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 leadershipLead the design and implementation of scalable, API-based and event-driven architecturesDrive technical excellence by improving system architecture, solution quality, and developer productivityGuide and de-risk the delivery of large-scale technical initiatives, ensuring alignment with architectural patterns and non-functional requirementsCollaborate closely with product, design, data, and platform teams to solve complex business challenges with effective technical solutionsAlign engineering efforts with wider business objectives while maintaining architectural integrityAdvocate for continuous improvement, helping evolve engineering culture through XP principles, DORA metrics, and DevOps practicesPromote shared ownership and operational excellence across teams
Requirements
Strong track record as a hands-on senior/staff-level engineer delivering scalable, secure systemsProven experience leading or influencing architecture and technical direction across teams or domainsExperience working with API-based and event-driven systems, cloud services, and a mix of relational and NoSQL databasesComfortable collaborating with architects, principal engineers, and cross-functional stakeholdersStrong advocate of Agile and XP practices, including iterative, feedback-driven developmentAbility to balance short-term delivery with long-term system sustainabilityExperience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across teamsStrong 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 initiativesExposure to improving engineering effectiveness using DORA metricsBackground 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 wordsDay 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance providedSupport That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are sharedTrue Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued
At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.
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