and Engineering leadership on vision, planning, and high-level estimates. Join customer conversations when a hard problem needs the right answer.
• Shape our AI-enabled future. Help integrate AI services into our products responsibly, and bring a pragmatic view of what works in industrial environments.
•  Stay curious. Evaluate emerging technologies and bring the ones that make our products and our teams better.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10–12 years of full stack engineering experience, with a track record of delivering multiple major releases of SaaS products.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and MongoDB / DynamoDB, including data modelling and performance optimization.
• Strong proficiency in Angular or React; experience with React Native or mobile (hybrid/native) applications is a strong plus.
•  Proven experience designing RESTful / OData APIs and microservices architectures at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Azure/GCP a plus), Docker and Kubernetes, and setting up or driving CI/CD.
• A history of technical leadership: leading designs, mentoring engineers, and influencing without authority.
• A quality mindset: unit testing, code quality tooling (e.g., SonarQube), security, observability, and performance as part of everyday engineering.
• Excellent communication. You can write a crisp design doc (HLD/LLD/SDD) and explain a complex trade-off to an engineer, a product manager, or a customer.
•  Experience in an agile environment.
• Good to have: integration experience with SAP or IBM Maximo; Realm and AWS Amplify; third-party integrations (Instabug, Mixpanel, payment gateways); exposure to AI/GenAI-enabled product features; background in industrial, ERP, or enterprise SaaS.
• A valid passport, as occasional customer travel may be needed.
• If you meet most of this and are excited by the problem, we encourage you to apply. We hire for ownership and curiosity.

• Be the architect of reliability and adoption for the world’s leading industrial brands.
• Influence how industrial SaaS is designed, delivered, and scaled globally.
• Collaborate with top minds in maintenance, operations, and technology.
• Work in a culture that values initiative, ownership, and measurable impact.
• Competitive compensation, performance-linked rewards, and comprehensive benefits.

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.