As a Search lead, you will get hands-on experience in latest technologies like Elastic Stack, Spring, Kafka, Mongo, Redis, API Design etc. and also will be responsible for leading a team of engineers. The Search team is an essential part of the Technology team at Meesho and works on solving technical challenges related to ensuring fast searchability of data with increasing scale.
Understanding Elasticsearch internals. Managing & improving elasticsearch clusters performance.
Build & lead a great team by example.
Develop a deep understanding of the startup ecosystem.
Build a customer-facing technology product for global customers.
Learn & Develop Leadership skills.
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to Spring, Node, Elastic Stack, MySQL, Mongo, ReactJS, Webpack, Kafka, Redis, AWS Lambda, Ansible, etc

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Job Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Java Application Engineer with 4–5 years of solid development experience to take ownership of a business-critical application currently in business continuity mode. While the application is not in active feature expansion, it is functionally essential and requires regular code enhancements, performance tuning, and reliable production support.
The role involves contributing to ongoing development work, fixing issues, implementing functional improvements, and supporting smooth operations. Looking ahead after couple of years, this role will be central to modernizing and re-architecting the application to align with cloud-native and scalable architecture patterns.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of an existing Java-based application, ensuring it runs smoothly in production.
- Implement functional enhancements, refactoring, and performance improvements as needed.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with a focus on long-term stability and root cause elimination.
- Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and cross-functional teams to deploy safe, incremental changes.
- Participate in planning for the future modernization of the application - including architectural improvements and cloud readiness.
- Provide occasional support during US business hours to address critical issues or coordinate with global stakeholders when needed.
Required Skills:
- 5–8 years of hands-on Java development experience using Core Java, Spring, JSP/Servlets, and SQL
- Strong understanding of backend application design, debugging, and production support
- Working knowledge of WildFly and/or Apache Tomcat application servers is an asset
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and modern build tools
- Clear understanding of REST APIs, SOAP APIs, logging frameworks, and error-handling patterns
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive ownership mindset
● Design and deliver scalable web services, APIs, and backend data modules.
Understand requirements and develop reusable code using design patterns &
component architecture and write unit test cases.
● Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit &
understand their requirements & challenges and develop potential solutions
● Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas, and methodologies; share
knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision-makers.
Requirements
● 3-6 years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and
middle tier. BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
Strong in problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design. Strong
experience in system architecture, Web services development, highly scalable
distributed applications.
● Good in large data systems such as Hadoop, Map Reduce, NoSQL Cassandra, etc.. Fluency in Java, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, REST Services Ability to deliver code
quickly from given scenarios in a fast-paced start-up environment.
● Attention to detail. Strong communication and collaboration skills.


lives of API developers and consumers easier. If you love thinking big and delving deep and
enjoy envisioning truly elegant solutions, this role is definitely for you.
What you will be Doing
- You will abstract away complex data interactions with easy-to-use APIs that will power several
mobile and web applications.
- You will also own, scale, and maintain the computational and storage infrastructure for the
various micro-services and long-running jobs, designed and implemented by you and the team.
- We will look to you to make key decisions on the technology stack, architecture, networking,
and security. We love working with bleeding-edge technology, especially if it improves the
malleability, and simplicity of our deliverables.
What you need
- The ideal Backend Engineers are polyglots who are fluent in HTTP and core CS concepts such
as algorithms, data structures, and programming paradigms, and always pick the right tools for
the right job.
- They have a keen eye for common security vulnerabilities and how to act on them (example:
DDOS attacks, SQL Injection etc.).
- They understand what it takes to work in a startup environment and know when to trade
performance for simplicity.
- They fail fast, learn faster, and execute in time.
- Strong communication skills, get-things-done attitude, and empathy
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and obsessive attention to detail.
- Comfortable with iterative development practices and code reviews
- Previous experience as part of a product-oriented team is a plus
Technical Skillsets:
NodeJS + Javascript, GoLang, Typescript + Nodejs, Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
(languages/environments)
Koa, Express, Play (frameworks)
Asynchronous Programming Frameworks (Akka, Nodejs, Tornado)
MongoDB, postgres, Bigtable, Dynamo (databases)
Apache Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ (queues)
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
microservices, multi-tenant, distributed-systems, distributed-computing, event-sourcing
Good to have Skillsets:
Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
Apache Kafka, NATS
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
event-sourcing
Koa
Why you should consider this role seriously?
- We have an audacious vision of helping companies fight counterfeiting and managing their
supply chain more efficiently
- We have built a product and solved problems for some of the largest brands in the country and
tested platform at scale (With our tags present in over 50 Million products already). We have
plans to grow 10x in the next 1 year
- Ownership of key problems. Fast-paced environment
- We are a well-balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs and are backed by top investors
across India and the Silicon Valley (Venture Highway, Startup Buddy etc.)
- Competitive market salary
- Opportunity to work directly with the CEO, COO, CTO of the company
- A chance to interact with top-notch executives from multiple industries
- Open vacation policy (and we really mean it!)
- Open Pantry
- As a team, we love to travel :). An off-site every quarter

Responsibilities
- Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
- Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
- Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
- Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers
- Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
- Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions
Apply If You have:
- Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
- 6-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript, NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
- Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
- Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environment
- 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
- Hands on writing and reviewing code
- Exceptional design and architectural skills
- Strong communication skills
- High motivation to work in a fast paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment
- 6+ years Java coding experience with immediate joiner
- Will be working closely with Product and Technology team
- Very good logical thinking and quick at learning and exploring new frameworks
- Hands-on with technology and providing POC
- Strong background culture of delivering projects with First time right and near-zero defects in production
Skill Sets:
- Java Spring Boot
- Micro Services architecture
- J2EE, JDBC, ORM Frameworks, JPA, NoSQL
Our client was founded in 1999 by Mr. D.N. Prahlad (an early employee of Infosys), to create software products. Headquartered in Bangalore, we also have offices in the USA and France.
What We're Looking For
• An unwavering attention to detail and care towards your work. We double-check PRs they submit for review. Each variable name is thought through in detail; attention is paid to how decisions made today will affect the future.
• An absolute commitment towards doing the best work of your life, while helping others to do the same. We deliver with utmost focus on the job at hand. The team works towards crafting the best products for our users, and customers. Working as a team, we take on problems out of the original scope of their work if this results in a better end product.
• You should be comfortable working in an agile environment. You are also expected to
participate in code reviews—both receiving and offering them as needed. You are needed to communicate flexibly with your team—pitching in on designs, features, and ideas for the product, wherever needed.
What is Needed for the Role
• Strong command of Java & the JVM ecosystem
• Strong command of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, etc. (both with & without ORMs)
• Strong command of HTTP
• Strong command of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Extensive experience with at least one JVM based web framework (SpringBoot, Micronaut, Play, Dropwizard, etc.)
• Experience with concurrency & parallelism on the JVM
• Experience with Docker, and cloud-native concepts
• Experience with Gradle
• A good grip on Git
What You Will Work On
The specific project you work on is decided based on the list of available projects at the time. While what you work on will change over time, we assure you that you’ll work with people who care deeply about their work and deliver with great attention to detail.
Your Growth
Our growth is driven by ordinary people who have extraordinary dreams and are bold enough to pursue them. Our leadership team, including our Managing Director, is comprised primarily of people who joined us as freshers. Through our process of continuous feedback, and regular 1-1 conversation, we believe in upskilling our team, and enabling each of them to grow along paths they find satisfying.
Your Level of Experience
We do not evaluate people based on the number of years of experience they have.
Instead, we look for skills that have been gained, regardless of how long they’ve, it has taken a person to gain those skills.
However, as a point of reference, historically, we have successfully recruited candidates for this role with 1-5 years of prior experience.
Evaluation Process
The evaluation process starts with a short phone conversation.
After that, the candidate will be required to take both a technical and writing test, which will be shared with them after the phone screen.
This will be followed by 1-3 interviews, over Google Meet. We will require candidates to be alone, in a quiet place (with no background noise). They must also have a fast & reliable internet connection. They will be required to take the call on a laptop with a camera, and have their technical test code ready for perusal. We recommend using Google Chrome to join the call, and strongly urge candidates to use headphones/earphones.
Please note that the evaluation process may take up to 6 hours


Must Have Skills :
- Hand on experience on .NET core
- Experience in C#
- Looking for experience into No Sql.
Other Skill set required :
- 3+ years of building sophisticated, world-class, highly reliable multi-tenant software systems that have stood the test of time.
- From being highly proficient to being an expert in at least one OOPS language, SOLID principles, and design patterns, C#, Dotnet core, WebAPI, NoSQL.
- Experience with microservices architecture OR distributed systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently.




