Job highlights

- The ideal candidate should spend the majority of their time writing production-quality code,reviewing designs,driving engineering excellence,and mentoring through technical leadership rather than people management.

- 8-12 years of hands-on software engineering experience. .

Strong Individual

Contributor (IC) mindset with a passion for coding and solving complex problems.

Job Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Principal or Senior Engineer to architect, design and build large-scale, cloud-native, AI-powered platforms. This is a pure Individual Contributor (IC) role with a strong emphasis on coding, architecture, system design, and solving complex engineering problems. The ideal candidate should spend the majority of their time writing production-quality code, reviewing designs, driving engineering excellence, and mentoring through technical leadership rather than people management.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop and optimize high-performance backend systems using Java and Python.

- Lead architecture and implementation of scalable, resilient, distributed platforms.

- Write clean, maintainable, production-grade code with exceptionally high engineering standards.

- Drive code reviews, design reviews, performance tuning and technical mentoring.

- Build and operate cloud-native applications on Azure AKS and AWS EKS.

- Evaluate and adopt modern AI, cloud and platform technologies.

Technical Skills

- Programming: Java, Python, Data Structures Algorithms, Concurrency Multithreading, JVM Performance Tuning

- Cloud DevOps: Azure (AKS), AWS (EKS), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Helm, Terraform





- API Platform Engineering: REST, gRPC, API Gateway (Kong/NGINX/APIM), Rate Limiting, OAuth2/JWT, Load Balancing, Service Discovery

- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, Logging, Monitoring Alerting

- Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MapDB

- Caching: Redis, Hazelcast

- Messaging: Apache Kafka, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka Performance Tuning

- Big Data: Apache Spark, Hive, Hadoop MapReduce, Avro, Parquet, Protobuf

- Architecture: Distributed Systems, CAP Theorem, Microservices, System Design, Design Patterns, SOLID Principles, High Availability, Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Performance Optimization

- Operating Systems Networking: Linux, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS/SSL, NGINX

- AI Engineering: Gemini APIs, OpenAI GPT Models, RAG, MCP (Model Context Protocol), AI Agents, Cursor, Kiro, GitHub Copilot or similar AI coding tools

What We Look For

- 8-12 years of hands-on software engineering experience.

- Solid Individual Contributor (IC) mindset with a passion for coding and solving complex problems.

- Exceptional coding standards, architectural thinking and problem-solving skills.

- Strong ownership, excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical direction.

- Strong team player, self-driven, proactive, go-getter with a passion for continuous learning and engineering excellence.

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📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 ADA Global
📍 Bengaluru