Groww is hiring SDE 2 โ Backend for its Mutual Funds team in Bengaluru. The opportunity is aimed at backend engineers with 2โ3 years of experience who enjoy solving complex engineering problems, designing scalable systems and building high-impact financial products used by millions of customers.
This is a Work From Office role and can be an excellent opportunity for software engineers looking to move deeper into fintech, backend architecture, distributed systems and high-scale product engineering.
๐ Job Details
๐ผ Position: SDE 2 โ Backend | Mutual Funds
๐ฏ Experience: 2โ3 Years
๐ Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
๐ข Work Mode: Work From Office
๐ป Domain: FinTech / Mutual Funds
โ๏ธ Focus: Backend Engineering, Scalability & High-Impact Products
๐ฆ Company: Groww
๐ข About Groww
Groww is a Bengaluru-based financial-services technology company focused on making investing and financial markets easier to access. Its platform covers products including mutual funds, stocks, ETFs, IPOs and other investment offerings. Groww says more than 1.3 crore investors use its platform and describes its mission as making finance โbrilliantly simple.โ
Groww began with a focus on making mutual-fund investing easier and has expanded into a broader financial-services platform. Its engineering teams work on products where reliability, scalability, performance and customer experience are critical because even small technical issues can affect a large number of users.
๐ฏ Why This Role Is Good for Experience?
For a backend engineer with 2โ3 years of experience, this SDE 2 opportunity offers exposure to large-scale fintech engineering rather than only routine API development. Working on the Mutual Funds team can provide experience with financial transactions, portfolio-related workflows, data consistency, reliability and systems where correctness is extremely important.
The role is also suitable for engineers preparing to move from implementation-focused development toward greater ownership of architecture and system design. Groww’s engineering culture emphasizes ownership, customer-centricity and solving problems at scale.
A backend engineer working in this environment can strengthen skills in API design, database architecture, concurrency, distributed systems, performance optimization, monitoring and production debugging.
๐ ๏ธ Skills Required
๐น Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Go, Python or another backend language
๐น Strong understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms
๐น Object-Oriented Programming and clean-code principles
๐น REST API and backend service development
๐น SQL and relational database fundamentals
๐น Microservices and distributed-system concepts
๐น Database transactions, concurrency and data consistency
๐น Caching, queues and asynchronous processing
๐น Git, code reviews and CI/CD fundamentals
๐น Debugging and production issue analysis
๐น Understanding of scalability, availability and fault tolerance
๐น Basic knowledge of financial systems or mutual funds is an advantage
๐ฐ Salary Range
Groww does not disclose the compensation for this particular hiring post. Current employee-reported salary data on Glassdoor shows Groww SDE-2 compensation averaging around โน29.5 LPA, with reported base pay around โน23.8โ36 LPA and additional pay averaging approximately โน6 LPA. Individual reported packages vary considerably by experience and compensation structure.
For candidates with 2โ3 years of experience, publicly reported SDE-II compensation examples include approximately โน23โ27 LPA and โน31โ36 LPA in Bengaluru.
Therefore, candidates can consider โน23โ36 LPA as an indicative market range, not a guaranteed salary for this specific vacancy. The final package can depend on technical performance, current compensation, experience and Groww’s compensation structure.
๐ค Expected Interview Rounds at Groww
๐น Round 1 โ DSA/Coding: Medium-to-hard algorithmic problems, optimization and complexity analysis.
๐น Round 2 โ Machine Coding/LLD: Build a functional backend-oriented system while demonstrating clean architecture, modularity and concurrency handling.
๐น Round 3 โ System Design: Design scalable financial or high-traffic systems and explain APIs, databases, queues, consistency and failure handling.
๐น Round 4 โ HM/HR: Resume discussion, ownership, communication, motivation and cultural fit.
๐ Preparation Tips
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Focus strongly on DSA, especially arrays, hashing, trees, graphs, dynamic programming, sliding windows and optimization.
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Practice machine-coding problems such as wallet/ledger systems, order books, expense-sharing systems and transaction-processing applications. Recent Groww interview reports have included such problems.
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Revise concurrency concepts: race conditions, locks, idempotency, atomic operations and transaction isolation.
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Learn how to design systems handling large transaction volumes, retries, duplicate requests and partial failures.
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Practice designing backend systems around financial workflows where consistency and correctness matter more than simply achieving low latency.
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Prepare one project deeply: architecture, database schema, APIs, bottlenecks, failures and why you selected each technology.
๐ Resume Tips for This Role
Make your resume strongly backend-focused. Put programming languages, backend frameworks, databases and distributed-system technologies near the top. Avoid filling the resume with frontend technologies if backend engineering is your primary profile.
For every project, show measurable engineering impact: API latency reduced, throughput improved, database optimization, traffic handled, automation introduced or production incidents resolved. Mention microservices, Kafka/queues, Redis, SQL, cloud or observability tools only where you have genuine hands-on experience.
For the Mutual Funds team, emphasize projects involving payments, transactions, wallets, financial data, order processing, concurrency, reconciliation or high-volume APIs if applicable.
๐ฉ How to Apply
๐ Application Link: Click Here
Interested candidates with 2โ3 years of backend engineering experience can apply for the SDE 2 โ Backend | Mutual Funds opportunity at Groww in Bengaluru. Since this is a work-from-office role, candidates should be comfortable working from the Bengaluru office.
๐ If you are a backend engineer ready to work on high-scale fintech products and want deeper exposure to system design, distributed systems and financial technology, this Groww SDE 2 opportunity is worth considering.
