As an SDE II at Swiggy, you will design, build, and own large-scale, high-concurrency backend
systems that power products used by millions of customers every day. You will take services
from a blank page to production - defining the architecture, making the technology choices, and
owning reliability, performance, and scale end to end. You will co-drive your team's technical
vision, raise the bar on engineering quality, and mentor other developers as they grow. Equally
important, our platforms are increasingly intelligent: you will build and integrate LLM-driven and
agentic AI workflows into these systems, collaborating with product and business teams to
translate product features into agent-driven, production-grade designs. We are looking for a
strong systems engineer with solid AI experience - someone who thinks deeply about data
modeling, distributed systems, and what it takes to keep services fast and dependable under
real-world load, and who knows how to bring LLM-powered capabilities into that world reliably.
Job Description
What qualities are we looking for
- B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a product development company.
- Proven experience designing and building distributed, high-concurrency, low-latency
backend systems at scale.
- Has built multiple services from scratch and owned them end to end - architecture,
development, deployment, monitoring, and on-call operations.
- Strong grasp of scalability fundamentals: caching, queuing/async processing, sharding and
partitioning, replication, load balancing, rate limiting, and fault tolerance.
- Strong design skills involving data modeling, low-level class design, API design, and
system design.
- Good knowledge of object-oriented programming, concurrency primitives, and design
patterns.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language - Python, Java, Golang.
- Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging systems (e.g.,
Kafka, SQS), and Linux/Unix platforms.
- Follows industry coding standards and is responsible for writing maintainable, scalable,
and efficient code to solve business problems.
- A strong team player who has mentored junior developers and helped raise the technical
bar of the team.
- Hands-on experience integrating LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic
(Claude), Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI into production systems.
- Practical experience with LangChain or LangGraph for building AI-driven workflows and
orchestration; exposure to agentic/multi-agent architectures preferred.
- Strong technical aptitude and good knowledge of CS fundamentals.
What will you get to do here
- Architect and build new backend services from the ground up, and evolve existing systems for higher scale, concurrency, and reliability.
- Own end-to-end architecture for your team's systems and implement the long-term
technology vision for your team.
- Come up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually
improve the technology of the product/team.
- Drive the adoption of best practices through regular participation in code reviews, design
reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Mentor and guide developers on the team through design feedback, pairing, and code
reviews.
- Design and ship AI-driven and agentic workflows within your services, and experiment with
new and relevant technologies and tools, driving adoption while measuring yourself on the
impact you create.
- Decide technology and tool choices for your team and be responsible for them.
Qualifications
B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with minimum 3 – 5 years of experience in product development company.
Additional Information
Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some the challenges we deal with:
https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-swiggy-delivery-challenge-part-one-6a2abb4f82f6
https://bytes.swiggy.com/swiggy-distance-service-9868dcf613f4
https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-tech-that-brings-you-your-food-1a7926229886
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other
characteristic protected by the law.
