Tech & Digital-Sr Software Engineer-Backend

Job Title:

Senior Software Engineer-Backend

Job Details:

Business Unit: IT

Team: SHIKHAR COE

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Location: Mumbai / Bengaluru

Job Function: Software Engineering

Role Type: IC Role

No of direct reportees: Nil

Travel Required: No

Job Band Range: E4

JD Created date: 05th March 2024

Version No: 1.0

Job Purpose:

Build, publish, and secure APIs (cloud-native microservices).

Work across enterprise and environments for a large-scale program.

Job Responsibilities:

Develop cloud-native microservices using DDD & TDD architecture principles with REST API development.

Deliver in an agile development process within a DevSecOps environment.

Design performant, resilient, and highly available services using sound principles of application, data, and infrastructure.

Create, maintain, test, and debug the entire back end of an application or system, interacting with other engineering and testing teams.

Translate user stories into technical solutions that perform at large scale.

Design, develop, test, and implement services to support business functions.

Implement appropriate design patterns of a services-oriented architecture: Saga, CB, CQRS, event-driven.

Adopt best practices for reliability (HA, fault tolerance), scalability (load balancing, partitioning, caching), and consistency (timeouts, retries, pessimistic locking).

Deploy deliverables in cloud environments with advanced monitoring and debugging/tracing capabilities.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related area.

Key Skills:

Architecture, Cloud Native Development, Agile Practice, Microservices, API Gateway.

Knowledge in development of RESTful web services using technologies like Java, GoLang, Spring Boot, Nodejs.

Knowledge in developing with middleware, streaming, and database technologies like Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB.

Experienced in TDD/ADD and automation testing with Junits, Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium, Jasmin, KarmaRunner, Blazemeter/JMeter.

Knowledge of cloud scaling and containerization (K8S, containers).

Experience in implementing service mesh infrastructure layer.

Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as Java, HTML5, and CSS3.

Experience Required:

5 - 10 years of experience in design and development across multiple platforms and functional domains.

3+ years of experience as a developer in building and consuming cloud-native microservices using agile methodology (financial domain preferred).

Major Stakeholders:

Internal: Engineering Leads, Product Owner, Business domain experts, IT audit, BTG Unit heads.

External: Partners, prospective suppliers.

Skills

minimum exp required : 8 years

API’s development exp on Golang, SQL, Persistence Layer

About HDFC Bank

HDFC Bank is one of India’s leading private banks. The Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited or HDFC Ltd was among the first financial institutions in India to receive an “in principle” approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a bank in the private sector. This was done as part of RBI’s policy for liberalization of the Indian banking industry in 1994. HDFC Bank was incorporated in August 1994 in the name of HDFC Bank Limited, with its registered office in Mumbai, India. The bank commenced operations as a Scheduled Commercial Bank in January 1995. As of March 31, 2026, the Bank’s distribution network was at 9,689 branches and 21,172 ATMs across 4,175 cities / towns as against 9,455 branches and 21,139 ATMs across 4,150 cities / towns as of March 31, 2025. 50% of the branches are in semi-urban and rural areas. In addition, the Bank has 14,400 business correspondents, which are primarily manned by Common Service Centres (CSC). The Bank’s international operations comprise five branch

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