Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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We are looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join our growing team at CoreShield Technologies. In this Onsite role based in Bangalore, you will take ownership of designing and developing robust backend systems.
You'll play a key role in architectural decision-making, writing scalable code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact features.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end backend system design for complex, large-scale services
• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure microservices
• Drive architecture reviews, propose technical improvements, and lead design discussions
• Write clean, maintainable, production-grade code following best practices
• Lead code reviews and enforce high engineering standards
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct technical knowledge sharing sessions
• Optimize system performance for high throughput and low latency
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, and Security teams to deliver reliable releases
• Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and performance SLAS
• Lead root cause analysis for production issues and drive long-term fixes
• Contribute to roadmap planning and technical strategy

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5-8 years of strong backend engineering experience
• Deep expertise in Java (Core + Spring Boot)
• Strong experience building distributed systems & microservices

Hands-on with

1. RESTful APIs & API design standards
2. Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
3. GCP/AWS/Azure (preferably GCP) and Onprem
4. Event-driven systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, etc.)

Solid experience with SQL & NoSQL databases

1. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
2. MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch

Strong understanding of

1. System design patterns
2. Database schema design
3. Caching strategies
4. Load balancing & autoscaling

• Proven experience with performance tuning & scalability optimization.
• Knowledge of security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, encryption, secrets. management)
• Experience in on-prem & cloud deployments
• Strong debugging and production troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Good to Have

• Experience with high-traffic, large-scale systems
• Exposure to SRE practices, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Prior experience in mentoring & tech leadership
• Contributions to open-source or technical blogs