# SE II Backend Engineer (ENT)

> Keywords Studios · Pune, India (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-03-11

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** Helpshift - Engineering

## Description

### Role Summary

The Software Engineer II will:

-   Build scalable backend services and distributed systems
-   Design and build APIs for internal and external consumption
-   Improve system reliability and performance
-   Contribute to high-volume conversation processing systems
-   Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams

## Requirements

### Required Qualifications

-   4+ years of medium/large scale server-side software development experience
-   Excellent verbal and written communication skills
-   Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals:

-   Data structures
-   Time complexity of algorithms

-   Knowledge of POSIX compliant Operating Systems (Mac OS X development and GNU/Linux deployment)
-   Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks
-   Experience in writing:

-   Unit tests
-   Functional tests
-   Regression tests

-   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

### Preferred Qualifications

-   Experience working with distributed version control tools (Git)
-   Knowledge of functional programming (Clojure preferred)
-   Knowledge of the JVM
-   Experience working with one or more of:

-   MongoDB
-   Redis
-   Elasticsearch
-   Kafka
-   PostgreSQL

-   Experience with benchmarking systems for performance and failure detection
-   Knowledge of generative testing

## Apply

[Apply at Keywords Studios](https://apply.workable.com/keywords-intl1/j/6B83C47E4E/apply)

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