Backend Developer

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead – Java with strong software engineering fundamentals, a deep understanding of Java-based backend systems, and proven experience leading agile teams. This role involves a balance of individual contribution and technical leadership — mentoring developers, designing scalable architectures, and driving the success of product delivery in fast-paced environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of Java-based applications and RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers and architects to define technical solutions and translate business requirements into scalable software.
• Guide and mentor team members in best coding practices, design patterns, and architectural decisions.
• Drive code reviews, technical discussions, and ensure high code quality and performance standards.
• Troubleshoot critical production issues and implement long-term fixes and improvements.
• Advocate for continuous improvement in tools, processes, and systems across the engineering team.
• Stay up to date with modern technologies and recommend their adoption where appropriate.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Java backend development with expertise in Spring/Spring Boot and RESTful services.
• Solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), system design, and design patterns.
• Proven experience leading a team of engineers or taking ownership of modules/projects.
• Experience with AWS Cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.) is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

About HummingWave

HummingWave is a leading IT product development company specializing in building full-scale application systems with robust cloud backends, sleek mobile/web frontends, and seamless enterprise integrations. With 50+ digital products delivered across domains for clients in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, we are a team of highly skilled engineers committed to technical excellence and innovation.

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Job Description

 It is a global health and fitness platform that aids users to achieve their true physical and mental potential. We started with the vision to help people transform themselves by giving them access to content and programs that work on aspects of mind, body and recovery. Everyone on this team has a unique and mutually exclusive set of skill, building this company like founders. The platform is a combination of technology, science, art and most importantly people and is therefore driven by the knowledge and experience of world’s best coaches, sports science experts, neuroscientists and psychologists. Our insight is that transformation does not need to be about setting unrealistic goals or killing oneself in the gym. We believe in a more structured, incremental and scientific approach to tap into our true potential. We believe this is not just about how the world perceives us; but more about a way of life we believe in.

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We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.

We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 5-6 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.

The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

Practical experience in building APIs.

Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system.

Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus. Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins.

Practical experience with Git.

A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Remote Workers would also do…

About-

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.

We are creating high-quality remote talent workforces across Content Writers, Graphic Designers, Video Makers, Content Strategists, Audio Artists, and eventually aim to cover each and every creative professional involved in the marketing domain. Imagine us being able to build virtual marketing teams for any company globally, by providing them a product that solves for content operations and gives the customer the ability to strategize, create, distribute and manage all their content projects at one place. At the same time, they have the ability to be able to extend their team by being matched with high-quality creators from our talent marketplace for different projects that they have. It isn’t long before content becomes so fundamental to individuals and brands alike, that there is a need for buying and selling content on-demand. We want to be that force of change!

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• We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.
• The tech stack on the back end side - MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Node, TypeScript, Express, Knex.
• We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 6-7 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.
• The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

• Should be able to analyse requirements, design solutions, write code, debug code and modify existing software enhancements or develop new product software.
• Should be able mentor junior developers to perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently.
• Should be able to perform executions against project plans and meet delivery commitments.
• Should have good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
• May interact with product specialists / Project Managers / Product Owners to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications and to give status feedback.
• Should be able to work in an Agile Development Environment using SCRUM methodology.
• Should be able to communicate with other teams and stakeholders to achieve the given goal.
• Should be able to participate in the hiring processes.

Architectural:

Design and implement a software architecture

Select a technology stack

Design and configure infrastructure

Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

Design and implement a database design

Improve and optimise the application architecture

Ensure scalability of the application

Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

Strategy, planning, and design:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

Implementation and deployment:

• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

Operational management :

• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.

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Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

Personal Requirements:

• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant