Senior Backend Developer(SDE2)

Review Criteria

• Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
• Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).
• Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework
• Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization
• Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices
• Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)
• (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
• (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

Role & Responsibilities

As a Founding Engineer at company, you'll join our engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems need creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities-

• Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power company’s billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities
• Work across the full stack: Contribute to both backend services and frontend interfaces, ensuring seamless user experiences
• Implement critical integrations: Connect company with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors
• Optimize for scale: Build systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations
• Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code while participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
• Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and work closely with teams to address evolving client needs

The Impact You'll Make-

• Power business growth: Your code will directly enable billing and revenue operations for fast-growing B2B companies, helping them scale without operational bottlenecks
• Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling millions in transactions while ensuring accurate, compliant revenue recognition
• Shape product direction: Join during our scaling phase where your contributions immediately impact product evolution and customer success
• Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep knowledge in financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise software while working with industry veterans
• Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help create infrastructure powering next-generation pricing models from usage-based to value-based billing.

Technical Requirement:

• At least 5 years of experience in Java, J2EE technologies.
• Expertise in doing development using Java, Spring Boot, Spring modules (Spring Security, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, etc.), Hibernate, Web Services
• Worked on REST web services.
• Worked on application server : Tomcat
• Worked on Eclipse IDE
• Knowledge of Swagger, Postman
• Worked on Database like MySQL
• Worked on Git, Maven, CI/CD pipelines
• Good to have knowledge of using Docker and Mongo DB

Who are we and what do we do?

The Dice platform, one of the most advanced SaaS fintech organizations, helps businesses convert their spending from many fragmented applications, prepaid cards, offline reimbursement/invoice management, procurement, and payment systems to a single spend platform. There will be no more cash, cards, refunds, or offline invoicing since our entire goal is to provide businesses more knowledge and control over how they spend their money, resulting in significant cost savings and profitability. We are a hyper growth startup collaborating with premium Indian enterprises, startups, and industry leaders across disciplines.

Perks in store for you when you join the team:

• You'll be surrounded by passionate team members.
• Your work will have a visible impact.
• You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements and skills:

• Hands-on Software Development experience.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in Java development.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms.
• Object-Oriented Analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and Java EE (Multithreading, Reactive Programming, etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (MySQL, EBean)
• Excellent knowledge in RESTful API development, event-based processing.
• Experience with test-driven development.
• Knowledge of GIT, Linux, Docker, Redis

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining Java applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission-critical systems
• Delivering high availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Managing Java and Java EE application development
• Ensuring designs comply with specifications
• Preparing and producing releases of software components
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Support continuous improvement
• Investigating alternatives and technologies

Location:

Pune

Job Responsibilities:

• Developing and installing software solutions.
• Designing, implementing and delivering high quality Software project in JAVA, SQL / Oracle, J2EE and other JAVA technologies.
• Participate in detailed level in design, coding, code walk through, peer code reviews and unit testing, System Testing, UAT, Demos, POCs, installation, maintenance of Software modules.
• Software prototype.
• System Architecture.
• Software Design Document.
• User interfaces to be developed as per UX guidelines Code files ensuring coding guidelines followed.
• Code review artefacts during peer code review.
• Test plan and Test Cases.
• Installation / Deployment document Release Document.
• Technical Documentation.

• Translation of complex functional requirements into technical requirements
• Design, develop and maintain complex systems using best of the breed development practices and technology.
• Responsible for the overall software development life cycle.
• Delivery of High Quality & Scalable systems and applications with a sharp focus on timelines.
• Being on the lookout for bettering the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
• Collaboration with other stakeholders to provide robust and well-rounded solutions
• Report on the status of product delivery and quality to management, customer support and product teams.

• Experience of 5+ years in designing & developing highly scalable, performant web applications
• Strong programming, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Strong Computer Science Fundamentals (Data structures and Algorithms)
• Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
• Good experience of Restful services using Java Springboot
• Strong understanding of database design and SQL (PostgreSQL / MySQL) development
• Good to have knowledge of NoSQL technologies like Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or any other NoSQL database
• Knowledge of design patterns and good to have experience of large-scale applications
• Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or other Queueing systems.
• Experience of working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Computing (GCP) would be considered as an advantage
• Experience of developing with Serverless Model will be an advantage.