PUMA

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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23 hours ago
Pune, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs, microservices, and backend services.
  • Lead the technical design and implementation of complex, scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software solutions.
  • Build and integrate distributed, cloud-native, and event-driven systems.
  • Develop and optimize data-intensive applications using databases, caching, messaging, and search technologies.
  • Improve application performance, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Contribute to architecture reviews, technical discussions, and engineering best practices.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and knowledge sharing.
  • Partner with product, architecture, data, engineering, internal stakeholders, and external technology partners.
  • Use automation, modern engineering tools, and AI-assisted development practices to improve productivity and quality.
  • Participate in production support, incident management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale backend applications and distributed systems.
  • Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API design, and microservices architecture.
  • Experience building scalable, highly available, resilient, and secure production systems using object-oriented design, software design patterns, and clean code practices.
  • Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
  • Experience with Redis, Kafka, cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or GCP, and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Azure AI Search, or similar search platforms.
  • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, scalability, fault tolerance, observability, performance optimization, monitoring, logging, and tracing.
  • Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, test automation, and modern software delivery methodologies.
  • Exposure to AI/ML-powered applications, generative AI, LLMs, RAG-based systems, AI-assisted engineering tools, or intelligent automation.
  • Experience collaborating with product, architecture, data, and engineering teams in Agile environments.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives, driving engineering best practices, mentoring engineers, and solving complex technical challenges.

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About PUMA

10,000+ employees

PUMA designs, manufactures, and sells athletic and sportstyle footwear, apparel, and accessories for athletes and lifestyle consumers worldwide. The public company (ETR: PUM), founded in 1948 and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, goes to market through wholesale, retail, and direct-to-consumer e-commerce, and owns the Cobra Golf and stichd brands. Its product lines span football, running, training, and everyday wear across more than 100 countries.

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