Software Developer Engineer 3_Digital Banking Kotak 811_0434_8147_1100742

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. This is an Internal document.