Staff Software Engineer AI

Staff Software Engineer India Remote

About First American India

At First American (India), we build technology that powers millions of real estate

transactions. Our people-first culture encourages innovation, collaboration, and solving

real-world problems on a scale.

If you're driven by impact, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to shape how

world-class products are delivered at scale—this is the place for you.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our ANP platform.

This role requires deep expertise in designing and building scalable, secure, cloud-native

systems, along with strong full-stack capabilities and architectural ownership. You will

drive key technical decisions, mentor engineers, and modernize our platform using

modern and AI-assisted engineering practices.

What You’ll Do

• Lead design of scalable, secure, event-driven microservices and define standards for

reliability, performance, and observability.

• Drive cloud-native modernization on AWS using Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, and

DynamoDB.

• Champion Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and distributed system patterns

(Kafka, SNS/SQS).

• Deliver end-to-end features using Python/Node.js backends and ReactJS/Angular

frontends.

• Establish strong testing, security, performance, and operational excellence practices.
• Promote AI-assisted development and identify opportunities to integrate AI/ML

capabilities.

• Mentor engineers and partner with Product and Business teams on scalable solutions.
• Leadership & Product Mindset: Technical mentorship, cross-team influence, clear

technical communication, customer empathy, data-informed experimentation

(telemetry, A/B signals) and outcome-focused delivery across the product lifecycle.

Skills & Experience

• Programming languages: TypeScript, JavaScript (ES20xx), Python (exposure/optional).
• Frontend: React, Next.js.
• Backend & APIs: Node.js, Express.js, NestJS, REST, GraphQL.
• Architecture: Microservices, event-driven and distributed systems, Domain-driven design

(DDD), SOLID, GoF patterns.

• Data & Storage: DynamoDB (data modeling, access patterns, performance & cost tuning), RDS,

caching strategies.

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CDK),

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.

• Architecture, Performance & Resilience: Advanced system design (DDD, SOLID, patterns),

scalable/event-driven microservices, load & cost optimization, observability (metrics, tracing,

structured logs), security (authN/Z, encryption, threat modeling) and high availability.

• Platform & Engineering Excellence: CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, quality

engineering (TDD, unit/integration/E2E/contract testing), operational readiness, performance

profiling, governance and continuous improvement.

• Solid understanding of security, reliability, and performance engineering.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development and interest in applying AI at scale.

What Makes You a Great Fit

You think about platforms and systems, influence without authority, navigate ambiguity

well, and balance technical depth with business impact—while being passionate about

transforming real estate technology.