Senior Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Overview of the Role At Freshworks, we don’t just ship software—we shape it to be fast, reliable, and refreshingly simple. As a Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer, you are a technical visionary and architectural leader for the broader engineering organization. You operate at the intersection of long-term business strategy and deep technical execution, driving the evolution of our most critical distributed systems and web architectures. If you thrive in solving extreme architectural complexity, possess exceptional product sense, and find your true north in defining tech strategy and driving org-wide engineering excellence—you belong here. The Impact You Will Create Organizational Architecture Visionary: You will define and execute the technical roadmap for highly complex, multi-domain systems, dictating how highly distributed microservices interact with next-generation enterprise frontend platforms. Strategic Business Alignment: You will not just build features; you will partner with senior product leadership to translate multi-year business objectives and market ambiguities into scalable, future-proof technical strategies. Org-Wide Force Multiplier: You will raise the talent bar across multiple domains by defining engineering standards, mentoring Staff and Lead engineers, and proactively designing out systemic bottlenecks before they materialize. Roles & Responsibilities Org-Wide System Design (HLD & LLD): Architect highly resilient, cross-domain systems. Drive the technical vision for API governance, advanced database modeling (sharding, partitioning), and asynchronous event-driven architectures designed for massive scale and multi-region high availability. Advanced Frontend Architecture: Set the North Star for UI architecture across the organization. Pioneer micro-frontend strategies, complex global state management, and advanced rendering paradigms (CSR/SSR/SSG) to achieve world-class Core Web Vitals at an enterprise scale. End-to-End Platform Engineering: Architect scalable full-stack platforms, ensuring highly optimized, secure, and low-latency data flow from complex backend topologies to the end-user interface. Observability & Reliability: Define org-wide SLIs and SLOs. Architect comprehensive telemetry and monitoring ecosystems, and lead incident response and post-mortems for critical, high-impact system outages. Executive Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a technical authority who influences VP and C-level decisions. Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business ROI. Qualifications Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of operating successfully at a Senior Staff, Principal, or equivalent level within a high-growth, massive-scale SaaS or enterprise environment. Master Problem Solver: An expert-level foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design, with the demonstrated ability to simplify extreme architectural complexity into elegant, maintainable solutions. Core Skills & Technical Mastery Global Web & UI Architecture: Deep, authoritative command of modern frontend ecosystems (React/Angular/Vue, TS/JS). Proven experience building design-system-aware development cultures, ensuring strict UI accessibility (WCAG), and enforcing robust frontend security protocols. Distributed Systems at Scale: Proven experience architecting asynchronous, distributed applications. Mastery of SOLID principles, advanced design patterns, and building for strict fault tolerance and data consistency. Backend & API Mastery: Deep expertise in designing robust API contracts, complex relational and NoSQL database modeling, and optimizing backend logic for latency, throughput, and extensibility. DevOps & Infrastructure: Strong hands-on experience guiding infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipeline optimization, and cloud-native deployment strategies (AWS/GCP/Azure). Executive Product Sense: The a ... (truncated, view full listing at source)