Staff Engineer - React and React Native developer

Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Role: Staff Engineer – Digital Banking

Location: Bangalore, India

Reports to: Director, Consumer Engineering

Company: Candescent – Powering the Future of Digital Banking

Role Summary

Candescent is transforming digital banking with a modern, AI-powered platform that empowers financial institutions to deliver smarter, faster, and more personalized customer experiences.  

The Staff  Engineer will be responsible for the Consumer  Platform supporting critical banking and financial services workloads. Deep understanding of React Native, React wrt to both Web and Mobile application development needed.

The Staff Engineer will be responsible for architectural proposals and representations for approvals, platform reliability, and end-to-end engineering excellence.
 In addition, the role requires mentoring junior engineers, improving productivity and code quality, and proactively detecting, triaging, and resolving production issues to ensure optimal customer experience and platform stability.

Key Responsibilities

• ,Design, and lead development of Consumer solutions using REACT AND REACNATIVE
• Define and enforce architectural patterns for scalability, performance, reliability, and security across distributed systems.
• Lead modernization initiatives for legacy integration components into reactive, cloud-native solutions.

• Lead system performance optimization across JVM and reactive stacks, including GC, Netty event loops, thread pools, memory profiling, and high-throughput architecture design.
• Drive reliability and scalability through deep latency/throughput analysis and implementation of resilience patterns such as backpressure handling, circuit breakers, retries, rate limiting, failover, and chaos testing
• Collaborate with SRE, cloud operations, and support teams to ensure high availability and observability, while defining system health baselines, SLAs, SLOs, and error budget

• Mentor and upskill engineers in distributed system design, code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Participate to review  and improve engineering practices, design reviews, and coding standards across teams.
• Drive productivity enhancements through tooling, automation, CI/CD improvements, and reusable frameworks.

• Work closely with product managers, architects, PE, QA, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in technical governance, risk assessments, and compliance reviews.

Requirements

• 11+ years of hands-on engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in:
  • React Native, React – Web and Mobile
  • Caching and Performance optimisations
• Expertise in debugging complex production systems (thread dumps, heap dumps, GC logs, performance profiling).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, ArgoCD, and automated deployments.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and incident management skills; able to lead complex triage efforts under time pressure

• Familiarity with security standards
• Ability to lead without authority and colloborate engineering direction across teams.
• Crisp communication skills for senior stakeholders, architects, and engineering leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:
  • APM tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics
  • High-throughput integration workloads (>500 TPS)
  • Caching frameworks (Redis, Hazelcast) and performance accelerators
• Contributions to internal frameworks, reusable libraries, or open-source projects.

Why Candescent?

• Join a fast-growing digital banking SaaS company focused on platform transformation and AI-led innovation.
• Shape the future of financial technology by building solutions that matter—for customers and banks
• Collaborate with world-class talent across engineering, design, and product.
• Hybrid work model, and opportunity to lead global initiatives.

Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.