Senior Backend Engineer, AVP

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: AVP

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing robust software components that align with the business requirements of our digital sales department. You will be exposed to all phases of the software development lifecycle, taking ownership of the end-to-end delivery of complex features with a high degree of quality. As an active engineer within our agile team, you will contribute your skills to overall design and architecture decisions, with a strong focus on both functional and non-functional requirements. You will engage with our vibrant engineering practice, promoting software engineering best practices, advanced testing methodologies, and other quality initiatives. This role requires working collaboratively within a global distributed team, where your contributions will be key to the teams collective success.

Your key responsibilities

• Software Design & Development: Design and develop high-quality backend software components in accordance with business requirements for the digital sales department.
• Full Software Development Lifecycle: Engage in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design to implementation, testing, and deployment.
• End-to-End Feature Delivery: Take responsibility for delivering complex features from conception to production, ensuring high quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Architectural Contribution: Contribute to overall design and architecture decisions, focusing on balancing functional requirements with critical non-functional aspects such as scalability, security, and reliability.
• Agile Team Participation: Actively participate as an engineer in our agile team setup, contributing to ceremonies, discussions, and fostering a collaborative environment.
• Engineering Best Practices: Champion software engineering best practices, advanced testing methodologies (unit, integration), and other quality assurance initiatives.
• Global Team Collaboration: Work effectively within a global distributed team, ensuring clear communication and shared understanding to achieve team goals.
• Customer-Focused Solutions: Demonstrate a strong passion for delivering customer-focused solutions, translating business needs into technical implementations.

Your skills and experience

• Several years of relevant industry experience in software design and development of business requirements.
• A degree in computer science or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent in developing RESTful APIs using either Java (with Spring Boot and Spring Security) or Node.js (with Express and TypeScript).
• Solid experience building containerized services, including orchestrators like Kubernetes or leveraging cloud-native services.
• Previous experience working with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Experience with build tools like Maven or Webpack, and testing frameworks for unit and integration testing (e.g., JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha).
• Comfortable working with OpenAPI specifications, Postman workspaces, and implementing OAuth2 flows for secure API access.
• Strong passion for delivering customer-focused solutions within a distributed agile team environment.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

How we ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs