Software Development Engineer

Quick Facts About the Role

Role:

Senior Software Developer (Backend) - .Net with Microservices & Cloud

YOE:

6.5+ years

Skills:

C#, ASP. Net, 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

1. 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.
• Mentors and guides the less experienced software engineers.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Release

• Assists with release planning and releases.

6. 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

Technical Skills:

• ASP.NET Core Web API development
• Web Apps
• 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

Evaluation Criteria

• Consider candidates with 6.5+ years of experience only (do not go below this threshold).
• Must have excellent communication skills.
• Ensure the mandatory technical skills are clearly reflected in the resume:
• C# (async/await, dependency injection, LINQ)
• ASP.Net Core
• RESTful APIs
• 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
• Candidates should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience with Azure and Microservices.
• This Azure and Microservices experience must be from their current or a recent previous project.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong background in building distributed, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years in microservices or distributed architecture, and deep expertise in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, and async I/O patterns.

The candidate will own backend services end-to-end — from architecture and design to implementation, optimization, and production support — while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Backend Architecture & Development

• Architect, design, and implement backend services using Python (preferably FastAPI) with clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Develop microservice components, service communication layers, and distributed workflows.
• Build APIs and backend modules optimized for performance, fault tolerance, and low latency.

2. Distributed Systems & Scalability

• Design and maintain distributed systems capable of handling high throughput and large-scale operations.
• Implement inter-service communication patterns (REST, event-driven, message queues, pub/sub).
• Ensure system resiliency through redundancy, graceful degradation, and autoscaling strategies.

3. Asynchronous & Event-Driven Architecture

• Build async workflows, background tasks, and pipeline services leveraging asyncio or async frameworks.
• Develop event-driven components including producers, consumers, and event processors.
• Optimize I/O-heavy operations to maximize concurrency and throughput.

4. Data Storage, Pipelines & Caching

• Design relational schemas, write optimized SQL queries, and work with PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexes, partitions, query planning).
• Implement caching strategies, rate limiting, distributed locks, and session storage using Redis.
• Build data validation pipelines and compliance-driven data flows ensuring data correctness and auditability.

5. Security, Reliability & Observability

• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure API practices.
• Build monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing systems using modern observability tools.
• Diagnose production issues, identify bottlenecks, and drive long-term fixes and improvements.

6. Code Quality & Technical Leadership

• Conduct detailed code reviews and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
• Participate in technical roadmap planning, architectural discussions, and system design decisions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; drive a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years building microservices or distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Python and frameworks like FastAPI (or Flask/Django with async exposure).
• Deep understanding of async I/O, concurrency models, and asynchronous programming in Python.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, advanced queries, optimization).
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching, queues, session management, and distributed patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, message processing, or streaming systems.
• Solid understanding of system design, scalability principles, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud environments.

• Experience in Core Java, CXF, Spring.
• Experience in spring boot, microservices.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for the financial domain. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.

Required Skills:

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Job Description:

Engage in code design, testing, integration, deployment, and enhancements

Write high-quality code and take responsibility for tasks

Solve performance bottlenecks

Communicate and collaborate with product manager, QA, and UI/UX teams

Deliver with quality, on-time in a fast-paced start-up environment

Have a strong sense of code quality

Candidate Profile:

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end engineer

Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills

Experience in building and scaling microservices

Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosing

Solid knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL technologies

Experience in developing back-ends for enterprise systems

Knowledge of debugging performance and optimization techniques

Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka

Good knowledge of cloud technologies eg. AWS

Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net.

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

Must Have

• 1+ to 6 year’s development experience in Java/J2EE Development.
• 1+ years’ experience in Spring, Hibernate.
• 1+ years’ experience in developing REST API’s
• 1+ years’ experience in developing Spring boot applications.
• Hands-On experience in Unit testing.
• Hands On experience in MVC frameworks –AngularJS/Angular7/8
• Understanding of Micro services.
• Understanding of Agile Methodologies.
• Working experience with DB technologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Aptitude for innovation, working independently and thinking ‘outside of the box’.