Backend Engineer

Job Title: Backend Developer (Full Time)

Location: Remote

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Backend / API Development (About the Role)

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
• Expertise in API key and secrets management, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
• Track record of delivering scalable, high-quality backend systems through impactful projects in production environments.

Job Description:

• Experience in Core Java, Spring Boot.

• Experience in microservices.

• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale systems for global organization. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.

• Should be able to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.

• Good development experience with RDBMS in SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle or DB2

• Good knowledge of multi-threading

• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux

• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java

• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.

• Should be able to express their design ideas and thoughts. 

Job Summary:

As a Java Spring Boot Developer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend services and APIs. With 2.5+ years of experience, including knowledge in Kotlin, you will work alongside a cross-functional team to build scalable and performant systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java and Kotlin code
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and microservices using Spring Boot
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with product managers, QA engineers, and DevOps for end-to-end delivery
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks, bugs, and technical issues
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 2.5+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, MVC, and microservices architecture
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Proficiency with Git and Agile/Scrum methodologies

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience with unit testing and test automation frameworks

We’re looking for a Java Backend Developer with strong experience in Spring Boot, AWS, and Microservices to join our growing team. If you're passionate about scalable backend systems and love working in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Core Java and Spring Boot
• Experience designing and developing Microservices architecture
• Solid working knowledge of AWS services
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, version control (Git), and CI/CD
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Immediate joiners are highly preferred

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.

Job Requirements :

- 4+ years of Java development experience

- 4+ years of microservice development experience with Spring boot framework

- Core & Advanced Java (Threading, Design Patterns, Data Structures) J2EE, REST web services

- Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Design Patterns

- Full stack development with Angular 8 experience will be a plus

- Experience with test driven software development

- Exposure to telecom domain

- ETOM/ SID which make the TM Forum framework

JAVA, JSP, jQuery, Servlet, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Spring boot, SOAP and REST Web Services, Microservices, knowledge of SQL query, build tool like Ant and Maven, very good analytical and logical skills.

Good to have: Redis and Memcached cache management, JBOSS 7 and above, API gateway, Apache, EJB