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Backend Developer

Blackbuck

Blackbuck

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Aug 4, 2025
This job is provided by apna.co The SDE Backend leads the design, development, and maintenance of highly available

backend services. This role involves providing technical expertise, ensuring seamless

integration, high performance, and reliability by collaborating with teams, continuous

improvement, and proactive issue resolution in a dynamic production environment.

Roles And Responsibilities

  • Lead people management and project delivery for the engineering team.
  • Lead design, development, and maintenance of backend applications.
  • Evaluate and choose the right technologies to meet business objectives around system

performance and reliability.

  • Collaborate with engineers and product managers within and across teams to ensure

timely project delivery.

  • Develop fast, interactive web applications incorporating the best user experience

patterns.

  • Create reusable components to be used across the application.
  • Stay updated with the latest backend development trends and best practices.
  • Lead code quality efforts by writing unit and integration tests and conducting code

reviews.

  • Identify and address performance bottlenecks by optimizing code.
  • Lead weekly on-call processes and proactively debug and resolve production issues.
  • Write documentation on dynamic UI, modularity, and RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
  • Hire, train, and manage a team of 4-6 software developers, assisting in their technical

growth.

  • Lead people management processes, including 1-on-1s, goal setting, and career

planning.

Must-Have Requirements

  • BE or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
  • Minimum 1 years of experience as a backend engineer in a microservices environment

with exposure to systems spanning multiple services.

  • Proficiency in Java and building RESTful services using the Spring/SpringBoot

framework.

  • Experience with relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL

databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.

  • Exposure to public clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Experience with event streaming platforms like Kafka.
  • Familiarity with caching technologies like Redis and Hazelcast.
  • Exposure to monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (e.g., NewRelic, Prometheus,

PagerDuty, ELK).

  • Excellent system design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
  • Experience producing high-quality code with unit and functional test cases.
  • Strong command over Data Structures and Algorithms.
  • Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
  • Ability to mentor and train junior developers.
  • Thrive in a dynamic, challenging work environment and work well in teams.