Staff Software Engineer

Tekion is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Chennai Regional Office.

Requirements

• 8+ years of frontend engineering experience with deep React and Next.js expertise in production systems.

• Mastery of Next.js 14+ App Router, React Server Components, streaming SSR, and static generation — knowing when to apply each pattern.

• Strong TypeScript expertise: type safety across component props, API contracts, Redux store shape, and server/client boundaries.

• Deep Redux expertise: slice design, selector optimization, middleware patterns, and RTK Query for data fetching.

• Proven experience building data-intensive dashboards with real-time data (WebSocket, SSE, or polling) and chart libraries (Recharts, D3.js).

• Experience integrating Elasticsearch-powered search UIs: typeahead, faceted search, and result ranking display.

• Strong frontend performance engineering: bundle analysis, code splitting, memoization, virtualization, and Core Web Vitals optimization.

• Experience establishing and maintaining component design systems with accessibility standards.

• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a frontend team.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience streaming LLM/AI-generated content into React UI components (token streaming, partial rendering patterns).

• Familiarity with platform-embedded micro-frontend patterns (module federation or iframe-based embedding).

• Background in automotive retail, eCommerce analytics, or SaaS BI/reporting platforms.

• Experience with Storybook for component documentation and visual regression testing.

Benefits & perks

• Competitive compensation.

• Generous stock options.

• Medical Insurance coverage.

• Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies.

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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About Tekion

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through