Software Development Engineer 2 (Backend)

ALLEN Career Institute; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

ALLEN Career Institute is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable distributed services in a cloud environment. You will craft robust architectures, write clean code, and contribute to the full software lifecycle from design to deployment.

You will mentor junior developers, collaborate with product managers and peers to deliver on objectives, and ensure systems meet performance, availability and scalability targets.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of backend experience.
• Proven track record in design, architecture and delivery of backend services.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, design, develop, test, document and operate backend systems and services.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering peers to achieve goals.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior developers.
• Build scalable, high-quality distributed systems with cloud service development, deployment and delivery.
• Gather requirements and design high-level specifications for system integration.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud services

Code quality

Mentoring

Agile delivery

System scalability

Education

Bachelors in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

Cloud platforms

Databases

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Work experience of 2-5yrs
• Define the architecture, design, develop, test, document and operate backend systems and services. Accountable for solution elegance, ease of evolution, quality of the systems and performance, scalability, and availability characteristics.
• Work with product management and other engineering peers to deliver on the goals.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior developers.
• Be a technical engineer passionate about distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment, and delivery.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to determine functional and non-functional requirements for software development.
• Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility.
• Write clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping the features.

Preferred candidate profile

Desired Skills and Experience:

• A solid engineer at heart with excellent abstraction, coding, and system design skills with excellent programming skills
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• A proven track record of working on the design, architecture, and delivery in a consumer internet ecosystem on backend technologies.
• An experienced technical leader in agile software engineering teams.
• Strong communicator, able to navigate ambiguity, and exercise judgment when making decisions.
• Good knowledge of design and development of Distributed Systems.
• Must have exposure to building platforms and products from scratch.
• Excellent knowledge of designing and developing Microservice