Staff Engineer (Marketplace & Incore) Innovaccer

About Innovaccer

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of our Marketplace platform - including portals & core services such as Identity & Access Management (IAM), Audit, and Tenant Management services. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will drive engineering excellence, mentor teams, and ensure our platforms are secure, compliant, and built for scale.

A Day in the Life

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systems for all the platform capabilities
• Lead the development and integration of IAM, audit logging, and compliance frameworks, ensuring secure access, traceability, and regulatory adherence.
• Champion best practices for reliability, availability, and performance across all marketplace and core service components.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code/design reviews, and establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Work closely with product, security, compliance, and platform teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies, tools, and processes to enhance platform efficiency, developer experience, and compliance posture.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through deployment, monitoring, and operational health.

What You Need

• 8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on distributed systems, cloud platforms, and security.
• Proven expertise in building and scaling marketplace platforms and developer/admin/API portals.
• Deep hands-on experience with IAM, audit logging, and compliance tooling.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python or Go.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh architectures.
• Understanding of security protocols (OAuth, SAML, TLS), authentication/authorization, and regulatory compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor engineering teams & excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Prior experience with Marketplace & Portals
• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field