SDE III (Senior Backend Engineer)

Job Summary

This job is for an experienced SDE III (Senior Backend Engineer) responsible for architecting, designing, and delivering highly scalable backend and distributed systems. The role involves leading technical discussions, mentoring junior engineers, driving engineering best practices, and making high-impact technical decisions across the backend stack. Candidates must have strong expertise in a backend language, data structures, algorithms, databases, cloud platforms, and system design.

About Uniacco

UniAcco is one of the leading and fastest growing cross-border prop-tech student accommodation platforms. We've become a trusted name in the field of premium student housing. Headquartered in India and having lease offices currently in UK, US and Australia, UniAcco strongly relies on its innovative measures and technology enabled background to ensure students get the best possible accommodation, flats or halls near top universities across 8 nations (UK, US, Australia and more) in the quickest an

Job Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and own high-scale, low-latency backend services and distributed systems
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following best practices
• Optimize performance, ensure system reliability, and resolve complex production issues
• Lead architecture discussions, propose design patterns, and define service boundaries
• Contribute to system design, API strategy, observability, and capacity planning
• Excellent understanding of system design concepts: scalability, reliability, load balancing, sharding, etc.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, caching (Redis/Memcached), message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Frontend teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Conduct code reviews and mentor SDE-I and SDE-II engineers
• Champion engineering excellence: automation, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, and monitoring