Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer
Esko | Veralto Corporation
Location: Bangalore, India – Hybrid
About the Role
The Opportunity
We're seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Staff Engineer to serve as a leading technical authority for WebCenter Enterprise and help architect its deeper integration with Esko’s Packaging Cloud platform. WebCenter Enterprise is an established Java/J2EE web application that helps brands and packaging suppliers manage end-to-end packaging and artwork projects.
Your primary responsibility will be WebCenter’s product-level architecture: evolving a substantial, production-grade, three-tier enterprise application spanning the web front end, Java application services, and a relational database running Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle. You will combine architectural judgment with practical engineering to solve complex problems, guide implementation, and improve the product’s security, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
A key part of the role is working with Esko’s cloud platform architects and engineering teams to design and implement the technical bridge between WebCenter and Esko’s Cloud Platform. This includes connecting application capabilities and data with cloud services while respecting the platform’s access-management model, service boundaries, and operational requirements.
This is an individual-contributor role on Esko’s technical leadership career track. You will lead through technical expertise, hands-on contribution, mentoring, and influence, not through formal reporting authority.
You will work closely with engineers, technical leads, product management, architects, and business leaders to turn product priorities into implementable technical solutions. Previous team-lead or people-management experience is welcome but not required.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you will:
Own and evolve WebCenter’s product-level architecture. Define practical designs across the presentation, application, and database tiers, with depth in backend services, relational data, integration, security, performance, and scalability.
Remain directly involved in engineering. Write and review production code, build prototypes and technical spikes, investigate difficult defects, and contribute to complex implementation work. Carry important architectural decisions through implementation and validation rather than stopping at design documents.
Translate product needs into technical solutions. Partner with product management, engineering, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify constraints, and explain alternatives, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
Enable delivery across WebCenter teams. Anticipate technical dependencies, resolve difficult design issues, and work with technical leads to break architectural changes into achievable implementation steps. Coordinate decisions with adjacent teams when changes cross product boundaries.
Mentor engineers and align technical execution. Actively mentor and train a small group of engineers through pairing, design and code reviews, focused learning sessions, and ongoing technical guidance. Align them around a shared technical approach and delivery goal for an epic or significant initiative, helping them break down the work, resolve technical challenges, and build the skills and independence needed to deliver. Lead through expertise and influence, without formal people-management responsibility.
Architect the evolution of integration technologies that enable an established single-tenant web application to leverage multi-tenant services hosted on a cloud platform.
Design for reliable coexistence and incremental evolution. Choose appropriate synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns; address compatibility, versioning, retries, idempotency, data consistency, and partial failures. Plan staged adoption and migration where needed without unnecessarily disrupting existing customer workflows.
Improve production outcomes. Support root-cause analysis of complex issues and strengthen performance diagnostics, observability, testability, resilience, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
Manage technical debt deliberately. Identify architectural risks and maintain a pragmatic improvement plan that balances long-term product health with roadmap delivery, compatibility, and customer commitments.
Make technical decisions clear and discoverable. Author and maintain architecture decision records (ADRs), design documentation, product-level technical standards, and implementation guidance aligned with Esko’s platform and engineering standards.
Collaborate with DevOps within clear ownership boundaries. Focus on product architecture and application engineering, working with the DevOps team on delivery and operational needs. Propose changes to CI/CD or infrastructure only where they address a demonstrated product or delivery need, rather than redesigning established tooling for its own sake.
Foster pragmatic innovation and shared learning. Drive innovation in WebCenter and its development practices by making effective use of the existing technology stack and selectively exploring new technologies, including AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools. Share learnings, enable focused experiments, and help turn validated ideas into practical improvements. Favor incremental evolution and adopt technologies only where clear benefits justify costs and risks. Use AI responsibly, protecting company and customer information and independently validating its outputs.
What We’re Looking For
Minimum Qualifications
At least 12 years of relevant software-engineering experience, including extensive, recent hands-on work designing, developing, and evolving substantial Java/J2EE enterprise web applications. Demonstrated architectural impact and implementation depth are essential; tenure alone is not sufficient.
Proven architectural responsibility for large, production-grade, three-tier web applications, covering browser-based front ends, Java application services, and relational databases. Experience must include working within a mature codebase with established customer workflows, upgrade requirements, and compatibility constraints.
Evidence of taking significant architectural changes from design into production, including evaluating alternatives, guiding implementation, contributing code, validating outcomes, and addressing operational issues.
Deep Java backend engineering expertise, including object-oriented design, concurrency, transaction management, RESTful APIs, integration patterns, security, and performance diagnostics.
Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise Java applications on WildFly and/or Apache Tomcat, including connection pooling, thread management, and JVM tuning. Experience monitoring running Java applications using JMX and related diagnostic tools to investigate runtime behavior, resource usage, and production issues. Well versed in software design patterns, with the ability to select, apply, and advocate for their appropriate use in design and code reviews.
Strong relational database expertise, with substantial hands-on experience in Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and/or Oracle. This includes data modeling, complex SQL, execution-plan analysis, indexing, locking and isolation, transaction behavior, performance tuning, and safe schema and data migrations.
A working understanding of the complete web application stack, including browser-to-server interactions, HTTP, sessions, authentication and authorization, and the impact of backend and database decisions on user experience. The ability to diagnose problems across tiers is essential; deep expertise in a particular front-end framework is not required.
Experience architecting and implementing integrations between enterprise applications and external services or platforms. This includes API contracts, service boundaries, secure access, data consistency, error handling, and backward compatibility, supported by sound distributed-systems fundamentals.
Deep understanding of application and API security, including authentication, authorization, trust boundaries, and secure handling of credentials and sensitive data.
A track record of independently resolving ambiguous, high-impact technical problems and making proportionate decisions that balance technical quality, delivery, risk, cost, and customer impact.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document decisions and explain architecture, trade-offs, and technical risks to engineers, product leaders, business stakeholders, and non-technical audiences such as customer support.
Demonstrated technical leadership through influence, including design and code reviews, mentoring, and collaboration across engineering teams. Formal team-lead or people-management experience is not required.
An innovation mindset and demonstrated ability to learn quickly and enable others. Curious and proactive in evaluating relevant technologies, sharing knowledge, and helping teams turn new ideas into practical improvements. Demonstrates sound judgment when evolving established products, favoring effective use of the existing technology stack and incremental modernization over technology change for its own sake.
Preferred Qualifications
Expe

Skills
Java, REST API, CI/CD, SQL, PostgreSQL, Data Modeling, Product Management, Customer Support, Documentation

Experience
12+ yrs