Associate Software Development Engineer

Company Description

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our engineering team as Associate Software Development Engineers. As an ASDE, you will have the opportunity to work alongside experienced engineers and contribute to the design, development, and implementation of backend systems at scale. You will gain hands-on experience with technologies such as Java, Go, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, Kafka, SQS, DynamoDB, and other modern engineering tools.

Job Description

Position Overview

The Associate Software Development Engineer role at Swiggy is the entry point into our engineering team for high-potential builders who are not yet at the SDE I level but have already shown they can ship. We solve consumer problems and build new products at scale by leveraging modern engineering and AI tools, and we are looking for candidates who bring strong computer science fundamentals, high curiosity, high energy, and very high ownership.

You won't be expected to have production experience at scale yet. What you will be expected to have is proof that you build things: PoCs, AI experiments, hackathon projects, side projects, or other hands-on work that you can demo and talk about in depth. As an ASDE, you will learn what it takes to turn an idea or experiment into a production-ready system, working alongside engineers who do this every day.

Specifically looking for:

• Hands-on experience with LLMs and AI tooling: Experience experimenting with AI agents, prompt-driven workflows, or LLM-powered features using frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph, or directly working with provider APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic Claude.
• Strong portfolio of things you've built: PoCs, AI experiments, side projects, hackathon projects, or other hands-on work. You should be able to demo what you've built, explain the problem you were solving, the approach you took, and key learnings.
• Hands-on backend engineering experience: Experience building backend systems or services, with an understanding of how to design, develop, debug, and scale them with minimal supervision.

What qualities are we looking for?

• Minimum 6 months of internship experience at a startup or a fast-paced product company.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and databases.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language - Java, or Golang.
• High curiosity: you dig into how things work, ask why, and learn new tools and technologies on your own without being asked.
• High energy and very high ownership: you take a problem and run with it end to end, ask for help when blocked but never wait to be told what to do next, and care about the outcome, not just completing the task.
• Comfortable with Linux/Unix environments and basic Git workflows.
• A team player who communicates clearly, takes feedback well, and learns fast.

What will you get to do here?

• Build and ship features and backend systems that solve real problems for millions of users.
• Design, develop, and contribute to systems that operate at scale, with a focus on reliability, performance, and engineering quality.
• Take your PoCs and ideas beyond the demo and learn what it takes to make them production-ready through testing, monitoring, reliability, and scale.
• Work hands-on with modern engineering and AI tools to solve consumer problems and build new products.
• Own small but real pieces of the system end to end, with the expectation that your scope grows as fast as you do.
• Learn from senior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing.

Grow into an SDE I role by demonstrating ownership, engineering quality, and impact.

Qualifications

B.Tech, 2025/2026 graduates with academic knowledge in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Additional Information

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.