Staff Engineer - Backend (Azure, .NET)

About the role

A team building full-stack, cloud-native products with a strong emphasis on backend services and APIs is looking for a Staff Engineer in Bengaluru. The work is hybrid, and the team builds and deploys its solutions on Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Docker, AKS, Azure DevOps, IaC). The products are AI-powered, calling Large Language Models, and the role focuses on the backend and cloud services powering them.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, mainly with .NET (C#), and with Python and C++ where needed.
• Implement event-driven architectures using Azure Service Bus, Event Grid and Event Hubs.
• Integrate AI capabilities, including services that call LLMs and consume AI models.
• Develop and optimise backend services, APIs and database interactions with MS SQL and NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB, MongoDB).
• Deploy, manage and monitor applications on Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Azure Storage, Azure SQL).
• Contribute to front-end work on Single Page Applications when needed.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UI/UX designers and QA engineers, write clean documented code, take part in code reviews, unit and integration testing, and troubleshoot issues across the stack.

Required profile

• 7-10 years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• Strong backend engineering skills: RESTful APIs, microservices and distributed systems, with an eye on performance, scalability and reliability.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture (message queues, pub/sub, event streaming, asynchronous processing).
• Experience with containers (Docker, AKS, ACR) and CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required skills

• .NET Core / .NET Framework, C# and Entity Framework.
• More than one programming language; Python and/or C++ alongside C# is highly desirable.
• MS SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
• Azure services: App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Azure Storage.
• Preferred: SPA frameworks (Angular, React), IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, ARM), OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect, Azure OpenAI, Azure certifications (AZ-204, AZ-400), Kubernetes, Agile/Scrum.