Backend Engineer - Java

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

• Strong experience in core Java programming.
• Good experience in Spring and Hibernate 
• Proficiency with JSF/third party JSF components framework
• Must have at least 2+ years exp. of Web application development with exp. in using any MVC framework
• Knowledge of OOP concepts, industry best practices, and design 
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Work experience writing Unit tests 
• Good understanding of web technology and enterprise-level applications 
• Work experience in applying the best practices of Web Application development
• Working experience in an Agile team especially with SCRUM
• Good to have experience in JavaScript frameworks
• Good to have experience in JSON, HTML5, CSS and XML

Following Skills will be an added advantage 

• Working experience of Prime-Faces
• Knowledge of Spring Web Flow

Behavioral Skill

• Should be self-motivated and a quick learner with a problem-solving mind-set
• Attention to detail and follow-through to achieve good quality and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a team as well as in an individual environment
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Design and develop robust services in coordination with front-end developers, ensuring the production and development of high-quality and well-tested code

Design, develop and test features alongside other technical departments

Lead the department in the design, development, deployment, and operation of services used by our users

Optimise APIs for any applications while creating and maintaining unit tests for new code as well as fix defects

Participate in the continuous integration of automated builds and deployments, ensuring that deliverables meet functional and design requirements and specifications of the site/software. Work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex site/software development issues.

Take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the backend department

• Experience in Web and Mobile Applications
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• Experience in Java, Python.
• Deep understanding of data structures and microservices.
• Knowledge of Node.js
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Familiarity with front-end technologies
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Interaction with multiple data sources
• Good understanding of SQL
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .

About the opportunity

What you’ll be doing:

• You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development life-cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations.
• You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
• You will collaborate with product managers, and other key stakeholders within the MMT family to successfully execute projects.
• You will ensure compliance with build/release and configuration management process.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• You possess good understanding of Agile Methodology, Object Oriented Programming Concepts and Responsive Designs.
• You have hands-on experience on Java/ J2EE stack and have done development across multiple browsers/platforms delivering mind-boggling results.
• You thrive in complexity and jump at the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to delivery projects within tight deadlines.
• If you have work experience in a product/start-up company, we’ll like you even more.

Our Purpose and Challenges

With over 47% market-share, MakeMyTrip is India’s first and biggest travel company. In fact, one in every four passengers at an airport is our customer. Driven by the desire to provide an exceptional travel experience for our customers, we have continuously stayed ahead of the curve by developing technology and products to meet the ever-changing demands of the rapidly evolving travel ecosystem.

We are currently solving multiple challenging problems, including -

• How to bring the next 100 million users to our platform?
• How to leverage customer insights to create a truly personalised experience for users?
• How to create a delightful experience for our users, to make travel synonymous to MMT?