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Swiggy is India’s leading on-demand delivery platform with a tech-first approach to logistics and a solution-first approach to consumer demands. With a presence in 700+ cities across India, partnerships with hundreds of thousands of restaurants, an employee base of over 5000, and a 2 lakh+ strong independent fleet of Delivery Executives, we deliver unparalleled convenience driven by continuous innovation. Job Profile: Backend - Software Development Engineer III - Crew Team Base Location: Bangalore Years of Experience: 6 - 8 About the team and the role; The Crew team builds Swiggy's AI-powered concierge and customer experience platform. We own the full stack — intelligent conversational agents, real-time chat infrastructure, CRM systems, internal operations dashboards, and user management services. Our systems power millions of daily customer interactions across verticals including Restaurants, Travel, Gifting, Cab Booking, and Dining Out, backed by distributed systems running on Go, Python, and React. The SDE3 / Tech Lead will own architectural decisions end-to-end, lead projects independently, mentor engineers, and partner with product to translate business needs into scalable, production-grade solutions. What will you get to do here? Coming up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team. Driving the adoption of best practices & regular Participation in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions. Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create. Implementation of long term technology vision for your team. Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas Decide technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them. Designing distributed systems that power real-time conversational AI, search, and customer engagement at scale Architecting LLM-based agent pipelines and embedding-based search systems Building and scaling real-time communication and CRM infrastructure Leading design reviews, architecture discussions, and driving engineering best practices Owning system reliability: instrumentation, observability, and designing for scale from day one Mentoring engineers and raising the overall engineering bar What qualities are we looking for? B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with minimum 6 – 8 years of Experience in Product Development Company Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures with space and me complexities Strong experience building and operating distributed systems — message queues, event-driven architectures, search engines, caching, async processing Proficiency in Go or Python (ideally both) Demonstrated ability to lead projects independently from design to production Follow industry coding standards and responsible for writing maintainable/scalable/efficient code to solve business problems Solid system design skills — comfortable owning end-to-end architecture Experience with NoSQL databases, search engines (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), and AWS AI-native mindset: Active user of AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) or eagerness to adopt them Hands-on experience with AI/ML systems — LLM integration, embedding models, or prompt engineering in production This Experience building conversational AI or agent-based systems in production Familiarity with LLM orchestration, RAG patterns, or multi-agent architectures Track record of mentoring engineers and elevating team capabilities Experience with real-time communication systems and search/ranking infrastructure Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some of the challenges we deal with: https://bytes.swiggy.com/smart-select-tailored-cart-suggestions-38267fdca12b https://bytes.swiggy.com/automating-mobile-event-verification-1d840f39d300 https://bytes.swiggy.com/improving-video-cache-hits-on-swiggy-apps-610f395fff46 https://bytes.swiggy.com/a-deep-dive-into-dynamic-widget-swiggys-server-driven-ui-system-92cdc3b16ec6 https://bytes.swiggy.com/building-a-robust-mobile-platform-team-2ee40cce8670 Media on Swiggy’s Mobile Apps. Swiggy believes that a seamless and… | by Vignesh Muralidharan | Swiggy Bytes — Tech Blog https://bytes.swiggy.com/swiggy-design-language-system-1ef9cca11186 https://bytes.swiggy.com/gradle-incremental-test-runner-125cee1e68a7 https://bytes.swiggy.com/swiss-knife-that-powers-the-swiggy-app-dff9dc49a580 We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.
