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We're hiring a Senior Staff - Software Development Engineer to lead, architect, and scale high-performance backend systems. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll guide top-tier engineers, shape core backend infrastructure, and ensure seamless performance at scale. If you excel at designing robust architectures, optimizing mission-critical services, and driving engineering excellence across teams, this role is for you!
Hike Code 📝( Our core cultural values )
The Hike Code is our value system. We aim to live and breathe by these every single day. They inspire us to be the best we can be and they are weaved into every part of our decision-making, how we review performance, and much more. We have 9 core values{{:}
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Top Talent in Every Role
→ Both a quest for greatness & shared values are important to us 🦸♂ ️-
Owner not a Rente
r → Proactive & radically responsible. Everyone is an owner ? ?-
Pro-Sports Team
→ Strength-based, results-driven with a "team-first" attitude ⚽ ️-
Customer Obsession
→ We exist to delight our customers ? ?-
Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgement
→ Clear mind, obsession to simplify & data-informed 🙇♀ ️-
Build & Make Magic
→ Courage to walk into the unknown and pioneer new fronts ? ?-
Be Insatiably Curious & Keep Improving
→ Curiosity to acquire new perspectives, quickly 👨? ?-
Move Fast & Be Dynami
c → Ruthless prioritization & move fast 🙋♂ ️-
Dream Big, Be Bold & Think Long Term
→ Courage to climb big mountains ? ?
Skills & experience we're looking for 👨?
?- 6+ years of relevant experience in building and scaling high-tech infrastructure | Top Talent in every rol
e- Have prior experience building from the ground up or significantly contributing to large-scale distributed systems/products | Top Talent in every rol
e- Proven experience in designing and scaling complex backend architectures and distributed systems with high availability and fault tolerance | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgemen
t- Strong hands-on experience with designing microservices, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing | Be Insatiably Curious & Keep Improvin
g- Deep understanding of system design, algorithms, data structures, and performance tuning | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgemen
t- Strong coding skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or similar languages | Top Talent in every rol
e- Practical experience with relational and NoSQL databases, caching layers (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgemen
t- Experience in setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks and tool for large-scale production systems | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgemen
t- Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to mentor, influence, and drive cross-team alignment | Pro sports tea
m- A strong inclination toward experimentation and adaptability, especially around emerging AI technologies — whether through side projects, rapid prototyping, or applying them to real-world systems. Familiarity with tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit, CodeWhisperer, or AI-powered codegen and debugging assistants is a big big plus and can make you stand out | Be Insatiably Curious & Keep Improvin
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You Will ?
?- Leadership → Provide architectural vision and technical direction for backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and securit
y- Leadership → Lead, mentor, and upskill a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous learnin
g- Leadership → Drive design and code reviews to maintain high standards of engineering excellenc
e- Planning → Design and implement robust, high-performance backend services and APIs to support new and existing product feature
s- Planning → Define and drive system-level improvements, refactoring, and technical debt reduction to keep systems healthy and future-read
y- Planning → Contribute to long-term technical strategy, roadmap planning, and make build vs. buy decision
s- Operations → Own the end-to-end uptime, reliability, and performance of production services. Implement strong observability, incident management, and root cause analysis practice
s- Operations → Optimize backend performance through load testing, profiling, and tuning to handle millions of users seamlessl
y- Operations → Ensure the highest levels of security, compliance, and data privacy in all backend system
s- Collaboration → Partner with Product, Design, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful products with speed and qualit
y- Collaboration → Advocate for and implement best practices, reusable frameworks, and tools to increase engineering efficiency across team
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💰 Benefits → We have tremendous benefits & perks. Check out work.hike.in to know mor
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