Software Development Engineer II

About the role At Flipkart, SDE-2 are engineers who create features based on product requirements. You’re expected to design and code in multiple tech components related to your functional area. You’re required to learn the best practices, design principles, and patterns to make the codebase maintainable and extensible.

You must also develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly. We are looking for engineers who are well-rounded - quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not mere coders. Engineers get to significantly amplify their impact with the scale that Flipkart operates at.

What you’ll do:

- Design components by translating product requirements, break down projects into tasks, and provide accurate estimates
- Independently come up with different solutions, extensible low-level design. Write modular, extensible, readable, and performant code
- Choose the right Data Structures, tools, and tech stacks,



and be able to do high-level design with guidance.
- Build, develop, mentor, and coach junior team members
- Collaborate with teams by contributing to the shared vision and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.

What you’ll need:

- B.Tech or M.Tech or equivalent with at least 2.5 years of experience
- Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope.
- Extensive programming experience in any one programming language like Java, Ruby, Clojure, Scala, C or C++, SQL, etc
- Solid object-oriented programming skills.
- Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
- Ability to work with complex business flows and deal with huge amounts of data.
- Prior work experience in an agile environment or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Experience of building robust and scalable web applications is good to have.
- Must be actively using agentic tools for development work.

📌 Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Flipkart
📍 Bengaluru