Software Development Engineer - II

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and data layers.

• Make strategic architectural decisions on frameworks, datastores, and performance patterns.

• Review and approve pull requests, enforcing clean-code guidelines, SOLID principles, and design patterns.

• Build and maintain shared UI component libraries and backend service frameworks for team reuse.

• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in both browser rendering and server throughput.

• Instrument services with metrics and logging, driving SLIs, SLAs, and observability.

• Define and enforce comprehensive testing strategies: unit, integration, and end-to-end.

• Own CI/CD pipelines, automating builds, deployments, and rollback procedures.

• Ensure OWASP Top-10 mitigations, WCAG accessibility, and SEO best practices.

• Partner with Product, UX, and Ops to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps.

• Facilitate sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives for predictable deliveries.

• Mentor and guide SDE-1s and interns; participate in hiring.

Qualifications & Skills

• 3–5 years building production Full stack applications end-to-end with measurable impact.

• Proven leadership in Agile/Scrum environments with a passion for continuous learning.

• Deep expertise in React (or Angular/Vue) with TypeScript and modern CSS methodologies.

• Proficient in Node.js (Express/NestJS) or Python (Django/Flask/FastAPI) or Java (Spring Boot).

• Expert in designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs and scalable database schemas.

• Knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL indexing, NoSQL (ElasticSearch/DynamoDB), and caching (Redis).

• Knowledge of Containerization (Docker) and commonly used AWS services such as lambda, ec2, s3, apigateway etc.

• Skilled in unit/integration (Jest, pytest) and E2E testing (Cypress, Playwright).

• Frontend profiling (Lighthouse) and backend tracing for performance tuning.

• Secure coding: OAuth2/JWT, XSS/CSRF protection, and familiarity with compliance regimes.

• Strong communicator able to convey technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in reviewing pull requests and providing constructive feedback to the team.

• Qualities we'd love to find in you:

• The attitude to always strive for the best outcomes and an enthusiasm to deliver high quality software

• Strong collaboration abilities and a flexible & friendly approach to working with teams

• Strong determination with a constant eye on solutions

• Creative ideas with problem solving mind-set

• Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it

• Eagerness to learn and zeal to grow

• Strong communication skills is a huge plus

• Work Location: Hyderabad