
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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Requirements:
- Must have experience on VC++ / C++ application programming, Visual Studio.
- Should have thorough knowledge in OOPS (Object-Oriented Programming) concept.
- Should have a strong technical background on Windows or Linux
- Should be familiar with MFC, STL, COM, Multi-threading, Socket programming, Data structures.
- Candidates with Financial domain /capital market experience would be an added advantage.
Job Title: Java Backend Developer
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 3–6 years
Mode: Full-time
✨ Job Summary
We are looking for a skilled Java Backend Developer to join our engineering team. You will be responsible for building the backend services and APIs that power our web and mobile applications.
✅ Responsibilities:
- Design and develop RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient backend code
- Integrate databases, caching layers, and data storage solutions
- Implement security and data protection best practices
- Monitor and optimize application performance
- Work with DevOps tools to manage builds and deployments
- Participate in code reviews and agile ceremonies
🧠 Required Skills:
- Strong programming experience in Java 8+
- Proficient in Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA
- Hands-on with REST APIs, JSON, Postman
- Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
- Experience with Maven/Gradle, Git, Jenkins
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS is a plus
- Understanding of OOP, design patterns, and microservice architecture
🎓 Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of backend development experience
💼 Good to Have:
- Knowledge of NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with testing tools like JUnit or Mockito
As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs need to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimizing queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail, who are genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and GETTING IT DONE.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
- Take part in software and architectural development activities
- Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
- Participate in application development meetings
- Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
- Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
- Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
- Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
- Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
- Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
- Understanding of relational database and normal forms
- Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
- Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
- Experience building RESTful web services
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
- Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
- Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA
1. As a founding backend engineer, tackle a wide range of technical challenges: from
designing powerful new integrations to scaling our real-time web service to hundreds
of users
2. Build high-impact, end-user features that vastly improve user productivity.
3. In a small cross-functional team you will collaborate closely to discuss the feasibility
and direction of prototypes or planned product features.
4. Address complex problems at both an application and system-level, and maintain
existing codebases
5. Work directly with CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture and create
processes for improving engineering standards
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have a work experience of 3+ years as a Backend Developer
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS, Golang will be a plus
3. Demonstrated fluency with REST APIs, third-party libraries, and client/server
architectures
5. You have experience with maintaining backend microservices
6. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility
7. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
8. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
- Hands on programming skills.
- Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
- Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
- Design and coding experience in Java/golang
- Design and coding experience in Java/golang
- Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github
● Be responsible for programming and software development using various programming languages and related tools and frameworks, reviewing code written by other programmers, requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting and implementation.
● Good understanding of GoLang and microservices
● To take up development and deployment of native code to manage the customer facing platforms
● Explain complex technical issues to project managers, developers, application leads and architects in an easy to understand manner, and recommend clearly thought out solutions.
● Knowledge of Integration Design patterns for building middleware systems from the ground up
● Knowledge of Web Services Interoperability, standards and ability to suggest, criticize and formulate solutions in a multi-vendor and architecture discussions.
● Develop solutions by designing system specifications, standards and programming
● Troubleshoot issues and provide bug fixes.
Role Description:
As a Lead Backend Engineer , you will be responsible for designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems for Radiusagent. Experience as a Tech Lead, managing tasks with back-end engineers while coding themselves will be a bonus point for the ideal candidate.
Responsibilities will include-
- You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
- You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
- You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
- You will ensure compliance with the build/release and configuration management process.
Skills needed:
- be able to design and build modules from ground up
- proficient in any one programming language out of php/golang/node/python/javascript/java/ruby and ability to pick up others
- experience with mysql/postgres/mongodb/couchdb
- experience with redis/memcached
- experience with rabbitmq / kafka
- experience in having written cron jobs, troubleshooting downtime
- ability to work with ambiguous requirements
- good understanding of OS concepts
Nice to haves:
- experience with managing VMs' on aws/gcp/digitalocean
- experience with docker/kubernetes
- experience elasticsearch or lucene











