
Role & Responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer - 3, Backend Engineer , 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 and 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.
- Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 5+ years of backend development with strong focus on Java (Spring / Spring Boot)
- Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-2 for at least 2.5 years (title should be there in resume)
- Mandatory (Tech skill 1) : Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
- Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Strong understanding of distributed systems, multithreading, and async programming
- Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Mandatory (Tech skill 4) : Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and Redis/Memcached
- Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Mandatory (Tech skill 6) : Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
- Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have worked on core product/platform teams rather than support or internal tooling
- Mandatory (Ownership & Impact): Candidate should demonstrate end-to-end ownership of backend systems, including architecture/design decisions (HLD/LLD), scalability improvements, or measurable production impact (resume should clearly mention metrics such as scale, throughput, latency improvements, reliability, cost optimization, or user impact)
- Mandatory (Company): Top product companies (logistics, supply chain, e-commerce, or B2B SaaS at large scale)
- Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science or related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

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Quick Facts About the Role
Role: Software Developer (Backend) - .Net with Microservices & Cloud
YOE: 3 - 6 years
Skills: Microservices Architecture, ASP.NET Core, Web API development, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), API Gateway / Azure API, Entra (Authentication), Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure Blob storage, Caching, NoSQL Databases
About the role: The Software Developer Senior Designs, builds, tests, and – most importantly – ships high-value software that solves real problems. Strives for security, performance, simplicity, usability, and maintainability. Mentors and guides less experienced software engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Team Contribution
- Works within established agile methods, promoting an atmosphere of continuous improvement.
- Continuously learns new technologies and patterns and practices.
- Documents knowledge for the benefit of the team.
- Reports to the team on obstacles and roadblocks.
- Participates in, and occasionally leads, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and other team meetings.
- Promote patterns and best practices on the team.
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Planning and Design
Works with the product team and stakeholders to refine and document requirements.
Estimates effort for planning purposes.
Designs and documents enterprise-level software architecture, consulting with Enterprise Architecture when appropriate.
- Development
- Writes code to develop software that meets requirements and specifications.
- Follows established software development life cycle (SLDC).
- Writes code with readability and future maintenance in mind.
- Follows established source control standards and best practices.
- Adheres to established secure coding practices.
- Reviews code for other developers.
- Leads team-based development efforts.
- Quality Assurance
- Validates QA findings and fixes defects.
- Develops integration and testing points in the software that allow for QA testing.
- Assists QA in running performance and load tests.
- Release
- Assists with release planning and releases.
- Support
- Assists the support team as needed, including root cause analysis.
- Writes maintenance and metric statistics scripts and entry points for measuring and monitoring.
Requirements:
- Solid Understanding of The Following:
- Microservices Architecture:
- Microservices design principles (bounded contexts, loose coupling)
- API-first design and contract management
- Event-driven design principles
- Asynchronous messaging patterns
- Eventual consistency concepts
- Idempotency and message replay handling
- ASP.NET Core Web API development
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- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Blob Storage usage and lifecycle management
- API Gateway / Azure API Management concepts
- Entra (Authentication)
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Functions
- Caching
- NoSQL Databases
Processes & Standards: Git, GitFlow, OO Programming, Kanban, Secure Coding, & Agile Methodologies
Bonus Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Excellent documentation
- Continuous learning
- Collaboration across team and functional boundaries
- Troubleshooting and creative problem solving
- Design simple architecture that supports complex applications and APIs
- Architect extensible databases
- Author complex component-based client applications and restful APIs
- Perform advanced CRUD operations against multiple data sources
- Manipulate enterprise level data structures
- Mentor less experienced team members
- Take ownership of team processes and legacy applications
- Perform business analysis tasks, such as requirements gathering and wireframing
Responsibilities
- Provide technology contributions in
- Working in an agile development environment
- Translating business requirements into low-level application design
- Application code development through a collaborative approach
- Doing Full-scale unit testing
- Applying test-driven and behaviour-driven development (TDD/BDD) QA concepts
- Applying continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) concepts
Soft Skills
- Should be able to contribute as an individual contributor
- Should be able to execute his/her responsibility independently
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Focus on self-planning activities
- Firm with communication skills
Mandatory Skills
- Java, Spring Boot, Python and relational / non-relational databases
- Container orchestration - Kubernetes, Docker
- Development experience in Linux environment
- Modern SDLC tooling (Maven, Git)
- Micro services design-oriented application development and deploying the same using Container orchestration in the cloud environment
- Understanding CI/CD pipeline & related system development environment
Nice-to-have Skills
- Front-end technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Angular)
Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile
Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)
Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures
Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS
Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring
Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design
Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)
Mandatory (Stability): Must have atleast 2 years of experience in each of the previous companies (if less exp, then proper reason)
- Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing
- with (Junit, Mockito)
- Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM
- frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
- Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
- Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented
- Architecture
- Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
- MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
- Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
- and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)
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Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing the product as per the product specification defined by the product managers
- Responsible for performing research on the best methods of implementing the requirements
- Author and curate technical documentation to support delivery, maintenance, and adoption
- Work with programmers, engineers, and management heads to identify process improvement opportunities, propose system modifications, and devise governance strategies to optimise the overall performance
- Design and develop automated deployment and maintenance mechanisms
- Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the project goals
- Expanding your existing skill set, and picking up on various rust-dependent frameworks
- Confidently communicating and collaborating with your fellow developers in an office set-up.
Requirements:
- Must have experience in Rust programming language
- Have excellent knowledge of different data structures and algorithms
- Working knowledge of any other programming language Python, Java, or JavaScript is good to have
- Experience with, or understanding of, Kafka or Redis, Cloud infrastructure services, and Docker is an added advantage
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Experience in Backend and APIs development
- Experience in analysing and optimising the platform's performance
What you will do?
Project Management
- Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap.
- Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
- Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
- Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
- Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)
People Management
- Hire and mentor a team of engineers
- Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
- Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team
Technical Work
- Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
- Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
- Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability
What we look for?
Must Haves
- Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
- Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
- Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.
Good to Have
- Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
- Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
- Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress

Responsibilities
- Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.
- Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.
- Team management : You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping individuals grow in their careers, having constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.
- Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility. Ability to architect, design and code yourself. Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications. Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database.) Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.
- Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality. Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.
- You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object- oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer-science.
- Total of 9+ years’ experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large scale applications and 2 + years’ experience in team management.
- Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
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Roles and Responsibilities
- Integrating and maintaining Node micro services
- Proficient in RESTful APIs and API communications, especially to consume data from and/or push data into MongoDB for Web and mobile applications
- Proficient on modeling applications on NOSQL databases(preferably MongoDB)
Desired Candidate Profile
- Strong coding experience in Node JS.
- Should have experience with microservice architecture
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
Nice to have:
- Some experience with queues like like Redis,SQS,etc
- Experience with cloud solutions like Lambda, Docker etc
- Experience in DevOps and related practices to improve development lifecycle, continuous delivery with high quality is an advantage.
- Deploy server/related components to staging, live environments.
- Some exposure to React Frontend implementation, deeper JS skills
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¡ Solid Design and Architecture skills. Experience in the designing, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers. |
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¡ Ensure agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance. |
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¡ Expert in Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc. |
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¡ Experience creating architecture or developing web services to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra |
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¡ Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures. |
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¡ Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful / SOAP. |
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¡ Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred) |
Must Haves
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 4+ years’ work experience in software development
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux)
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities
- Working experience with Kubernetes
- Experienced working with distributed databases at scale
Good to haves
- Experience in developing software using AWS native services & technologies.
- Experience taking a lead role in building and operating scalable distributed systems
- Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
- Familiar with building secure software using modern security principles
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.









