Staff Software Engineer - AI

TechGrove is the Centre of Excellence for […] , based in Chennai, India. It plays a key role in supporting Banyan’s global businesses through technology, security, and software development. TechGrove brings together India’s deep pool of technical talent with Banyan’s long-term approach to growth, creating a trusted, developer-focused environment where people can do their best work.

For years, Element34 has run large-scale test execution for enterprises that can't send their testing to a public cloud. Banks, insurers, healthcare companies and other regulated organizations use our platform, SBOX, to run thousands of Selenium, Playwright and Appium sessions in parallel on their own infrastructure.

Now we're building an AI-native platform for the whole end-to-end test lifecycle: authoring, execution, failure analysis, triage and self-healing maintenance, with LLMs and agents at the core of each stage rather than added on afterward.

We're a small, senior engineering team and we plan to stay that way. We have no layers of management, no handoffs between teams and no separate infra group. Each engineer owns a problem from design through production.

This is a hands-on Staff Engineer role with no direct reports. Your influence comes from the systems you design, the code you write and how you raise the engineering bar for the people around you.

About 90% of your time will be backend work in Java or Go: distributed systems, concurrency, data p