SDE 3 at pocket gems · Remote, Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 7 - 11 years · ₹2L - ₹15L / yr · Remote friendly · Posted 27 Jun 2022

Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices

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We're hiring an SDE 2 to build reliable, high-scale services and own features end-to-end. You'll turn ambiguous problems into clean designs, write well-tested code, and raise the engineering bar on the team.
Mandatory skills
• 5+ years shipping production software
• Strong data structures, algorithms and problem-solving
• Hands-on system design for scalable services
• Proficiency in Java or Python
• Building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Solid SQL and version control (Git)
Job Title : Software Development Engineer II (SDE 2) – Java or Golang (Backend)
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Bengaluru
Working Days : 5 Days WFO
Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days
Interview Process : 3 Client Rounds
Job Overview :
We are looking for an SDE 2 – Backend with strong hands-on experience in Java / Spring Boot or Golang to design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend applications. Candidates with experience in caching services will be highly preferred.
Mandatory Skills :
Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Gin, gRPC, REST APIs, Microservices, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle, System Design, Caching, Data Structures & Algorithms, Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable backend applications and APIs.
- Develop microservices using Java / Spring Boot or Golang.
- For Golang roles, experience with Gin and gRPC is preferred.
- Work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar databases.
- Design and optimize caching solutions for application performance.
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and write unit/integration tests.
- Troubleshoot bugs and performance issues.
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and other engineering teams.
- Contribute to CI/CD, cloud, and DevOps practices.
Requirements :
- 3 to 5 years of backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java / Spring / Spring Boot or Golang.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, Microservices, DSA, and System Design.
- Experience with relational databases.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Exposure to AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD.
- Java candidates with end-to-end application design experience are preferred.
- Exposure to AI/ML tools or Low-Code/No-Code frameworks is a plus.
Interview Process :
Round 1 – LeetCode / Coding Round
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Problem-solving and coding proficiency
Round 2 – System Design
- System architecture
- Scalability and performance
- API and database design
- Caching and distributed systems
Round 3 – Hiring Manager Round
- Technical depth
- Project and ownership experience
- Problem-solving approach
- Communication and collaboration
- Role and culture fit
We are looking for a Backend Software Development Engineer with 6+ years building scalable, high-availability server-side systems. You'll design and own microservices and REST APIs, model data in SQL, and deploy on AWS, partnering with product and frontend teams end-to-end.
Mandatory skills
• 6+ years of backend development in Java and/or Python
• Strong hands-on experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs
• Solid database design and SQL optimization
• Production experience on AWS (or equivalent cloud)
• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, concurrency, system design
• Experience owning services from design through production support
Location: Bengaluru (Work from Office – 6 Days a Week)
About the Role
We're looking for a Software Development Engineer III (SDE-3) to join our growing engineering team. We're seeking engineers who have previously built, scaled, or significantly contributed to applications serving 100K+ users. You'll be joining a small, high-impact team, so we're looking for engineers who thrive on ownership, move quickly, and enjoy solving challenging technical problems.
We are technology agnostic and value strong engineering fundamentals over expertise in any particular language or framework. Whether your background is Backend, Frontend, or Full Stack, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications.
- Build robust, production-ready software that delivers exceptional user experiences.
- Take end-to-end ownership—from design and development to deployment and production support.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or similar) to improve development speed, code quality, debugging, testing, and overall engineering productivity.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions, balancing scalability with simplicity.
- Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
- Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 4–6 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, such as Python, Go (Golang), C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Scala, or Ruby.
- Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, and System Design.
- Hands-on experience building, scaling, or maintaining production applications with a user base of 100K+ users.
- Proven experience working on high-traffic, large-scale consumer or B2B products where performance, reliability, and scalability were critical.
- Experience developing modern Backend, Frontend, or Full Stack applications.
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and scalable application architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use AI coding assistants to accelerate software development while maintaining high standards of code quality and engineering best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of ownership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on platform or infrastructure products is highly preferred.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, CI/CD, and containerization.
- Experience working in product companies or fast-paced startup environments.
Who You Are
- You enjoy working in small, fast-moving teams where every engineer has significant ownership.
- You're comfortable wearing multiple hats and contributing across different parts of the stack when needed.
- You've previously worked on products operating at scale and understand the engineering challenges of supporting 100K+ active users, including performance optimization, reliability, and scalability.
- You have a product mindset and care deeply about performance, scalability, and user experience.
- You're a proactive problem solver who enjoys taking initiative and driving projects independently.
- You embrace modern engineering practices, including the effective use of AI tools to enhance productivity without compromising software quality.
- You value collaboration, continuous learning, and building high-quality software.
Why Join Us?
- Join a high-impact engineering team with significant ownership and autonomy.
- Solve challenging engineering problems with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate with talented engineers in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
- Build software that directly impacts thousands of users while accelerating your technical growth.
🚀 Job Title : Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Bangalore (Client Location – Work From Office)
Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days
Open Positions : 4
Working Days : 6 Days a Week
🧠 Job Summary :
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems in a fast-paced product environment.
You will own large features end-to-end — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — while collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.
This role requires strong backend fundamentals, distributed systems exposure, and a mindset of operational ownership.
⭐ Mandatory Skills :
Strong backend development experience in Go / Python (FastAPI) / Java (Spring Boot) with hands-on expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and strong DSA & System Design fundamentals.
🔧 Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services end-to-end.
- Build scalable, modular, and production-grade microservices.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
- Architect reliable distributed systems with performance and fault tolerance in mind.
- Debug complex cross-system production issues.
- Implement secure development practices (authentication, authorization, data integrity).
- Work with monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
- Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams.
✅ Required Skills :
- Strong proficiency in Go OR Python (FastAPI) OR Java (Spring Boot).
- Hands-on experience building Microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs & distributed systems.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Exposure to Kafka / SQS or other messaging systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures & System Design.
- Ability to independently own features and solve ambiguous engineering problems.
⭐ Preferred Background :
- Experience in product-based companies.
- Exposure to high-throughput or event-driven systems.
- Strong focus on code quality, observability, and reliability.
- Comfortable working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
🧑💻 Interview Process :
- 1 Internal Screening Round
- HR Discussion (Project & Communication Evaluation)
- 3 Technical Rounds with Client
This is a fresh requirement, and interviews will be scheduled immediately.
🚀Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer (Java / Golang) SDE 3
Experience : 5 to 12 Years
Positions : 4
Employment Type : C2H (Contract to Hire)
Contract Duration : 3 Months
Location : Remote during contract → Pune after conversion
Work Mode After Conversion : 5 Days WFO
Notice Period : Immediate / Serving Notice / Up to 15 Days preferred
Mandatory Skills : Golang (1+ year mandatory), 5+ years Backend Development, System Design, Distributed Systems, Microservices, REST / GraphQL APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, SQL & NoSQL Databases, AWS / GCP / Azure, Strong Problem-Solving & Communication Skills.
About the Role :
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer / SDE 3 with strong expertise in Java / Golang to design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services and APIs.
The role involves hands-on coding, system design, microservices, distributed systems, and collaboration with engineering and infrastructure teams.
Must-Have Skills :
- 5+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Golang.
- Minimum 1+ year of Golang experience is mandatory.
- Strong understanding of System Design & Distributed Systems.
- Experience with REST / GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture.
- Experience with Event Queues / Asynchronous Processing.
- Strong knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Important Note for Java Candidates :
Java candidates can be considered only if they have at least 1+ year of hands-on Golang experience and are willing to work in Golang.
Candidates with less than 1 year of Golang experience will not be considered.
Good to Have :
- Experience in Fintech / Payments / Transaction-heavy systems
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Datadog / Prometheus / Grafana
- CI/CD experience
- Exposure to Java or Ruby
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang.
- Build reliable, secure, and high-performance microservices and APIs.
- Implement event-driven and asynchronous processing systems.
- Work on system architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in system design, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Collaborate with mobile, web, and infrastructure teams.
- Develop unit, integration, and performance tests.
- Contribute to CI/CD, observability, documentation, and engineering best practices.
Interview Process :
Round 1 : Take-Home Coding Assessment – Submission within 48 hours
Round 2 : Code Pairing – Problem Extension
Round 3 : Culture Fitment
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Location: Remote (India preferred) | Type: Full-time | Compensation: Competitive salary + early-stage stock options
🧠 About Alpha
Modern revenue teams juggle 10+ point-solutions. Alpha unifies them into an agent-powered platform that plans, executes, and optimises GTM campaigns—so every touch happens on the right channel, at the right time, with the right context.
Alpha is building the world’s most intuitive AI stack for revenue teams —to engage, convert & scale revenue with an AI powered GTM team. l
Our mission is to make AI not just accessible, but dependable and truly useful.
We’re early, funded, and building with urgency. Join us to help define what work looks like when AI works for you.
🔧 What You’ll Do
You’ll lead the development of our AI GTM platform and underlying AI agents to power seamless multi-channel GTMs.
This is a hybrid UX-engineering role: you’ll translate high-level user journeys into interfaces that feel clear, powerful, and trustworthy.
Your responsibilities:
- Design & implement end-to-end features across React-TS/Next.js, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, and NestJs micro-services for LLM agents.
- Build & document scalable GraphQL / REST APIs that expose our data model (Company, Person, Campaign, Sequence, Asset, ActivityRecord, InferenceSnippet).
- Integrate third-party APIs (CRM, email, ads, CMS) and maintain data sync reliability > 98 %.
- Implement the dynamic agent flow builder with configurable steps, HITL checkpoints, and audit trails.
- Instrument product analytics, error tracking, and CI pipelines for fast feedback and safe releases.
- Work directly with the founder on product scoping, technical roadmap, and hiring pipeline.
✅ What We’re Looking For
- 1–3 years experience building polished web apps (React, Vue, or similar)
- Strong eye for design fidelity, UX decisions, and motion
- Experience integrating frontend with backend APIs and managing state
- Experience with visual builders, workflow editors, or schema UIs is a big plus
- You love taking complex systems and making them feel simple
💎 What You’ll Get
- Competitive salary + high-leverage early equity
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- A tight feedback loop with real users from Day 1
- Freedom to shape UI decisions, patterns, and performance for the long haul







