Software Development Engineer 2

Software Development Engineer – II (SDE-2)
For Engineers Who Love Solving Hard Problems, Building Fast, and Owning Outcomes
Experience: 2-4 years
Eligibility: Tier-1 colleges only
Work experience preference: Engineers with experience at reputed product-based technology companies
Role type: Individual Contributor
Company Description
NikahForever is India’s most trusted Muslim Matrimony platform, dedicated to making marriages simple and accessible. With 65,000+ success stories and over 2 Million+ members, we are committed to fostering strong connections and building a better community. Our AI-based algorithm ensures seamless profile searches and connections, transforming the way people approach marriage. Based in India, NikahForever has created a user-friendly platform where finding your life partner happens in just three steps: Register, Search, and Connect.
About the role
You'll take unclear problems and turn them into reliable, production-grade systems. You won't get a detailed spec. You'll get a problem, context, and the freedom to decide how to solve it. You'll own the full lifecycle: understanding the problem, designing, building, shipping, monitoring and iterating.
We're AI-native. You'll use coding agents and agentic workflows daily to move faster, and you stay fully accountable for everything you ship.
We don't hire based on familiarity with a particular programming language, framework, or technology stack. We value strong fundamentals, problem-solving ability, learning speed, engineering judgment, and the ability to deliver working software.
What You'll Do
Own features and services end to end, from discovery and design through deployment and monitoring
Work across backend, data, infrastructure, integrations and AI-powered workflows, depending on what the problem needs
Make and defend architectural trade-offs (performance, cost, complexity, speed)
Debug production failures, find root causes, and improve observability and resilience
Build internal tools and automations that remove repetitive engineering work
Prototype quickly, validate assumptions, and turn what works into production code
Use AI agents, tool calling and MCP integrations to compress delivery cycles, and review their output critically
Raise the bar on code quality and engineering practices through your own work and reviews
Must have
2-4 years building and running production software
Strong fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, databases, OS/networking basics, concurrency, system design
Experience across more than one domain, such as backend/APIs, data-heavy systems, queues and async processing, cloud and deployment, third-party integrations, or AI/LLM applications
Comfort entering an unfamiliar codebase and learning a new language or tool when the problem demands it
Hands-on use of AI coding tools, and the judgment to catch hallucinations and hidden failure modes in generated code
A track record of finishing things: shipping, then fixing, then measuring impact
Strong plus
Experience at a product company or on a high-scale system
Performance, reliability or data-consistency work with measurable results
Internal tools, automation, or agent-based workflows you've built
Frontend or mobile exposure
B.Tech/B.E. in CS, IT, ECE, EE or a related field, ideally from a strong engineering program
How You'll Be Evaluated
Resume and work review: a conversation about what you personally built and the measurable impact
Practical coding round: write, debug and test code under realistic constraints
System design: an open-ended design problem sized to a real scale
AI-assisted build: solve a task with an AI agent while we watch how you steer, verify and test
Hiring manager conversation: your hardest problems, failures, and what you learned
Why Join
Real ownership and direct business impact from week one
Exposure across stacks and domains
Hands-on experience building with AI agents on production systems
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