Software Engineer - Backend

Job Description

Job Summary: The SDE-III (Backend) leads the design, development, and maintenance of highly available backend services. This role involves providing technical expertise, ensuring seamless integration, high performance, and reliability by collaborating with teams, continuous improvement, and proactive issue resolution in a dynamic production environment. Roles and Responsibilities: ● Lead people management and project delivery for the engineering team. ● Lead design, development, and maintenance of backend applications. ● Evaluate and choose the right technologies to meet business objectives around system performance and reliability. ● Collaborate with engineers and product managers within and across teams to ensure timely project delivery. ● Develop fast, interactive web applications incorporating the best user experience patterns. ● Create reusable components to be used across the application. ● Stay updated with the latest backend development trends and best practices. ● Lead code quality efforts by writing unit and integration tests and conducting code reviews. ● Identify and address performance bottlenecks by optimizing code. ● Lead weekly on-call processes and proactively debug and resolve production issues. ● Write documentation on dynamic UI, modularity, and RCA (Root Cause Analysis). ● Hire, train, and manage a team of 4-6 software developers, assisting in their technical growth. ● Lead people management processes, including 1-on-1s, goal setting, and career planning. Must-Have Requirements: ● BE or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent). ● Minimum 5 years of experience as a backend engineer in a microservices environment with exposure to systems spanning multiple services. ● Proficiency in Java and building RESTful services using the Spring/SpringBoot framework. ● Experience with relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, etc. ● Exposure to public clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. ● Experience with event streaming platforms like Kafka. ● Familiarity with caching technologies like Redis and Hazelcast. ● Exposure to monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (e.g., NewRelic, Prometheus, PagerDuty, ELK). ● Excellent system design, problem-solving, and debugging skills. ● Experience producing high-quality code with unit and functional test cases. ● Strong command over Data Structures and Algorithms. ● Familiarity with agile development methodologies. ● Ability to mentor and train junior developers. ● Thrive in a dynamic, challenging work environment and work well in teams. Show more Show less