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Software Development Engineer III - Backend Architecture

Unicornhead Online Ventures India
6 - 9 Years
Bangalore

Posted on: 15/09/2026

Job Description

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced SDE III with 6 - 9 years of experience to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering expertise along with practical experience working with AI/ML and Generative AI technologies in production environments.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and scale backend services, APIs, and microservices.

- Build scalable and reliable systems with a focus on performance, concurrency, and resiliency.

- Develop high-volume, event-driven systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.

- Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, caching, and data-intensive applications.

- Build and integrate services for AI-powered features, model inference, and retrieval workflows.

- Work with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vector search, and inference APIs.

- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate models and intelligent capabilities into production applications.

- Optimize backend and AI-enabled services for latency, scalability, reliability, and performance.

- Troubleshoot complex issues across backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML workflows.

- Contribute to system design, code reviews, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Requirements :

- 6 - 9 years of professional software development experience.

- Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.

- Strong understanding of backend development, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and system design.

- Good knowledge of concurrency, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant system design.

- Hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging/event-streaming technologies.

- Strong experience with SQL and familiarity with NoSQL databases and caching technologies.

- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD.

- Practical experience integrating AI/ML or Generative AI capabilities into production systems.

- Good understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vector search, and model inference APIs.

- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience with pgvector, Pinecone, or OpenSearch.

- Exposure to vLLM, Triton, TorchServe, or similar model-serving technologies.

- Experience building AI-powered products or SaaS applications.

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