Senior Staff Engineer

Team: Merchandising Operations

Location: India

Commitment: EOR

Workplace Type: remote

How you will achieve success:

A scalable, multi-tenant 3PL platform capable of onboarding external clients with distinct catalogs, inventory, and fulfillment rules
Reliable core systems for inventory management, order routing, and warehouse operations across client accounts
Fast, low-friction onboarding for new 3PL clients through configurable, reusable platform components
Accurate, real-time inventory and order visibility for both internal ops teams and external clients
Reliable, observable, self-healing fulfillment pipelines with clear SLAs clients can be sold against
Reduced manual intervention in exception handling (mis-ships, short-ships, returns, billing disputes) through AI-driven automation
Clear architectural direction as the 3PL platform scales from first clients to broad external adaptation.

What experiences will help you in this role:

6–8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems
Experience informally or formally leading the technical direction of a team or workstream (design reviews, mentorship, setting standards)
Experience with ecommerce order management, inventory, warehouse, or logistics systems is a strong plus
Comfortable working in a fast-moving, still-being-defined 0-to-1 environment
Technical Skills
Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: APIs, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native service design
Familiarity with event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async processing)
Strong testing, debugging, and production-support practices
Technical Leadership
Ability to set technical direction and make sound judgment calls without direct authority
Strong code review and mentorship instincts
Comfort representing a workstream in broader architecture discussions
Domain & AI Exposure (Nice to Have)
Exposure to EDI standards or 3PL/WMS integration patterns
Experience integrating ML model outputs (forecasts, predictions, anomaly scores) into application logic
Interest in growing domain expertise in e-commerce logistics and fulfillment
Collaboration & Communication
Ability to influence and align engineers without formal authority over them
Clear written and verbal communication, especially in async, distributed team settings
Comfort balancing hands-on technical work with guiding others