About the Role To contribute team of enthusiastic individuals for building and maintaining high-quality software applications and cater superior experience to our customers on a scale.

Responsibilities

1. Build Internet-Scale Systems Design and develop backend services that support millions of daily users with high throughput and low latency.
2. Microservices & APIs Own secure, modular, and reusable APIs that integrate seamlessly across app, web, and partner channels.
3. Distributed Data Engineering Work with event-driven systems, caching strategies, and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Redis, etc.).
4. Performance & Reliability Ensure fault tolerance, auto-scaling, and five-nines availability through strong observability and incident management.
5. Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partner with product managers and frontend engineers to design scalable solutions aligned to customer journeys.
6. Code Quality & CI/CD – Write clean, testable code, and drive DevOps practices with automated testing and continuous delivery pipelines.
7. Security by Design-Embed encryption, identity access management, and compliance into all backend systems.
8. Innovation at Scale – Experiment with modern frameworks,



AI/ML integrations, streaming, and graph databases to push product capabilities forward.
9. End-to-End Ownership – Deliver features from design to production rollout,measuring real customer and business impact.

Skills & Experience Required

- Robust coding skills in Java with solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming.
- Experience with distributed systems, high-volume APIs, and real-time data pipelines.
- Hands-on with databases (SQL + NoSQL), caching layers (Redis/Memcached), and messaging queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
- Strong grasp of system design, scalability, performance optimization.
- Hands on experience on AI (Agentic and Generative AI).
- Mindset of ownership,problem-solving, and impact delivery rather than just coding tasks.

Why Airtel ?

- Build systems that millions use daily — your code is never invisible.
- Work with cutting-edge cloud and AI tech in real business scenarios.
- Join a fast, metrics-driven team where engineers influence product strategy.

Educational Qualifications B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/MCA

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