Backend SDE II

As a Software Engineer II - Backend at ALLEN Digital, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining mission-critical systems that power our edtech platform. Youll work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to architecture decisions, writing clean and efficient code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

Define the architecture, design, develop, test, document and operate backend systems and

services. Accountable for solution elegance, ease of evolution, quality of the systems and

performance, scalability, and availability characteristics.

Work with product management and other engineering peers to deliver on the goals.

Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior developers.

Be a technical engineer passionate about distributed systems, cloud service development,

deployment, and delivery.

Collaborate with all stakeholders to determine functional and non-functional requirements

for software development.

Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility.

Write clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping the features.

What we are looking for:

Work experience of 2-5yrs

A solid engineer at heart with excellent abstraction, coding, and system design skills with

excellent programming skills

A technical mindset with great attention to detail

A proven track record of working on the design, architecture, and delivery in a consumer internet

ecosystem on backend technologies.

An experienced technical leader in agile software engineering teams.

Strong communicator, able to navigate ambiguity, and exercise judgment when making decisions.

Good knowledge of design and development of Distributed Systems.

Must have exposure to building platforms and products from scratch.

Excellent knowledge of designing and developing Microservice