Software Engineer

GUS Global Services India; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Gus Global Services (GGS) seeks a Software Engineer who drives product velocity and quality in our edtech platforms. You will own technical delivery, make critical decisions on engine tuning, and scale systems with ownership and speed.

You will lead with product, design and stakeholders; deliver low-latency APIs, pursue an agentic-first approach, and mentor teams while ensuring security and data protection.

Qualifications

• Experience in schema and distributed system design, performance tuning, and cloud-based best practices.
• Hands-on building of high-scale D2C, B2B apps including order management and product catalog.
• Deep expertise in LLD, HLD, ACID, caching, microservices, VM, K8S, data pipelines, Kafka/nsqd.
• Proven ability to navigate early-stage product journeys with a 0-to-1 mindset.
• Observability: setting up monitoring to proactively identify slow processes and blockers.
• Git-based workflows with rigorous PR reviews and configuration management.
• Performance profiling and tuning of complex stored procedures and queries.

Responsibilities

• Lead to build by translating requirements into architectural and design plans with roadmaps.
• Ensure high availability through i/o optimized, low-latency APIs and scalable DB schemas.
• Champion agentic engineering using AI-driven development to solve complex hurdles.
• Identify bottlenecks to maintain a low-latency end-user experience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor developers for high performance code.
• Implement security principles and PII compliance within the app.
• Architect and sustain large-scale distributed platform services.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and review code for quality.
• Focus on usage metrics and customer-centric service delivery.

Skills

Technical depth

Product experience

0-to-1 mindset

Observability

Modern workflow

Performance tooling

Git workflows

Tools

Kafka

nsqd

Redis

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Unit Tests

HTTP/TCP

Nginx

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Cursor

Windsurf

Job description

About The Company

Gus Global Services (GGS) facilitates transformative education & industry relevant skills to students for various academic partner institutions in India. As the Indian subsidiary of Global University Systems (GUS)an integrated higher education platform—we aim to provide the best of everything.

About the Role

GGS is seeking a Software Engineer who is a "Builder" at heart and a "Leader" by choice. In this role, you aren’t just supervising; you are the primary driver of product velocity and quality. You will manage the technical delivery of our edtech platforms, making critical daily decisions on engine fine-tuning and system scalability. This is a high-stakes role designed for those who thrive in ambiguity, ownership, and speed. You will directly influence the engineering culture and impact the educational journey of students.

What Will You Do?

The Software Engineer will:

• Lead to Build: Work with product, design and other stakeholders for understanding of requirements and turn them into architectural and design plans with implementation roadmap.
• Ensure High Availability: Own the delivery of i/o optimized low latency APIs and DB Schema that supports 24/7 uptime and exponential scalability
• Champion "Agentic" Engineering: Drive an Agentic-first approach to solution design, utilizing AI-driven development (AIDD) to solve complex engineering hurdles.
• Optimize Daily: Identify bottlenecks in queries, execution plans, and overall system design to ensure a low-latency end-user experience.
• Collaborate and Mentor: Work across functional teams to fine-tune system health and guide developers in writing efficient, high-performance code.
• Security: Implement Security Principles and PII Compliance within the application schema and access policies.
• System Design - Architect, develop, and sustain large scale distributed platform services.
• Mentorship - Provide hands-on technical leadership: software design and development, coding, debugging complex issues, prototyping new features and reviewing code for quality. Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.
• Data Driven - Keep a focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focused.

What Must You Bring?

• Technical Depth: Experience in schema and distributed system design, performance tuning, and cloud-based best practices.
• Product Experience – handson experience of building and improving a high scale D2C, B2B, attribution applications, order management systems, product catalog,
• Hands-on Expertise: Deep expertise of LLD, HLD, ACID, caching, distributed system design, DBMS, Garbage Collector, microservices, VM, K8S, data pipelines, kafka, nsqd,
• 0-to-1 Mindset: A proven ability to navigate the challenges and pace of early-stage product journeys.
• Observability Focus: Experience setting up monitoring frameworks to proactively identify slow-running processes and blocking issues.
• Modern Workflow: Mastery of Git-based workflows, including rigorous PR reviews and configuration management.
• Performance Tooling: Expertise in leveraging Profilers and Performance Insights to assist teams in tuning complex stored procedures.

What Skills Must You Have

• Core Tech: Golang, Python, .Net, kafka, nsqd, redis, elasticsearch, mongoDB, Unit Test, HTTP/TCP, nginx, MCP, AIDD, AIRD, Mobile First APIs
• AI Tooling: Advanced expertise in Cursor and Windsurf for AI-driven development and code generation.
• Architecture: Strong grasp of micro-service scalable architecture and asset hosting for edge performance.
• Scale: Practical skills in database partitioning, sharding, and query optimization.
• Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS/Azure ecosystems, Linux Kernels, and automated backup/DR strategies.
• Process: Expertise in Sprints and SDLC Management to maintain high velocity without sacrificing quality.