Software Development Engineer IV - Java/Golang

What you will do :

- Technical Expertise & Ownership : Serve as the primary authority on your team's core tech stack, own and improve your services/frameworks, and ensure they meet SLAs on uptime, latency, cost, and reliability.

- Project & Workstream Leadership : Guide and prioritize multiple projects and workstreams, delivering large-scale initiatives while providing clear, cross-team status updates and proactive issue communication.

- Advanced Problem Solving & Code Excellence : Utilize strong debugging, analysis, and instrumentation skills to write clean, maintainable code, perform peer reviews, and innovate with the right tools and algorithms.

- Architectural Design & Collaboration : Lead critical design decisions across interdependent modules, participate in architecture discussions, and contribute to feature design reviews and PRD preparation.

- Quality Assurance, Testing & Security : Master testing guidelines to ensure bug-free, scalable builds, drive improvements in testing standards, and independently manage application security fundamentals.

- Operational Excellence & Best Practices : Oversee key tech metrics and documentation, participate in on-call rotations, drive root cause analyses and operational projects, and continuously establish and mentor others on best practices.

What you will need :

- B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science or a related field, preferably from premier institutions.

- Experience in one or more programming languages, with an emphasis on Java and Golang (experience in these is appreciated, though not mandatory).

- Strong proficiency with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL or PostgreSQL. Understanding of open source technologies like Kafka, Mongo, Redis etc is appreciated.

- Exposure to modern development frameworks, tools, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Running scalable services in a containerised environment is a plus.

- Excellent problem-solving abilities and strong analytical skills.

- 6-9 years of relevant experience as a Software Development Engineer or in a similar role.

- Effective communication and teamwork skills, with a track record of mentoring or leading engineering teams.