staff software engineer

Company: ABBYY

Website: Visit Website

Business Type: Startup

Company Type: Product

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: Pre-seed

Industry: Deep Tech

Salary Range: ₹ 20-35 Lacs PA

Job Description

Role Overview:

ABBYY is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in C++, C#, React.js, Azure, and SQL Server. The ideal candidate is passionate about software craftsmanship, mentoring engineers, and delivering robust, scalable systems. You will be responsible for building high-performance services and features end-to-end while contributing to a collaborative and agile engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
• Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
• System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services, and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
• Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
  
  

• 6–10 years of experience in software development with strong hands-on expertise in C++ (mandatory), along with C#, React.js, Azure, SQL Server, and GitHub.
• Scope of Responsibility: Full Service ownership with the ability to mentor engineers.
• Code Quality: Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and design solutions that are scalable and maintainable.
  
  

• Ownership Mindset: Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production.
• Performance and Optimization: Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale.
• Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working in a collaborative, Agile environment, with an emphasis on communication and team success.