SDE - Backend

About the role:

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join a mature, scaled product platform that is already serving business-critical workflows. This role focuses on enhancing existing backend systems, improving reliability, performance, and scalability, and building new features on top of a well-established architecture.

The ideal candidate is strong at writing production-quality code, debugging complex distributed systems, and knowledgeable about how design decisions impact scalability, availability, and long-term maintainability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform continues to perform reliably at scale while evolving with business needs.

What you will be expected to do:

• Develop, enhance, and maintain backend services for existing user, inventory, pricing, order, and payment management systems running at scale.
• Write clean, efficient, and highly reliable code using Java 8 and above and Spring Boot 2.7 and above.
• Own and improve production systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability, availability, and fault tolerance.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues involving services, databases, caches, and messaging systems.
• Contribute to low-level design (LLD) and actively participate in high-level architecture (HLD) discussions for new features and system improvements.
• Work with event-driven and asynchronous architectures, ensuring correctness and reliability of data flows.
• Optimize database schemas, queries, indexing strategies, and caching layers for high-throughput workloads.
• Partner with DevOps, QA, and Product teams to support smooth 247 production operations.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and incident post-mortems to continuously improve system quality.
• Take end-to-end ownership of backend components, from design and implementation to deployment and production support.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Java with hands-on experience in Spring Bootbased microservices.
• Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and backend problem solving.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases in high-scale systems.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and working with asynchronous systems.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in live production systems.
• Good understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and release management.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to partner effectively within a team.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event-streaming platforms.
• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices architecture, and scaling strategies.

Good to have:

• Experience using Redis, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB in production systems.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and handling production incidents.