Software Development Engineer - 2
PeopleStrongJul, 2023 - Present2 yr 9 months
Designed and developed Requisition, Salary, OTB, and Offer Approval workflows with configurable multi-level approvals, audit logs, and role-based access control for enterprise clients. Optimized candidate search and filtering using Apache Solr and Elasticsearch, reducing average query latency by 72% across 10M+ candidate records. Built a high-scale PDF generation and e-signature pipeline integrating Digio and DocuSign, supporting canvas uploads, dynamic PDF stamping, and real-time callbacks, processing 500K+ documents per month. Owned and resolved 200+ production issues across recruitment and onboarding modules, including Sev-1 incidents, achieving an average resolution TAT of 2 hours and ensuring high system availability for enterprise clients. Improved system performance by optimizing 30+ high-latency APIs using caching, indexing, query tuning, and batch processing, monitored via ELK Stack, Grafana, and production logs. Developed backend services for candidate lifecycle management (application, shortlisting, offers, onboarding), improving recruiter efficiency across multiple hiring stages.