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 qualified 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 agile 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

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