SDE - Backend*
Department: Global Analytics and Technology
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: India
Reporting To: Staff Engineer - Backend
Description
Job location: Gurugram/Delhi Region (Hybrid)
About the role:
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join a mature, scaled product platform that is already serving business-critical workflows. This role focuses on enhancing existing backend systems, improving reliability, performance, and scalability, and building new features on top of a well-established architecture.
The ideal candidate is strong at writing production-quality code, debugging complex distributed systems, and knowledgeable about how design decisions impact scalability, availability, and long-term maintainability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform continues to perform reliably at scale while evolving with business needs.
What you will be expected to do:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain backend services for existing user, inventory, pricing, order, and payment management systems running at scale.
- Write clean, efficient, and highly reliable code using Java 8 and above and Spring Boot 2.7 and above.
- 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.
- Contribute to low-level design (LLD) and actively participate in high-level architecture (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 DevOps, QA, and Product teams to support smooth 24×7 production operations.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and incident post-mortems to continuously improve system quality.
- Take end-to-end ownership of backend components, from design and implementation to deployment and production support.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Java with hands-on experience in Spring Boot–based microservices.
- Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and backend problem solving.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases in high-scale systems.
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and working with asynchronous systems.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in live production systems.
- Good understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and release management.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to partner effectively within a team.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event-streaming platforms.
- Exposure to distributed systems, microservices architecture, and scaling strategies.
Good to have:
- Experience using Redis, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB in production systems.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and handling production incidents.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
