Backend Developer

Location & Work Model:

• Position: Contract to hire
• Bangalore -  Marathahalli; 
• Work mode - Work from Office; all 5 days
• Looking for immediate joiners

Technical Requirements:

• Strong experience in Java Backend Development
• Proficiency in both SQL & NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Basic knowledge of DevOps tools (CI/CD pipeline)
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to emerging technologies, including AI-driven tools, and automation solutions
• Strong problem-solving mindset with an interest in leveraging AI and data-driven approaches for backend optimizations

Soft Skills & Mindset:

• Strong communication & articulation skills
• Structured thought process and a logical approach to problem-solving
• Interest & willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies

At Pipaltree, we’re building an AI-enabled platform that helps brands understand how they’re truly perceived — not through surveys or static dashboards, but through real conversations happening across the world.

We’re a small team solving deep technical and product challenges: orchestrating large-scale conversation data, applying reasoning and summarization models, and turning this into insights that businesses can trust.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous programming in Python
• Experience with building scalable applications using LLMs or traditional ML techniques
• Experience with Databases, Cache, and Micro services
• Experience with DevOps is a huge plus

Role Overview

We are seeking a motivated and technically versatile CMS Engineer (IC2) to support our transition from SharePoint to Contentful, while also contributing to the broader CMS ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to work on enterprise-grade platforms and microservice-based architectures.

Key Responsibilities

·         3-5 years of experience with SharePoint Online and/or enterprise CMS platforms.

·         Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS solutions is a strong plus.

·         Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

·         Exposure to Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed technologies is desirable.

·         Solid problem-solving and communication skills with an eagerness to learn.

What would you do here

SharePoint to Contentful Migration | Backend + CMS Integration

·         Assist in maintaining and enhancing SharePoint Online content and features during the transition period.

·         Support the migration of pages, documents, and metadata from SharePoint to Contentful.

·         Contribute to the design and development of backend services that integrate with Contentful using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.

·         Write reusable services for content delivery, search indexing (via Elasticsearch), and event processing (via Kafka).

·         Help develop APIs for CMS-based applications that interact with PostgreSQL databases.

·         Troubleshoot CMS-related issues and support testing efforts during platform migration.

Job Role-12 months(contract) which is extendable /permnanent

Required Skills:

• Advanced Java skills, Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs,
• Intermediate in Design Patterns and Principles
• Application is moving into PCF  any cloud native experience is helpful
• DB:  Oracle, SQL Server, RDBMS
• Network Infrastructure knowledge is helpful (work with network support team to troubleshoot)
• Production support skills are highly preferred.
• CI/ CD knowledge is helpful
• Junit for unit testing
• Java certifications are a huge plus

Job Description:

• An ideal candidate is someone who works well with a cohesive team-oriented group of engineers, who have a passion for developing software, who enjoy solving problems in a challenging environment, and who have the desire to take their career to the next level.
• Participate in and lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
• Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
• Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to *** staff. Provide technical training to the other team members.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in related field.
• Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
• Back end Java Development
• API- Restful Services
• Automated Unit Testing (J Unit)
• Spring MVC
• SQL skills- Ability to work with tables, views, and stored procedures
• GIT
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.

Description:

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day. 

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems.  We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

About the role :

This is a senior staff backend engineer role in the engineering team that designs, implements and maintains our state of the art product IllusionBLACK. The team is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly performant and maintainable product.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain high performance, fault tolerant and scalable cloud hosted service using NodeJS
• End to end responsibility to continuously create and monitor the services you build
• Help design reusable and clean API's for our frontend React app
• Guide team members with handling complex issues
• You will also be responsible for database schema design and development of migration scripts
• Experiment with new technologies and ideas and help shape our stack and processes

Requirement:

• 10+ years professional SW development experience
• All our production applications are built with either Typescript or Python. You must have a strong understanding of NodeJS express apps written in Typescript and ES6
• Must have good experience with Python
• Solid experience with databases is a must. We use and love Postgres here at Smokescreen
• You should be able to design a complex database SQL schema normalized to 3NF on the back of a napkin at 3am in the morning
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of Redis cache
• Experience with Solr or Elasticsearch is a must. We use Solr for our event analytics exclusively
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP is a plus. We have a large distributed application running on AWS
• Experience with Docker/Swarm is a plus
• Experience in some stream processing platforms like Kafka/Redis stream is a plus