Backend Engineer

Architect

Experience - 12+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

●     Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least 3+ years as an architect.

●     Good problem solving skills

●     Strong mentoring capabilities

●     Good understanding of software development life cycle

●     Strong experience in system design and architecture

●     Strong focus on quality of work delivered

●     Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

● Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance applications using Node.Js (Javascript/Typescript) and .NET/ Golang / Java / Python.

● Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).

● Wellversed in monolithic and microservices architecture.

● Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases

● Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud services, etc.

● Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.

● Handsonexperience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider- AWS / GCP / Azure

● Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

●     Experience working with frontend technologies - React.Js or Vue.Js or Angular.

●     Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.

●     Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

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

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain web applications using Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.microservices
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement application designs.
• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Troubleshoot and debug existing applications.
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience in developing web applications using Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Strong understanding of front-end and back-end development.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

2+ years of experience developing web applications using J2EE.

2+ years of experience in Spring Boot.

Good knowledge of MicroServices.

Expertise developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, 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, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL in Unix and Windows environments.

Strong Shell scripting experience

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

Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 2-5 years hands-on experience with Java based open source tech stack
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and /or NoSQL databases like Couchbase, DynamoDB, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Practical hands-on experience in JavaScript UI preferred
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, or Splunk
• Prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant
• Prior experience in transformation to cloud platforms is preferred
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills

Your Qualifications:

 7 to 12 years of experience with majority as Java engineer

 Strong hands on experience on building application using technologies Java, Spring, Hibernate, Maven/Gradle.

 Experience in building Micro Services using Spring Boot / Go.

 Strong knowledge and experience with SQL queries and databases like Postgre SQL/Oracle.

 Strong knowledge and experience on Platform components such as Docker, Kubernetes and Service Mesh (Istio).

 Good knowledge of scripting languages (preferably Python and Bash)

 Familiarity with CI/CD environment (Jenkins).

 Experience on Observability stack such as ELK Stack, Prometheus & Grafana would be added advantage.

 Should have experience on Active MQ based async queuing system design and deployment.

 Strong experience of system design and implementation of end-to-end integrated systems.

 Familiarity with Hazelcast and Zk Solution would be a plus.

 Strong skills to write technical design documentation.

 Experience of leading a team as tech lead.

 Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently.

 Good communication skills with tech/non-tech people.

What You'll Do:

 Assigned to software development projects and/or system enhancements as tech lead.

 Be engaged in a whole process of development project (requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing/verification, deployment, operation/maintenance).

 Work closely with project manager and other engineers. Some of them are in different locations such as Japan and Singapore.

 Always improve the design quality, code quality, testing quality and system quality spontaneously. In addition, create such a culture in our team.

 Understand business needs and user behavior and develop solutions to those needs.

 Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our systems and propose system improvements.

 Guide and support less-experienced members as mentor and role model to improve the team productivity and achieve team’s goals together.

Better to Have:

 Familiarity with Telecom Service Provider’s Billing Ecosystem/BSS Systems.

 Familiarity with and experience on Cloud Native Technologies.

 Familiarity with Agile Software development process.

 Familiarity with and experience on Linux/Unix environment

 Work experience with a remote team

 Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, HipChat)

 Familiarity with source control system (Gitlab, SVN, etc.)

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU:

You'll benefit from our network of global communities and collaborative culture that will help you build technical and functional skills and capabilities. And because we serve more than 28 countries industries globally, you'll have the opportunity to develop valuable industry-specific expertise.

The scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the unique way we innovate, operate and deliver value will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest technology trends. You'll have access to leading-edge technology.

Role: Senior Software Developer

Experience: 3-6 years of experience.

Work Location: Bangalore

Job responsibility The Software Developer contributes, to create a customer’s solution, in the building phase of the software development life cycle. The Software Engineer is responsible for performing the detailed design of application and technical architecture components and classes in accordance to the specification provided by the Solution Architect, for coding of SW components, and for the early testing phases (component testing), and system testing support

Requirement:
Must Have skills: Java/J2ee, SQL, Web services, Spring Boot, Elastic search

Job description
- Hands on experience in Java, Python, scripting
- Design, implement, deploy and support web-based applications and web services using server technologies stacks that include Java, MySQL
- Experience in Java/J2EE using web frameworks Play or Spring boot, REST API Development and ORM (JPA, Hibernate eBean etc.)
- In depth knowledge of Design patterns and Data structures
- Databases - MySQL, Oracle, SQL
- Solid understanding of concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, Message Queue, Caching, Distributed/Scalable Architecture
- Secure application development best practices, such as OWASP
- Document and maintain all design documents and involve in review process.
- Experienced problem solving and debugging skills.
- Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in Agile methodology is added advantage
- Knowledge of Cloud Knowledge /Azure
- Must know about Unix knowledge
- experience in Elastic search