Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: SDE 2/3 - Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid) Position Overview We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who acts as a

force multiplier for the team. This role is for someone who can design and own core backend systems, make sound architectural decisions, and use AI-assisted development as a standard part of their workflow to deliver more, faster, without compromising quality. You will not be purely ticket-taking. You will be responsible for shaping systems, improving engineering leverage, and setting the bar for how modern backend development is done.

How You’ll Have Impact In this role, you will:

• Own critical services end-to-end: Take responsibility for the lifecycle of key backend services: domain modelling, API contracts, data access patterns, deployment strategy, observability, and ongoing evolution.
• Solve complex system problems: Design for scale, reliability, and performance: from API design and database schema decisions to handling failures, backpressure, and P99 latencies.
• Turn ambiguity into working systems: Start from high-level product goals or problem statements and turn them into clear designs, trade-offs, and implementation plans—without needing everything specified upfront.
• Increase team throughput: Identify recurring pain points, then remove them with tools, scripts, templates, or platform improvements so that the whole team moves faster.

How You Work with AI AI is not an add-on in this role; it is part of the core workflow.

• You

architect, then delegate : you design the system, define interfaces and invariants, and use AI tools to draft code, tests, and documentation.

• You

treat AI as a junior engineer : useful for speed, but everything still passes through your judgment for correctness, security, and maintainability.

• You

institutionalize workflows : you don’t just use AI privately; you help define and share patterns so others can reliably benefit from AI-assisted development too.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs used by internal and external consumers.
• Define and evolve data models and storage strategies across relational and non-relational systems.
• Build systems that are observable by default: logs, metrics, traces, sensible alerts.
• Debug and resolve complex issues across services, data stores, and infrastructure.
• Improve developer experience through internal tools, shared libraries, and better workflows.
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend, data, and platform teams to deliver features and platform capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and informal mentorship.

What We’re Looking For We care more about

what you’ve built and owned than calendar years, but you likely have experience along these lines:

1. Deep backend experience

• You have built and maintained production services that matter: user-facing APIs, high-throughput systems, or critical internal platforms.
• You understand how things work under the hood (e.g., HTTP, concurrency models, connection pooling, indexing).
• Should have

5–10+ years of experience . Exceptional candidates with fewer years but strong evidence of ownership and complexity handled are welcome.

2. Strong technical foundation

• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and ecosystem (e.g. Java/Kotlin/Scala, Go).
• Solid grasp of system design: boundaries, contracts, failure modes, trade-offs.
• Comfortable with both REST and, where appropriate, alternatives like gRPC or messaging.

3. Data and storage

• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases: schema design, indexing, query tuning.
• Exposure to at least one of: NoSQL / key-value / column stores, caches, message brokers.

4. AI-Augmented Engineering

• You already use AI tools to accelerate your work and can explain how (e.g. scaffolding, refactors, test generation, documentation).
• You know when AI-generated code is risky and how to review and harden it.

5. Operational maturity

• Comfortable with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes or similar).
• Experience with monitoring and observability in production systems.

Nice-to-Have Experience Not required, but strong positives:

• Designed or operated high-throughput or latency-sensitive services.
• Worked with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Built internal tooling / CLIs / libraries that significantly reduced toil for other engineers.
• Led or co-led initiatives such as large refactors, migrations, or performance improvement efforts
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

How We Work

• High agency: Engineers are trusted to make technical decisions, propose better approaches, and own outcomes.
• Bias to ship: We value iterative delivery with strong guardrails (tests, reviews, observability) over long-running, unshipped perfection.
• Leverage mindset: We invest in tools, automation, and AI so each engineer can have an outsized impact.

What We Offer

• Ownership of meaningful backend systems with visible impact on users and the business.
• A modern engineering environment where AI-assisted development is encouraged and supported.
• A team that values clarity, autonomy, and continuous improvement.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and flexible work arrangements

Bangalore . If this aligns with how you like to work, include in your application a brief example of a system or internal tool you’ve owned end-to-end, and how it increased impact for you or your team. Introducing Tookitaki

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How We Build Trust: Our Unique Value Propositions 1.

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