Job location: India (Remote)
About the role:
The SDE-3 Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to help Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automation, curiosity about advances in products and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.
What you will be expected to do:
- Minimum 4+ years of experience in Java and Python, with hands-on expertise in frameworks such as Spring Boot and Django/FastAPI.
- Expertise in AWS, with working experience in Lambda, SQS, S3, EC2 (Linux-based VMs), Load Balancer, and RDS
- Expertise in SQL: query plans, indexing, locking, primary–replica architecture, and schema changes on live tables
- Prior experience working with Redis
- Experience with microservices and distributed, event-driven system design: webhooks, queues, and third-party API integrations
- Observability experience with Grafana and Prometheus/Loki, or an equivalent stack
- Experience running Docker in production (images, Compose, and runtime configs)
- Working experience with message brokers and event-streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) in day-to-day development
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- Lead incident RCAs, reasoning from what changed against a baseline rather than from snapshots
- Write design docs and architecture maps
- Mentor engineers through code review and pairing
- Own systems after launch, including on-call, runbooks, and cost
- Use AI coding assistants every day, applying the judgement to review, test, and take ownership of the code they help generate
- Design and build applications and systems from wireframes and product requirements documents
- Identify and fix bottlenecks and bugs according to operational requirements
- Design and develop logical and physical data models that meet application requirements
- Build for scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs
- Create prototypes and proofs of concept for iterative development
- Take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects and their development cycle
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.