JAVA – Backend Eng , SDE II

Versatile.club; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Versatile.club in India seeks a backend engineer to design, build, and own Java microservices that stay fast under heavy concurrent load. You will work from design through production, owning API contracts and rollouts with a focus on reliability.

You will use Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and SQL/NoSQL stores to deliver high-throughput services. You’ll own production health, monitoring, and incident RCAs, collaborating with product and platform teams.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of backend development in Java with Spring Boot.
• Have built and owned production microservices yourself, not just worked in a codebase that had them.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency.

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

Backend development in Java

Spring Boot expertise

Production microservices ownership

Strong CS fundamentals

High-throughput systems

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Cassandra

MongoDB

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.

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