Staff Engineer - System Design & Architecture
First seen by Alion on Nov 2, 2026.
Job Description :
As a Staff Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing and developing high-performance systems. You will work on large-scale projects that impact millions of users globally, focusing on building scalable, efficient, and reliable solutions. This is an opportunity to apply your strong foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, and programming languages such as C++/ Java/ Python to real-world challenges.
Responsibilities :
- Design, implement, and optimise software systems and applications, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions for large-scale projects.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while following best practices for software development.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to deliver high-quality products.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical leadership across the team.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in technology and advocate for the adoption of modern tools and methodologies.
- Work in collaboration with architects to write low-level design documents and to create a technical roadmap.
- Rearchitect existing algorithms and implementations.
- Work with simulations for functional performance.
Requirements :
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field from a top-tier institution.
- Solid foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms with an ability to solve complex computational problems.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including C++, Java or Python.
- Experience with large-scale systems design and architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on writing efficient and optimised code.
- Experience working on any microservice platform.
- Experience in Algorithmic development.
- Good understanding of version control systems.
- Experience working on REST-based API integration.
- Good RDBMS skills and experience in DB/SQL.
- Good understanding of design patterns, object-oriented design, and frameworks.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical projects and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Skills
C++, Java, Python, System Design, Data Structure, Algorithm, System Architecture, Microservices Architecture, API Integration, RDBMS, Backend Architecture