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As a Staff Engineer, your impact will extend far beyond individual execution. You will shape the technical direction of our platform, raise the engineering bar across multiple teams, and take end-to-end ownership of complex, mission-critical systems.\n\nYou will act as a force multiplier: influencing architectural decisions, leading high- and low-level designs, mentoring engineers, and driving a culture of engineering excellence. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Java, the Spring ecosystem, distributed systems, and data infrastructure, coupled with the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, production-grade solutions in the fast-paced healthtech sector.\n\nThe candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions: \n\nTechnical Leadership and Architecture: \nDesign and Drive: Lead the High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) for complex backend systems, features, and scalable microservices.\nStandardise: Define, document, and enforce engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices across all backend services.\nReview and Decide: Drive critical design reviews and technical decisions, successfully balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term scalability.\nInnovate: Own the technical roadmap for core backend domains and facilitate cross-functional architecture discussions.\n\nDelivery and End-to-End Ownership: \nExecute: Take complete ownership of large-scale backend initiatives from initial requirements and system design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.\nOptimise: Proactively identify and resolve systemic issues, including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and technical debt.\nCollaborate: Partner closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to scope and deliver high-impact features on time and at scale.\nAccelerate: Drive improvements in overall engineering velocity through process optimisation, advanced tooling, and developer experience enhancements.\n\nCode Quality and Engineering Excellence: \nSet the Bar: Lead by example through rigorous code reviews, proactively identifying edge cases, design gaps, and performance concerns.\nChampion Best Practices: Advocate for and implement test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD best practices, and robust observability standards.\nMaintain Health: Actively manage and eliminate technical debt to ensure the codebase remains agile, maintainable, and production-ready.\n\nMentoring and Team Enablement: \nCoach: Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevating their technical capabilities and accelerating their career growth.\nCultivate: Foster a team culture rooted in extreme ownership, technical curiosity, and continuous improvement.\nUnblock: Serve as a primary technical resource and sounding board for the team, unblocking challenges and guiding critical technical decisions.\n\nRequirements: \nEducation: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.\nExperience: 8+ years of hands-on experience in backend software engineering, with a proven track record of building, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems.\n\nTechnical Competencies: \nBackend Mastery: Deep, hands-on proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Data), with extensive experience building production-grade microservices.\nMessaging and Streaming: Proven expertise in designing and operating event-driven architectures using Kafka(including high-throughput event pipelines and consumer group management).\nDatabase Infrastructure: Extensive hands-on experience across relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), document stores (MongoDB), and in-memory data stores (Redis). Strong grasp of schema design, query optimisation, and advanced caching strategies.\nSystem Architecture: Strong command of distributed systems, RESTful API design, and performance tuning. 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