Job Description

Job Title: SDE 2/3 - Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who acts as a force multiplier for the team. This role is for someone who can design and own core backend systems, make sound architectural decisions, and use AI-assisted development as a standard part of their workflow to deliver more, faster, without compromising quality. You will not be purely ticket-taking. You will be responsible for shaping systems, improving engineering leverage, and setting the bar for how up-to-date backend development is done.

How You'll Have Impact

In this role, you will:
- Own critical services end-to-end: Take responsibility for the lifecycle of key backend services: domain modelling, API contracts, data access patterns, deployment strategy, observability, and ongoing evolution.
- Solve complex system problems: Design for scale, reliability, and performance: from API design and database schema decisions to handling failures, backpressure, and P99 latencies.
- Turn ambiguity into working systems:



Start from high-level product goals or problem statements and turn them into clear designs, trade-offs, and implementation plans—without needing everything specified upfront.
- Increase team throughput: Identify recurring pain points, then remove them with tools, scripts, templates, or platform improvements so that the whole team moves faster.

How You Work with AI

AI is not an add-on in this role; it is part of the core workflow.
- You architect, then delegate: you design the system, define interfaces and invariants, and use AI tools to draft code, tests, and documentation.
- You treat AI as a junior engineer: useful for speed, but everything still passes through your judgment for correctness, security, and maintainability.
- You institutionalize workflows: you don't just use AI privately; you help define and share patterns so others can reliably benefit from AI-assisted development too.

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📌 Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tookitaki
📍 Bengaluru