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  • 🇮🇳 India
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Staff Engineer

Description

The Position

We are seeking a seasoned engineer with a passion for changing the way millions of people save energy. You’ll work within the Engineering team to build and improve our platforms to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Staff Engineer expertise in Python to join our development team. As a Staff Engineer you will be a crucial member of our development team, responsible for leading and driving the development of complex, scalable, and high-performance Python-based applications. One of your main focus will be on developing and supporting efficient, reusable and highly scalable APIs & components to deliver a compelling experience to users across platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior developers, and coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important. You will take part in the planning and strategy to come up with the solutions with full ownership.

You will own the development and its quality independently and be responsible for high quality deliverables. And you will work with a great team with excellent benefits.

Responsibilities & Skills

You should:

  • Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable, and secure systems

  • Serve as a technical mentor and coach for engineers across multiple teams

  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to align technical direction with business goals

  • Define and promote engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and deployment processes

  • Drive technical initiatives and ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and performance of systems

  • Participate in technical reviews, architecture discussions, and incident postmortems

  • Evaluate and introduce new technologies or tools to improve productivity and product quality

Required Skills (Python):

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field from IIT, NIT, or any other reputed institute.

  • 10-14 years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years of background in Python and Django.

  • Experience integrating third-party APIs (REST, SOAP, streaming services) into applications.

  • Familiarity with database technologies, particularly MySQL and NoSql databases.

  • Experience with message brokers like Kafka, Rabbitmq and Redis

  • Experience on Version control systems such as Github

  • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud-native applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)

  • Strong understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.

  • Effective communication skills and the ability to influence across teams and stakeholders.

  • A passion for mentoring and a track record of developing engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in a fast-paced startup or growth-stage company.

  • Contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs.

  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Knowledge of Energy domain

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.