Software Dev Engineer II

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.

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.

B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with minimum 3 – 5 years of experience in product development company.

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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.