Software Development Engineer III

As an SDE III at Entain India, the role brings engineering depth into an AI-native way of working, where the engineer specifies, orchestrates, validates and ships with AI as a primary collaborator. The postholder works in a small, mission-driven cross-functional pod made up of three functions — Product, Engineer and Quality — with high agency, shared ownership and no hand-offs. Reporting to the Tech Lead, the role sits within the Product & Technology Team and carries full ownership of delivery, including quality, from design through production and measurement.

• Own the full software delivery lifecycle for the pod's mission, including quality, from design through production and measurement.
• Operate in continuous flow (Kanban), pulling work, respecting WIP limits and shipping daily.
• Use AI agents as the primary delivery mechanism for code generation, testing, spec writing and deployment.
• Design, build and debug software across backend and frontend with distributed systems awareness.
• Evaluate and tune agent workflows, including steering docs, prompts, rules and skills.
• Write clean, well-tested code and take ownership of quality end-to-end.
• Act as the initial on-call responder, ensuring the health and stability of deployed applications.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to shared tooling, knowledge bases and the agent foundation kit.

• AI fluency: AI is the primary way of engineering, requiring the ability to prompt, evaluate and iterate, with manual coding treated as a deliberate choice rather than the default.
• Cross-functional versatility: contribute beyond own discipline, share knowledge openly and communicate clearly across different formats.
• Customer and value awareness: ask "why" and "for whom" before "how", understand the wider business context, trace bugs and map dependencies before building.
• Craft: apply SOLID principles, DRY, separation of concerns and observability by default, write clean and maintainable code with the right level of testing, and treat CI/CD as standard engineering practice whether code is written by a human or an AI agent.
• Technical curiosity: build prototypes, experiment and try to break them before relying solely on documentation, and continuously explore better approaches.
• Agency and entrepreneurship: take ownership of outcomes end-to-end, enable others to succeed, challenge the status quo and proactively look for ways to create value.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Java/Spring Boot, Python,.NET, Go or Angular, with the ability to learn and work with other technologies using AI.
• Strong foundation in engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, data structures, API design, database concepts and cloud computing.
• Experience with clean code practices, TDD, CI/CD and version control.
• Experience with application monitoring, observability and production debugging.
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in using AI-assisted development tools for code generation, pair programming and automated testing.
• Experience with agent systems, MCP/tool protocols, or building AI-augmented workflows.
• Experience designing evaluation and observability strategies for AI-generated outputs.

• Contributions to shared tooling, internal platforms or open-source projects.
• Background in industries with strict regulatory requirements, such as gaming, financial services or healthcare.

• Safe home pickup and home drop.
• A regular bonus and pension.
• 24 days annual leave.
• Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
• Life assurance and income protection.
• Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
• INR 3,000 per month communication allowance.
• Up to INR 16,000 per year in crèche expenses for children under 3.

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