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SDE III – Backend
Location
India
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
SDE III – Backend
Greenlight Planet
• Design, build and integrate scalable and reliable backend systems based on business and product requirements. • Identify and resolve bottlenecks, bugs, and operational issues. • Drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, observability, and cost optimization. • Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for new products and features and do POC to validate new AI initiatives. • Take complete ownership of projects from design through deployment and production support. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, QA teams, and other engineering teams. • Lead the establishment and evolution of Sun King's AI Engineering capabilities, including architecture, tooling, development standards, and best practices. • Define and drive the AI technology stack, ensuring scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective adoption of AI across engineering and business workflows. • Architect systems that combine LLMs, retrieval systems, business logic, databases, APIs, and operational tooling. • Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and models, and provide technical direction on their adoption and integration within the organization. • Mentor and guide engineers on backend architecture, AI system design, and implementation best practices, fostering AI expertise across the team.
Job Requirements
- Strong experience in designing and developing scalable REST-based micro-services and APIs using Java (Spring Boot) and Python.
- Strong experience with SQL, database design, and query optimization.
- Experience working with AWS services such as EC2, RDS and Lambda.
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications or workflows in production environments.
- Practical understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and their application to business problems.
- Experience designing and building AI agents, copilots, workflow assistants, or intelligent automation systems.
- Understanding of tool-calling, context management, prompt design, structured outputs, and hallucination mitigation techniques when integrating LLMs with business Systems, APIs and databases.
- Ability to design end-to-end AI-powered solutions that combine deterministic systems with LLM-driven reasoning.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
Benefits
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
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