
Role Description
The SDE 2/3 will be part of the engineering/development team in Games24x7 Pvt. Ltd. and will be responsible for taking ownership of the core products of the company. The applicant must have good communication, interpersonal, technical and analytical skills in order to take part in the collaborative and cooperative development process that delivers the high quality software we use to provide the best possible playing experience to our players. He/she must be an expert in the Java programming language and needs to be familiar with popular IDEs, tools and scripting languages on the Linux operating system. Familiarity with an RDBMS, preferably PostgreSQL, is essential to succeed in this position.
General Accountabilities/Job Responsibilities:
- Participate in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
- Write clean and efficient code and stay hands-on with it.
- Write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
- Ensure practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
- Contribute to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
- Work closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best quality of product.
- Take up the opportunities to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.
Requirements:
- B.E. /B.Tech. in Computer Science or MCA from a reputed university.
- 3-12 years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
- Hands on experience in core Java, multithreading, RMI, socket programing, JDBC, NIO, webservices and design patterns.
- Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks, ESB etc.
- Experience in Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database
- Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive is desirable.
- Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
- Experience as a participant in agile methodologies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
- This is not a fullstack requirement, we are looking for a purely backend expert.

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About the Company:
Gruve is an innovative Software Services startup dedicated to empowering Enterprise Customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As a well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.
Why Gruve:
At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Position summary:
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Technical Lead with a strong background in Java, SaaS architectures, firewalls and cybersecurity products, including SIEM and SOAR platforms. The ideal candidate will lead technical initiatives, design and implement scalable systems, and drive best practices across the engineering team. This role requires deep technical expertise, leadership abilities, and a passion for building secure and high-performing security solutions.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of scalable and secure software solutions using Java.
- Architect and build SaaS-based cybersecurity applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to the development team.
- Ensure best practices in secure coding, threat modeling, and compliance with industry standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Management, Security, and DevOps to deliver high-quality security solutions.
- Design and implement security analytics, automation workflows and ITSM integrations.
- Drive continuous improvements in engineering processes, tools, and technologies.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and lead incident response for critical production systems.
Basic Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or a related field
- 8-10 years of software development experience, with expertise in Java.
- Strong background in building SaaS applications with cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- In-depth understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cybersecurity solutions, including SIEM (e.g., Splunk, ELK, IBM QRadar) and SOAR (e.g., Palo Alto XSOAR, Swimlane).
- Knowledge of zero-trust security models and secure API development.
- Hands-on experience with machine learning or AI-driven security analytics.


Responsibilities :
● Designing and developing robust and scalable server-side applications using Python, Flask, Django, or other relevant frameworks and technologies.
● Collaborating with other developers, data scientists, and data engineers to design and implement RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.
● Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and reviewing the code of other team members to ensure consistency and adherence to best practices.
● Participating in code reviews, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure the quality and reliability of applications.
● Optimizing applications for performance, scalability, and security, and monitoring the production environment to ensure uptime and availability. ● Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development, and evaluating and recommending new tools and frameworks as needed.
● Mentoring and coaching junior developers to ensure they grow and develop their skills and knowledge in line with the needs of the team and the organization.
● Communicating and collaborating effectively with other stakeholders, including product owners, project managers, and other development teams, to ensure projects are delivered on time and to specification.
You are a perfect match, if you have these qualification :
● Strong experience in Python and server-side development frameworks such as Flask or Django.
● Experience in building RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.
● Experience in using database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
● Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
● Knowledge of software development best practices such as Agile methodologies, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
● Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
● Strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work effectively with other stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
Responsibilities:
Design, develop and maintain software applications using Java programming language
Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize and execute tasks in a timely manner
Troubleshoot and debug software issues
Ensure software quality by performing thorough testing and code reviews
Keep up-to-date with new technologies and programming languages
Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, and deploying software
Document software development processes, procedures and code changes
Provide technical guidance to team members
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Minimum of 3 years of experience in Java development
Strong knowledge of Java programming language and related frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.)
Proficient in using development tools (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.)
Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc.)
Familiarity with software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.)
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and teamwork skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience with microservices architecture
Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
Experience with DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- 3+ years of SDE work experience from Product based companies
- Experience in Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kafka, Hbase, AWS
- Experience in Multi threading, distributed systems, Best practices of coding, scaling
· 3+ years java development experience with JSE/JEE, Java based Micro-services framework and implementation, Spring framework, Hibernate framework, SQL etc
· Hands on experience on Spring boot & Microservices .
· Strong knowledge of micro-service logging, monitoring, debugging and testing
· Implementations experience of micro-service integration, packaging, build automation and deployment.
· Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
● He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical
strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and
business roadmap.
● He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
● Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple
business plans and technologies .
● Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and
build roadmaps
● Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and
coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.
● Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional
teams.
● Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both
platforms
● Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics
and integrity.
Minimum Qualification:
● Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,
popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
● Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST
Express etc
● Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle or Postgres
● Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB etc
● Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak etc
● Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ et

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.
Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare.
As consultants, we https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life">work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.
You’ll spend time on the following:
- You will champion best practices like writing clean and reusable code using practices like TDD, SOLID principles, OO design, and pair programming
- You will partner with other technologists from cross-functional teams advocating devops culture
- You will work in collaborative, product-focused teams to build innovative customer experiences
- Take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope in order to deliver awesome results for our clients
- Learn, digest and subsequently apply the latest technology thinking from ourhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar"> tech radar to solve client problems
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- You have 2+ years* of experience using two or more development languages (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
- You’re willing and able to commit to traveling up to 100% (back home on the weekends) across the US and Canada to help our clients solve their business problems
- You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
- You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
- Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
- You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems

This leads to a very interesting and challenging use case in the emerging field of large scale distributed HTAP, which is still not mature enough to provide a solution out of the box that works for our scale and SLAs. So, we are building a solution that can handle the complexity of our use case and scale to several trillions of rows. As a "Database Engineer", you will evolve, architect, build and scale the core data warehouse that sits at the heart of Clarisights enabling large scale distributed, interactive analytics on near realtime data.
What you'll do
- Understanding and gaining expertise in existing data warehouse.
- Use the above knowledge to identify gaps in the current system and formulate strategies around what can be done to fill them
- Avail KPIs around the data warehouse.
- Find solutions to evolve and scale the data warehouse. This will involve a lot of technical research, benchmarking and testing of existing and candidate replacement systems.
- Bulid from scratch all or parts of the data warehouse to improve the KPIs.
- Ensure the SLAs and SLOs of data warehouse, which will require assuming ownership and being oncall for the same.
- Gain deep understanding into Linux and understand concepts that drive performance characteristics like IO scheduling, paging, processing scheduling, CPU instruction pipelining etc.
- Adopt/build tooling and tune the systems to extract maximum performance out of the underlying hardware.
- Build wrappers/microservices for improving visibility, control, adoption and ease of use for the data warehouse.
- Build tooling and automation for monitoring, debugging and deployment of the warehouse.
- Contribute to open source database technologies that are used at or are potential candidates for use.
What you bring
We are looking for engineers with a strong passion for solving challenging engineering problems and a burning desire to learn and grow in a fast growing startup. This is not an easy gig, it will require strong technical chops and an insatiable curiosity to make things better. We need passionate and mature engineers who can do wonders with some mentoring and don't need to be managed.
- Distributed systems: You have a good understanding of general patterns of scaling and fault-tolerance in large scale distributed systems.
- Databases: You have a good understanding of database concepts like query optimization, indexing, transactions, sharding, replication etc.
- Data pipelines: You have a working knowledge of distributed data processing systems.
- Engineer at heart: You thrive on writing great code and have a strong appreciation for modular, testable and maintainable code, and make sure to document it. You have the ability to take new initiatives and questioning status quo.
- Passion & Drive to learn and excel: You believe in our vision. You drive the product for the better, always looking to improve things, and soon become the go-to person to talk to on something that you mastered along. You love dabbling in your own side-projects and learning new skills that are not necessarily part of your normal day job.
- Inquisitiveness: You are curious to know how different modules on our platform work. You are not afraid to venture into unknown territories of code. You ask questions.
- Ownership: You are your own manager. You have the ability to implement engineering tasks on your own without a need for micro-management and take responsibility for any task that has been assigned to you.
- Teamwork: You should be helpful and work well with teams. You’re probably someone who enjoys sharing knowledge with team-mates, asking for help when they need it.
- Open Source Contribution: Bonus.


Product Developer Competencies required: 1.5+ Years of Software Development Experience. 2.Deep knowledge in either one of the following set a)Core Java, Multi Threading, Spring, Security, JVM Troubleshooting, Build Automation, Scripting. b)Spring MVC, Multi Threading,JSP, Servlets, AJAX, HTML5,JQuery, Angular JS, JavaFX, Web Security. 3.Having knowledge or experience about below is plus a)SOAP, Restful Webservices, NoSQL, Messaging System, Distributed In-Memory DataGrid , ExtJS, JavaFX 4.Able to adopt and understand new technologies and utilize them efficiently 5.Passionate about code quality and readability 6.Basic experience and knowledge of UNIX 7.Excellent communication skills - essential to effective collaboration within the team and our clients across the globe. 8.Computer Science Degree or Technical equivalent, MS a plus

