Staff Software Engineer (India)

What you will do

As a Staff Software Engineer at Karat, you'll lead the most complex, cross-team technical initiatives at the company and shape the direction of our engineering organization. You'll drive significant architectural improvements to our platform, set the technical vision for the systems your teams depend on, and bring Karat's technical voice into the room with clients, building trust, shaping product direction, and ensuring our most important relationships are grounded in deep technical credibility. Your impact will be felt not just in the code you ship, but in how the entire engineering organization builds.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

• Embrace AI-assisted development as a core part of your workflow; lead the team's thinking on how emerging techniques should shape Karat's engineering practices at scale.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives, navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and driving projects through to production even when product direction is unclear.
• Own significant areas of Karat's technical stack, proactively identifying and proposing improvements that meaningfully advance developer experience and end-user outcomes.
• Design significant architectural changes to the platform, evaluating trade-offs at scale and ensuring decisions serve both current needs and long-term organizational health.
• Bring Karat's technical voice into the room with clients, building trust, shaping product direction, and ensuring our most important relationships are grounded in deep technical credibility.
• Mentor and elevate engineers across levels, contributing to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Champion engineering best practices across the organization, including testing strategy, performance optimization, and technical debt management.

The experience you will bring

• 10+ years of post-internship professional experience leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale, complex web applications and distributed systems in production; a demonstrated record of organizational-level technical impact
• Deep expertise in building and scaling web applications and distributed systems