Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer Department: Engineering Team: Data Location: Hyderabad, India Type: Full-Time \-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ---- **Strategic Leadership & Roadmap** **1.** **Own the Technical Vision:** You will own and drive the technical roadmap for the Payments data ecosystem, balancing long-term architectural scalability with short-term business critical deliveries. **2\. Navigate Ambiguity:** Actively identify strategically important problems and inefficiencies without waiting for instruction. You will partner with Product, Operations, and Engineering stakeholders to translate ambiguous business goals into clear, actionable technical solutions. **3\. Drive Alignment:** See the big picture and drive consensus on complex technical decisions across the organization. You will leverage strong relationships to align conflicting priorities and ensure multiple teams are moving in the same direction. **Technical Architecture & Execution** **1\. Architect at Scale:** Design and implement resilient, cost-effective, and high-scale batch and streaming pipelines that power critical support operations and financial analytics. **2\. Elevate Data Standards:** Define and enforce robust data modeling standards, data contracts, and governance frameworks. You will lead the charge on improving data reliability, lineage, and observability to ensure trust in our data. **3\. Optimize & Automate:** Identify opportunities to automate manual workflows (like SLA tracking and issue detection) and optimize infrastructure efficiency to lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). **Culture, Mentorship & Best Practices** **1\. Raise the Bar:** Champion sustainable engineering practices. You will be the standard-bearer for best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring, guiding the team toward the next generation of our fintech systems. **2\. Be a Trusted Mentor:** Serve as a humble mentor and technical advisor to both junior engineers and peer leaders. You will foster an environment of psychological safety, helping teams navigate differences in opinion to commit and