SDE 3 Backend

About The Role

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

• Java (MUST HAVE)

• Python (Good To Have)

• Golang (Good To Have)

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Design: Collaborating with other senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders to design scalable, reliable, and efficient backend architectures for applications and services.

• Coding and Development: Writing high-quality, modular, and maintainable code in Java to implement backend functionalities, APIs, and services.

• Performance Optimization: Identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing code and database queries to ensure optimal response times and resource utilization.

• System Integration: Integrating backend systems with various components, databases, third-party services, and external APIs.

• Database Design and Management: Designing and maintaining the database schema, ensuring data consistency, and implementing appropriate database optimizations.

• Security and Compliance: Implementing security best practices and ensuring data protection and compliance with relevant regulations.

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Writing unit tests, conducting code reviews, and working with Quality Assurance (QA) teams to ensure high-quality, bug-free software.

• Scalability and Load Handling: Designing systems that can handle high traffic loads and scaling applications to meet increasing user demands.

• Collaboration and Mentoring: Collaborating with cross-functional teams, providing technical guidance, and mentoring junior developers.

• Documentation: Maintaining clear and comprehensive documentation for the codebase, design decisions, and system architecture.

Requirements:

• Experience: Degree in computer science field with 6-10 years of experience building large scalable systems and significant hands-on experience of at-least 3 years in backend development using Java.

• Programming Skills: Strong proficiency in Java programming language, including advanced features, multi-threading, and memory management. In-depth knowledge of Java frameworks and libraries commonly used in backend development, such as Spring or Quarkus.

• Database Management: Proficiency in working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra). Ability to design and optimize database schemas and queries.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services relevant to backend development. This may include knowledge of SQS, Lambda, RDS, S3, MSK, ElastiCache.

• Change Data Management: Experience in implementing and managing robust change data capture (CDC) mechanisms to handle real-time data synchronization and updates across distributed backend systems. Hands-on experience with Debezium, Kafka, Avro etc.

• Event Driven Systems: Experience in designing, developing, and integrating event-driven systems using tools like Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS or Amazon SNS to enable asynchronous communication and decoupling of backend services.

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Experience with writing unit tests, conducting code reviews, and ensuring high-quality, bug-free code.

• Security Awareness: Knowledge of security best practices and the ability to implement secure coding practices to protect sensitive data.

• Architecture and Design: Proven expertise in designing scalable, maintainable, and efficient backend architectures. Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-based architecture is highly desirable.

Must Have:

• Based out of Bangalore

• Worked for a startup (Fintech preferred) for at-least 1-2 years (last work exp at a startup preferred)

• Java – Spring or Quarkus (preferred) (at-least 3 years)

• PostgreSQL (at-least 2-3 years)

• MongoDB (at-least 2-3 years)

• AWS – SQS, Lambda, RDS, S3, MSK, ElastiCache (at-least 1-2 years)

• Change Data Management – Hands-on experience with Debezium, Kafka, Avro etc (at-least 1-2 years)

• Event Driven Systems – Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Amazon SNS etc (at-least 1-2 years)

• Low Latency and High Throughput System design – Both HLD, and LLD

What you get: 

• Chance to play a pivotal role in designing the next gen fintech product 
• Top tier scale from day 1 – related battle scars / glory
• Work with other world class talent (ex- Amazon, Uber, Google, Walmart Labs)