Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and own large-scale, distributed backend and platform systems.
• Drive architectural decisions for high-throughput, low-latency services with strong scalability and reliability guarantees.
• Build and evolve core components of a real-time Customer Data Platform, especially around data ingestion, streaming, and processing.
• Evaluate and adopt open-source and emerging platform technologies; build prototypes where needed.
• Own critical subsystems end-to-end, ensuring performance, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold high standards through code and design reviews.
• Effectively use modern AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining engineering rigor.
• 4–6 years of strong backend/platform engineering experience with solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and optimizations.
• Proven experience designing and operating production-grade distributed systems.
• B.E / B.Tech / M.Tech / M.S / MCA in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes.

Qualifications:

Technical Skills:

• Strong system and object-oriented design skills.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong working knowledge of Kafka and streaming systems.
• Proficiency in Java, concurrency, and unit/integration testing.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability).

AI-Assisted Engineering:

• Hands-on experience using modern AI coding platforms such as Opencode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or similar.
• Ability to use AI tools for code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, and design exploration responsibly.

Soft Skills & Nice to Have:

• Strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver in fast-paced environments.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Startup experience is a plus.

Experience in Core Java and Spring Boot.

 • Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale applications and systems. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. 

• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency clientfacing applications. 

• Good development experience with RDBMS.

 • Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-performance server-side development.

• working knowledge of Kafka

• Excellent problem solving and coding skills. 

• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. 

• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.

Requirements:

·  Candidates must have substantial applicable IT experience, extensive development, programming experience in Core Java, J2ee, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Webservices using Restful, any DB (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL server).

·  Preferably the candidate must have worked in development projects and must have experience in Java / J2ee design patterns.

·  Experience in AWS, Azure will be an added advantage.

·  Candidate must have good experience in Agile methodology.

Responsibilities:

 Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and efficient Java codebase for our ad-serving platform.

 Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to

understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

 Design and implement new features and functionalities in the ad-serving system, focusing on performance

optimization and reliability.

 Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in the ad server environment, providing timely resolutions to ensure

uninterrupted service.

 Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding best practices to maintain code quality

and consistency across the platform.

 Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in ad serving and digital advertising, and integrate

relevant innovations into our platform.

 Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain the ad-serving platform in a cloud- based environment.

 Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and estimate development

efforts for new projects and features.

 Mentor junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and

improvement within the development team.

 Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production issues as needed, ensuring maximum uptime

and reliability of the ad-serving platform.

Job Description:

1) Good experience in Java

2) Hands-on experience in Spring boot

3) Hands-on experience in Microservices

• Work with product managers to understand product requirements and make them live.
• Ownership of end to end development

• Startup mindset of getting things done and focussing on business goals
• Proven problem solving skills
• 3+ years Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using server side technology (Java, Spring Boot / Node.js, Express)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Good knowledge of design patterns
• Proficiency in REST architecture
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with Git/CI/CD/Gradle/Maven
• Inclination towards writing quality and performant code

• Experience in Agile development
• Performance tuning, testing, refactoring and automation
• Experience working with AWS Cloud and Devops technologies (terraform , cloudformation, ansible)
• Experience running a production environment
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Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST services, PostgreSQL

Experience with Elastic Search or any NoSQL DB is preferable

• should have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in backend software development using Java.
• should have proven expertise in Spring Boot REST/Microservices.
• should have used design patterns like MVP, MVC or MVVM and should know when to use which.
• should have working experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• should have multiple years of experience with cloud application design  and in one or more reputable cloud platform providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure … )
• should have professional experience working in an agile development environment.
• should have strong communication skills and like making decisions.
• should follow good software engineering principles such as TDD, writing modular, maintainable and clean code