Software Engineer

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.

Role Overview

We are seeking a motivated and technically versatile CMS Engineer (IC2) to support our transition from SharePoint to Contentful, while also contributing to the broader CMS ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to work on enterprise-grade platforms and microservice-based architectures.

Key Responsibilities

·         3-5 years of experience with SharePoint Online and/or enterprise CMS platforms.

·         Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS solutions is a strong plus.

·         Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

·         Exposure to Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed technologies is desirable.

·         Solid problem-solving and communication skills with an eagerness to learn.

What would you do here

SharePoint to Contentful Migration | Backend + CMS Integration

·         Assist in maintaining and enhancing SharePoint Online content and features during the transition period.

·         Support the migration of pages, documents, and metadata from SharePoint to Contentful.

·         Contribute to the design and development of backend services that integrate with Contentful using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.

·         Write reusable services for content delivery, search indexing (via Elasticsearch), and event processing (via Kafka).

·         Help develop APIs for CMS-based applications that interact with PostgreSQL databases.

·         Troubleshoot CMS-related issues and support testing efforts during platform migration.

🚨 Hiring Alert 🚨

We are Hiring Java Backend Intern for 2 months !

Skills Required:

1. Good understanding of Java 17, Spring and any Sql database

2. Good Understanding on designing low level code from scratch

3. Experience in building database schema and code architecture

4. Familiar with design patterns and willingness to write clean, readable, and well-documented code.

5. Familiarity with tools like postman, STS or intelij

6. Understanding of REST APIs and their role in application development.

7. Good DSA and problem solving skills

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Assist in developing and maintaining web applications.

2. Learn to utilize open source tools for integration

3. Collaborate with team members to design and implement new features.

4. Contribute to optimizing application performance and resolving bugs.

5. Stay curious and keep learning new technologies relevant to spring boot and spring reactive

6. Exposure to version control systems like Git.

7. Passion for learning and contributing to real-world projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Min exp of 0-2 years.

2. Skills in computer science/IT and relevant.

What You’ll Gain:

1. Stipend - 8k -10k/ month, subjective to your performance

2. Hands-on experience in building production-grade applications.

As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs need to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimizing queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail, who are genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and GETTING IT DONE.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Take part in software and architectural development activities
• Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
• Participate in application development meetings
• Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
• Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
• Understanding of relational database and normal forms
• Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
• Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
• Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA

• Experience with Hibernate and Spring.
•   Experience with Springboot, spring MVC
• Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
• Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations
• Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues
• Programming Language(s): Java, J2EE, JSON, HTML, DHTML, HTML 5, XML, EXTJS.
• Experience with XML/HTTP and Web Services
• Experience with HTML, JSP, CSS, JQuery / Ajax / JSON,
•     Experience /Knowledge of Angular, React.
• Experience building J2EE based Web Applications
• Experience with MySql.