Backend Engineer (SDE 2)

Kredivo; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Kredivo is seeking a skilled backend engineer in Bengaluru to own large-scale projects end-to-end, from scoping through rollout and maintenance. You will write clean Go code, review peers, and contribute to team documentation.

You will design robust distributed services, evaluate design trade-offs, and participate in on-call troubleshooting. The role emphasizes learning, collaboration, and mentoring junior engineers to drive excellence.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying small to mid-scale applications.
• 2+ years of recent and active software development experience.
• Good understanding of Golang. Able to use Go concurrency patterns and contribute to reusable Go components.
• Strong experience in designing loosely coupled, reliable and extensible distributed services.
• Great understanding of clean architecture, SOLID principles, and event-driven architecture. Experience with message broker services like SQS, Kafka, etc.
• Strong data modeling experience in relational databases.
• Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills.
• Self-driven with a passion for learning quickly and solving challenging problems.

Responsibilities

• Successfully and independently deliver large-size projects, including scoping, planning, design, development, testing, rollout and maintenance.
• Write clean, concise, modular and well-tested code. Review code from junior engineers and provide constructive feedback.
• Contribute to building and maintaining documentation related to the team's projects.
• Create high quality, loosely coupled, reliable and extensible technical designs; assess trade-offs between designs.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and lead troubleshooting of service issues.
• Improve health and quality of the services through set practices and new initiatives.
• Lead cross-team collaborations for the projects they work on.
• Support hiring and onboarding activities along with coaching and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Go language

Go concurrency

Distributed services

Clean architecture

SOLID principles

Message brokers

Relational databases

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

NoSQL databases

Job description

Responsibilities

• Successfully and independently deliver large-size projects, including scoping, planning, design, development, testing, rollout and maintenance.
• Write clean, concise, modular and well-tested code. Review code from junior engineers and provide constant and constructive feedback.
• Contribute to building and maintaining documentation related to the team's projects.
• Create high quality, loosely coupled, reliable and extensible technical designs. Actively understand trade-offs between different designs and apply the solution suited to the situation / requirements.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and lead the troubleshooting and resolution process of any issues related to the services/ work sub-streams/ products owned by your team.
• Constantly improve the health and quality of the services / code they work on, through set practices and new initiatives.
• Lead the cross-team collaborations for the projects they work on.
• Support hiring and onboarding activities along with coaching and developing junior members in your team, and contribute to knowledge sharing.

Qualifications and Experience

Must have

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying small to mid-scale applications in any language or stack. 2+ years of recent and active software development experience.
• Good understanding of Golang. Able to use Go concurrency patterns and contribute to building reusable Go components.
• Strong experience in designing loosely coupled, reliable and extensible distributed services.
• Great understanding of clean architecture, S.O.L.I.D principles, and event-driven architecture. Experience with message broker services like SQS, Kafka, etc.
• Strong data modeling experience in relational databases.
• Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills.
• Self-driven with a passion for learning new things quickly, solving challenging problems, and the drive to get better with the support from the manager.

Nice to have

• A bachelor degree in computer science, information technology, or equivalent education.
• Experience with NoSQL databases.