Staff Engineer Backend
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Job Summary
At Freshworks we build software thats fast reliable and refreshingly intuitive. As a Staff Engineer Backend youll play a pivotal role in defining how we architect scale and evolve systems that serve millions globally. Youll go beyond codeyoull shape system architecture influence backend direction across teams and mentor engineers to push the boundaries of what good engineering looks like.
This is a high-impact role for an engineer whos obsessed with clean architecture can go deep on time and space complexity and thrives in solving hard problems with elegance and clarity.
Responsibilities
- Design develop and scale distributed backend systems that are fault-tolerant and extensible.
- Own complex modules end-to-end: from architecture to deployment to monitoring.
- Define and enforce best practices in API design data modeling and service modularity.
- Drive optimized code across teamsmeasurable in performance and maintainability.
- Perform deep dives into production issues and lead root cause analysis with precision.
- Influence cross-team architecture decisions and own long-term technical direction.
- Collaborate with PMs and other engineering leads to shape backend strategy.
- Coach and mentor engineers on design patterns OOPS principles and clean coding habits.
- Contribute to system-level performance availability (targeting 99.99% uptime) and security.
Requirements
- 9 to 12 years of experience in backend product development.
- Proven experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems.
- Strong grasp of data structures algorithms and time/space optimization techniques.
- Expertise in Java (or equivalent) with real-world experience in building production APIs.
- Solid understanding of system design (HLD & LLD) and architectural trade-offs.
- Experience with CI/CD observability and cloud-native deployments (AWS/GCP).
- Strong debugging skills especially in handling live issues under pressure.
- Youve led architecture reviews built reusable backend components and improved code health across teams.
Qualifications :
- Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- Youve influenced architecture at scale and your code powers real products.
- Familiarity with caching queuing systems microservices and database sharding.
- You lead by examplein communication in mentoring and in technical rigor.
- Youre deeply collaborative and thrive in a culture of continuous learning and ownership.
Additional Information :
At Freshworks we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds genders sexual orientations religions and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees communities and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software that is affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end user. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshwork ... View more
