Software Engineer II (Backend)

Overview

Design, build and operate production-grade backend systems, APIs and distributed services that support PUMA's consumer-facing and business platforms.

What you'll do

• Design, develop and maintain scalable APIs, microservices and backend services that support digital products and business platforms.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of complex software solutions, ensuring scalability, maintainability and high performance.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture and data teams to deliver reliable and impactful business solutions.
• Build and integrate systems using modern cloud-native architectures, distributed systems patterns and event-driven technologies.
• Develop and optimize data-intensive applications leveraging databases, caching solutions, messaging platforms and search technologies.
• Drive improvements in application performance, reliability, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, technical discussions and engineering best practices across teams.
• Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, design guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external technology partners to accelerate delivery and innovation.
• Leverage modern engineering tools, automation and AI-assisted development practices to improve productivity and software quality.
• Participate in production support, incident management and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure system stability and availability.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of experience designing, building and operating large-scale backend applications and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API design and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience developing scalable, reliable and secure backend services that support business-critical applications.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, software design patterns, data structures and clean coding practices.
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or similar technologies.
• Experience working with caching technologies such as Redis and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Exposure to containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of distributed systems concepts, scalability, resiliency, observability and performance optimization.
• Experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Experience implementing and supporting monitoring, logging, tracing and operational excellence practices for production systems.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, automated testing and modern software delivery methodologies.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, architects, data engineers and software engineers in Agile teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to troubleshoot and solve complex technical problems.

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/ML-powered applications, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG-based systems, AI-assisted engineering tools or intelligent automation solutions.
• Familiarity with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Azure AI Search or similar platforms.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Bicep or similar technologies.

Details

• Location: Local Office Pune (Global Function).