SDEI

Software Development Engineer (SDE- I), Emergence | Remote - India | Full-Time Who We Are Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes. The Mission Build reliable backend systems across portfolio companies that scale with the business and ship features that directly impact customers. What You'll Do - Design and implement microservices and APIs that handle production traffic with measurable uptime and latency targets - Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in code or infrastructure, quantifying the impact of your optimizations - Ship features end-to-end from specification through production, including tests, code review, and incident response - Propose architecture solutions backed by load estimates or proof-of-concept results to address scalability challenges - Build logging, monitoring, and alerting systems that surface actionable issues before they impact users - Mentor junior engineers through code review and pairing to accelerate their ability to ship independently What We're Looking For Must-haves - Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Node.js) with shipped production systems - Comfortable with writing majority code using AI - Experience designing and debugging microservices or distributed systems with REST APIs - Strong SQL skills and proven ability to optimize database queries and schema design - Track record owning features end-to-end from design through production deployment - Comfortable shipping code in moving environments and debugging production issues under pressure - Working knowledge of ORMs like Prisma and relational databases like PostgreSQL -