Tuna Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide deep technical leadership across our engineering organization. This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer who combines strong hands-on expertise, system-level thinking, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without formal people management responsibilities.

As a Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping architecture, improving system scalability and reliability, mentoring senior engineers, and driving complex technical initiatives from conception through production.

 

Key Responsibilities

* Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple development teams.
* Design, build, and evolve scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems.
* Drive complex technical initiatives and system integrations end-to-end.
* Identify and proactively address performance, scalability, reliability, and security risks.
* Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to align technical decisions with business goals.
* Mentor and coach senior engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the organization.
* Champion best practices in system design, testing, deployment, and observability.
* Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tools, and patterns that improve developer productivity and system quality.
* Maintain a hands-on role, contributing approximately 30% of time to coding, reviews, and architectural implementation.
* Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and operational readiness.
* Act as a trusted technical advisor in strategic planning and decision-making.

 

Required Qualifications

* Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
* 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
* 3+ years operating at a Staff or Principal Engineer level (formal or informal).
* Proven experience leading large-scale technical initiatives across teams.
* Deep expertise in designing and maintaining distributed, scalable backend systems.
* Strong architectural skills with experience in complex system integrations.
* Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, such as PHP, Python, Java, Go, Node.js.
* Strong backend experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel preferred; Symfony, CodeIgniter acceptable).
* Experience building APIs using REST and/or GraphQL.
* Strong database design experience and understanding of enterprise integration patterns.
* Solid knowledge of performance tuning, caching, logging, monitoring, and observability.
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and modern deployment practices.
* Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
* Demonstrated experience using AI/LLMs or embeddings to improve development workflows, system efficiency, or business outcomes.
* Strong understanding of test-driven development and quality-first engineering.

Software Development

Security software

Product design

Testing

Python

Java

Node.js

System integrations

Database

CodeIgniter

Graphql.js

Mvc 5

Amazon

Continuous Integration

System design

Scalability

System security

Symfony

Support

Golang

Laravel

RESTful API

GraphQL

CI/CD

Google Cloud Platform

Performance Optimization

Cache

Logging

Monitoring

Observability

Staff Software Engineer (US Shift)