Backend Engineer

Company Name – Wissen Technology

Group of companies in India – Wissen Technology & Wissen Infotech

Work Location - Senior Backend Developer – Java (with Python Exposure)- Mumbai

Experience - 4 to 10 years

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Java Developer – Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and working knowledge of Python. In this role, Java will be your primary development language, with Python used for scripting, automation, or selected service modules. You’ll be part of a collaborative backend team building scalable and high-performance systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust backend services and APIs primarily using Java (Spring Boot)
• Contribute to Python-based components where needed for automation, scripting, or lightweight services
• Build, integrate, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases
• Write unit and integration tests (JUnit, PyTest)
• Collaborate closely with DevOps, QA, and product teams
• Participate in architecture reviews and design discussions
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4 to 10 years of hands-on Java development experience
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, and REST APIs
• At least 1–2 years of hands-on experience with Python (e.g., for scripting, automation, or small services)
• Familiarity with Python frameworks like Flask or FastAPI is a plus
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Good understanding of OOP, design patterns, and software engineering best practices
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Backend Engineer with 2 to 4 years of professional experience to join our dynamic engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that align with business and user needs.

This role is ideal for engineers ready to take ownership of systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and solve complex backend challenges.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain robust backend systems and APIs that are scalable and maintainable.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.
• Model and manage data using SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), incorporating caching where needed.
• Implement and manage authentication, authorization, and data security practices.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to deploy, monitor, and scale services effectively.
• Use tools like Docker (and optionally Kubernetes) for containerization and orchestration of backend services.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for faster and safer deployments.
• Monitor and debug production issues, using observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for root cause analysis.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to improving development standards, and provide support to less experienced engineers.
• Work with event-driven or microservices-based architecture, and optionally use technologies like GraphQL, WebSockets, or message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ when suitable for the solution.

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous programming, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Solid experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, including designing and optimizing data models.
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment processes (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and performance profiling practices in production environments.
• A good understanding of security best practices in backend systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with evolving priorities.

• Drive development and delivery of top notch technology solutions to clients efficiently.
• Lead development of implementation plan, logic and modules to embed in client solutions and client discussion ready documents /presentations.
• Lead in designing, implementing, maintaining and updating applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission critical systems.
• Lead in refining and improving system stability by continuously refactoring and measuring performance.
• Drive development of actionable, clean, maintainable, testable, reusable, extensible codes, including standardization and automation of processes.
• Provide technical and functional guidance to team members through expert knowledge and hands-on support.
• Manage projects, resource utilization, time schedules and deliveries to clients.
• Proactively drive discussions with stakeholders to understand their business requirements, business context and guide team to provide robust actional solutions.
• Effectively engage with stakeholders – create and nurture and deepen relationships. 
• Ensure positive & creative work-environment, culture of collaborations, speak-up, high level of energy & enthusiasm, curiosity to learn and continuous improvement.
• Inspire, engage, motivate and provide constructive feedback to team members to develop their technical & soft skills and fully support their development aspirations.
• Drive researching and conceptualizing solution approaches, new techniques or solution frameworks and author high quality discussion papers.

Qualifications, Skills and Experiences

• BE / BTech / ME / M Tech in engineering or MCA or similar relevant field.
• 2 to 17 years (Junior, Intermediate, Senior Role & we have multiple openings)of relevant hands-on experience and excellent knowledge of Java, Python, SQL, Relational Databases, DB schema or ORM technologies.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of building applications, platforms and services in Java, Python and MS SQL or at least two of them.
• 5 + years of experience of managing projects, team and stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience of agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and make quality decisions in moderately to high ambiguous work environment.
• Previous work experience in financial services, especially, capital markets is preferred.

• Hands on Work experience as a Python Developer
• Hands on Work experience in SQL/PLSQL 
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Willingness to learn & upgrade to Big data and cloud technologies like Pyspark Azure etc.
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
• Write effective, scalable code

What you’ll be doing

 Weare much more than our job descriptions, but here is where you will begin:

 As a Senior Software Engineer Data & ML You’ll Be:

 ● Architect, design, test, implement, deploy, monitor and maintain end-to-end backend

 services. You build it, you own it.

 ● Work with people from other teams and departments on a day to day basis to ensure

 efficient project execution with a focus on delivering value to our members.

 ● Regularly aligning your team’s vision and roadmap with the target architecture within your

 domain and to ensure the success of complex multi domain initiatives.

 ● Integrate already trained ML and GenAI models (preferably GCP in services.

ROLE:

 Whatyou’ll need,

 Like us, you’ll be deeply committed to delivering impactful outcomes for customers.

 What Makes You a Great Fit

 ● 5 years of proven work experience as a Backend Python Engineer

 ● Understanding of software engineering fundamentals OOPS, SOLID, etc.)

 ● Hands-on experience with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn,

 Lang chain/LLamaIndex etc.

 ● Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, Keras, being

 proficient in Python

 ● Hands-on Experience with frameworks such as Django or FastAPI or Flask

 ● Hands-on experience with MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and BigQuery (or equivalents)

 ● Extensive experience integrating with or creating REST APIs

 ● Experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines- we use GitHub Actions.

 ● Experience with event-driven architectures like Kafka, RabbitMq or equivalents.

 ● Knowledge about:

 o LLMs

 o Vector stores/databases

 o PromptEngineering

 o Embeddings and their implementations

 ● Somehands-onexperience in implementations of the above ML/AI will be preferred

 ● Experience with GCP/AWS services.

 ● You are curious about and motivated by the future trends in data, AI/ML, analytics

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop,  implement and evolve our backend platform (whose APIs and functionality provided are used by other game services, apps, and admin back office)
• Develop highly efficient, robust, quality code for applications and services
• Maintain clean coding practices
• Enhancing and supporting existing functions, some of which are 24/7
• Supporting product owners as required
• Providing support to the testing team during testing phases of the projects
• Contributing to solution proposals as required
• Creating work effort estimates as required
• Mentor, train on the best practices junior software associates and other team members.

• Clean coding practices
• Knowledge of scalable web architectures is required
• A solid understanding of Linux, JVM is required
• Knowledge of DevOps, Docker, Build Pipelines is good to have
• Knowledge of git workflow is essential
• Working with SOA, Microservices.

Any specific knowledge / experience:

• Functional programming experience with immubtable datastructures is required
• Knowledge of Erlang / Elixir is a plus.
• Knowledge of Clojure is perfect

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare. 

As consultants, we https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life">work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will champion best practices like writing clean and reusable code using practices like TDD, SOLID principles, OO design, and pair programming
• You will partner with other technologists from cross-functional teams advocating devops culture
• You will work in collaborative, product-focused teams to build innovative customer experiences
• Take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope in order to deliver awesome results for our clients
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Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have 2+ years* of experience using two or more development languages (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You’re willing and able to commit to traveling up to 100% (back home on the weekends) across the US and Canada to help our clients solve their business problems
• You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
• Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems