Staff Software Engineer - SaaS Platform

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and development of next-generation usage-based billing platforms powering modern SaaS and AI-driven businesses. This role focuses on building highly scalable distributed systems capable of processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second while enabling real-time billing, metering, and monetization.

As a technical leader, you will combine hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver reliable, cloud-native platforms that scale globally.

Key Responsibilities :Technical Leadership :

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of large-scale distributed backend systems.

• Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across engineering teams.

• Establish engineering best practices focused on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Lead by example through hands-on coding, technical reviews, and design discussions.

Platform Engineering :

• Design and build highly available usage metering, aggregation, and billing services.

• Develop distributed systems capable of handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads.

• Build scalable microservices and cloud-native platforms supporting enterprise SaaS applications.

• Optimize system performance, storage, and infrastructure costs.

Engineering Excellence :

• Ensure software quality through code reviews, testing strategies, CI/CD automation, and observability.

• Identify and resolve production bottlenecks affecting scalability, reliability, and customer experience.

• Promote engineering standards and operational excellence across teams.

• Drive adoption of modern development practices and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

People Leadership & Mentorship :

• Mentor engineers and technical leaders across multiple teams.

• Support career development through coaching, technical guidance, and continuous learning.

• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, accountability, and customer-centric engineering.

• Collaborate with hiring teams to attract and develop top engineering talent.

Cross-functional Collaboration :

• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Business teams.

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Drive technical roadmap planning while balancing short-term delivery and long-term platform evolution.

Required Qualifications :

• 12+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale SaaS platforms.

• Proven experience designing and operating high-scale distributed backend systems.

• Strong expertise in Java and backend application development.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.

• Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging platforms.

• Strong knowledge of OLTP and OLAP databases.

• Experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.

• Experience building and scaling microservices architectures.

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, containerization, and modern software engineering practices.

• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring senior engineers.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience as a Founder, CTO, Founding Engineer, or early-stage startup technical leader.

• Experience building AI-powered products or automation platforms.

• Knowledge of AI-assisted development and agentic workflows.

• Experience with frontend technologies such as React or Vue.js.

• Expertise in enterprise-scale monitoring and observability platforms.

• Experience building high-scale billing, payments, subscription, or monetization platforms.