Staff Engineer I

India - Product & Platform Department

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Staff Engineer I

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Payments Domain Expertise

Extensive functional and technical knowledge of global payment rails, specifically covering US, European, and Asian markets.

Deep understanding of payment workflows, compliance, and processing tailored for both Retail banking and SME/Commercial sectors.

Meet the Job: Key Responsibilities

The Solver: Parachute into the hardest technical challenges spanning multiple teams to remove volatility and ambiguity.

Design Ownership: Own high-level design for multi-service capabilities, ensuring security and scalability are embedded from the start.

Technical Project Leadership: For large strategic initiatives, you step in as the technical lead, driving the architecture and execution strategy across multiple engineering teams.

Core Systems Prototyping: Write the complex cores and skeletal systems that other teams build upon..

Execution Focus: You ensure the current quarter is executed with technical excellence.

Bar Raising: Serve as the primary approver for critical-path design reviews and major technical initiatives.

Technical Mentorship: Act as a dedicated mentor and coach for engineers, guiding their technical growth, fostering a high-performance culture, and helping to cultivate future technical leaders.

AI-Native Engineering & AI Agent Governance

AI Adoption: Lead the adoption of agentic tooling, and AI automation within your team to accelerate the development lifecycle.

Tooling & Governance: Skill in selecting, configuring, and governing the use of AI tooling.

Context Engineering: Advanced skill in configuring, governing, and providing detailed, context-rich inputs for AI agents.

Harness Engineering: Advanced skill in engineering the AI agent's operational environment (the 'harness'), ensuring it includes the necessary security, retrieval, and validation systems for reliable, high-quality code generation.