
Backend Developer - Java / Go / Product Development
at Metadata Technologies, North America

Back End Developer
Job Description:
Location: Pune (Initially Remote due to COVID 19)
We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join the team in India and be instrumental in taking our products to the next level. In this role, you will be working in close collaboration with a team of highly empowered, experienced developers who are building a high-performance, highly scaled global platform.
About the Organisation:
- It provides a dynamic, fun workplace filled with passionate individuals. We are at the cutting edge of advertising technology and there is never a dull moment at work.
- We have a truly global footprint, with our headquarters in Singapore and offices in Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and India.
- You will gain work experience in a global environment. We speak over 20 different languages, from more than 16 different nationalities and over 42% of our staff are multilingual.
You will:
- conceive, build, and operate highly distributed systems deployed around the planet
- employ cutting-edge technologies and techniques in a rapidly evolving domain
- thrive in a progressive, environment which relies on communication and initiative rather than process to deliver at a high velocity
- have a "Product Owner" rather than a "Task Implementer" attitude
Candidate's Profile:
- Experience building systems involving messaging or event-driven architectures
- Deep technical understanding of Java or Go, and willing to work with both
- Strong handle on concurrency challenges and design solutions
- Strong buyer of Agile / Lean values
- Heavy emphasis on code testing and designing for test-ability
- Maturity and aptitude to operate in a high-freedom/high-responsibility environment
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience with supporting and troubleshooting large systems
- Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible
- Exposure to IAAS platforms such as AWS EC2, GCP, etc…
- Experience with Cassandra, Aerospike, or other NoSQL databases

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Will be responsible for Backend and infrastructure for mobile app and website.
We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:
● Talented Leader who will be responsible for Leading a group of talented technical individuals to build
scalable, and secure products
● Leads our Back-End and infrastructure
● Drives architecture and the design of enterprise mobile/web/API solutions at scale
● Work with Product, Testing and Infrastructure teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Oversee the development and execution of development plans and report on execution
● Work with Product and testing teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Has deep exposure to all aspects of engineering, modern web, desktop & mobile application architectures,
data modelling, high level design, low level design, non-functional technical requirements and visual design
Requirement
● 5+ years of experience in hard core development in predominantly product development companies
● Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills
● Proven track record of building scalable and reliable services on Cloud
● Architecture & Design
● Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of applications using one or more
platforms for large-scale high-throughput solutions
● Design and implement technical governance process as appropriate across the application development
lifecycle
● coding guidelines, quality standards, best practices, code acceptance criteria, automation
● Experience in collaborating with the team in reviewing application architecture. - Node.js, Web Services
REST, MySQL/MongoDB/NoSQL
Education: Engineering/MBA
Work experience: 5 years relevant experience
Compensation: Based on Industry Standards
Job Description:
Minimum 3+ years of experience
Java, OOPS, Data structure, Design Patterns, Multithreading, Spring, Hibernate, Java Script based technology, knowledge of J2EE, PL - SQL..
Core Java Topics including Language Features, Architecture.
OOP Concepts in depth with real time scenarios
Understandings of special Keywords and their applicability as well as advantages and
disadvantages - Like static, final, this, super etc. static should be in depth
Singleton class, Serialization, Cloning, Anonymous Inner class concepts.
In depth concept of Dynamic and static polymorphism & Multiple Inheritance issue/ resolve.
Concepts on String, Exception Handling, Array etc.
Java SE 8 and 9 Features: Functional Inheritance, Lambda Expression, default and static method
etc.
Collection Classes in detail along with the internal data structure and working principle.
Multithreading concept. Concept on ConcurrentHashMap etc.
Analysis of Algorithm - Time Complexity – Big O Calculation
Code Optimizing techniques, Different Algorithm designs and strategies.
Design patterns in Java
Different Sorting & Searching Algo with their Time complexity analysis
Problem solving using Hackerrank or similar sites, with focus on Arrays, Linked Lists, Hash Maps,
Trees, Balanced Trees, Stacks, Queues, Strings , Big Number , Data Structures, Object Oriented
Programming
Exception Handling – Advanced, Sorting, Search, Recursion, Graph Theory.
Note: Core Java + PL/SQL (Unix will be add on)
We are looking for Advance Java developers who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. We are building out a team and looking for multiple levels but you should have at least 6+ years of programming experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Build high availability and extreme reliable high volume transactional systems.
- Deliver reliable solutions that handle massive data and high traffic.
- Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions.
- Focus on code optimization, code quality, maintainability etc.
Skills required
- Hands-on experience in Core J2EE or Core Java (collection, multithreading).
- Proficiency in Spring, Hibernate, Kafka, JDBC.
- Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
- Strong working knowledge of Databases – MySQL/NoSQL, OS - Windows/Linux.
- Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
- Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
- Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.
- 2 + years of software development experience utilizing Java based frameworks and technologies to build enterprise grade product solutions.
- 2+ years of experience designing, developing and documenting RESTful APIs.
- Strong understanding of concepts/technologies like Spring MVC, Spring boot, J2EE, EJB, application/API security, API governance/gateway platforms like apigee or kong.
- Good understanding of RDMS concepts and development preferably using MS SQL Server.
- Experience using test automation technologies like cucumber, selenium is a big plus.
- Partner with scrum masters to address technical blockers/impediments to progress.
- Prior experience working with agile scrum-based development methodology. Participate in sprint planning and estimate development efforts for features and stories.
- Partner with DevOps to install and configure/tune application containers like embedded Spring boot tomcat and webserver technologies preferably nginx or apache.
- Partner with cloud engineering group to outline the infrastructure provisioning requirements/needs for new product development.
- Design and develop CI/CD tools and process preferably using Jenkins to configure build jobs for APIs and design pipeline to promote artifacts from development all the way to production
- Experience with messaging technologies like kafka is a huge plus
- Work with Test Automation engineering team to integrate test automation scripts as part of the CI/CD process.
- Prior proven experience of utilizing and productionizing container/container orchestration technologies like Docker, kubernetes.
- Participate and Resolve issues related deployments, application performance etc.



• 2+ years experience in application development
• experience with Python and Javascript is required.
• good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• experience in using and understanding code from Open Source
• Strong command of NoSQL and ability to design schemas.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as React Native, React.js, or Javascript
• Experience with cloud infrastructure tools in AWS and Google Cloud
• experience with implementing best software engineering practices like version control with git, code reviews, writing unit-tests, writing readable code
• inclination towards researching new technologies and adapt them to solve challenges we face.
• Address all tech challenges and continue with tech innovation in order to improve business operations
• Experience with Live video stream a plus.
• Experience with AI preferred.
Java
J2ee
working experience with one or more clouds
Understanding of design architecture
Experience with Traditional databases and nosql databases
Sound in Algorithms,data structures and problem solving
Good at coding and design
Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include:
Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase.
Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement.
Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications.
Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google.
You Should Have:
Minimum 3 years of experience with Java.
Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development.
Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems.
Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Good To Have:
Experience with BI and data reporting.
Experience with Elastic search.
Understanding of data warehousing.
Experience in Node.js.

We, the Products team at DataWeave, build data products that provide timely insights that are readily consumable and actionable, at scale. Our underpinnings are: scale, impact, engagement, and visibility. We help
businesses take data driven decisions everyday. We also give them insights for long term strategy. We are focused on creating value for our customers and help them succeed.
How we work
It's hard to tell what we love more, problems or solutions! Every day, we choose to address some of the hardest data problems that there are. We are in the business of making sense of messy public data on the web. At
serious scale! Read more on Become a DataWeaver
What do we offer?
- Opportunity to work on some of the most compelling data products that we are building for online retailers and brands.
- Ability to see the impact of your work and the value you are adding to our customers almost immediately.
- Opportunity to work on a variety of challenging problems and technologies to figure out what really excites you.
- A culture of openness. Fun work environment. A flat hierarchy. Organization wide visibility. Flexible working hours.
- Learning opportunities with courses, trainings, and tech conferences. Mentorship from seniors in the team.
- Last but not the least, competitive salary packages and fast paced growth opportunities.
Roles and Responsibilities:
● Build a low latency serving layer that powers DataWeave's Dashboards, Reports, and Analytics
functionality
● Build robust RESTful APIs that serve data and insights to DataWeave and other products
● Design user interaction workflows on our products and integrating them with data APIs
● Help stabilize and scale our existing systems. Help design the next generation systems.
● Scale our back end data and analytics pipeline to handle increasingly large amounts of data.
● Work closely with the Head of Products and UX designers to understand the product vision and design
philosophy
● Lead/be a part of all major tech decisions. Bring in best practices. Mentor younger team members and
interns.
● Constantly think scale, think automation. Measure everything. Optimize proactively.
● Be a tech thought leader. Add passion and vibrancy to the team. Push the envelope.
Skills and Requirements:
● 5-7 years of experience building and scaling APIs and web applications.
● Experience building and managing large scale data/analytics systems.
● Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities. Have a good understanding of software design principles and architectural best practices.
● Be passionate about writing code and have experience coding in multiple languages, including at least one scripting language, preferably Python.
● Be able to argue convincingly why feature X of language Y rocks/sucks, or why a certain design decision is right/wrong, and so on.
● Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’.
● Have experience working with multiple storage and indexing technologies such as MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic.
● Good knowledge (including internals) of messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
● Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools.
● Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus.
● Exposure to one or more centralized logging, monitoring, and instrumentation tools, such as Kibana, Graylog, StatsD, Datadog etc.
● Working knowledge of building websites and apps. Good understanding of integration complexities and dependencies.
● Working knowledge linux server administration as well as the AWS ecosystem is desirable.
● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.



