Software Development Engineer III - Backend Architecture

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced SDE III with 6 - 9 years of experience to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering expertise along with practical experience working with AI/ML and Generative AI technologies in production environments.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and scale backend services, APIs, and microservices.

• Build scalable and reliable systems with a focus on performance, concurrency, and resiliency.

• Develop high-volume, event-driven systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.

• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, caching, and data-intensive applications.

• Build and integrate services for AI-powered features, model inference, and retrieval workflows.

• Work with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vector search, and inference APIs.

• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate models and intelligent capabilities into production applications.

• Optimize backend and AI-enabled services for latency, scalability, reliability, and performance.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML workflows.

• Contribute to system design, code reviews, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Requirements :

• 6 - 9 years of professional software development experience.

• Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.

• Strong understanding of backend development, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and system design.

• Good knowledge of concurrency, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant system design.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging/event-streaming technologies.

• Strong experience with SQL and familiarity with NoSQL databases and caching technologies.

• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD.

• Practical experience integrating AI/ML or Generative AI capabilities into production systems.

• Good understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vector search, and model inference APIs.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with pgvector, Pinecone, or OpenSearch.

• Exposure to vLLM, Triton, TorchServe, or similar model-serving technologies.

• Experience building AI-powered products or SaaS applications.