Software Engineer

Software Engineer 
-
L3 (Software Engineer II)

Location & Type
:
 
Delhi, Full-time

CTC Range (LPA): 

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer II, you will own and deliver larger cross-cutting modules and systems end-to-end
 across backend and frontend. You'll write design docs, mentor junior engineers, lead technical discussions, and ensure reliability of critical features. This role expects strong skills in 
backend services, APIs, databases, and modern frontend frameworks )
.

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver 
  larger modules/systems
   that span backend services and frontend applications.
• Author and present 
  detailed design docs,
  drive technical discussions and trade-off decisions.
• Build production-grade services in 
   and integrate AI systems in 
  Python
  .
• Architect high-performance 
  REST/GraphQL APIs,
  ensure versioning, security, and backward compatibility.
• Design and optimize schemas in 
  Postgres
   and 
  MongoDB
   for scale and availability.
• Lead development of frontend features in 
   with focus on performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Enforce CI/CD best practices: test automation, deployment readiness, and rollback strategies.
• Define and monitor 
  observability standards
   (metrics, logs, alerts) and lead incidents.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers through reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Design and roll out 
  multi-layer caching
   for high-traffic paths, define hit-rate/latency SLOs.
• Establish 
  cache governance
  : keys/namespaces, TTL policies, invalidation playbooks, and observability (hit/miss dashboards).

Technical Qualifications

• 3–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Advanced proficiency in 
   services and 
  Python
  integrations.
• Strong experience in 
  REST/GraphQL API
   design and scaling.
• Deep knowledge of 
  Postgres
   schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
• Hands-on with 
  MongoDB
   aggregation pipelines and sharding strategies.
• Proficiency with 
   (or equivalent) for building production UIs.
• Experience with 
  AWS ECS/ECR
   and scaling containerized workloads.
• Strong CI/CD practices and release automation experience.
• Skilled in diagnosing and fixing production issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Solid system design skills: concurrency, fault tolerance, latency vs. throughput trade-offs.
• Hands-on with 
  Redis
   at scale (pipelines, Lua scripts, locks), 
  CDN edge caching
  , and 
  GraphQL/REST response caching
  .
• Deep understanding of 
  consistency vs. freshness
   trade-offs, 
  idempotency
  , and 
  rate limiting
   around cached flows.

Nice to Have

• TypeScript
   proficiency in both frontend and backend.
• Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation).
• Distributed systems patterns (event-driven, CQRS, async messaging).
• Advanced monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience leading technical spikes, POCs, or cross-team integrations.

About the Company

Griphic is founded by IIT Delhi engineers with a vision to enrich lives through technological innovation. We combine cutting-edge AI with hyper-realistic virtual experiences to solve problems and disrupt industries. Our team includes IIT Delhi engineers, AI/ML experts, VR developers, and 3D specialists. Backed by SKETS Studio (700+ professionals in BIM, architecture, VR, and 3D visualization), we are building the future of immersive web applications.