Senior Software Engineer

Lead API Engineer - IND

Engineering - Hyderabad, Telangana

About Gradera

At Gradera, we’re defining a new category of enterprise transformation called Software-Orchestrated Services™ (SoS™) — a governed blend of human expertise and digital intelligence that transforms how enterprises operate.

Our mission is to build intelligent digital workers that augment teams and automate work across the value chain, helping organizations become more efficient, agile, and resilient.

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Every engagement is tailored to the unique needs of each enterprise — grounded in governance, security, and reliability. By aligning technology with strategy, we empower our clients to achieve measurable outcomes and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Lead – API Engineer

Overview

Key Responsibilities

•Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the API engineering team

•Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of API architecture and backend services

•Champion API-first development, ensuring clear contracts and comprehensive documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)

•Lead the implementations of APIs conforming to all NFRs including security, scalability, and performance.

•Ensure robust authentication, authorization, and data protection for all endpoints

•Drive adoption of best practices in API design, versioning, and integration

•Optimize API performance for low-latency, high-frequency interactions

•Oversee observability, monitoring, and alerting for all APIs and backend services

•Collaborate closely with product, UI, and runtime teams to deliver integrated solutions

•Collaborate with the SDET to ensure comprehensive test coverage and effective test data creation

•Lead the adoption of modern API tools, frameworks, and best practices

•Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met

•Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team

•Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development

Core Qualities & Skills

•Proven experience leading API or backend engineering teams and delivering complex API projects

•Deep expertise in API architecture, design, and implementation (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC etc.)

•Strong programming skills in relevant backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.)

•Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, PKCE, define fine-grained access controls using ReBAC)

•Experience with API documentation and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, Use Case, JSON Schemas, etc.)

•Familiarity with data serialization with Protofbuf

•Experience with some API gateway is a must

•Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and reliability for APIs

•Experience with observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting for backend services

•Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines

•Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies

•System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs

•Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities

•Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change

•Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices

Preferred Qualifications

•7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role

•Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable API systems

•Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)

•Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers

•Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams

Highly Desirable

•Experience with API gateways (e.g., Envoy, Kong, Apigee) and service mesh patterns (e.g., Istio)

•Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (pub/sub, callbacks, Kafka, etc.)

•Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and automated provisioning (e.g., Terraform)

•Experience building developer portals and self-service onboarding for APIs

•Experience with API Gateways (Apache APISIX, KrakenD, …)

•Ability to perform API Domain Modelling with a strong product orientation, aligning technical design with user and business needs

•Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence

•Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams

Success Metrics

•API response time (median and p95)

•Uptime and reliability of critical services

•Test coverage for API and backend logic

•Developer velocity and time from API design to production

•Time to First Prototype (TTFP)

•Integration lead time for API consumers

•Technical debt reduction and architectural alignment

•Team growth, engagement, and retention

•Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-team collaboration

Required Skills

• 4-6 years of professional experience building server applications with Node.js and the Spring framework.
• Experience working with the AWS Development stack, including: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, Mobile Analytics, EC2 and RDS

Experience working with a handful of the following:

• relational databases: MySQL, or PostgreSQL or Oracle
• document-based data stores: MongoDB or CouchDB,
• key-value stores: DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached
• column-stores: Cassandra, Vertica
• Ability to work with front-end web technologies, like: HTML5/CSS3/Angular/Bootstrap
• Strong familiarity with *nix command line operations

Responsibilities :

● Designing and developing robust and scalable server-side applications using Python, Flask, Django, or other relevant frameworks and technologies.

● Collaborating with other developers, data scientists, and data engineers to design and implement RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.

● Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and reviewing the code of other team members to ensure consistency and adherence to best practices.

● Participating in code reviews, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure the quality and reliability of applications.

● Optimizing applications for performance, scalability, and security, and monitoring the production environment to ensure uptime and availability. ● Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development, and evaluating and recommending new tools and frameworks as needed.

● Mentoring and coaching junior developers to ensure they grow and develop their skills and knowledge in line with the needs of the team and the organization.

● Communicating and collaborating effectively with other stakeholders, including product owners, project managers, and other development teams, to ensure projects are delivered on time and to specification.

You are a perfect match, if you have these qualification :

● Strong experience in Python and server-side development frameworks such as Flask or Django.

● Experience in building RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.

● Experience in using database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

● Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

● Knowledge of software development best practices such as Agile methodologies, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

● Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work effectively with other stakeholders in a fast-paced environment

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• C#
• SQL
• FTF

QUALIFICATIONS ANS SKILLS:

BSc/BA in Computer Science, BCA, Engineering or a related field

1-3 years of web development experience.

Relevant E-com industry Experience.

Experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS is a plus

RESPONSIBILITIES

Create and test applications for websites.

Maintaining the appearance of websites

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.

Maintain and update websites

Troubleshoot website problems.

About Easyrewardz:

• Easyrewardz offers industry-agnostic cloud-based CRM, Loyalty and Conversational Commerce solutions that enable seamless omnichannel customer experience.
• At Easyrewardz, we believe that every customer data captured has a story to tell! Our key focus has always been to help brands deliver seamless customer experience and create a deeper customer connect by leveraging actionable insights obtained from data.
• The Indian retail ecosystem is still learning to rely on data when it comes to delivering consistent customer experiences throughout the journey, hence we’ve tried to address those gaps and pain points with our CRM suite.
• Our entire gamut of solutions has Customer Data Platform at the core providing intelligence that powers every product and enables Single View of Customer.

About the role

At EasyRewardz, we're using leading-edge technology to create best loyalty solutions of tomorrow. When you join us as a Sr. Software Engineer, you'll become part of a team focused on innovation and change. You'll work a little harder. You'll aim a little higher. You'll expect more from yourself and others. And at the end of the day, you'll be doing a lot of good work. Through a lot of inspired individuals, we are using technology to build varied nature of loyalty solutions that works better for more people in more ways than ever.

We are looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant and built for speed -- people like you.

As a backend .NET core developer, you will be predominantly involved in:

• Developing business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software web applications.
• Coding, testing, debugging & supporting all types of enterprise web applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value.

This is more than a challenging development role. This is high performance technology.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain .net core based middle layer/services application working with established processes.
• Ensure adherence of best coding practicesfor a high-performance data processing backend application.
• Identify production and non-production application issues & assist team with optimal solution.
• Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of .Net core developed projects, including periodic code review.
• Provide technicalsupport and consultation for .Net core backend application and deployment related queries

Desired Skills Technical Skills

• Experience in WCF/Web Services or REST API (Using C#.Net core)
• 1+ years of hands on experience (using HTTPS) .Net core Based Windows Services 2+ year of hands on experience SQL Server (2012 or 2014)
• 2+ year of hands on experience in writing high performance SQL queries.
• (MySQL is preferable) Message Queue (RabbitMQ, Kafka or similar) Work experience preferable for message queue based architecture development Distributed Cache Management (Redis Cache, MemCached or similar) Experience preferable

• Coding and creating functional web applications and optimizing code for increasing response time and efficiency.
• Coordinating with front-end developers and providing server-side algorithms of user-facing web application elements.
• Analyzing the goals and requirements, handling bugs and errors and providing solutions for the same.
• Interacting with the database for storing data and ensuring that every user has access to what they search.

• Accomplishing the projects and goals within the deadline.
• Managing APIs that are executed across the devices.
• Participating in defining the architecture of the system.

Required skills

• Proven knowledge of front-end technologies, such as Angular, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of PHP and related frameworks. Knowledge of Ruby, Python, NodeJs, and Java will be an added advantage.
• Good Communication, Analytical, Logical, and Leadership skills.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as Angular, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be preferred.
• Ability to manage a hosting environment along with database administration such as MySQL, Oracle.
• Excellent knowledge of APIs (REST, SOAP) and Web services.
• Capable of scaling applications to handle the load changes.
• Knowledge of version control, such as GIT.
• Knowledge of accessibility and security compliance.

About StoreHippo:

We are India’s leading SaaS-based mobile-ready e-commerce platform. Our product provides 360-degree e-commerce solutions for businesses across multiple industry verticals.StoreHippo provides an integrated and comprehensive package of the online store, mobile and web-based applications, payment gateways, and integrated logistics to its prospective customers, which means that they can explore the internet and mobile market while they focus on their core competence- the Business. They do the business, StoreHippo takes care of everything else! We also offer solutions for Global Businesses with features like Multi-Seller Marketplace, Multilingual Stores, IP-based Pricing, and many more advanced features.

We have 2000+ clients spread across the globe like Burger Paints, Wishfull, Career Point, Farm Veda & other brands are our respective clients whom we are providing our resources.

Company Site: http://www.storehippo.com/"> http://www.storehippo.com/

What you will learn in StoreHippo :

• You’ll work in a variety of languages and technologies, and on multiple parts of our platform including front-end and back-end components. If you enjoy working on APIs, web apps, asynchronous message processing systems, and desktop applications, we would love to hear from you.
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services

What we are looking for:

• Strong understanding of JavaScript.
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Design architecture, development, deployment etc.
• Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot in terms of resolving the issues.
• Well versed with agile methodologies and experience on team mentoring and project management.
• Designing and Developing the systems with the right patterns and technology stack.