SDE I

Swiggy; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Swiggy in Bengaluru (Whitefield) is hiring a backend engineer with 1–3 years of professional software development experience. You will build scalable backend systems in Golang, write clean code for production environments, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to take features from concept to deployment.

You will help shape architecture decisions and participate in code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of professional software development experience
• Strong practical experience with Golang for backend applications
• Computer Science degree or equivalent foundation
• Ability to debug complex systems and optimize performance across the stack
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and backend infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend systems and services powering Swiggy's delivery and food platform
• Write clean, maintainable code in production environments handling millions of daily transactions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement features from concept through deployment
• Contribute to system architecture decisions and participate in code reviews to maintain standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Golang

Job description

Batch: 2022/2023/2024/2025.

About the role

• Build scalable backend systems and services that power Swiggy's delivery and food ordering platform
• Write clean, maintainable code in production environments handling millions of daily transactions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement features from concept through deployment
• Contribute to system architecture decisions and participate in code reviews to maintain engineering standards

What we're looking for

• 1-3 years of professional software development experience (internships do not count toward this)
• Strong practical experience with Golang for building backend applications
• Computer Science degree or equivalent professional foundation
• Ability to debug complex systems and optimize performance across the stack
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and backend infrastructure

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on work with generative AI or agentic AI systems
• Recent background in e-commerce platform development
• Experience working at scale with high-traffic applications

Work arrangement

• Full-time position based in Whitefield, Bangalore
• Office-based work five days per week