The salary range for this position is Rs 3000000 - Rs 5500000 (INR 30-55 LPA).
The minimum experience required is 5 years.
The position is remote and based in India.
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and help build scalable, low-latency, real-time systems at the heart of a global marketplace.
This role requires deep expertise in Java and microservices architecture, with a strong focus on system performance, availability, and distributed computing.
Key responsibilities include designing, building, and scaling microservices with low-latency and high-throughput to power real-time hotel search, pricing, availability, and distribution.
The engineer will implement complex algorithms and data models for inventory and pricing workflows.
Collaboration with product managers and architects is essential to own end-to-end development from design to deployment.
The role involves leveraging LLM tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) and frameworks like LangChain to enhance development velocity using RAG, prompts, and agents.
Conducting rigorous code reviews and contributing to an automated CI/CD pipeline to support frequent and reliable deployments is also required.
Monitoring and optimizing systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to ensure sub-50ms response times is part of the job.
Requirements:
Candidates must have 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
Strong expertise in MySQL, MongoDB, or ScyllaDB is required.
Proven experience building distributed, event-driven systems using SQS, Kinesis, or similar technologies is necessary.
An understanding of data consistency models, fault tolerance, backpressure, and circuit breakers is essential.
Experience designing low-latency APIs and working in high-performance environments is required.
Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch is necessary.
Candidates should be comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment with strong documentation practices.
A passion for clean code, automation, and driving engineering excellence is essential.
Benefits:
The position offers a competitive salary range of Rs 3000000 - Rs 5500000 (INR 30-55 LPA).
The role is fully remote, providing flexibility in work location.
Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and tools in a dynamic environment.
The chance to contribute to a global marketplace and impact real-time systems.
A collaborative team culture that values strong documentation practices and engineering excellence.
