Backend Engineer

Software Development Engineer 2

(Backend – Java)

Location: (5 days WFO) Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri

East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400093

Experience: 3–5 Years

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

About Company

The Company is a B2B fintech neobank simplifying business banking and credit for Indian businesses.

We believe that Indian businesses — both small and large — are financially underserved, and

our mission is to empower them through powerful B2B financial products.

Our offerings include:

● Business current accounts

● Corporate credit cards

● Payment collection reminders

● Working capital management tools

● Payroll automation

● Invoice tracking

● Rewards/cashback on account transactions and balances

We are building financial infrastructure that helps Indian businesses access liquidity, manage

operations seamlessly, and scale confidently.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer 2 (Backend – Java) to design, build, and

scale robust backend systems and APIs that power company's fintech platform.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Java-based backend development,

a solid understanding of system design principles, and experience building scalable, secure

financial systems.

Key Responsibilities

● Design, develop, and maintain backend applications and RESTful APIs using Java

● Implement business logic, data models, and algorithms to support product features

● Ensure high reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices

● Debug and resolve production issues and application defects

● Collaborate with QA teams to define and execute test cases

● Work closely with product managers and frontend teams to translate requirements into

technical solutions

● Contribute to architecture decisions and continuous improvement of development

processes

● Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and fintech trends

Technical Requirements

Core Backend Skills

● Strong proficiency in Java

● Experience with Spring / Spring Boot

● Hands-on experience with Hibernate / JPA

● Experience building RESTful APIs

● Strong knowledge of Servlets, JSP

● Understanding of MVC architecture

Database & Storage

● Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases & SQL

● Experience with ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

● Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra)

● Understanding of caching mechanisms

Testing & Development Practices

● Experience with JUnit, TestNG, Mockito

● Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD)

● Strong understanding of SDLC & Agile methodologies

● Proficiency with Git

● Exposure to CI/CD practices

• Strong experience in core Java programming.
• Good experience in Spring and Hibernate 
• Proficiency with JSF/third party JSF components framework
• Must have at least 2+ years exp. of Web application development with exp. in using any MVC framework
• Knowledge of OOP concepts, industry best practices, and design 
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Work experience writing Unit tests 
• Good understanding of web technology and enterprise-level applications 
• Work experience in applying the best practices of Web Application development
• Working experience in an Agile team especially with SCRUM
• Good to have experience in JavaScript frameworks
• Good to have experience in JSON, HTML5, CSS and XML

Following Skills will be an added advantage 

• Working experience of Prime-Faces
• Knowledge of Spring Web Flow

Behavioral Skill

• Should be self-motivated and a quick learner with a problem-solving mind-set
• Attention to detail and follow-through to achieve good quality and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a team as well as in an individual environment
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Description 

Our Software Architects are the strategic thinkers and technical leaders. They design, validate, and guide the delivery of enterprise-grade systems that balance innovation, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. 

 Software Architects work at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution. They collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams to define architecture blueprints, select technologies, and ensure systems evolve in alignment with customer goals. Architects are hands-on, often prototyping solutions and coaching teams, while also trusted to influence executives on technical direction. Here’s what you should know if you want to be a Software Architect at 

Requirements 

The ideal person 

● Proven track record in architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed software systems. 

● Expertise in modern architectural patterns: microservices, event-driven systems, composable commerce, headless architectures. 

● Ability to translate business strategy into actionable technical roadmaps and system designs. 

● Strong leadership skills: guiding engineering teams, mentoring individuals, and setting technical standards. 

● Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, from engineers to C level. 

● Commitment to designing systems that are secure, performant, and cost-efficient.

Desirable Skills 

● Deep experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks (e.g., ● JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, Java, .NET, Python). 

● Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes). 

● Experience with data platforms, integration patterns, and API-first design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC). 

● Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. ● Understanding of security standards, compliance (GDPR, SOC2), and enterprise IT constraints. 

● Ability to design for scalability across global markets and multi-tenant environments. ● Strong knowledge of design systems and front-end frameworks, ensuring alignment between presentation and infrastructure. 

● Experience leading architectural reviews, trade-off analysis, and decision records. ● Ability to mentor teams and establish communities of practice around architecture. ● Awareness of emerging technologies (AI, serverless, edge computing) and their practical application. 

On any given day you might 

● Define architecture blueprints and technical roadmaps for enterprise projects. ● Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to align architecture with strategic goals. 

● Make key technology selection decisions, balancing innovation with long-term maintainability. 

● Review system designs, ensuring alignment with principles of security, scalability, and performance. 

● Support engineering teams with hands-on prototyping and technical problem solving. ● Facilitate architectural reviews and communicate trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

● Collaborate with designers to ensure UI/UX and architecture integrate seamlessly. ● Influence enterprise customers, helping them modernise platforms and adopt composable, headless, or cloud-native approaches. 

● Establish coding standards, architectural patterns, and governance processes. ● Share thought leadership internally and externally, positioning Co. as a trusted Advisor.

You bring 

● 7+ years of software development and architecture experience. 

● Expertise in designing cloud-native, distributed systems. 

● Proven success in leading technical decisions across multi-team programmes. ● Strong cross-functional collaboration and customer-facing skills. 

● Advanced understanding of system integration, security, and performance optimisation. 

● Familiarity with enterprise-scale delivery: migration projects, composable commerce, API ecosystems. 

● Advanced English, able to communicate at both executive and engineering levels. ● (Bonus) Experience contributing to open-source, publishing architectural thought pieces, or speaking at conferences.

Job Role:

As a senior R&D Java Engineer, you will work in a highly collaborative, dynamic environment. Your work will impact a lot to make world bit safer place. You’ll design creative solutions to problems faced by companies due to cyber attacks. You will work closely with other partners such as product and pre-sales managers, UI developers, and other software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve the efficiency of the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, modify, and implement, the software components of Nimesa Product.
• Assist QA Engineers with the creation and review of the test cases
• Write junits and test automation if anything required to have the coverage
• Assist other Engineers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.
• Keep an eye out for technology trends, and open-source projects that can be used.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or relevant fields.
• At least 3+ years experience in end-end software development for large design and coordinating project teams in the SaaS industry.
• Software development experience with Java and Spring / Springboot, RabbitMQ, MYSQL etc
• Must have worked on fairly complex products from scratch
• Strong knowledge of data structure, multithreading and other comp science concepts (SQL or NoSQL)
• Excellent social and communication skills
• Demonstrated expertise in building Web Applications, Enterprise Applications, Web Services, and Management at scale is a requirement.
• Experience with Design patterns
• Knowledge of cloud-based architectures, deployment and operational aspects of Amazon Web Services cloud

We are seeking extremely smart programmers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop products by working closely with business team.
• Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components.
• Build performant, scalable, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
• Expert at Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
• Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
• Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
• Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
• Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
• Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.

· Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

· Write clean code to develop functional web applications

· Troubleshoot and debug applications

· Perform UI tests to optimize performance

· Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

· Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server- side logic

· Gather and address technical and design requirements

· Provide training and support to internal teams

· Build reusable code and libraries for future use

· Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features

· Follow emerging technologies

Designation - Senior Java Developer

Experience - 4+ Years required

-Proven working experience in Java Spring Boot framework

-Proven working experience in Java development

-Proven hands-on Software Development experience

-Experience in Spring boot micro services

 -Experience working with tools like Git, Maven,SVN.

 -Expertise developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using Spring boot, with demonstrable production-scale experience.

- Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth is a must.

- Demonstrate strong design and programming skills using JSON, Web Services.

- Working knowledge with SQL Server databases.

- Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play.

- Strong agile/scrum development experience

- Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Skill Required – Core Java, Java 8 Feature, Spring Core, Spring boot , Spring Data JPA, Hibernate..Etc

• Strong hands on in Core Java, OOPS, Exception handling, Multi-Threading, Generics and design patterns.
• Proficient in designing and developing web applications using Java/JEE
• Working experience in Spring Boot, Spring Integration and REST Web services
• Exposure to UI technologies/frameworks like JavaScript, React JS , Flux and knowledge of CSS, HTML etc
• Build tools like Maven.
• Should possess good communication skills and a go getter attitude.
• Good in debugging code through eclipse and browsers
• Should be capable to work independently. Desirable
• Experience in any Continuous Integration/Delivery tools like GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible
• Working knowledge of database like Oracle and application server like Tomcat, WebLogic.
• Knowledge of Linux
• Exposure to any test automation technologies such as Selenium, Fitnesse, Mockito, Junit, any other testing frameworks
• Candidate must to have exposure to working in a fast-paced environment using Agile methodologies
• A person with technical thrust who keeps him up to date with latest technology trends, practices, patterns etc. Knowledge of Open Source tools and technologies