Sr Software Engineer (Backend Developer)

Location : Bangalore.

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.

Itrons Resiliency Solutions business helps make communities more adaptive and sustainable. We do this by pairing external data with artificial intelligence to identify areas of high risk and prevent catastrophic loss for utilities and critical infrastructure owners across the country. We are a team of close-knit engineers subject matter experts and business leaders who obsess over problem-solving new technologies and making a positive impact in our communities.

About the Role
We are looking for a Backend Developer with a strong foundation in distributed systems clean architecture and performance-oriented design. Youll focus primarily on building reliable scalable and maintainable backend services that power end-to-end features across multiple platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving system-level challenges understands database and API design fundamentals and values code quality and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities
Design and develop highly available performant and fault-tolerant backend systems and APIs.
Apply SOLID principles and clean architecture to ensure modular and maintainable services.
Own components end-to-end from design implementation testing deployment to monitoring.
Optimize database design and queries; ensure efficient indexing replication and scaling.

Implement proper error handling logging and observability mechanisms (metrics tracing).
Collaborate closely with frontend and DevOps teams to define clear API contracts and deployment workflows.
Ensure secure handling of data and credentials using industry-standard practices.
Write comprehensive unit and integration tests and participate in code and design reviews.
Continuously improve system reliability scalability and developer experience.

Required Skills
25 years of hands-on experience in backend development.
Strong programming skills in one or more backend languages (Python Go Java C# or ).
Deep understanding of database fundamentals schema design indexing transactions and connection pooling.
Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs or GraphQL services.
Solid grasp of scaling principles caching load balancing asynchronous processing and message queues.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and containerized environments (Docker Kubernetes).
Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.
Working knowledge of version control CI/CD and deployment best practices.

Good to Have
Experience with distributed system design queues event-driven architecture or microservices.
Exposure to monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry).
Familiarity with security and compliance concepts (OAuth JWT secrets management).
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform Helm CloudFormation).
Knowledge of caching and queuing tools (Redis RabbitMQ Kafka SQS).

Who you are:

You believe in building clean reliable and maintainable systems that scale with business growth.
You think in systems and trade-offs not just code.
Youre curious about the full stack and understand how backend decisions impact product experience.
Youre proactive analytical and comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.
You value collaboration ownership and continuous learning.