
We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.
You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
- Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
- Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
- Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
- Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
- Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
- Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
- Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
- Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
- Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
- Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.
Benefits:
- Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
- Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.
About Us
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.
Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams.

About Proximity Works
About
We are Proximity - a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks and experts. We solve hard, long-term engineering problems and build cutting edge tech products.
About us
Born in 2019, Proximity Works is a global, fully distributed tech firm headquartered in San Francisco - with hubs across Mumbai, Dubai, Toronto, Stockholm, and Bengaluru. We’re in the business of solving high-stakes engineering challenges with AI-powered solutions tailored for industries like sports, media & entertainment, fintech, and enterprise platforms. From real-time game analytics and ticketing workflows to creative content generation, we help build software that serves millions every day.
About the Founders
At the helm is Hardik Jagda, CEO - a technologist with a startup DNA who brings clarity to complexity and a passion for building delightful experiences.
Milestones & Impact
- Trusted by some of the world’s biggest players - from major media & entertainment giants to one of the world’s largest cricket websites and the second-largest stock exchange in the world.
- Delivered game-changing tech: slashing content creation by 90%, doubling performance metrics for NASDAQ clients, and accelerating speed/performance wins for platforms like Dream11.
Culture & Why It Matters
- Fully distributed and flexible: work 100% remotely, design your own schedule, build habits that work for you and not the other way around.
- People-first culture: Community events, “Proxonaut battles,” monthly off-sites, and a liberal referral policy keep us connected even when we’re apart.
- High-trust environment: autonomy is encouraged. You’re empowered to act, learn fast, and iterate boldly. We know great work comes when talented people have space to think and create.
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· Develops and configures automation processes as per the technical design document to meet the defined requirements. Works on the coding the more complicated automations or reusable components, and delegates and mentors junior developers for the less complex components.
· Develops new processes/tasks/objects using core workflow principles that are efficient, well structured, maintainable and easy to understand.
· Complies with and helps to enforce design and coding standards, policies and procedures.
· Ensures documentation is well maintained.
· Ensures quality of coded components by performing thorough unit testing.
· Works collaboratively with test teams during the Product test and UAT phases to fix assigned bugs with quality.
· Reports status, issues and risks to tech leads on a regular basis
· Improves skills in automation products by completing automation certification.
· Mentors junior developers and performs code reviews for quality control.
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Engineering / Computer Science
Additional Information
· 5- 8 years of IT experience and having good understanding of programming concepts. Should be from a programming background on any coding language (.Net, Java).
· Working experience in RPA for a minimum of 2 years and having project experience of a minimum 3 RPA implementations.
· Understands development methodology and lifecycle
· Should be trained on RPA tools (Uipath).
· Self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented.
· Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.
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Java 8 or later |
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Spring Framework |
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Rest API |
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Good knowledge in any Database (MySql, Oracle, or NoSQL) is mandatory. |
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Maven/Gradle/sbt |
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MQ/Kafka/RabbitMQ |
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Junit |
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Postman/Swagger/Jmeter |
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Enthusiastic to learn, |
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Good Programming, Coding, Basic DS/Algo Skill |
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Good Analytical Skill |
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Spring Boot |
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Microservice |
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No-SQL [Mongo, Cassandra] Preference on Cassandra |
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Knowledge on Caching Framework like: Redis Or Apache Ignite. Preference on Apache Ignite |
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Apache Kafka |
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Azure DevOps/JIRA |
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CICD Basic Knowledge |
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Docker , Kubernates |
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Scrum and Agile Methodology |
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Technologies/Frameworks – · Core Java, J2EE, · Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security, · JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices · Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage · Junit or Mockito frameworks · Maven, Git · Knowledge Data Structures, · SQL, MySQL · Designing relational database schemas · Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
· BFSI, FinTech |
- 4+ years JAVA/J2EE experience Spring Services, Spring Security and Rest Api's
- Spring Framework: Core Spring / Spring Boot / Spring MVC ,Rest Service
- JPA/Hibernate, JSON parsing
- Build Tool : Maven
- Apache tomcat
- Database : Any RDMS (preferably Mysql)
- SCM: Git / Bitbucket
- Java 8 Generics, SOLID Design Principle
- Strong experience on Collections Framework and Threading
- Collections: Hashmaps, Concurrent Hashmaps, Treemap, Thread pool
- SSO, PAS, JPA/Hibernate, API Integration Build, MATLAB Integration with Java, Json Conversion.
- Location : PAN India(Preferred Bangalore)
- Early joiners preferred.
You will get while working with us
- Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
- Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
- Opportunity to incubate an open source project
- Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
- Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
- Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
- Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
- Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product
Roles & Responsibilities
- Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
- Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
- Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
- Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it
- Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
- Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
- Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
- Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up
Must have
- Strong hold on written/verbal communication
- Strong core Java fundamentals
- Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
- Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
- Passion of writing clean code
- Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements
Good to have
- Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
- Knowledge of NOSQL
- Working knowledge of linux & networking
- Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level
We are looking for a Java backend developer who would be working on the bleeding edge of technologies. We work primarily with a fully reactive stack powered by Spring Webflux and Reactive MongoDb Repository in AWS. Our services follow both event based approaches as well as workflow based depending on the use case.
Responsibilities
- Understand why a particular design was chosen and code accordingly
- Will have to deliver clean bug free unit tested code with minimal guidance
- Strive for continuous improvement by refactoring and applying best practices
- Learn and adapt to new technologies as necessary.
- Capable of working in both client side and server side technologies
Requirements
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
- Must have 2-3 years experience as a software developer
- Must be proficient in Core Java and Spring/Springboot. Knowledge of Webflux is not mandatory.
- Must have developed RESTful services
- Should understand git
Added Bonus
- Experience working with microservices
- Experience in a NoSql solution like MongoDB
- Experience working with Python
- Expert software implementation and automated testing
- Promoting development standards, code reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing
- Improving our Agile methodology maturity
- Product and feature design, scrum story writing
- Build, release, and deployment automation
- Product support & troubleshooting
- Demonstrated experience as a Java
- Should have a deep understanding of Enterprise/Distributed Architecture patterns and should be able to demonstrate the relevant usage of the same
- Turn high-level project requirements into application-level architecture and collaborate with the team members to implement the solution
- Strong experience and knowledge in Spring boot framework and microservice architecture
- Solid demonstrated object-oriented software development experience with Java, SQL, Maven, relational/NoSQL databases, and testing frameworks
- Strong working experience with developing RESTful services
- Should have experience working on Application frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, AOP
- Ability to take up tasks independently and willing to be an individual contributor when required
- Working experience or knowledge of Scrum/Kanban and SAFe agile processes
- Should have an excellent communication skill (Verbal & Oral)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Have profound interest in Java technologies.
- Must have accomplished academic projects using Java.
- Understanding of OOD patterns.
- Excellent communication skills written and oral.
- Git or SVN experience/knowledge.
- Proficient in Core Java, JSP, JavaScript, JDBC.
- Knowledge in Frontend technologies ( e.g. Angular, HTML, CSS, Java Script, JSP and JQuery)
- Knowledge in java frameworks - Spring/Spring MVC.
- Knowledge with working with databases MYSQL/SQL.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented principles and programming.
- Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.
Desired Candidate Profile
- Sound knowledge of OOPS concept
- Ability to practice good coding standards in order to enable reusability of code.
- Problem solving & Resilience.
- Timely & Error free Delivery
- Ability to perform R & D with code in order to increase product performance.
- Keen to learn new technologies.
- Self-Motivated Individual.
What We offer:
1. Freedom of Work
- 5 days week
- Flexible Timing.
- No Bond System in any form (Training Agreement, No Blank Cheque Deposit).
- Work from home after Domain and Product Training.
2. Work life Balance
As per the experience of more than 2 decades management of Uffizio always believes that work of software development is creative and requires many efforts hence no developer shall work more than 8 hours a day. So, we prefer 8 hours / day working standard is the normal scenario for software developers.
3.We are open to new ideas
- You can bring new ideas / technologies without any hesitations to the management.
- Once feasibility testing of idea is found okay then company is ready to work on your idea.
4.You will be adding new feather to your crown by getting experience of high-end German Analytics systems development while working with us.
5.WorkShops and Training Activities
6.Compensation
- We don't follow bell curve system.
- We judge people on their capabilities rather than their experience in number of years.
- We offer compensation to our employees based on the values they bring to our organization not based on their tenure.
- We have fair increment system bring values on table and claim your desired increment.











