JAVA - Backend Eng , SDE II

Versatile Club Employer of Record; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Versatile Club Employer of Record in India is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and own Java microservices for high-traffic platforms. You will work with Spring Boot, queues like Kafka, and caching layers to ensure fast, reliable services.

You will own production health, performance tuning, and latency targets while collaborating with product, mobile, and platform teams on API contracts and rollouts.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of backend Java development with Spring Boot.
• Hands-on with production microservices ownership.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend microservices in Java and Spring Boot, from design doc to production
• Build for high throughput and low latency, with clear ownership of p99 latency and availability targets
• Work with Kafka or similar queues for event-driven flows, Redis for caching, and SQL plus NoSQL stores for persistence
• Own production health: monitoring, alerting, incident RCAs, and performance tuning
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and platform teams on API contracts and rollouts

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Backend development

Distributed systems

CS fundamentals

Product company background

Tools

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Cassandra

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

About The Role

Our client is one of India's largest consumer internet platforms, processing millions of transactions every day. You will join a backend team that owns core, high-traffic services and build Java microservices that stay fast and reliable under heavy concurrent load.

About The Role

Our client is one of India's largest consumer internet platforms, processing millions of transactions every day. You will join a backend team that owns core, high-traffic services and build Java microservices that stay fast and reliable under heavy concurrent load.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and own backend microservices in Java and Spring Boot, from design doc to production
• Build for high throughput and low latency, with clear ownership of p99 latency and availability targets
• Work with Kafka or similar queues for event-driven flows, Redis for caching, and SQL plus NoSQL stores for persistence
• Own production health: monitoring, alerting, incident RCAs, and performance tuning
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and platform teams on API contracts and rollouts

Must Have

• 3 to 5 years of backend development in Java with strong, recent Spring Boot experience
• Built and owned production microservices yourself, not just worked in a codebase that had them
• Hands-on with at least two of: Kafka or similar queues, Redis or Memcached, Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
• Concrete scale receipts: you can speak to QPS, events per day, p99 latency, and what you personally did to improve them
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems basics
• Product company background

Good to Have

• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or GCP
• System design at scale: sharding, partitioning, rate limiting, idempotency, backpressure
• gRPC, CI/CD ownership, infra as code

Skills: high scale distributed system,java,ownership,microservices