Backend Developer

Company Description

NonStop io Technologies, founded in August 2015, is a Bespoke Engineering Studio specializing in Product Development. With over 80 satisfied clients worldwide, we serve startups and enterprises across prominent technology hubs, including San Francisco, New York, Houston, Seattle, London, Pune, and Tokyo. Our experienced team brings over 10 years of expertise in building web and mobile products across multiple industries. Our work is grounded in empathy, creativity, collaboration, and clean code, striving to build products that matter and foster an environment of accountability and collaboration.

Role Description

This is a full-time hybrid role for a Java Software Engineer, based in Pune. The Java Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. Key responsibilities include working with microservices architecture, implementing and managing the Spring Framework, and programming in Java. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features is also a key aspect of this role.

Responsibilities:

● Develop and Maintain: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for Java-based applications 

● Collaborate: Work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions 

● Code Reviews: Participate in code reviews to maintain high-quality standards 

● Troubleshooting: Debug and resolve application issues in a timely manner 

● Testing: Develop and execute unit and integration tests to ensure software reliability

● Optimize: Identify and address performance bottlenecks to enhance application performance 

Qualifications & Skills:

● Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC), and Hibernate/JPA 

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services 

● Proficiency in working with relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL 

● Practical experience with AWS cloud services and building scalable, microservices-based architectures

● Experience with build tools like Maven or Gradle 

● Understanding of version control systems, especially Git 

● Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns 

● Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies 

● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail 

● Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment 

Why Join Us? 

● Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology products 

● A collaborative and learning-driven environment 

● Exposure to AI and software engineering innovations 

● Excellent work ethic and culture 

If you're passionate about technology and want to work on impactful projects, we'd love to hear from you

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications using Java SE/EE.

- Implement, test, and deploy microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring Boot and related technologies.

- Develop efficient and scalable solutions by writing clean, maintainable, and optimized code.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide technical solutions.

- Write and execute unit tests using JUnit to ensure code quality and functionality.

- Perform code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.

- Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize code for performance and scalability.

- Stay up to date with the latest Java technologies and development best practices.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Years of experience in Java development (Java SE/EE, Spring, Hibernate).

- Strong experience with JUnit and test-driven development (TDD).

- Proficient in building microservices using Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.

- Experience with version control tools like Git.

- Familiarity with build tools such as Maven or Gradle.

- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.

- Familiarity with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and ORM frameworks (e.g., Hibernate).

- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS (preferably).

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools.

- Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker.

- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.

- Knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus.

We are India’s fastest-growing digital trust platform offering services such as background verifications, reference checks, employee/staff onboarding, etc. We have completed more than 500+ million checks across 3000+ happy clients and since its inception, the company has shown continuous uptrend growth in an ever-changing business environment. As an organization, we are self-sustainable with positive cash flows.

At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining Trust. We are leveraging APIs to build a digital trust platform all while being accountable that provides verified credentials instantly coming from the source directly. Having built the basic pillars of trust, we now want our imaginations to be let loose and think of avenues not explored and ways never implemented before. In this pursuit, we are looking for a motivated Staff Engineer (Backend) with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, joining us, driving this vision, and taking it to a larger scale. If you are a visionary, always on the lookout for finding the right solutions, and a technology geek, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities -

● Develop new user-facing features.

● Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.

● Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

● Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive

● Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.

● Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Requirements -

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 - 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture

• Java, Spring framework

• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Exceptional design and architectural skills

• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

Job Description :

- We are a Fintech Company based in Pune, a B2B Trade Digitization platform for SMEs and Corporates to collaborate and work with Financial Institutions to raise short term fundings for payables and receivables financing.

- We are thus well placed to help Corporates and their Supply Chains to meet their GST needs.

Technologies :

- The platform is built using a polygot technology stack 

- Platform Backend : JVM 

- Web Layer : ReactJS and related ecosystem, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Bootstrap 

- API & Business Layer : Kotlin and functional programming 

- Client Apps and Customer Integrations: Kotlin, Jersey ReST Framework, home grown optimized HTTP and SQL libraries 

- Mobile Apps: Android, iOS 

- Database : MySQL - JVM - Hibernate & Exposed as ORM library - Python - SQLAlchemy as ORM library 

- Build Tools : Gradle, Shell Scripting, AWS Code Build, Jenkins

- Ops Automation : Ansible, Terraform 

- Servers : Ubuntu Linux 

- Version Control : GIT 

- Test Automation : Python - unittest, pyhamcrest, freshen, nose. JVM - Junit, Kotlin Test 

- Cloud Providers : Amazon AWS, Linode

Requirements :

- We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers.

- We are looking to add 2 members in our team having hands on technical experience of 2-6 years.

- We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adpopted.

- We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As an engineering team member, you will :

- Work collaboratively with product, customer support and DevOps team to build, enhance, maintain, deploy and operate our systems. 

- Continuously automate operational processes to improve efficiencies and productivity and enhance customer experience 

- Work closely with the architect to continuously refactor the system architecture and design to meet the changing landscape triggered by technology changes and business growth 

- Work with the DevOps team to build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. 

- Ensure that development processes and deliverables always adhere to the mandates laid down for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular)

Skills required :

- Pre-requisites : Competent in Java, database, HTML, Javascript, CSS 

- Should be passionate about technology and ready to deep dive into programming 

- Should have sound expertise of writing testable code and appreciate defect free coding 

- Should be willing to handle Ops automation and production support 

- Should be able to reason/argue/discuss/suggest solutions and alternatives

- Should be able to decipher the core problem to be solved during discussions with product team and/or customers 

- Should have good communication skills and experience working in teams

- Knowledge of Python will be an added advantage

- Experience of working in financial domain will help but not a necessity

• Managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end Integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection.

• Should have worked on the Django REST framework.
• Familiarity with some Pandas, Numpy, text parsing/mining and ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Worked on Amazon cloud solutions
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Should know about HDL and LLD.
• Should know about making python packages
• Should have worked on microservice-based Architecture

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 8 to 13 years of software development experience 
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in any programming languages(Java, GoLang) and open source frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Micronut).
• Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure and microservices.
• Must have exposure to at least one cloud product/platform development.
• Working knowledge of any one client side framework like ReactJS or Angular, etc.
• Should have exposure to one or more databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Graph, Redis, Elastic Search and Postgres.

JD for Java Developer Position (3-5 years)

Notice Period: 10-20 days or within 1 month

1. Excellent Java skills
2. Hands-on working experience with Spring, Hibernate, GIT, Jenkins
3. Strictly adhere to coding standards & unit testing
4. Excellent analytical skills and communication skills are a must
5. Knowledge of MySQL or any other DBMS

Added Advantage
1. ElasticSearch
2. AWS services like lambda, redis, graphql etc
3. Docker

• 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

Deep expertise and hands on experience in Core java
∙ Hands-on experience with at least 2 years in Spring, Hibernate & Restful web services.
∙ Hands-on experience with at least 3 years in GUI development using Angular/React

, HTML & JavaScript. Added advantage if worked on Angular 5 and above, NodeJS, Bootstrap, jQuery.
∙ Clear understanding of Software Development life cycle and process Oriented. Would be great if worked on Agile or Continuous Delivery (CD) based projects before.
∙ Good fundamentals in Core Programming, JDBC, Object Oriented design & Design patterns
∙ Should have exposure to Oracle SQL. Any other DB apart from Oracle is also fine, provided the fundamentals of RDBMS are clear. Good to have experience in writing Sqls, stored procedures and functions.
∙ Experience in creating & executing unit tests using test driven approach with JUnit or any other equivalent.