Backend Engineer/Developer, SDE-I/II/III, 1-8 Years

This position is ideal for someone with a solid foundation in Java and Spring Boot, who has a deep understanding of modern software development practices and is eager to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Requirements:

• Strong Java Expertise: Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code using Java, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Spring Boot & Microservices: Develop and maintain scalable, resilient microservices using the Spring Boot framework.
• Design Patterns: Apply design patterns effectively in solving software design challenges.
• Unit Testing & Mocking: Write comprehensive unit tests, utilize mocking frameworks, and ensure high test coverage for quality assurance.
• High-Performance Code: Write optimized, high-performance code with a focus on speed, efficiency, and scalability.
• Secure Coding Practices: Ensure all code is secure and compliant with best security practices to protect against vulnerabilities.
• AWS & Cloud-Native Development: Leverage AWS services for cloud-native application development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Relational Databases: Work with relational databases, including writing complex queries and optimizing database interactions.
• NoSQL Knowledge: Basic understanding or hands-on experience with NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Agile Development: Collaborate effectively within an Agile development environment, participating in code reviews, sprints, and daily standups.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tools to streamline development and deployment processes.
• Problem-Solving: Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, troubleshooting, and debugging abilities.
• Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams, communicate effectively, and contribute to the overall success of the project.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 4+ years of experience with Java.
• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent degree required.
• Strong understanding of Spring Boot and Microservices
• Strong Java Expertise
• Good problem-solving skills
• Sound knowledge of OOP principles and best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience with production-grade python. Contribution to open source repos is preferred
• Experience writing concurrent and distributed programs, AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark is preferred.
• Experience with one relational & 1 non-relational DB is preferred
• Prior work in the ML domain will be a big boost

What You’ll Do

• Help realize the product vision: Production-ready machine learning models with monitoring within moments, not months.
• Help companies deploy their machine learning models at scale across a wide range of use-cases and sectors.
• Build integrations with other platforms to make it easy for our customers to use our product without changing their workflow.
• Write maintainable, scalable performant python code
• Building gRPC, rest API servers
• Working with Thrift, Protobufs, etc.

Instrive is a Chennai-based start-up that provides high-quality Dev-ops solutions for clients worldwide. We strive to solve problems and create value in this increasingly digital world. Instrive was founded to create high-quality products and deliver great user experiences worldwide.

Several products are being developed for both in-house purposes and our overseas clients, and we are actively expanding our team of talented professionals.

We are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and our employees have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this innovation. Our flat organisational structure encourages open communication and idea-sharing and provides ample opportunities for employees to take ownership of their work and make a real impact.

As part of our ambitious product roadmap, we need senior developers with experience in NodeJS.

Your primary responsibility will be to develop UI components, processes, documentation, and an organisation-wide style guide that can be reused across all applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain web applications using Node.js, Express, and related technologies
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Collaborate with the team to design and implement new features and functionality
• Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure a smooth user experience
• Optimize application performance and scalability
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards
• Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends
• Work with other developers, project managers, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver high-quality solutions

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 3-5 years of experience in web application development using Node.js
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including experience with popular libraries and frameworks such as Express.js, Nest.js, and Mongoose
• Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of web protocols and technologies such as HTTP, REST, and WebSockets
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and SQL databases like MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL
• Experience with Git and version control
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Adaptability to rapid change

Good to have:

• Experience with GraphQL and Apollo
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven architecture
• Familiarity with cloud-based development tools such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions
• Familiarity with load balancing, caching, and performance optimisation techniques
• Experience working with remote teams and communicating effectively with remote stakeholders.

Perks and Benefits:

By working at the intersection of product, strategy, and technology, you will learn how to make strategic decisions, prioritise product features against business objectives, and put the user first.

In addition to the exciting work, Instrive offers our employees a comprehensive benefits package. This includes health insurance, paid time off, and professional development and training opportunities, so our employees can continue to grow and advance in their careers. 

We focus on fostering a positive and collaborative work environment and are committed to helping our employees reach their full potential.

You will make a meaningful impact and create lasting connections with our outstanding team, no matter where your career takes you.

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain java application phases, code, and software.
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging, as well as recommending changes to improve the established processes.
• Transform requirements into stipulations and identify production and non-production application issues
• Competence and comfort using multiple frameworks (e.g. Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Angular 2/4/5, Spring Boot)
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors and make adjustments in a testing environment.

Role- Software Development Engineer-2

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Roles & Responsibilities
• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

About Amazon.com

“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.

Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.

We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.