About this role
SDE 3 | Backend Engineering | Kotak 811 | Bangalore Do you thrive on solving large-scale engineering challenges and leading the design of highly scalable distributed systems? Kotak 811 is looking for an experienced SDE 3 to drive innovation, architecture, and engineering excellence across our backend platforms. � �
What You'll Do
- Design, architect, and build highly scalable backend systems serving millions of customers
- Lead the development of complex microservices and distributed platform capabilities
- Define backend architecture standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices
- Drive system reliability, performance optimization, scalability, and operational excellence
- Own critical platform components and ensure high availability and fault tolerance
- Lead API strategy, governance, security, and lifecycle management through API Gateway platforms
- Mentor engineers across teams through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance
- Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectural improvements
- Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, security, and business stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives
- Drive incident resolution, root cause analysis, and long-term platform improvements � �️ What We're Looking For
- 6-10+ years of experience in backend engineering and distributed systems development
- Strong expertise in Node.js, Java Spring Boot, or other enterprise backend technologies
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale microservices architectures
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and asynchronous messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Strong expertise in backend design patterns, scalability, resiliency, and performance engineering
- Hands-on experience with SQL databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Strong exposure to API Gateway solutions, security controls, authentication, authorization, and traffic management
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, CI/CD, and DevOps practices
- Advanced knowledge of testing strategies, TDD, automation, observability, and production monitoring
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, and mentoring capabilities � � You'll Thrive Here If You... This is an Internal document.
- Think strategically while remaining deeply hands-on
- Love solving highly complex engineering problems at scale
- Enjoy mentoring and elevating engineering teams
- Drive outcomes with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Stay calm during critical production situations and lead by example
- Continuously challenge the status quo to improve systems and processes � � Why Kotak 811?
- Lead the engineering backbone of a fast-growing digital bank
- Solve large-scale, real-world technology challenges
- Influence architecture and technology decisions across the organization
- Work with talented teams focused on innovation and customer impact
- Own mission-critical platforms that serve millions of users Location: Bangalore Role: SDE 3 | Backend Engineering Ready to shape the future of digital banking at scale? 🚀 Apply now.
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