Staff Software Engineer

Overview

The Staff Software Engineer – PULSE Team serves as the technical lead and mentor within Company’s Prototyping / Utility Lab for Scenario Exploration (PULSE) - a cross-functional team focused on rapid prototyping, technical experimentation, and real-world scenario validation.

This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership. The Staff Engineer guides design and builds efforts across data, cloud, and UI components, translating product concepts into working solutions. Acting as a proto architect, this position ensures technical feasibility, drives quality standards, and fosters learning across the development team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Design & Development
2. Lead the design and build of end-to-end prototypes and scenario-based demonstrations across data, API, and UI layers.
3. Develop scalable, cloud-enabled solutions leveraging AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and Spark.
4. Build APIs, data integrations, and dashboards using Python, Java, SQL, React, Streamlit, Power BI, or Tableau.
5. Evaluate new technologies and recommend approaches that accelerate learning and innovation.
6. Leadership & Collaboration
7. Provide hands-on technical mentorship and set coding, documentation, and delivery standards for the team.
8. Translate technical product ideas into actionable development plans.
9. Partner with Technical Product Managers, Architecture, and Data teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and are reusable where possible.
10. Promote a fast, iterative development culture focused on learning and delivery.
11. Quality & Delivery
12. Manage prototype sprints to ensure timely, high-quality output.
13. Maintain clean, well-documented, and reusable code.
14. Support transitions of successful prototypes into Engineering for production-scale implementation.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
2. 7+ years of software development experience with strong skills in: Python or Java, and Spark; working proficiency across the others.
3. Demonstrated ability to lead small technical teams and deliver working prototypes independently.
4. Proven experience in Cloud platform in AWS, and Data platform such as Snowflake, or Databricks.
5. Solid understanding of API design, data integration, and front-end visualization frameworks.
6. Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and product teams.
7. Preferred Qualifications
8. Experience in data engineering, identity, or marketing technology environments.
9. Familiarity with agile, sprint-based development and rapid prototyping practices.
10. Curiosity and adaptability to learn new tools and experiment with emerging technologies.
11. Success Indicators
12. Delivers high-quality, demonstrable prototypes within defined sprints.
13. Guides and uplifts team technical capabilities through mentorship.
14. Bridges concept-to-execution gaps, enabling faster product validation.
15. Documents and shares reusable learnings and assets across teams.

Benefits:

1. Competitive discretionary performance bonus
2. Shift allowance for applicable work schedules
3. Comprehensive healthcare coverage
4. Training and professional development allowance
5. Employment Pass sponsorship for successful candidates
6. Dependant Pass support for eligible spouses and children

Our office address:

Wisma LYL, 12, Jalan 51a/223, Seksyen 51a, 46100 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Work arrangement:

We offer a hybrid work arrangement, allowing employees to enjoy flexibility while maintaining strong team collaboration. Team members are required to work from the office at least once a week to support effective communication and teamwork.

About KINESSO

KINESSO is the technology-driven performance marketing agency within IPG Mediabrands, providing

actionable growth through optimization, analytics, AI, and experimentation. With a blend of

performance marketing and data technology, KINESSO empowers clients to unlock the full potential

of their consumer insights. As a unified entity composed of Matterkind, Reprise, and Kinesso, we are a

global leader with over 6,000 employees operating in more than 60 countries. Learn more at

www.KINESSO.com.

Why Join Us?

At KINESSO, we value trust, freedom, and ownership. We offer flexible working hours, allowing

employees to manage their time effectively. We believe in the power of productivity, ability, and

attitude, and offer a unique opportunity to shape the future of a rapidly growing organization.