Senior Software Engineer

Job Description Role: SSE

Location: Bengaluru

What You’ll Do We’re MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter the role or the location, we’re all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.

As an SSE in TechBrew, our internal R&D team, you’ll:

Lead technology research and run POCs on emerging tech (Java 25, GraalVM, service mesh, etc.), then drive adoption and evangelisation of the findings across the org.

Design and build end-to-end microservices in Java, Spring Boot and Python Flask on Kubernetes/Docker, ship them via CI/CD, and keep them healthy with Grafana.

Scale AI adoption across engineering — build and productionise agentic platforms (Bedrock AgentCore, LangGraph, MCP), grow our internal AI tooling (Cursor, codegen and PR-review agents), and measure the impact so AI lands as a real force multiplier, not a novelty.

Own and scale MiQ’s Rapid Application Development platforms — self-hosted Retool and Replit — across infrastructure, platform ops, and standards.

Act as an internal consultant on RAD builds — performance, caching, and partner with Architecture and Platform Engineering to define and enforce the guardrails that keep builders on compliant patterns.

Mentor junior developers and set best practices across teams.

Who are your stakeholders? Key stakeholders include the Development Teams of various products and tech Leads of various teams across Engineering, Data Science and Analytics.

What You’ll Bring

• 4-8 years of experience developing with Java, Spring Boot, and Python Flask.
• 4–8 years with Java, Spring Boot and Python.
• A track record of researching tools and frameworks and running POCs — and a genuine appetite for cutting-edge tech.
• Clean, well-tested code (JUnit, Mockito, Karate), with strong code-review habits.
• Working knowledge of AWS (EKS, VPC, RDS) and IaC, enough to own a self-hosted platform’s health, scale and security.
• Hands-on with Retool and/or Replit (or similar low-code/RAD tooling) and its security model — SSO, RBAC, environment boundaries — is a strong plus.
• Hands-on with AI/agentic development — LLM app patterns, agent frameworks (LangGraph, MCP, Bedrock) and AI-assisted engineering (e.g. Cursor) — with a nose for where it drives real leverage.
• Strong consulting and communication skills; comfortable influencing teams you don’t manage.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest backend development trends, tools, and technologies, and actively share knowledge and insights with the team to drive continuous improvement.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

We’ve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don’t worry if you don’t meet every single one. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that fits this role, or another opportunity at MiQ.

If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.

What impact will you create? You’ll identify and evangelise the frameworks and methodologies for building highly available, high-performance systems, embedding them in design and architecture and continuously raising the team’s engineering bar through POCs and critique. And by scaling AI across the org and giving MiQ a secure, scalable RAD foundation, you’ll turn our internal agents, Retool and Replit into force multipliers — letting every team ship faster, without trading off quality, security or cost.

What’s in it for you? Our Center of Excellence is the very heart of MiQ, and it’s where the magic happens. It means everything you do and create will have a huge impact on our entire global business.

MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re always moving towards becoming an even better place to work.

Values Our values are so much more than statements . They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make. And they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone so that we naturally live and breathe…