Senior Software Engineer

Angel-and-Genie; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Angel-and-Genie in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced software engineer with 5-8 years in product-based or SaaS environments. The role focuses on designing and implementing modules while mentoring junior engineers. Candidates should have a strong grasp of microservices, GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures.

The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping product features and ensuring system reliability through observability practices. Strong leadership and Agile experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on software development experience in a product-based or SaaS environment.
• Advanced competency in object-oriented design, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating production microservices at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex modules/services meeting functional and performance requirements.
• Build and evolve user-facing product features.
• Design, implement, and optimize GraphQL APIs.
• Build and maintain event-driven data pipelines.
• Instrument services with OpenTelemetry for reliability.

Skills

Object-oriented design

Data structures

Distributed systems

Agile/Scrum

Leadership

Microservices

GraphQL API Development

Event-driven architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Apache Kafka

JUnit5

Mockito

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• SystemDesign&Architecture: Design and implement complex modules/services that meet functional, performance, and scalability requirements. Participate in Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and contribute to cross-team architectural proposals.
• ProductDevelopment: Build and evolve user-facing product features with a product mindset—understand user impact, measure outcomes, and iterate based on feedback. Deliver features on schedule and within budget.
• GraphQLAPIDevelopment: Design, implement, and optimize federated GraphQL APIs using Apollo Federation, ensuring schema integrity across subgraphs and cross-team collaboration via the GraphQL gateway.
• Event-DrivenArchitecture: Build and maintain event-driven data pipelines using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, Avro serialization, Confluent Schema Registry) to enable real-time data flows across microservices.
• Observability&Reliability: Instrument services with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging. Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Champion system reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• CodeQuality&Testing: Write comprehensive unit and integration tests (JUnit5, Mockito). Maintain high code coverage (Jacoco, Codacy). Participate in design and code reviews with a focus on maintainability and security.
• Mentoring&Leadership: Mentor, train, and serve as a knowledge resource for less experienced engineers. Lead technical discussions, drive adoption of best practices, and contribute to engineering culture.
• AgileCollaboration: Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Architecture Coalition, and peer engineering teams.
• Documentation: Write and maintain technical documentation including ADRs, API schemas, runbooks, and design proposals following MADR-based templates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5–8 years of hands‑on software development experience in a product‑based or SaaS environment.
• Advanced competency in object-oriented design, data structures, complexity analysis, and distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating production microservices at scale.
• Strong product mindset—ability to reason about user impact and make trade‑offs between speed, quality, and scope.
• Experience leading or mentoring a team of developers; proven technical leadership and collaboration skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with a focus on iterative delivery.