Backend Software Development Engineer II - Java

Job Role/Title : SDE 2 - Backend

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design, develop and maintain highly available backend services.

• Collaborate with engineers from your own team and across teams, and with product managers to ensure timely delivery of projects.

• Create robust RESTful APIs and integrate with upstream/downstream services.

• Work with various database systems (SQL and NoSQL) to design efficient data models and access patterns for services.

• Utilize technologies like Kafka and Redis to optimize inter-service communication and performance.

• Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and reliability.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the services by optimizing code, database queries and infrastructure.

• Participate in weekly on-call process and pro-actively debug and resolve issues reported in production to ensure high system availability.

• Write documents on high level design, low level design and RCAs.

• Support in hiring developers by taking interviews.

• Provide training and mentorship to SDE-I.

Must have :

• BE or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).

• Minimum 3 years of work experience as a backend engineer in a microservices environment.

• Excellent coding skills in Java.

• Experience building RESTful services using Spring/SpringBoot framework.

• Exposure to Relational Databases like MySQL and Postgresql.

• Exposure to any of the monitoring, alerting and logging tools like NewRelic, Prometheus, PagerDuty, VictoOps, ELK etc.

• Experience in producing good quality code with unit and functional test cases.

• Experience with agile development methodologies.

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Should have command over Data Structures and Algorithms.

• Ability to work well with others and thrive in a dynamic and challenging work environment.