Backend Engineer

Role: Sr. Java Developer

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Bangalore (Whitefield)

Work Mode: Hybrid (2-3 days WFO)

Shift Timing: Regular Morning Shift

About the Role:

We are looking for a seasoned Java Developer with 6+ years of experience to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and cloud-based deployment using AWS or DevOps tools. This is a hybrid role based out of our Whitefield, Bangalore location.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in agile development processes and scrum ceremonies.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Design and develop applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture.
• Ensure robust and reliable code through full-scale unit testing and TDD/BDD practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline setup and cloud deployments.
• Work independently and as an individual contributor on complex features.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance.

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong Core Java and Spring Boot expertise.
• Proficiency in AWS or DevOps (Docker & Kubernetes).
• Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases (SQL, NoSQL).
• Sound understanding of Microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
• Containerization experience using Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development environments.
• Exposure to modern SDLC tools – Maven, Git, Jenkins, etc.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based deployment.

Soft Skills:

• Self-driven, proactive, and an individual contributor.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Able to plan, prioritize, and manage tasks independently.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Exposure to frontend technologies like Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.

Minimum requirements

5+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)

Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)

Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success

Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems

Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

Context for the Candidates:

Blockchain engineers are tasked with building secure, scalable, and high-performance decentralized applications. This discussion focuses on how to utilize key technologies—Node.js, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat—in smart contract and blockchain system development, while addressing the practical challenges that arise in such projects.

Key Discussion Points:

• How do you integrate Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript in blockchain-backed applications?

• Discuss the trade-offs between using Rust or Go for performance-critical blockchain services.

• What are the key challenges in ensuring the security and scalability of smart contracts using tools like Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat?

• How do you approach testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts in a decentralized environment?

• Share best practices for gas optimization, contract upgradability, and backend scalability.

Evaluation Criteria:

1. Technical Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript with practical experience in blockchain development.

• Proficiency in Ethers.js, viem, Hardhat, and smart contract lifecycle (development, testing, deployment).

• Understanding of security best practices, performance optimizations, and scalability in decentralized systems.

2. Problem-Solving and Integration Skills:

• How candidates approach integrating smart contract solutions with backend services using Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.

• Solutions proposed for common challenges in blockchain projects such as gas fees, security vulnerabilities, and system bottlenecks.

3. Experience and Expertise:

• Minimum of 2 years of IT experience, including hands-on development with the specified technologies.

• Practical knowledge of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and decentralized application deployment.

4. Innovation and Critical Thinking:

• Candidates’ ability to think creatively about system architecture, proposing scalable and secure solutions for blockchain-based applications.

• Discussion on the future potential of blockchain technology and how the tech stack can evolve.

5. Communication and Team Collaboration:

• Clear articulation of technical challenges and how to address them in a team setting.

• Ability to lead or contribute to discussions in a way that encourages collaboration and team-driven problem-solving.

• At least 4 years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Mandatory experience in MongoDB and MySql.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

We are looking for engineers who love to build SaaS products to join our team.

This position is for a product we have been building for 4 years now, for a long term customer of ours. The Codebase is well maintained, with a rails backend and a react frontend. 

If you are someone who has invested time into writing reusable rails or nodejs modules, who has written ruby gems or npm packages, you feel at home working with us.

Required Knowledge:

1. How Web backends or Rails works
2. Mastery over ORMs or Active Record Migrations, Validations
3. Good knowledge of writing encapsulated business logic

Great to Have

• Open source npm packages or ruby gems
• Performance tuning for Apps
• Ruby Metaprogramming knowledge
• Functional JS

Interview Format

Two coding rounds of 45 mins each.

If you crack both the rounds, you get the job, and incase you decline the offer any reason we will give you a gift voucher for spenidng your valuable time with us.

In case you dont crack the question, we will tell you what to learn so that next time you will have a good chance :)