Software Development Engineer - II

Role

A typical SDE2 is expected to take up the following responsibilities:

• Work closely with Team Leads and Product Managers to gather requirements and estimate project timelines.
• Should be able to understand product specifications and come up with optimal scalable solutions.
• Should be aware of the Agile working model and follow JIRA hygiene
• Complete ownership of features worked upon should be able to perform RCAs and provide quick resolution of relevant issues/production bugs while training Tech Support Engineers to offload recurring chunks of work.
• Should be a full-time mentor for SDE1s and be able to assist all other SDE1s as and when required.
• Be part of the lateral hiring process and allocate fixed bandwidth for interviewing processes.
• Should strive to follow best coding practices throughout designing, development, and testing.
• Should have great communication skills over email and in-person discussions.

Skillset

• Understanding of algorithms and data structures and basic APIs & database design
• Should have worked with MVC frameworks, web / client-based server architecture, and structured and unstructured databases.
• Ability to translate product spec to engineering actionable
• Ability to navigate and structure code bases
• Rudimentary skills around service hosting and infrastructure. Should understand the end-to-end deployment cycle
• Experience with Java / Spring-boot

Persona

• Education Background
• B.Tech / Dual Degree with Computer Science as a major discipline, MCA.
• Preferred to have graduated in CS or IT-related subjects.
• Open to all colleges
• Worked as SDE for

  4-6 years

  in startup / mid-tier product companies with a small team size (2-3 recent experiences even if the initial job is in service-based companies).
• Excellent internship record
• Executed on RCAs / challenging engg problems with an SDE III at work
• Won awards / Recognised by upper management for going above and beyond
• Has working experience with Linux. Any certification is good to have
• Open source/pet project contributions
• Active on GitHub / StackOverflow
• Published papers in A-level conferences like IEEE, ACM (optional)

  Role & responsibilities