Backend Engineer

About the Company-

AdPushup is an award-winning ad revenue optimization platform and Google Certified Publishing Partner (GCPP), helping hundreds of web publishers grow their revenue using cutting-edge technology, premium demand partnerships, and proven ad ops expertise.

Our team is a mix of engineers, marketers, product evangelists, and customer success specialists, united by a common goal of helping publishers succeed. We have a work culture that values expertise, ownership, and a collaborative spirit.

Job Overview- Java Backend- Lead Role :-

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineering Team Lead to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, proven leadership experience, and a passion for mentoring and developing a team of talented engineers. This role will be pivotal in driving the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Exp- 5+ years

Location- New Delhi

Work Mode- Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:-

● Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and professional growth.

● Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring they meet quality standards, timelines, and budget constraints.

● Technical Expertise: Provide technical guidance and expertise in software design, architecture, development, and best practices. Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies. Design, develop, and maintain high-quality applications, taking full, end-to-end ownership, including writing test cases, setting up monitoring, etc.

● Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, scope, and deliverables.

● Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and overall software quality. Implement and enforce quality assurance processes.

● Problem Solving: Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical challenges and bottlenecks. Provide innovative solutions to complex problems.

● Performance Management: Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations for team members.

● Documentation: Ensure comprehensive documentation of code, processes, and project-related information.

Qualifications:-

● Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

● Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development.

● Technical Skills:

○ A strong body of prior backend work, successfully delivered in production. Experience building large volume data processing pipelines will be an added bonus.

○ Expertise in Core Java.

■ In-depth knowledge of the Java concurrency framework.

■ Sound knowledge of concepts like exception handling, garbage collection, and generics.

■ Experience in writing unit test cases, using any framework.

■ Hands-on experience with lambdas and streams.

■ Experience in using build tools like Maven and Ant.

○ Good understanding and Hands on experience of any Java frameworks e.g. SpringBoot, Vert.x will be an added advantage.

○ Good understanding of security best practices. ○ Hands-on experience with Low Level and High Level Design Practices and Patterns.

○ Hands on experience with any of the cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

○ Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.

○ Strong understanding of database technologies, both SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase).

○ Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools such as Jenkins, CI/CD.

○ Strong understanding of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).

● Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

● Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Ability to think critically and provide innovative solutions.

● Project Management: Experience in managing software projects from conception to delivery. Strong organizational and time-management skills.

● Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment. Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

● Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities and requirements.

Why Should You Work for AdPushup?

At AdPushup, we have

1. A culture of valuing our employees and promoting an autonomous, transparent, and ethical work environment.

2. Talented and supportive peers who value your contributions.

3. Challenging opportunities: learning happens outside the comfort-zone and that’s where our team likes to be - always pushing the boundaries and growing personally and professionally.

4. Flexibility to work from home: We believe in work & performance instead of measuring conventional benchmarks like work-hours.

5. Plenty of snacks and catered lunch.

6. Transparency: an open, honest and direct communication with co-workers and business associates.

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

• Software Engineering
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance
  • Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks etc
  • Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

• 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead, build, deliver and ensure customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Work on distributed systems for data processing with efficient protocols and communication, locking and consensus, schedulers, resource management, low latency access to distributed storage, auto scaling, and self healing.
• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment.
• Lead the team to solve complex and unknown problems 
• Solve technical problems and customer issues with technical expertise
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like  GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Mentor other team members for high quality and design 
• Collaborate with Product Management to deliver on customer requirements and innovation
• Collaborate with Support and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 3alm+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models, and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 5+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Hands-on experience  in query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, networking, and storage systems
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Ability to solve ambiguous, unexplored, and cross-team problems effectively
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS, or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to work individually and collaboratively with other team members
• Ability to scope and plan solution for  big problems and mentors others on the same
• Interested and motivated to be part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team

Java Elastic Search

• Java Microservices ELK stack(Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, X-Pack, APM),
• Build Custom Reports

Java + NodeJS

• Java with Node.js- Microservices Development,
• Using graphql with node.js,
• Backend development with Node.JS

Java Microservices

• Working experience in Java and spring boot (microservices)
• Strong understanding of OOPs concepts
• Proficient in API design and development using RESTful services
• Knowledge and understanding of design principles behind building a scalable application
• Source code management using git

Job Description

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

Key Responsibilities

 Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best

technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.

 Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

 Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

 Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

 Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while

continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.

 Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products

spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.

 Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.

 Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and

cross-team.

 Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to

them. 

Skills required

 MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

 3+ years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale

distributed internet systems and products.

 Hands-on experience in Advanced Java/ Node.JS/other backend JavaScript

frameworks, MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.

 Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

 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).

 Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

 Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-

energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

 Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.