AEM Technical Architect

Required Skills: CI/CD Pipeline, Data Structures, Microservices, Determining overall architectural principles, frameworks and standards, Cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Distributed Systems

Criteria:

• Candidate must have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
• Candidate must be from a product-based organization with a startup mindset
• Must be strong in one core backend language: Node.js, Go, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high availability, and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong command over system design, data structures, performance tuning, and scalable architecture
• Ability to partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and lead end-to-end backend roadmap execution.

Description

What This Role Is All About

We’re looking for a Backend Tech Lead who’s equally obsessed with architecture decisions and clean code, someone who can zoom out to design systems and zoom in to fix that one weird memory leak. You’ll lead a small but sharp team, drive the backend roadmap, and make sure our systems stay fast, lean, and battle-tested.

What You’ll Own

● Architect backend systems that handle India-scale traffic without breaking a sweat.

● Build and evolve microservices, APIs, and internal platforms that our entire app depends on.

● Guide, mentor, and uplevel a team of backend engineers—be the go-to technical brain.

● Partner with Product, Data, and Infra to ship features that are reliable and delightful.

● Set high engineering standards—clean architecture, performance, automation, and testing.

● Lead discussions on system design, performance tuning, and infra choices.

● Keep an eye on production like a hawk: metrics, monitoring, logs, uptime.

● Identify gaps proactively and push for improvements instead of waiting for fires.

What Makes You a Great Fit

● 6+ years of backend experience; 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.

● Strong in one core language (Node.js / Go / Java / Python) — pick your sword.

● Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high-availability, and microservices.

● Hands-on with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.

● You think data structures and system design are not interviews — they’re daily tools.

● You write code that future-you won’t hate.

● Strong communication and a let’s figure this out attitude.

Bonus Points If You Have

● Built or scaled consumer apps with millions of DAUs.

● Experimented with event-driven architecture, streaming systems, or real-time pipelines.

● Love startups and don’t mind wearing multiple hats.

● Experience on logging/monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry.

Why company Might Be Your Best Move

● Work on products used by real people every single day.

● Ownership from day one—your decisions will shape our core architecture.

● No unnecessary hierarchy; direct access to founders and senior leadership.

● A team that cares about quality, speed, and impact in equal measure.

● Build for Bharat — complex constraints, huge scale, real impact.

Role & Responsibilities :

- Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.

- Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019. Interacting with internal team.

- Transform business and design needs into innovative products.

- Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.

- Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.

- Engineering software needs more precise analysis & coding skillset.

- Enhance skillset by working with fortune 500 clients.

- Interacting with internal team.

Qualifications :

- B.E in computer science or related fields.

- Excellent programming & communication skills Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.

- Ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

- Impressive hands-on experience in Java, database(Oracle), OOPS, Java Swing, Javafx

- Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative.

• Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, JSON, Micro Services, 12 Factor Apps, Apache.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture
• Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms.
• Demonstrated knowledge of OAuth token-based authentication protocol.
• Demonstrated knowledge of PCI and Security Coding Standards.
• Performs hands on coding using Java/J2EE & unit testing.
• Contribute to the Design and develop high quality software for large scale Java/Spring Batch/Micro-service Applications.
• Proficiency in the following general areas: Java (Java 1. 7/Java 1. 8), Spring Framework, Jenkins, Gradle, and GitHub.
• Experience with RESTful services, Rabbit MQ, JSON, Unix Scripting, and Hadoop is a plus.
• Core development experience in large scale enterprise Java applications using Spring Framework.
• Experience in SQL (DB2 & SQL databases)
• Strong knowledge and experience on Nginx as APIM tool Solid experience in coding and creating APIs.
•  Expertise in WSDL, XML, XSLT, JSON, XPATH and Gateway scripts
• Provide front line support for Nginx related problems by being involved in troubleshooting, root cause analysis and appropriate secure integration recommendations.
• Installation of Nginx API Gateway as per need.
• Experience in Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good linux and administration skills
• Experience on API Orchestration/Mediation/Protocol Bindings and transformation knowledge on disparate message structures
• Design, develop and implement API proxies using OpenAPI specification Analysing logs and trace for errors and exceptions Manage and publish content in Developer portal Security implementation using OAUTH, SAML, CORS 
• Must Have Knowledge of API development and its technologies.

Location: Remote Working

** Preference will be given to immediate joinee

Primary Skills: Java Backend Development, UNIX, Oracle, SQL, MQFTP

Secondary Skills:  Autosys, Service Now

Experience: 6- 8 years

Responsibilities:

• Drive the Migration Project and support Business Applications teams through the project lifecycle.
• Interpret written business requirements, functional requirements and technical specification documents to design and develop technical solutions that meet business needs
• Contribute to Application development, migration of components, testing and Production Support.
• Collaborate with IT and Business partners to develop, and troubleshoot end to end technical solutions
• Create and maintain technical evaluation documentation using defined technical documentation templates that meet standards

Required Skills:

• Well versed with Java Backend Development.
• Proficient in Oracle, SQL.
• Experience in Shell scripting in UNIX, Autosys scheduler
• Good understanding of Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Knowledge of different file movement patterns and tools  - File Transfers, Messaging, MQFTP, Sterling Integrator, Mobius
• Knowledge of different file formats plus file format conversion to & from JSON, csv etc.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming
• Good understanding of SDLC lifecycle & processes.
• Exposure to ITIL foundational concepts, Service Now and Production Management Activities.
• Financial Services experience will be a plus
• Experience in using Dev tools ( Eclipse ), code quality tools, defect tracking tools

Desired Skills: 

• Strong interpersonal, oral, presentation, and written communication skills

• Excellent team player with good organizational, communicational, analytical and logical skills.

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years' experience as a software developer.
• Highly experienced with backend programming languages - NodeJs or Java etc, Highly experienced with front-end programming languages - HTML, CSS JavaScript, etc Proficient experience using - advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
• Familiarity with Git.
• Experience consuming API endpoints.
• Good to have - Kafka/queuing system
• Should be well-versed in using multiple Databases - SQL/NO SQL.
• Should have experience using in- memory Data Bases-Redis.
• Experience with Unit-Testing.
• Experience building web applications with responsive design.
• Experience with Node.js and/or other server-side JavaScript technologies and tools.
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.
• ES6 React JS/JSX, Redux, Web pack, Immutable.js .

1. 2+ years of experience building REST APIs with Java
2. 1+ years of experience in maintaining REST APIs documentation.
3. 2+ years of experience programming and delivering in a production environment
4. Expertise working with data structures and algorithms
5. Proficiency in object-oriented programming and experience applying modern design patterns.