Software Development Engineer 2 (SDE 2)

Bonito Designs; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

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Job summary

Abhinandan Ventures is seeking a Software Development Engineer 2 (SDE 2) to own meaningful slices of production systems across our product ecosystem, including internal platforms, customer-facing apps, integrations, and AI-powered products. This role demands independent problem solving, end-to-end ownership, and a relentless focus on reliability and maintainability.

You will contribute to a fast-growing tech landscape with a strong engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Owns production impact: understands that code/design decisions affect reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Language-flexible, but deep in at least one programming language.
• Thinks in trade-offs and can articulate design choices under constraints.
• Proactively raises risks, gaps and dependencies before they become issues.
• Learns fast and ramps up quickly in new systems and unfamiliar domains.

Responsibilities

• Own meaningful slices of production systems across our product ecosystem, including internal platforms, customer-facing apps, integrations, and AI-powered products.
• Take end-to-end ownership from design through deployment and adoption, ensuring features land and get used.

Job description

Software Development Engineer 2 (SDE 2)

Location: HSR Layout, Bengaluru | Team: Engineering

About Abhinandan Ventures An Abhinandan Lodha Enterprise:

(https://www.ablventures.com/):

Abhinandan Ventures, is a formidable collective of some of the best-of-breed, high- growth new-age businesses. We back highly ambitious ideas and turn them into category- disrupting businesses built to stand the test of time.

We are a launchpad for nascent businesses that have the potential to become a part of our eclectic mix of businesses. We deploy unlevered and patient proprietary capital with a focus on value creation, unconstrained by the pressures of redemption.

Our decentralized portfolio operates with independent CEOs and empowered leadership teams, fostering a performance-driven culture that sparks value creation. This ecosystem cultivates consumer-centric brands at the forefront of innovation, always pursuing excellence. Anchored in sound business practices, our businesses are poised for greatness, shaping industries as they grow.

About Bonito Designs:

Bonito Designs Pvt Ltd (www.bonito.in) is one of the fastest growing Start-Ups in India in the Interior Designing Industry. The Company is funded by Tomorrow Capital (www.tomorrowcapital.in) an Abhinandan Ventures. The Company has its business operations in Bangalore & Mumbai and is soon planning to expand to other metro cities. The Management team is committed to make this one of the most aspiring brand for Indian consumers and a great place to work for employees.

The Company has a very conducive working environment for employees and offers fast- track growth opportunities for deserving & committed professionals.

About the Role

Were looking for an SDE 2 who can take a direction and find their own path. Youll own meaningful slices of production systems across our product ecosystem, including internal platforms, customer-facing apps, integrations, and AI-powered products were actively building. This isnt a role for someone who waits for fully specified tickets. Its for engineers who think in trade-offs, surface risks early, and care about what their code does at 2 AM on a Saturday.

What We Absolutely Need

These are non-negotiable. Without these, the role wont work, regardless of years of experience or stack familiarity.

• Figures things out independently. Give you a direction, you find the path. You investigate, prototype, ask sharp questions, and move.
• Owns production impact. You understand that every code and design decision compounds into reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving. When blocked or handed ambiguous requirements, you reproduce, isolate, hypothesize, and verify.
• Language-flexible, but deep in at least one. Stacks are tools; fundamentals travel.
• Thinks in trade-offs. You can articulate why one design or implementation choice is better than another given the constraints.
• Proactively raises risks, gaps, and dependencies. You flag the missing requirement or scaling concern before it becomes a fire.
• Builds for the long term. You care more about stability, operational excellence, and maintainability than shipping a quick feature someone else has to clean up.
• Learns fast. New system, unfamiliar domain, foreign codebase, you ramp up quickly and start contributing meaningfully.
• Takes end-to-end ownership. This role isnt just about coding and shipping. You own the feature from design through deployment and adoption, ensuring it actually lands and gets used.

General Expectations

Writes clean, readable, well-tested code. Maintains high standards in code reviews and actively raises overall engineering quality. Communicates clearly and documents decisions so others can build on them.

Tech Stack

Our primary stack is Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, Node.js, Java, and Python on the backend; React, JavaScript, Liquid, and Dart on the frontend; and PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ClickHouse for data. We use AI actively and are building AI-powered products as a core part of our roadmap.

Good to Have

• Production experience with Ruby on Rails/React/Node.js
• Exposure to building or integrating AI/LLM-based features
• Familiarity with multi-database environments (SQL + NoSQL + analytical stores)

Why This Role

Youll work on systems that directly run a fast-growing interior design business, not throwaway projects. The scope is broad, the ownership is real, and the engineering problems are the kind that reward people who think carefully and build things to last.

Its a plus if youve worked on the kinds of systems we run day to day, such as lead sourcing and storage, CRM workflows, project management tools, operations dashboards, procurement, vendor and inventory systems, or other business-line software. Familiarity with this problem space helps you ramp faster and contribute to product decisions earlier.