Backend Developer

oin us and be a part of a company that thrives on creativity, technology, and excellence. 

CHANCE TO WORK WITH APPS WITH 10LAKH CONCURRENT USERS IN GAMING INDUSTRY 

Role Description 

• You are a champion at Code reviews and Unit/Mock/integration Tests 
• You have a strong sense of ownership of what you design and deploy 
• You provide strong technical mentorship to team members 
• You are an excellent team player 
• You continuously learn and improve 

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Java Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage software development projects across diverse domains such as Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations. 

Skill Sets 

• Excellent Programmer: in Java Intermediate (Collections, Polymorphism, Design Patterns) to Expert level (Annotations, Lambda, Streaming, Concurrency) 
• Startup Experience: Proven ability to take extreme ownership of results, with a history of leaving a lasting impact on the business. 
• Relevant Experience: At least 6-10 years of experience demonstrated the ability to develop resilient, high-performance, and scalable code tailored to application usage demands. 
• Java Framework Expertise: Significant experience in designing and building Java microservices with VERT.X, SPRING BOOT, with proficiency in Java. 
• REST API & GraphQL: Hands-on expertise in development API endpoints with RESTful & GraphQL approach, also non-REST frameworks like gRPC over Thrift or Protobuf Nuances of TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTP2, SSL, Thorough understanding of designing distributed systems without single point of failures 
• Cloud Proficiency: Strong understanding and hands-on experience of building applications deployed on the cloud using Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, and Kubernetes, Experience writing batch/cron jobs using Python and Shell scripting. 
• Containerization & Orchestration: Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. 
• Time & Space Complexity: if methods you write are in the traffic request path, you know how to avoid unacceptable time complexity & space complexity. 
• Database Knowledge: Strong experience with Data Structures & Algorithms working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and other similar databases, ability to choose the right data store for the given requirements Relational, Graph, Object, Document, Columnar, Key-Value. Experience with Redis, Memcache, EHCache, Hazelcast, Aerospike 
• Messaging Systems: Proficiency in working with RabbitMQ, BullMQ & others 
• Agile Practices: At least a few years of experience practicing the SCRUM framework, collaborating with scrum masters, product owners, and other stakeholders. 
• Collaboration & Communication: A team player who thrives in a remote, collaborative environment. 
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Solutions-Oriented: Comfortable with the fast pace of startup life and adept at finding solutions to challenges. 

Responsibilities 

• Scalable Architecture: Lead the design and development of scalable architecture to ensure efficient performance and reliability of web and mobile applications. 
• Informed Decisions: Make informed architectural decisions that align with both current and future business needs. 
• Security & Privacy: Ensure security and privacy considerations are integrated into the selection of solutions and coding of back-end services and API endpoints. 
• Code Quality & High Standards: Uphold high standards of code quality through regular reviews, maintaining best practices in programming. 
• Robust Testing: Implement robust testing strategies to ensure code reliability and performance. 
• Backend Development: Design, develop, and deploy backend services and APIs using VERT.X, SPRING BOOT Java and AWS technologies. 
• NoSQL Expertise: Effective schema design and data modeling for NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB, including robust indexing strategies. 
• Technical Debt Management: Monitor and control technical debt to ensure it does not compromise application scalability or performance. 
• Task Planning: Collaborate with the PM and BA to plan and delegate tasks efficiently among backend team members, ensuring clear objectives and timelines. 
• User Requirements: Support the PM, BA team in identifying and analyzing user requirements to ensure development aligns with user expectations and project scope. 
• Systems Thinking: Apply systems thinking to align with broader business objectives. 
• Autonomy: Get things done independently without supervision and without creating future issues. 
• Simplicity: Strive for simplicity in solutions and code. 
• Proactive Problem Solving: Fix problems, even those outside your immediate responsibility. 
• Solution-Oriented: Focus on providing solutions to problems, not just writing code. 

Life@Sciflare:  

• An exciting & lively workplace gives you the chance to work in an environment where you may unleash your creativity and inventiveness to the best extent possible. 
• Work in a collaborative setting where your cooperative team contributes new perspectives to your objectives and forges strong bonds. 
• Growth mindset: You are nurtured through each stage of your professional advancement by learning and unlearning new things. 

Role:  Java Plugin Developer

• Sound knowledge and hands-on experience in building a software application using Java 
• Proficient in Core Java (OOPs, Design Patterns, Stream API, Multithreading, Generics).
• Good understanding of OSGi,Eclipse RCP and Plugin development

Job Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate with other senior engineers, and management, to achieve optimal application architecture and design
2. Develop efficient, secure applications, peer-review code, and document solutions within an agile-blended software environment
3. Communicate proactively with team members, infrastructure, security, and quality assurance to continuously improve processes and engineering excellence
4. Guide and train other developers in backend technology
5. Ability to work independently and as a member of a team spread over different time zones

Skills:

1. Understanding of object oriented programming skills and data structures
2. At least 6 years of hands-on development in Java, Springboot & Hibernate
3. Should have experience in Java Multithreading, microservices
4. Experience with developing web applications
5. Expertise with in Core Java (Collections, Exception handling)
6. Experience with J2ee( Servlets, JSPs)
7. Experience with all well known database technology and object-relational mapping, experience with databases (Mysql, Mssql)
8. Knowledge and development background in web-services/REST, AJAX, JSON, and XML
9. Experience with Windows and Linux based environments
10. Experience with Maven and GIT tools
11. Understanding of UI technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript libraries) would be a plus
12. Good to have – AWS experience and Fintech domain experience
13. Awareness of Jenkins will be a value add

We are looking for a highly motivated senior developer with at least 3+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible and maintainable. You should be comfortable on working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
• Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
• Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
• Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
• Active cross-team coordination would be expected
• Architecture and tech stack discussions to optimize for increasing server load
• DevOps tasks along with AWS features exploration

What are we looking for?

• Strong 3+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
• Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
• Experience with designing, implementing and deploying microservices
• Previously worked in a startup

You will get while working with us

• Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
• Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
• Opportunity to incubate an open source project
• Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
• Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
• Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
• Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
• Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product

Roles & Responsibilities

• Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
• Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
• Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
• Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it 
• Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
• Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
• Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
• Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up

Must have

• Strong hold on written/verbal communication
• Strong core Java fundamentals
• Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
• Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
• Passion of writing clean code
• Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements

Good to have

• Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
• Knowledge of NOSQL
• Working knowledge of linux & networking
• Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level

• Experience in designing and developing web-based applications using Java, J2EE, Web Services, MVC framework, Servlets Spring, Hibernate, Struts, REST, MYSQL.
• Experience in Database application programming for MySQL server using
  Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views etc.
• Experienced in implementing presentation layer using JSP, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JQuery. Java script.
• Formulated AWS (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Route53, SG, ELB, IAM, CloudWatch). (ABOVE ONLY NEEDED FOR 7+ EXPERIENCE)
• Experienced in Analysis, Design, Development, Integration, Deployment
  and Maintenance of Web services, Client Server and Web based applications.
• Well versed with Agile development process, Scrum.
• Good knowledge in version control system tools like GIT.
• Ability to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.
• Excellent analytical, logical and programming skills, Self-Motivated, Self-Starter, Team Player can work with minimal supervision with effective Communication
  skills and Organizational skills combined with attention and Time management skills.

• 2+ years of experience in Java Development with sound knowledge of core Java
• Should have strong hands on experience with developing web applications using Servlets and JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript
• Should have experience of working on Tomcat/Glassfish
• Experience of Google App Engine or AWS will be added advantage
• Strong knowledge of OOAD
• Comfortable working on Linux/Unix
• Good communication skills and good organization
• Willingness to work in a team environment, as well as
• Willingness to learn new

• Write production quality code in Java, J2EE, and Spring
• Adhere to software development and source control processes, git is added Advantage
• Design, build, configure, test, and document production quality software on an iterative
• Participate in design and implementation of new software.
• Work closely with users, technical leads, project managers, and other cross-functional development
• Execute on the provided design. Active coding in key technologies is required for this development position and includes: Java/J2EE, Tomcat, Web Services, REST, and spring, Hibernate/Ibatis, XML, UNIX and
• As part of the software development process you will need to create, review, and maintain all required technical documentation related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse.
• This individual must develop software using disciplined software development processes, adhering to team/company standards and software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.

• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team