Staff / Principal Full Stack JavaScript Engineer

ARM

Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPRINCIPAL

Hybrid

Job Description

Seeking a dedicated Principal or Staff Full Stack Software Engineer.

Be responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation and evolution of developer-facing systems and features to reduce cognitive load and enable self-service.
Collect feedback from internal teams to understand their challenges and design solutions to address them. Drive feature development, UX and usability improvements.
Develop, operate and evolve our Engineering Portal UI & backend based on Backstage to ensure the portal is secure, reliable and delivers a high-quality user experience.
Design, build, and maintain Backstage and custom Backstage plugins including CI/CD pipelines, documentation, automated testing, security upgrades, and observability integrations.
Partner closely with platform, software and hardware teams to integrate services, tooling, and policies into the portal in a user-centric and automated manner.

We are seeking professionals with 5–20 years of experience in software development.
Deep expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and NodeJS including building and maintaining production-grade web applications.
Professional experience with React or another modern JavaScript Web Framework to build well-structured, polished, and maintainable user interfaces.
Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing for production systems.
Solid understanding of security fundamentals relevant to distributed systems and service integration patterns, including JWTs, OAuth2 and OIDC.
Desire to work in a Platform Engineering environment, with a clear focus on improving developer productivity through automation and enabling safe, scalable self-service.
Strong collaboration and influence skills, with experience working across multiple teams and disciplines to share knowledge and gain support.
Ability to make and communicate architectural tradeoffs, balancing usability, security, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Building or integrating with Internal Developer Portals (Backstage).
Interest in applied AI technologies e.g. AI agents, MCP
Interest in Open-Source Software!
Good understanding of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with knowledge of Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) and CI/CD.