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.
  
  

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Skills Required
Docker, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Rabbitmq, Dynamodb, Google Cloud Platform, Memcached, .NET, Go, Azure, Java, Redis, Mongodb, Aws, Mysql, Postgresql, Agile, Python