Software Development Engineer - II

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Bangalore, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Entry level
eCommerce
The Role
Build and scale backend services powering checkout, payments, and post-purchase products. Design event-driven distributed systems, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, contribute to frontend development, strengthen AWS infrastructure and CI/CD, debug production issues, review code, mentor engineers, and lead technical initiatives from design through deployment.
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About GoKwik
GoKwik is a growth operating system for D2C and eCommerce brands, powering merchants across checkout optimisation, RTO reduction, payments, retention, and post-purchase engagement. Today, GoKwik enables 15,000+ merchants globally, processes ~$2 billion in GMV, and is rapidly scaling across India, the UK, Europe, and the US. Backed by RTP Global, Z47, Peak XV, and Think Investments, GoKwik has raised $68 million in funding, including a $13 million growth round in June 2025, and is building AI-powered infrastructure to shape the future of eCommerce.

Why This Role Matters
As a Software Development Engineer - II, you'll build and scale the backend systems that power GoKwik's checkout, payments, and post-purchase products. You'll own services end-to-end, make architectural decisions that improve platform reliability and performance, and mentor engineers while driving complex technical initiatives. The systems you build directly influence merchant conversions, customer experience, and platform scalability.

What You'll Own
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and NestJS, with Go for selected services.
  • Build and optimize distributed systems using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka.
  • Own event-driven architectures, ensuring high throughput, reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  • Drive architectural decisions, document technical trade-offs, and improve system design across services.
  • Deliver end-to-end features, contributing to frontend development in React or Svelte where required.
  • Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure on AWS.
  • Debug production issues, improve system performance, and ensure high service reliability.
  • Review code, mentor Associate Engineers and SDE I engineers, and elevate engineering standards across the team.
  • Take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and independently drive them from design through production deployment.

Who You Are
  • Strong backend engineering experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
  • Working knowledge of Go or the willingness to learn and build production services with it.
  • Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and distributed data systems.
  • Experience designing and scaling event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
  • Comfortable working across the stack, including frontend technologies such as React or Svelte.
  • Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, maintainability, and software architecture principles.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and driving engineering best practices.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Why GoKwik
At GoKwik, you'll solve engineering challenges at massive scale while building products that power thousands of merchants and millions of shoppers. You'll work alongside exceptional engineers, influence technical direction, mentor growing teams, and own systems that have a direct business impact. If you're looking for autonomy, technical depth, and the opportunity to build category-defining products, GoKwik is the place to do it.

Skills Required

  • Strong backend engineering experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS
  • Working knowledge of Go or willingness to learn and build production services with Go
  • Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and distributed data systems
  • Experience designing and scaling event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems
  • Experience with frontend technologies such as React or Svelte
  • Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, maintainability, and software architecture principles
  • Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and driving engineering best practices
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
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The Company
New Delhi, Delhi
265 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

GoKwik is a data & technology led enabler, building a full-stack solution suite for eCommerce and D2C brands to help them unlock business growth. Embarked on a mission to democratise the shopping experience, GoKwik enables eCommerce brands to deliver superlative customer experience across the shopping funnel thereby boosting conversion rates and revenue growth. It also solves for other critical pain points of the industry such as COD RTO (Return to Origin) and helps brands manage the RTO problem while offering COD as a payment channel. With its recent addition of a third product: KwikChat, GoKwik is solving for low ROIs on marketing campaigns through 30+ Whatsapp use cases such as abandoned cart recovery, click to whatsapp ad campaigns & headless checkout. 1 in 3 shoppers is already shopping on the GoKwik network that has helped 500+ brands scale their businesses with higher GMV realisation & profit margins. It is helmed by Chirag Taneja (Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer), Vivek Bajpai (Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer), and Ankush Talwar (Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist). GoKwik is backed by investors such as Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners India, RTP Global & Think Investments. GoKwik's team has deep knowledge in the space of eCommerce with people having previous experience in Flipkart, Razorpay, Swiggy, Myntra, Nykaa, and more.

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