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Staff Engineer (Platform)
BukuWarung
IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Experience: 8+ years
- Key Requirement: Backend distributed systems scaling
- Role: Staff Engineer
Role overview
BukuWarung is building the financial and digital nervous system for millions of underserved merchants, integrating payments, credit, software, commerce, and money management into one platform. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to provide architectural depth and design high-volume, reliability-sensitive, multi-country platforms as the company enters a critical phase of growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design for high-scale systems across payments, EDC, credit, and merchant platforms
- Design for multi-region expansion and high transaction volumes
- Establish and elevate system design review standards
- Drive platform thinking across squads
- Identify scaling bottlenecks before they hurt
- Reduce operational burden through thoughtful abstractions
- Mentor engineers and grow them
- Work directly with engineering leadership and influence product decisions where system design matters
Requirements
- 8+ years building and scaling backend distributed systems
- Deep understanding of system design fundamentals (consistency models, caching strategies, event-driven architecture, fault tolerance, data modeling at scale)
- Experience with microservices and/or modular monolith architectures
- Hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Strong intuition for performance tuning and observability
- Comfort operating in ambiguity while raising engineering bar
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech or transaction-heavy platforms
- Experience scaling systems across regions
- Prior Staff/Principal-level impact in high-growth environments
Additional details
- The role focuses on designing systems that scale 10x and 100x, failure domains and blast radius reduction, high availability and reliability engineering, clean abstractions and long-term maintainability, and architecture that enables speed.
- Unlike roles at large tech companies optimizing a slice of a mature system, this role involves shaping the spine and defining how engineering thinks about scale as a culture.
- Ideal candidates think in systems, not just services; get uncomfortable when architecture feels fragile; enjoy whiteboarding failure scenarios more than debating frameworks; and want ownership beyond tickets.
- Originally posted on Himalayas