Hiring for Swiggy — via Flexiple, the recruiting partner on this role.

About the Company

Swiggy is India's leading on-demand convenience platform, spanning food delivery, Instamart quick commerce, Dineout and more. Its engineering team builds the real-time systems behind millions of daily orders, and Swiggy is built on microservices with Java as its core backend language. Swiggy is adding backend engineers in Bengaluru to keep these services fast and reliable as the business scales.

About the Role

As an SDE I on the backend team, you'll build and own Java and Spring Boot microservices used by millions of customers, partners and delivery executives. You'll ship APIs, improve performance and reliability, and work closely with engineering and cross-functional teams. This is a hybrid role based in Bengaluru, with 2–3 days a week in the office.

What you'll do

- Build backend components and microservices in Java and Spring Boot
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and integrations across Swiggy's services
- Tune Java applications (JVM, multithreading, caching) to improve response times and stability
- Maintain,



refactor and troubleshoot backend codebases for high availability
- Take part in code reviews, deployments and service monitoring
- Work with product and cross-functional teams, and suggest Java-related improvements

What you bring

- 1.5–4 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 1 year of backend development in Java and Spring Boot
- A solid grasp of REST APIs, microservices architecture and backend system design
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning, multithreading and JVM optimisation
- Familiarity with CI/CD, Git and cloud-native practices
- You have shipped a Spring Boot service or API to production and supported it after release
- Clear communication about API behaviour, and comfort moving quickly in a dynamic workplace

Nice to have

- Experience with Kafka, Redis, SQL/NoSQL databases, AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
- Backend work at a consumer-internet or high-traffic product company
- Immediate availability or a short notice period

Originally posted on: 3 Nov 2026

📌 SDE I - Java (Bengaluru)
🏢 Flexiple
📍 Bengaluru