Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, India

Department: Development

Experience: 4 - 7 years

Senior Software Engineer

About nference

Our People

The Opportunity

What You'll Do

• Own backend services, APIs, or modules end-to-end, including design, development, deployment, maintenance, and ongoing improvements.
• Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and APIs that support core product capabilities.
• Write efficient, maintainable, and production-grade code while following established engineering standards.
• Design and develop well-structured APIs and service interfaces to support internal and external system integrations.
• Drive the design and implementation of scalable solutions, contributing to High-Level Designs and providing appropriate technical inputs.
• Apply asynchronous programming, concurrency, and event-driven patterns where appropriate to build efficient and responsive backend services.
• Design data schemas and write efficient queries while ensuring data integrity and appropriate database performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks using appropriate approaches such as query optimization, caching, concurrency, and load balancing.
• Own the operational quality of assigned services, including performance, reliability, monitoring, technical debt, bug fixes, and production issues.
• Participate in production troubleshooting, incident resolution, and on-call activities as required.
• Monitor service health and performance and identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate across engineering and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, manage dependencies, and deliver features effectively.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help evaluate architectural trade-offs within the team.
• Conduct code reviews and provide actionable technical feedback to maintain code quality and consistency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, helping them improve their engineering practices and problem-solving skills.
• Contribute to testing practices, technical documentation, and engineering processes that improve development quality and maintainability.
• Identify opportunities to improve development and operational workflows, automation, and engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, frontend, and other engineering teams to ensure reliable integration and deployment of backend services.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in system reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 4–7 years of professional experience in software engineering, with experience building and operating production backend services.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go, with a strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and backend design patterns.
• Strong experience with relational databases and working knowledge of NoSQL systems, including data modeling and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, containerization, CI/CD, and production engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, debugging, and operational practices.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs and backend service interfaces.
• Understanding of asynchronous programming, concurrency, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience contributing to High-Level Designs (HLDs) and technical design discussions.
• Experience with production monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining service reliability.
• Ability to own technical work end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Experience conducting code reviews and providing technical guidance to other engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering and product teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with messaging or event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with caching technologies such as Redis.
• Experience designing and operating high-availability and fault-tolerant systems.
• Familiarity with observability tools and practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and modern deployment practices.
• Experience working with large-scale or high-volume data systems.
• Experience optimizing backend services for latency, throughput, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience contributing to technical documentation, architecture decisions, and engineering standards.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.

Why Join nference?

Benefits & Perks

• Industry Prestige: Build your career at nference, an AI-first healthcare technology company working at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and biomedical research.
• Cutting-Edge Innovation: Solve complex healthcare challenges using advanced AI, machine learning, and large-scale clinical, molecular, and imaging datasets.
• Meaningful Impact: Contribute to technologies that accelerate drug discovery and biomedical research.
• Growth & Flexibility: Thrive in a collaborative, innovation-driven culture with continuous learning opportunities and a hybrid work model for eligible employees after successful completion of the three-month probation period.
• Wellness & Perks: Enjoy reimbursements for gym memberships, technology gadgets, high-speed internet, professional development, comprehensive health insurance, and complimentary breakfast, lunch, and snacks at our Bangalore office.

Equal Opportunity Employer