Software Development Engineer III | Backend
SpotDraft
SpotDraft HQ, Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 5 months ago
Skill Required
Product, Engineering, DesignBackend DeveloperSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperSystem DesignEngineeringdesigningbuildingPythonDjangodesignFlaskAPIsAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Senior IC role with architectural ownership
- 7-10 years of backend development experience required
- Work with top minds in legal tech
- Equal-opportunity employer
Role overview
This is a senior IC role with significant architectural ownership and technical leadership expectations. A Seasoned SDE3 / Tech Lead at SpotDraft is expected to own and evolve critical systems end-to-end, influence technical direction across teams, and drive high-quality engineering decisions at a platform level. Beyond building systems, you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to guide long-term technical strategy. The role works closely with Engineering Leaders on system evolution and key technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Designing and evolving scalable backend systems (HLD + LLD) with clear trade-off articulation.
- Driving architecture decisions across services and influencing platform direction.
- Building and evolving APIs that power core product and platform workflows.
- Identifying opportunities for platform abstraction and reusable frameworks.
- Owning services/modules end-to-end across their lifecycle, including long-term scalability and stability.
- Proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and system limitations.
- Leading and contributing to design reviews with a strong focus on long-term architecture.
- Mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar for system design and code.
- Driving technical debt reduction and platform simplification initiatives.
- Partnering with Staff/Principal Engineers on complex system design and architectural direction.
- Using AI tools pragmatically to improve engineering quality and velocity.
- Ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable at scale.
Requirements
- 7-10 years of backend development experience in product environments.
- Strong Backend fundamentals.
- Proven experience designing and evolving multiple distributed or high-scale systems in production.
- Strong system design fundamentals with the ability to drive HLD + LLD independently.
- Demonstrated experience owning systems across multiple iterations (build, scale optimize evolve).
- Ability to reason deeply about performance, reliability, cost, and maintainability trade-offs.
- Experience in influencing cross-team technical decisions and architecture.
- Comfort working directly with stakeholders and driving alignment across functions.
Nice to have
- Python, Django/Flask experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Brilliant teammates—Work with some of the sharpest minds in legal tech.
- Expand your network—Interact with top founders, investors, and industry leaders.
- Real impact—Take ownership of projects and see your work in action.
- Big goals, bold moves—We trust you to deliver, innovate, and push boundaries.
Additional details
- Our Core Values: Our business is to delight Customers; Be Transparent. Be Direct; Be Audacious; Outcomes over everything else; Elevate each other; Be Passionate. Take Ownership.; Be 1% better every day.
- All candidates’ personal data shared during the recruitment process will be handled with utmost confidentiality and used solely for hiring purposes, in line with applicable data protection regulations.
- SpotDraft is an equal-opportunity employer. Candidates will not be discriminated against based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran, or disability status.