Job Description

About Smart Working
At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being.
Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally.Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.
About the role
We’re offering an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping a high-impact customer acquisition and e-commerce platform. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership across critical initiatives, working closely with product, design, data, and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable, and future-proof systems.
You’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership—guiding architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and embedding engineering best practices. This is a role for someone who wants to make a tangible business impact while raising the technical bar across teams.You’ll take ownership of two major initiatives: Modernising the customer sign-up experience across multiple markets, improving personalisation, compliance, and mobile parity while decoupling legacy systems; Enabling marketing teams through CMS-driven, SEO-optimised landing pages and improved attribution, reducing engineering dependency and accelerating campaign delivery.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor engineers, promoting best practices such as XP, TDD, and pair programming through hands-on leadership
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, API-based and event-driven architectures
• Drive technical excellence by improving system architecture, solution quality, and developer productivity
• Guide and de-risk the delivery of large-scale technical initiatives, ensuring alignment with architectural patterns and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate closely with product, design, data, and platform teams to solve complex business challenges with effective technical solutions
• Align engineering efforts with wider business objectives while maintaining architectural integrity
• Advocate for continuous improvement, helping evolve engineering culture through XP principles, DORA metrics, and DevOps practices
• Promote shared ownership and operational excellence across teams

Requirements

• Strong track record as a hands-on senior/staff-level engineer delivering scalable, secure systems
• Proven experience leading or influencing architecture and technical direction across teams or domains
• Experience working with API-based and event-driven systems, cloud services, and a mix of relational and NoSQL databases
• Comfortable collaborating with architects, principal engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong advocate of Agile and XP practices, including iterative, feedback-driven development
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term system sustainability
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across teams
• Strong alignment with DevOps culture, shared ownership, and improving developer experience through tooling and process improvements

Nice to have

• Experience guiding multi-team or cross-domain technical initiatives
• Exposure to improving engineering effectiveness using DORA metrics
• Background in customer-facing platforms such as e-commerce, acquisition, or marketing systems.

Benefits

• Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
• No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
• Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
• Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
• True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued

At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.
Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.
If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear your story.