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Salary: INR 3,799,461 - 5,140,448 / annual
Vena Solutions is seeking a Staff Software Developer to join the Core Engineering team building and maintaining its cloud-native SaaS platform. This is a hands-on architect-in-the-team role based in Pune with 5 days per week in office.
You will play a key role in maintaining, modernizing, and evolving Vena's core product. Staff Developers act as technical architects, driving high-quality delivery of improvements while staying hands-on and contributing to the codebase. This role suits engineers who take pride in foundational work and are excited by the challenge of modernizing complex systems without disrupting customers who depend on them daily.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guide the team on designing, building, and testing improvements, upgrades, and performance optimizations to the core platform
- Identify and resolve the hardest bugs and most complex technical challenges in foundational systems
- Engage other teams to address broader technical, product, or team effectiveness issues
- Upskill others on the team, helping them grow technically and become better software developers
- Drive major initiatives that improve product quality, code quality, performance, or capability, including modernization efforts on core infrastructure
- Innovate on technical solutions and build excitement around implementing them collaboratively
- Partner with architecture and product teams to build the team's roadmap of technical improvements and new features
- Contribute to a collaborative culture of engineering excellence that continuously improves and pursues knowledge around emerging technologies
- Champion long-term codebase health by ensuring technical debt is appropriately identified, prioritized, and addressed
- Drive the adoption of AI-driven development practices and innovative tooling to enhance engineering productivity
The developer-focused team culture encourages self-motivated, self-directed engineers who value leadership and take ownership to make their mark on the product.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in software development with strong focus on back end / server-side engineering
- Strong proficiency in Java and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Interest in AI and willingness to explore AI-driven solutions to enhance performance and drive efficiencies
- Experience with Dropwizard or Spring Boot (Dropwizard experience is a strong plus)
- Experience working on and modernizing large, established codebases
- Experience in object-oriented methodologies and design patterns
- Foundational understanding of algorithms and computational complexity
- Prior experience leading technical projects and mentoring others to improve their technical skills
- Prior experience in a Scrum / Agile environment
- Experience working on distributed teams with team members in different geographies
- Self-motivated and self-directed with a passion for engineering excellence
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with RESTful APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps or Jenkins
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline and/or equivalent experience
