Backend Engineer (SDE2 & SDE3)

Role summary

We require three highly experienced Backend Engineers with strong expertise in Java/Spring Boot and modern cloud-native application development. Candidates should have deep hands-on experience across application development, distributed systems, API design, security, and observability.

Project overview

We are hiring software engineers in India for a UK compliance-related greenfield project in the retail sector. The work requires enterprise-grade Backend Engineering capabilities.

Required technical skills

Core development

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Spring Security• Microservices Architecture

Databases

• Couchbase
• PostgreSQL
• Data modeling and performance tuning

Cloud & infrastructure

• Microsoft Azure
• Cloud-native application design
• Containerization and deployment practices
• CI/CD implementation

API & security

• REST API design and development
• OAuth 2.0
• Authentication and authorization frameworks
• API lifecycle management

Observability & monitoring

• Splunk
• New Relic
• Logging, monitoring, and application diagnostics

Desired skills

• Event-driven architecture experience
• Messaging platforms (Kafka or similar)
• Performance engineering and scalability optimization
• Infrastructure as Code concepts
• DevOps and SRE practices

Experience requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of Spring Boot development experience
• Proven experience building and supporting large-scale distributed applications
• Strong troubleshooting and production support experience

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and microservices
• Build secure, high-performing REST APIs
• Implement OAuth-based authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Deploy and manage services in Azure environments
• Establish monitoring, logging, and observability using Splunk and New Relic
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions