Job Description

About The Role

Our client is one of India's largest consumer internet platforms, processing millions of transactions every day. You will join a backend team that owns core, high-traffic services and build Java microservices that stay fast and reliable under heavy concurrent load.

What You Will Do

Design, build, and own backend microservices in Java and Spring Boot, from design doc to production
Build for high throughput and low latency, with clear ownership of p99 latency and availability targets
Work with Kafka or similar queues for event-driven flows, Redis for caching, and SQL plus NoSQL stores for persistence
Own production health: monitoring, alerting, incident RCAs, and performance tuning
Collaborate with product, mobile, and platform teams on API contracts and rollouts

Must Have

3 to 5 years of backend development in Java with strong, recent Spring Boot experience
Built and owned production microservices yourself, not just worked in a codebase that had them
Hands-on with at least two of: Kafka or similar queues, Redis or Memcached, Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Concrete scale receipts: you can speak to QPS, events per day, p99 latency, and what you personally did to improve them
Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems basics
Product company background

Good to Have

Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or GCP
System design at scale: sharding, partitioning, rate limiting, idempotency, backpressure
gRPC, CI/CD ownership, infra as code

Skills: high scale distributed system,java,ownership,microservices