SDE1 Backend

SDE 1 Backend

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain various features in highly available backend services
• Collaborate with engineers of same team and across teams to ensure timely delivery of projects
• Create robust RESTful APIs and integrate with upstream/downstream services
• Work with various database systems (SQL and NoSQL) to design efficient data models and access patterns for services
• Utilize technologies like Kafka and Redis to optimize inter-service communication and performance
• Write unit and integration tests and maintain high code quality and reliability
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the services by optimizing code and database queries
• Participate in weekly on-call process and pro-actively debug and resolve issues reported in production to ensure high system availability

Must Have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science and related field or equivalent work experience
• Min 1 year work experience as a backend engineer in a microservices environment
• Excellent coding skills in Java
• Experience building RESTful services using the Spring/SpringBoot framework
• Exposure to Relational Databases like MySQL and Postgresql
• Experience in producing good quality code with unit and functional test cases
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Good Understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms
• Ability to work well with others and thrive in a dynamic and challenging work environment

Desired to Have:

• Exposure to NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra etc.
• Exposure to any of the public clouds like AWS, GCP and Azure
• Exposure to event streaming platforms like Kafka
• Exposure to caching technologies like Redis and Hazelcast
• Exposure to monitoring, alerting and logging tools like NewRelic, Prometheus, PagerDuty, VictoOps, ELK etc.