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- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in backend development, with proficiency in Python and/or Golang.
- Strong experience in front-end technologies, particularly React.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Apache Spark is highly preferred.
- Solid understanding of database technologies, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude toward tackling challenges
Description
We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing. Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities
· Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
· Write well designed, testable, efficient code
· Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
· Prepare and produce releases of software components
· Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
Requirements
· BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
· Proven hands-on Software Development experience
· Proven working experience in Java development
· Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
· Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
· Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
· Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
· Experience in the Spring Framework
· Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer
· Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)
· Experience with test-driven development
We are looking for a Java Developer with minimum 3 to 8 years of experience.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development life cycle, from concept and design to testing.
- Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
- Ensure designs comply with specifications
- Prepare and produce releases of software components
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
- Front-end skills (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ES6+, Ajax);
- 3+ years working with React/Redux + Typescript front-end applications
- Must have experience technologies like Python, React, node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS
- Experience with centrally managed state (Redux) and React Router
- Experience with data structuring libraries (Immutable.js / Immer)
- Experience of TDD/BDD, QA/Test frameworks such as Selenium, load testing (Blazemeter), unit testing (Mocha/Chai/Jest) etc.
- Experience optimising the performance of front-end applications
- A good understanding of agile development practices and common methodologies
- Experience building responsive, cross browser compatibility websites and applications
- Experience of integrating with web services and APIs, including REST endpoints.
- Experience using code version control systems (GIT) and CI/CD.
Express Stores is an omnichannel startup (online and offline) startup by IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani grads. It is a platform for grocery stores to find trusted business solutions including supply, inventory management and customer relationship management tools. We aim to build a chain of 7/11 stores for India. Express Stores will be the go-to self enable platform for millions of Kirana stores in India to empower them with more business and empower millions of customers to find the right products, in a location nearest to their home with the best quality products, at affordable prices.
The founders have worked at UrbanClap, Jabong, Flyrobe, http://wadi.com/" target="_blank">Wadi.com in India, Dubai and South East Asian Markets. You can read more about the founders at: Apoorv Jain, Kartik Gupta. We are a young, passionate team working on a tough but huge opportunity in India. We believe there is immense value (akin to serendipity) in giving customers the same value of Supermarkets in their neighborhood stores by making them larger, better, cleaner and cheaper. We are backed by some of the best investors in this country, who share this vision with us.
We’re hiring our first Full Stack developer who will play a key role in defining the foundation of our product stack. We are looking for rockstars who not only code but can understand the products they are developing and how they impact all the stakeholders.
We see our developers as product designers so a full-stack experience and motivation is necessary.
Roles and responsibilities
First 2 months
You will be expected to setup and integrate basic tools which will allow the internal teams to function. Examples of projects would be
-Execution of WMS, POS systems and any required integrations
-Setup basic data warehousing / reporting servers to promote data democracy internally.
Post 2 months
You will now be working on creating new tools / Apps which will give our business compounding benefits over time. These could range from B2B, B2C, B2B2C apps, internal enterprise tools. This phase will lay the true foundation of the company’s future tech capabilities.
Location: Gurgaon
Compensation and perks
-Market competitive salary + equity, based on fit and profile
-Opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the company
-Making a difference: Impact the lives of our customers and the hundreds of thousands of Kirana partners we will partner with
-We have access to an amazing list of tech mentors and advisors
Your Opportunity
- Own and drive business features into tech requirements
- Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
- Quickly create quality prototypes
- Staying updated on emerging technologies
- Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
- Promote coding best practices
- Mentor and develop junior developers in the team
Required Experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
- Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns
- Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
- Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems
- Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service
- Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
- Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
- Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP
Who you are
- You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
- You love problem solving
- You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
- You love paying attention to detail
- You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
- Ability to collaborate across multiple functions
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field
Coding in Java8, Spring, Microservices, WebFlux/Reactive Programing, Rest services, Kafka, PCF, Azure, Spring Cloud Config and NoSQL technologies.
Solve technical problems using cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
Ensure code meets the required development standards and is optimized for performance.
Unit testing for each line of new code introduced (JUnit/Mockito)
Peer code review process using GIT pull requests and Crucible (for SVN)
Propose multiple solutions to a problem, show how one option is better than another.
Ensure all aspects of technical design are correctly incorporated.
Contribute in research and implementing POCs as required.
Collaborating with onsite team in scrum ceremonies.
Who you are:
Hands on experience on Java/J2EE programming, especially on Java 8 features
Experience using latest frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Rest, Spring Cloud Config and Webflux.
Experience in Microservices architecture & development
Experience with Test Driven Development
Experience with SQL on any of the RDBMS Oracle, PostgreSQL, My SQL
Exposure to NoSQL DB is added advantage, preferred MongoDb / Cassandra
Experience with any of the ORM frameworks Hibernate/iBatis, JDBC, JPA
Exposure to JMS Kafka, IBM MQ or Active MQ is good to have
Experience with JUNIT and any of the mocking frameworks Mockito, EasyMock, JMock
with hands on any one of the cloud platforms like PCF, Azure
Use of code repository tools like SVN, GIT
Exposure to any of the build and deployment tools like Gradle, Maven, Ant
Experience in CI/CD pipeline such as JENKINS
Experience using different design patterns, especially GoF, J2EE and Integration design patterns
Exposure to performance testing using JMeter is good to have
Ensuring the code meets the required development standards and is optimized for performance
Experience managing teams and deliveries
Providing technical design or approach for a business problem
Leading the team towards the right solution with expected quality and timelines
Experience with Agile practices
With good collaboration skills to coordinate with US based onsite team and client team.
Good team player and coordination skills
Key Skills:
1. One or more of Python/PHP/Ruby/NodeJS/Java
2. Sound object-oriented skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
2. REST APIs
3. MVC architecture
4. MySQL/PostgreSQL
5. Exp with at least 1 NoSQL databases MongoDB/Memcache/Redis/
6. Exp with search technologies Elasticsearch/Solr
7. Exp building messaging based asynchrounous systems RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS/Celery will be added advantage
8. Exp with Django/Flask frameworks will be added advantage
9. Knowledge of software best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) will be added adnavtage
Requirements:
1. Developing software solutions in conjunction with Relational theory, Rest APIs and NoSQL database technologies
2. Knowledge of cloud based technologies in AWS or Azure will be added advantage
3. Understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL.
4. Hands-on with Version control systems (GIT, SVN) and Unix/Ubuntu.
5. Experience in requirement analysis, HLD, LLD, unit & integration testing.
6. Good hands on experience in debugging application issues
TL;DR
1) Top performer in the company
2) Has worked with product based startup company
3) Ambitious and hardworking

