SDE2

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems.
• Lead system architecture decisions, including microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed system design.
• Build and maintain robust APIs and backend services, ensuring reliability and seamless integrations.
• Design data storage solutions (SQL/NoSQL) with a focus on performance, consistency, and scalability.
• Own infrastructure design across cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Implement DevOps best practices including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Optimise backend performance, latency, and system throughput.
• Ensure security best practices across application and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate closely with Frontend Engineers, Product Managers, and Data teams to deliver high-quality features.
• Participate in the full development lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and improve system design standards.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and system design principles.
• Experience handling high-scale production systems.
• Deep knowledge of API design, system reliability, and observability.
• Ownership mindset with the ability to work in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Entrepreneurial drive with comfort taking end-to-end technical ownership.

Skills

Infrastructure, AWS, Architecture, Concurrency, EC2, FastAPI, GIN, Go, HLD, Java, Kafka, LLD, Microservices, MySQL, Python, S3, SQL, Scaling, Spring boot, System design