Software Developer 4

Oracle · ✓ Verified company
📍 BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, India · On-site · Full-time

About the role

**Required Qualifications** - Strong backend development experience building production-grade services and APIs. - Experience designing and developing complex, scalable, and high-performing systems. - Strong understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, data modeling, and API design. - Proven ability to deliver large or ambiguous technical projects with minimal guidance. - Strong coding skills and commitment to clean, maintainable, well-tested code. - Experience with observability, debugging, performance tuning, and production operations. - Ability to mentor engineers and provide clear technical guidance. - Excellent collaboration and communication skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, event-driven systems, or large-scale data processing. - Experience improving system reliability, reducing latency, or scaling services through periods of growth. - Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, or service orchestration. - Track record of influencing technical direction across a team or product area. **Success Profile** A successful IC4 in this role is a strong individual contributor who consistently delivers high-quality backend systems, leads by example technically, mentors others effectively, and helps the team solve complex problems with clarity, ownership, and strong execution. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems. - Own complex technical projects from architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration. - Build high-performance services with strong attention to reliability, latency, observability, and operational excellence. - Partner with product, design, data, infrastructure, and other engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions. - Make sound technical decisions that balance speed, quality, scalability, and long-term maintainability. - Improve engineering practices through code reviews, design reviews, documentation, and mentoring. - Identify technical risks, propose pragmatic solutions, and drive execution to successful outcomes. - Help raise the engineering bar by mentoring junior and mid-level engineers Career Level - IC4