
About the role:
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join a mature, scaled product platform that is already serving business-critical workflows. This role focuses on enhancing existing backend systems, improving reliability, performance, and scalability, and building new features on top of a well-established architecture.
The ideal candidate is strong at writing production-quality code, debugging complex distributed systems, and knowledgeable about how design decisions impact scalability, availability, and long-term maintainability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform continues to perform reliably at scale while evolving with business needs.
What you will be expected to do:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain backend services for existing user, inventory, pricing, order, and payment management systems running at scale.
- Write clean, efficient, and highly reliable code using Java 8 and above and Spring Boot 2.7 and above.
- Own and improve production systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability, availability, and fault tolerance.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues involving services, databases, caches, and messaging systems.
- Contribute to low-level design (LLD) and actively participate in high-level architecture (HLD) discussions for new features and system improvements.
- Work with event-driven and asynchronous architectures, ensuring correctness and reliability of data flows.
- Optimize database schemas, queries, indexing strategies, and caching layers for high-throughput workloads.
- Partner with DevOps, QA, and Product teams to support smooth 24×7 production operations.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and incident post-mortems to continuously improve system quality.
- Take end-to-end ownership of backend components, from design and implementation to deployment and production support.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Java with hands-on experience in Spring Boot–based microservices.
- Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and backend problem solving.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases in high-scale systems.
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and working with asynchronous systems.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in live production systems.
- Good understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and release management.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to partner effectively within a team.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event-streaming platforms.
- Exposure to distributed systems, microservices architecture, and scaling strategies.
Good to have:
- Experience using Redis, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB in production systems.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and handling production incidents.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is a leading off-grid solar energy company providing affordable, reliable electricity to 1.8 billion people without grid access. Operating across Africa and Asia, Sun King has connected over 20 million homes, adding 200,000 homes monthly.
Through a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model, customers make small daily payments (as low as $0.11) via mobile money or cash, eventually owning their solar equipment and saving on costly kerosene or diesel. To date, Sun King products have saved customers over $4 billion.
With 28,000 field agents and embedded electronics that regulate usage based on payments, Sun King ensures seamless energy access. Its products range from home lighting and phone charging systems to solar inverters capable of powering high-energy appliances.
Sun King is expanding into clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment while serving a wide range of income segments.
The company employs 2,800 staff across 12 countries, with women representing 44% of the workforce, and expertise spanning product design, data science, logistics, sales, software, and operations.

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Sun King is a leading global provider of off-grid solar energy solutions, designed to serve the 1.8 billion people who lack reliable or affordable access to traditional electrical grids. With a mission to power brighter lives, the company focuses on underserved markets across Africa and Asia. Sun King's product range includes solar lanterns, solar home systems, and solar inverters, tailored to meet a variety of energy needs—from portable lighting to powering entire homes.
The company's innovative solutions, such as the recently launched PowerHub 3300 and expandable solar home systems, reflect their commitment to evolving customer demands. With operations in over 40 countries and millions of products sold, Sun King makes solar energy accessible through pay-as-you-go financing options. The company’s network of field agents plays a key role in selling, installing, and servicing products, driving local economic development. Rooted in sustainability, Sun King also implements a Sustainable Financing Framework and ensures customer satisfaction through extensive service centers and after-sales support.
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Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar energy solutions for the 1.8 billion people living without reliable access to electricity. The company offers a range of products from portable solar lamps to powerful home and business energy systems, aiming to improve lives across Africa and Asia through affordable, clean energy.
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Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities.
We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.
Role Overview
As an SDE 2 Back-end Engineer at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.
You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.
Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
- You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
- Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
- Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
- You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
- Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
- Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
- Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
- Driving strict code review standards among the team.
- Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
- Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
- Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
- Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
- Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
- Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
- Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
- Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
- Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
- Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
- Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage
What We Offer:
- Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
- Fully remote & agile working environment
- A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
- Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
- Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
- Experience with security side of things
- Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
- Open and supportive culture
Product Development Using Java, Microservices, SpringBoot
Experience with RestFUL API's.
Who we are looking for
A candidate who can design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.
Key Role Requirements:
- Experience in Java-J2EE Development
- Hands-on experience in Struts (Core Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB) framework.
- Hands-on experience in Oracle SQL, Procedures
- Hands-on experience in Spring boot, Spring batch
- Should have worked on application servers like IBM WAS / Jboss / Web logic.
- Knowledge of basic Linux commands and BIRT reporting tool is an added advantage.
- Knowledge in SVN or any other version control is an added advantage.
- Knowledge in Build tool like ANT, Maven is an added advantage
- Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities.
Must have,
- Fundamental of Python(Data types in python, scope of variable, asynchronous programming)
- Should be able to code in Python
- Basic Understanding of Database
- API designing
- Problem Solving skills
- Fundamentals of storage, caching
Good to have,
- AWS Knowledge,
- Python Framework(Django, Flask)
- Knowledge on Message Broker, Caching
- SQL and no-SQL database
We are looking for a Experienced Backend Developer, who is motivated to work on startup
culture and has working knowledge in Product development.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Design and Write Efficient and Structured code
Sound knowledge of Product lifecycle
Auto test and deployment using CICD
Experience in cloud technologies and understanding of the overall product architecture.
Collaborate with the product and tech team to design and launch new features.
Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
God code versioning practices and experience on tools like GIT
Experience in Microservice architecture and API development using Java Springboot.
SQL
AWS working knowledge is an added advantage.
Role Specification: Knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Mysql/SQL, Data Structures and algorithms
As a Principal Software Engineer with Treebo, you’ll have the opportunity to own and deliver
product(s) that will help Treebo accomplish its goals. The engineering team is at the fore front
of implementing new technologies in order to gain a dominant foothold in the Hospitality
industry. You will design and deploy scalable, high performance, multi-tenant systems. You will
interact with other engineering teams and contribute back to the open source tech community.
Responsibilities
● Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint
planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on
progress, milestones and any potential slippages.
● Identifies pitfalls across code bases proactively. Writes model code that is looked
up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates
common reusable components / libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
● Designs API contracts between large systems with end to end service design and
active leadership towards long term sustainability including versioning, complex
migration plans, impact analysis across products.
● Owns NFRs and pushes the envelop on performance, scalability and high availability
with cognisance towards cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently,
mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the
organisation.
● Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end to end cross
cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long term sustainability.
● Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring
and evangalizes steeper hiring standards towards building A+ team. Represents
treebo on external platform / conferences.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
● 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
● Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as
Python/Java/C++ & associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable,
unit-tested code
● Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully
delivered
● Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with a Strong
object oriented design skills
● Experience mentoring other software engineers.
● Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language
The candidate will be responsible for working on .NET based projects for our clients in USA. The candidate must be self-motivated and quick learner. The candidate should also be able to communicate with the client on a regular basis and gather requirements from the client, provide updates. The work would be in ASP.NET / VB.NET and C# with SQL Server databases. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining existing web applications as well as implement new applications based on client requirements.
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Must have 3+ years experience in ASP.Net with C# and VB.NET
- Must have at least 2 years experience in SQL Server
- Must have experience working with SOAP and REST Web Services
- Must have experience with SSRS and SSIS
- Must have some experience with MVC framework and Angular JS
- Must be able to work with basic CSS and HTML
- Must be able to work with jQuery and Javascript
- Experience with Reporting Services, WCF, etc would be a strong positive
Ecperience- Minimum 3 years
Location - Ahmedabad
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Work as a Web Developer to create front end & backend of websites
- Play a key role in the design lifecycle, from brief through to design and release/implementation
- Should have good knowledge of HTML, CSS, REACT JS, NODE JS, POSTGRES, GIT, REST API.
- A good understanding of servers, hosting, domains, DNS
- Ensure all designs work across all browsers and on all devices
- Help to design elements of mobile apps
- Ensure all designs are produced to deliver a great user experience
Key Skills/Experience:
- A minimum of one year of experience in designing and developing websites and web apps
- Good working experience in React JS, Redux, JavaScript ES6, NodeJS, AJAX, HTML, CSS, etc
- Knowledge about REST API
- Who has worked on libraries such as Bootstrap, Material is.
- Experience with Unit testing, Git, GitHub, and other DevOps and CI/CD tool
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates a range of work and techniques
- A passion for strong web design that delivers a great user experience
- A good understanding of the latest web design trends
The Junior/ Senior Software Engineer will be a member of the development team for Supply Chain Application module suite. The Supply Chain modules includes components at various layers, including server-side, integration, supply chain planning engines and user-interface. This individual will be responsible for participating in module development and providing technical assistance to junior members of the team.
Experience and Skills:
- 4-10 years of of experience in writing software
- Strong analytical problem solving skills
- Strong Object Oriented Programming Skills. Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Extensive knowledge of the Java programming language
- Understanding of software design patterns, J2EE components (EJB, JSP, Servlets), and XML
- Experience with relational databases (preferably Oracle) and Object/Relational frameworks. Should be able to write SQL queries, procedures, triggers and do basic performance tuning.
- Experience with C++ is a plus.
- Functional knowledge of supply chain management domain.
- Prior experience in development or consulting with an enterprise software vendor – preferably in supply chain planning or forecasting area.
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns & protocols, including SOAP, REST, JMS, EDI is a plus.
- Experience writing build & deployment scripts (e.g. Ant)
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Systems implementation skills: requirements/process analysis, conceptual and detailed design, configuration, testing, training, support
- Some experience with a scripting language such as Python or Ruby preferred
- Some experience with newer web client technologies such as AJAX, EXTJS preferred.
Essential Functions:
- Producing design documents based on a requirements document and participating in design reviews
- Producing effort estimates
- Writing code, automated unit and functional tests, and build/deployment scripts
- Participating in code reviews
- Executing performance/scalability tests & profiling hotspots
- Collaborating with QA, Technical Operations and Production Support during the various phases of a project
Education:
BE/ BTech/ ME/ MTech in Engineering, Computer Science









