SDE3 - Backend
Department: Global Analytics and Technology
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: India
Reporting To: Head of Infrastructure

Description

Job location: Hybrid, Gurugram

About the role:
Our backend systems process millions of transactions, serve enterprise customers across industries, and must perform flawlessly under pressure. We are scaling fast and the decisions made at the architecture level today will define how the platform operates for years. We are hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to own that responsibility.

You will work on defining and implementing complex technical problems for core backend services, resolve ambiguity in complex distributed systems, engage directly with Product and infrastructure peers. Your decisions will have a measurable impact on system reliability and platform capabilities.

We are looking for an engineer who has operated at this level before, someone who grasps existing systems, is ready to explore and implement new technologies and is ready to take full ownership.

What you will be expected to do

• Develop, enhance,



and maintain backend services for existing IOT, proprietary , Order and Payment Management systems running at scale.

• Write clean, efficient, and highly reliable code using Java and python.

• Own and improve production systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability, availability, and fault tolerance.

• Debug and resolve complex production issues involving services, databases, caches, and messaging systems.

• Solid fundamental knowledge of LLD and HLD discussions for new features and system improvements.

• Work with event-driven and asynchronous architectures, ensuring correctness and reliability of data flows.

• Optimize database schemas, queries, indexing strategies, and caching layers for high-throughput workloads.

• Partner with Infra, QA, and Product teams to support smooth 24×7 production operations.

• Own production health: monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and

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