Software Engineer - L3 (Software Engineer II)
Location & Type: Delhi, Full-time
CTC Range (LPA): 35.25 - 43.00
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 (React/Next.js) .
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 Node.js 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 React/Next.js 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 Node.js 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 React/Next.js (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.