- Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
- Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
- Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
- Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
- Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
- Perform design and code reviews
- Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
- Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
- Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
- Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
- Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
- Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team

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Job Description
The ideal candidate will possess expertise in Core Java (at least Java 8), Spring framework, JDBC, threading, database management, and cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP. The candidate should also have strong debugging skills, the ability to understand multi-service flow, experience with large data processing, and excellent problem-solving abilities.
JD:
- Develop, and maintain Java applications using Core Java, Spring framework, JDBC, and threading concepts.
- Strong understanding of the Spring framework and its various modules.
- Experience with JDBC for database connectivity and manipulation
- Utilize database management systems to store and retrieve data efficiently.
- Proficiency in Core Java8 and thorough understanding of threading concepts and concurrent programming.
- Experience in in working with relational and nosql databases.
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP and gain experience on DevOps practices is added advantage.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Perform debugging and troubleshooting of applications using log analysis techniques.
- Understand multi-service flow and integration between components.
- Handle large-scale data processing tasks efficiently and effectively.
- Hands on experience using Spark is an added advantage.
- Good problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex technical problems.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends to improve development processes continuously and methodologies.
Job Details
- Job Title: SDE-3
- Industry: Technology
- Domain - Information technology (IT)
- Experience Required: 5-8 years
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Bengaluru
- CTC Range: Best in Industry
Role & Responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer - 3, Backend Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in architecting, designing, and delivering robust backend systems that power our platform. You will lead by example, driving technical excellence and mentoring peers while solving complex engineering problems. This position offers the opportunity to work with a highly motivated team in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership-
- Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and maintainable backend systems using Java and related frameworks.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
- Review code and ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and security guidelines.
System Architecture and Design-
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and frontend engineers, to translate business requirements into efficient technical solutions.
- Own the architecture of core modules and contribute to overall platform scalability and reliability.
- Advocate for and implement microservices architecture, ensuring modularity and reusability.
Problem Solving and Optimization-
- Analyze and resolve complex system issues, ensuring high availability and performance of the platform.
- Optimize database queries and design scalable data storage solutions.
- Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively identify and mitigate issues.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement-
- Stay updated on emerging backend technologies and incorporate relevant advancements into our systems.
- Identify and drive initiatives to improve codebase quality, deployment processes, and team productivity.
- Contribute to an advocate for a DevOps culture, supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
Collaboration and Communication-
- Act as a liaison between the backend team and other technical and non-technical teams, ensuring smooth communication and alignment.
- Document system designs, APIs, and workflows to maintain clarity and knowledge transfer across the team.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Java Backend Engineer.
- Must have 5+ years of backend development with strong focus on Java (Spring / Spring Boot)
- Must have been SDE-2 for at least 2.5 years
- Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, multithreading, and async programming
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and Redis/Memcached
- Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
- Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
- have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges
Software Development Engineers will be responsible to participate in all stages of
the software product development life cycle. This will include analyzing system
and user requirements, designing software flowcharts, writing clean Java code,
troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality.
An ideal candidate would be someone who has proficiency in Java technologies,
good analytical skills, the ability to anticipate issues and frame remedial actions,
and excellent teamwork skills.
What will you be doing?
● Write simple, efficient, and maintainable code.
● Design, develop, scale and maintain backend services in Java
● Manage individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
● Validating the functionality and security of the application.
● Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
● Ensuring best coding standards and practices to improve and maintain
quality.
● Meeting with the engineering and product team to discuss project definitions
and goals.
What will you need ?
● Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
● Sound knowledge of Java technologies.
● Solid grip on the programming basics like DS and algorithms, OOPS.
● Understanding & experience with software design pattern, restful APIs and
microservice architecture
● Experience with software design and application programming.
● Prior experience in start-ups or health-tech will be a plus
2. Design software and make technology choices across the stack (from data storage to application to front-end)
3. Understand a range of tier-1 systems/services that power our product to make scalable changes to critical path code
4. Own the design and delivery of an integral piece of a tier-1 system or application
5. Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and end users and integrate software components into a fully functional system
6. Work on the management and execution of project plans and delivery commitments
7. Take ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production
8. Ensure the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns
9. Work closely with senior engineers for refining and implementation
10. Manage and execute project plans and delivery commitments
11. Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies, and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts
Function: Software Engineering → Other Software Development
Java
Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
Ensure designs comply with specifications.
Prepare and produce releases of software components.
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
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We are a tribe of intellectually fierce people from diverse backgrounds, focused on building cutting-edge products that empower everyone in the education ecosystem - students, teachers, educational institutes and parents. We enable a deeper understanding of student behavior, their strengths and weaknesses through analysis at a granular level. It is this shared vision of democratizing and personalizing education that unites us all.
Embibe is powered by AI and data science algorithms, using these contents being recommended across platforms and millions of learning outcomes delivered to students. Since its inception, millions of students have used the imbibe platform for learning concepts and outcomes. Academic users have spent 52mins on average with an average of 3 sessions daily. Embibe has been launched for 12 languages across India with support for 361 Exams (English), and 120 Exams (Hindi) for K6-K12 having 22.6L+ Qs and 58k+ Tests, 29k videos, 50k+ 3D assets. Embibe is the world's largest live online public sector implementation in edtech for test preparation, NTA app which is powered by Embibe has 3.1Mn+ downloads, and 14.3Mn hours spent by users with total 13.4Mn sessions and 1.64Bn attempts.SchoolApp is currently being used by 1000s of schools across India and we are planning to scale it to 100Mn students with 1Mn schools with 10Mn teachers in the period of the next 3yrs.
Prerequisite
We are looking for a Software Engineer across levels who have ever contributed to any large-scale systems be it content platform e.g. Quora/Medium, streaming platform e.g. Netflix or Hotstar, activity log system e.g. Twitter feeds or payment systems like Razorpay to name a few. I/O, Read-Writes, DB connections, Distributed Locking, Memory, Bandwidth, High Throughput, Low Latency and minimal CPU cycles excite you!! You are deep thinkers and can bring ideas to the table, before starting writing the code!!
Interested? We'd love to hear from you.
Who are you?
● 2-14yrs years of relevant large-scale product company experience ideally in a fast-moving B2C/B2B environment.
● Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python,React.js, Node.js, Next.js, PHP, Golang etc.
● Deep understanding & experience of high-performance web-scale & real-time response systems, and large scale distributed systems.
● CS Fundamentals – exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, Good in Data Structures and Algorithms Design, Problem Solving.
● Open source contributors and can do quick POC of technologies will catch our eyes.
● Expertise in designing, implementing and operating distributed Systems architectures and concepts, especially on public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure)
● Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI).
● Experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus). Expertise should include several of the following:
○ High-performance,up-time (99.999%) and self-recoverable systems.
○ Control, orchestration and automation platforms leveraging containers or VMs. ○ RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)
● Experience with one or more Data Stores like (MySql, Postgres ) and NoSQL DataStores ( Mongo, Cassandra, Scylladb, Hbase, Redis, Aerospike etc.).
● Experience with Agile software development, TDD, and Continuous Integration. ● Experience in building Web/RESTFul/GraphQL services.
● Sound knowledge of *Nix, ORM(Hibernate, JPA), Spring ecosystem, Messaging platforms like Kafka/RMQ, build framework like Maven/Gradle etc.
● Very strong system design and object-oriented skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
● Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.
● Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions. ● Exposure to complete product development cycles – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, and re-architectures.
● Having experience building web infrastructure in cloud environments (such as AWS or Azure/GCP) is a plus. You understand and are always excited about learning new e.g.docker, Kubernetes.
● Education. M.Tech/M.Eng in Computer Science/Engineering or B.Tech/B.E in the same disciplines with equivalent years of experience would be a plus.
We'd particularly love it if:
● You’re a steward for engineering quality, reliability, scalability, availability, maintainability, flexibility habits and mindset in the organization under your purview, You know SOLID,12 factor App and Design Principles which you can apply or help the team in applying as needed. You can assure that our architectures are consistent with industry best practices. ● Version control tools like Git, SVN etc are good to have.
● Gather, understand, and prioritize requirements, research potential solutions, rapidly build prototypes, and distill and communicate what was learned, expected risks, resources & security concerns.
● Mentoring more junior engineers to instill engineering best practices and driving high standards in documentation, code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions and strategy roadmap development.
● Actively participate in development along with team members - creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
● Set the vision of the domain architecture and technology stack for technology in your organization, You understand LLD and HLD.
● Be an evangelist for technology - drive a culture of curiosity and active debate around technology in your organization.
● Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create.
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Technical Competencies
- Strong Java/J2EE development experience with demonstrated ability to develop and troubleshoot large mission applications & Software Products
- Experience on exception handling, correct use of data structures, multi-threaded programming, memory management and application tuning
- Excellent exposure in Object Oriented Design skills using Java/J2ee along with:
- Core Java Language (Collections, Concurrency/Multithreading)
- JDBC concepts (connection pooling, statement, result set)
- Web Technologies (Struts/Struts 2, Spring (IOP, MVC, AOP), Hibernate, JSP, Web services)
- Database optimization and profiling
- Core/JEE/Integration Design patterns/UML
- Should have experience in Unit Testing
- Good hands on experience with RDBMS like MySQL/Oracle with ability to write SQL Queries/Stored Procedures/Triggers/Joins/View etc
- Practical application of software product development standards and methodologies including Agile, XP, Kanban, RUP and UML
- Ability to apply design patterns consistently and also accurate when building per design requirements
- Good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
- Demonstrated problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong written and oral communication skills are required to effectively engage internal stakeholders and their technical representatives.









