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Staff Engineer Backend

Staff Engineer Backend

TELUS Digital AI Data SolutionsBangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
1 day ago
Job description

What You’ll Do

  • Architect and scale backend services that support large-scale data ingestion, transformation, workflow orchestration, and secure delivery pipelines.
  • Lead system design and technical road mapping across projects, ensuring platforms are resilient, extensible, and aligned with long-term goals.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, leading by example in code quality, documentation, and system thinking.
  • Own backend performance and reliability, introducing metrics-driven approaches to scale systems efficiently and reduce operational overhead.
  • Collaborate across disciplines, AI researchers, frontend, data, DevOps, and product teams to design APIs and services with clear boundaries and SLAs.
  • Champion platform evolution
  • , identifying and driving initiatives around observability, developer tooling, scalability, and security.
  • Influence technical direction across engineering by leading design reviews, promoting best practices, and contributing to internal engineering standards.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering, with at least 1+ years operating at a staff level or equivalent.
  • Proven experience designing and scaling backend systems in production with a strong grasp of distributed systems, microservices, and service-oriented architecture.
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Java, and Python.
  • Good understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Deep knowledge of data modeling, API design (REST / GraphQL / RPC), caching, SDKs, developer tooling, and asynchronous systems (queues, event buses).
  • Strong understanding of servers, database metrics, and observability.
  • Experience implementing secure, observable, and testable systems.
  • Familiarity with CI / CD pipelines, and deployment tooling (GitHub workflows, CircleCI, etc.).
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to drive alignment across teams.

    • Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on data-intensive SaaS platforms, scalable backend services, or high-throughput data processing systems.
  • Familiarity with event-driven and domain-driven design.
  • Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, system design, and architectural patterns.
  • Background in leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and contributing to org-level architecture.
  • Strong bias for action and ownership; comfortable making architectural decisions with long-term impact.
  • Experience in mentoring up to SDE 3 engineers and participating in technical hiring loops.

    • What You’ll Love / Benefits

  • Opportunity to build backend systems that are foundational to the future of AI / Gen AI.
  • High agency environment where your technical leadership directly shapes product outcomes.
  • Hybrid flexibility with a culture of deep ownership and collaboration.
  • Work accessories and a great work location
  • Competitive compensation, medical coverage (self & family), and surprise performance perks.
  • Fun team culture with regular hackathons, offsites, and creative engineering challenges.
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    Backend Engineer • Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India