We are looking for a Backend Developer who has hands-on experience in coding, building technology blocks, help answer choice of certain platform/tech over others, help the team visualise the product with the available resources and assets.
What you’ll do:
- Design, develop, and test functionality for the latest app design.
- Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features.
- Take requirements and specs from design to development and be the first line of quality assurance.
- Understand user requirements—these apps have to meet real-world scenarios.
- Support the Supersub Mobile application in its entirety, including working on bug fixes and improving application performance, reliability and stability.
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency.
What you bring:
- 3+ years of experience in building Java, Node JS applications.
- Experience in Building Robust REST APIs Using MEAN or MERN Stack.
- Good programming skills, with the ability to Perform UI testing, Debugging Taking the ownership of the complete lifecycle of a product.
- Solid experience with Unit Testing.
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
- Experience with deploying the code in AWS or AZURE is a plus.
- Ability to write clean code and document the same to develop functional APIs and Admin Panel.
Proven work experience in building a product is a plus. And the candidate must have an Engineering CS background.

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Job Description:
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Full Stack Java Developer with strong experience in backend and frontend development, cloud deployment, and modern DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Java/J2EE technologies, hands-on experience in developing microservices on AWS, and a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable web applications and microservices.
- Implement backend logic using Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, JPA, and REST APIs.
- Build responsive UIs using React, HTML, CSS, and integrate them with backend services.
- Develop and deploy microservices using AWS services like ECS, EC2, S3, API Gateway, Aurora, ALB, and Route 53.
- Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Write unit and integration tests using JUnit and Cucumber.
- Monitor application performance using APM tools and analyze logs using Splunk or similar tools.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, and Git/Bitbucket.
- Work with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams using tools like JIRA and Confluence.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong hands-on experience in Java/J2EE application development.
- Proficiency in Spring frameworks (Spring Boot, Batch) and RESTful services.
- Frontend development experience with React, HTML, CSS.
- Solid experience with AWS cloud technologies and deployment practices.
- Experience in writing and maintaining automated tests with JUnit and Cucumber.
- Knowledge of APM tools and log analysis tools (e.g., Splunk).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Git).
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
- Good communication skills and ability to work in Agile teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS certification is a plus.
- Experience with Amazon Aurora and API Gateway in production environments.
- Knowledge of SOA, messaging systems (e.g., MQ), and security best practices.

Mandatory Criteria :
- Candidate must have Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments.
- Candidate should have Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI).
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Candidate should have strong Backend experience.
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–7 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.
# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
- Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
- Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
- Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
- Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
- Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.
We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
- Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
- Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
- Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
- Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch
- 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
- AWS or cloud Experience
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem-solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
- Building scalable, reliable, high-performing platforms
- Managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Participating in the entire lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing and monitoring of issues on the assigned product lines
- Maintaining a high service levels in terms of security, performance, availability, and quality
- Establishing and implementing good development practices to create a top-class, results oriented engineering culture.
Requirements :
- 7 years - 10 years of solid hands on experience in J2EE & related technologies.
- Ability to think in terms of APIs all the time
- Hands on experience in object-oriented designs and principles.
- Hands on experience in data structures, algorithms & design patterns
- Hands on experience in server side, web architecture
- Working knowledge in Spring Framework
- Knowledge in data modeling and hands on experience with at least one RDBMS, MySQL is preferred.
- Knowledge on any of the scripting languages is desirable as you may need to write scripts Javascript, HTML or any front-end frameworks experience is desirable
- Understanding on NoSQL databases.
- You can extrapolate requirements from customers and product management and distinguish between what they need vs. what they want?
- You are always on the lookout for adding configurability and extensibility to your design.
- You cannot agree with not having ability to automatically test software.
- Usability of the solution keeps you awake at nights
- Solving complex performance problems and architectural challenges
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Building efficient, testable, and reusable Node JS modules
- Building high performance frontend applications with react
- Responsible for End-to-end ownership of modules, including designing, development, validation, deployment
- Understanding fully synchronous behavior of Nodejs
- Familiarity with Workers/child processes & performance tuning
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages (MySQL, and MongoDB)
- Strong knowledge of the common Node Js & React or web server exploits and their solutions
What you need to have:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
- 1 to 3 years of Software Development experience
- Deep hands-on technical experience in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
- Experience with full software lifecycle methodology, including; coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Ability to identify, empathize with and delight the customer
- Comfortable working with different Technologies across all of them as and when needed
- Strong knowledge on technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices Architecture, Python, Rest/gRPC, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, ReactJS, React Native, Kubernetes.
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices








