SDE 5 (Software Development Engineer)

Role: Senior Engineer (L5)

Experience: 4 to 8 Years

Notice Period: Immediate Only

Location: Bangalore (Embassy Manyata Business Park)

Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Engineer (L5) to design and build scalable distributed systems that power core enterprise platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering role with strong ownership of:

• Backend system design and implementation
• Distributed system reliability and scalability
• Production readiness and operational excellence
• High-quality, secure, and maintainable code
• You will operate with autonomy within your domain while collaborating closely with peers and technical leaders.

What Youll Do

• Backend & Distributed Systems Engineering
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services using Java and Kotlin.
• Build microservices-based and event-driven systems.
• Ensure systems are production-ready, deployable, scalable, and resilient
• Contribute to API design, service contracts, and data modeling
• Optimize performance, throughput, and system capacity
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, including non-relational systems such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB

Reliability, Observability & Security

• Ensure strong observability and monitoring practices are in place
• Use operational data to improve system stability and performance
• Apply secure coding practices and maintain a security-first mindset
• Participate in testing strategies including unit and integration testing
• Support CI/CD practices and cloud-native deployments .

Engineering Excellence

• Take ownership of complex technical tasks and deliver high-quality solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Maintain deep technical knowledge and stay current with evolving technologies
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured code across distributed systems

Intelligent Automation & AI Exposure (Preferred)

• Leverage AI coding assistants for development and utilize them to generate better quality output.
• Support integration of AI or automation driven components into the backend systems.
• Ensure AI-enabled components operate within defined reliability and safety boundaries.
• AI exposure is valued, but distributed systems engineering remains the primary focus of this role.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years building scalable backend applications using Java/Spring boot and Kotlin.

Experience with:

• Microservices architecture and distributed systems .
• Event-driven systems and messaging platforms (Kafka).
• RDBMS (Oracle and Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Mongo, Redis, Cassandra)
• Elastic Search
• Cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure or similar).
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or similar).
• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Strong problem-solving skills with solid understanding of data structures and algorithms .

Preferred Skills :

• Exposure data pipelines, ML Ops, Spark, or Python .
• Experience modernizing legacy systems.
• Familiarity with AI or automation frameworks.
• Experience working with high-throughput, low-latency systems .