Job Summary
We are seeking a Staff Engineer with solid technical expertise in designing and developing systems, as well as implementing the best practices. This role involves leading technical initiatives, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring engineering teams. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in transforming software development practices by adopting to evolving methodologies, designing scalable solutions, improving system performance, and ensuring technical excellence across projects. This role requires a deep understanding of evolving software development methodologies, best practices in engineering, DevOps, SRE, and other relevant disciplines particularly for large-scale enterprise products or SaaS companies. Additionally, it demands leadership skills in a collaborative engineering environment.
Key Responsibility
● Technical Leadership: Oversee the design and development of complex and high-performance systems.
● Transforming the Organization: Guide Mindtickle in its journey of transformation towards a software development organization of a new era with evolved PDLC.
● Architecture & Design: Define and enforce architectural best practices to ensure maintainability, observability, evolution, and adherence to functional and non-functional requirements.
● Mentorship & Collaboration: Guide engineers through technical challenges, code reviews, and best practices for software development, as well as production operations while leading small, focused teams in specific expertise areas.
● Innovation & Problem-Solving: Continuously evaluate and integrate new methodologies, technologies, tools, and processes. Provide strategic guidance on technology choices, balancing short-term needs with long-term maintainability.
● Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives.
● Code Quality & Standards: Establish and uphold high coding standards, performance optimization techniques, and best practices, ensuring API and service designs support both current needs and future extensibility.
● Incident Management: Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex system issues and performance bottlenecks.
Required Qualification
- Strong technical leadership with 9-12 years of experience.
- Strong background in system design and architecture of platform components for
distributed business systems. - Working knowledge of maintaining large-scale systems with various architectural
patterns on AWS cloud and software development practices in DevOps, SRE etc. - Deep knowledge of database design, scalability, and performance tuning.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and mentor engineers.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex ideas clearly.
- Understanding of product metrics and product analytics.
Preferred Qualification
● Strong understanding of physical and logical aspects of the performance of RDBMS and No-SQL database (Dynamo, Snowflake) systems and profiling such systems to optimize and identify bottlenecks.
● Experience with implementing microservice architecture and a strong understanding of saga patterns, event-driven systems, and other such architectural patterns.
● Strong expertise in systems in terms of performance of network, threads, processes, caches, memory, operating system metrics, virtualization, JVM, etc.
Skills Required
- 9-12 years of experience
- Strong background in system design and architecture
- Working knowledge of maintaining large-scale systems on AWS cloud
- Deep knowledge of database design and performance tuning
- Proven ability to lead technical teams
- Strong communication skills
What We Do
Mindtickle provides a comprehensive, data-driven solution for sales readiness and enablement that fuels revenue growth and brand affinity. Its purpose-built applications, proven methodologies, and best practices are designed to drive effective sales onboarding and ongoing readiness. With Mindtickle, revenue and sales leaders can continually assess, diagnose and develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to effectively engage buyers and drive growth. Companies across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle's innovative capabilities for onboarding, training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification-based learning, call recording, coaching and role-play to ensure world-class sales performance.
