Backend Engineer

Role Description : Senior Java Developer

As a senior developer you will be responsible to manage the software development life cycle from planning to prioritizing to testing and release. Responsibilities includes gathering system and team product requirements, building java modules and testing features before release. Should have hands on experience developing software with agile methodologies and are ready to lead our junior developers.

Responsibilities • Contribute to all phases of development lifecycle. • Planning of API workflow. • Understanding the requirements all the teams involved and planning the development process. • Write well designed, testable, efficient code. • Prepare and produce releases of software components. • Support continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architecture review. • Designing, implementing, and maintaining java applications that are often high-volume and low latency. • Identify bottlenecks and bugs and advise solutions to these problems. • Develop highly scalable REST APIs to use in our applications. • Guide the team and help them in any complex situations.

Required Qualifications We are looking for individuals who are curious, excited about learning, and navigating through the uncertainties and complexities that are associated with a growing company. Some qualifications that we think would help you thrive in this role are: • Minimum 8+ Years in a Java programming. • Expert hands-on knowledge of latest technology, good exposure to web technologies and open to all technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices, Cloud computing, any DB. • Very good exposure to DevOps concepts and tools, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. • Quick learner believes in continuous learning and acts as a catalyst for building the culture within the organization. 

• Analytical thinking skills, problem solving with strong exposure to root causing tools and techniques and ability to come up with solutions in complex situations. • Familiar with various design and architectural patterns. • Bachelor/Masters of CS/IT Engineering, BCA/MCA, B Sc/M Sc in CS/IT

Preferred Qualifications • Deep insights of Java and J2EE internals such as memory management, transaction management, etc. • Skill for writing reusable Java libraries. • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. • Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle. • Ability to work without guidance and under tight deadlines. • Result oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines. • Teamwork and willingness to listen to others. • Communicate effectively • Good knowledge of microservices. • Expertise in developing enterprise level web applications and RESTful APIs using Microservices with demonstrable production-scale experience. • Strong background working with Linux/Unix environments. • Working experience in industry standard protocols related API security. • Clear understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON.

Location: Bengaluru/Udupi (NO WORK FROM HOME OPTION)

Notice Period: Immediate Joining or Maximum 1 Month

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

• Python
• Flask

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, shows enthusiasm and interest in work.
• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, Web service.
• Should have work experience on following stacks/libraries: Flask
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

• 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

• Designing, implementing and maintaining Java-based applications

• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

• Writing testable, scalable and efficient code

• Test and debug new applications and updates

• Maintain up to date code documentation

• Participating in code reviews
  Should have worked on Springboot and Hibernate

We are looking for people that take quality as a point of pride. You will be a key member of the engineering staff working on our innovative FinTech product that simplifies the domain of finance management.

At Zeni.ai, we provide an AI-powered finance team with a real-time dashboard to manage all the finance functions for startups on one platform - bookkeeping, yearly taxes, bill pay & invoicing, financial projections & budgeting, employee reimbursements and more.  We are headquartered at Palo Alto, California plus engineering lab in Pune too.  The founders of Zeni are Snehal Shinde and Swapnil Shinde (Twins), they are serial entrepreneurs and Zeni is their third startup.  Before Zeni, they built Mezi.com that they sold to American Express at $120 million in merely two years.  Zeni is very well funded too and it can be disclosed when we talk.

The details about this position are as below:

• You must be or like to be a Jack of all
• Design and build fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems
• Design and maintain the core software components that support Zeni platform
• Improve the scalability, resilience, observe ability, and efficiency of our core systems
• Code using primarily Python.
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from, product management, platform architects and senior engineers.
• Fail fast, fix fast. Rapidly fix bugs and solve the problems
• Proactively look for ways to make Zeni platform better
• Speed, Speed, Speed - must be a performance freak!

• E. / B.Tech in Computer Science.
• 2yrs to 5 yrs of commercial software development experience
• You have built some impressive, non-trivial web applications by hand
• Excellent programming skills in Python (Object Oriented is a BIG plus)
• Google App engine experience a huge plus
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Great written communication and documentation abilities
• Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment
• You know and can admit when something is not great.
• You can recognise that something you've done needs improvement
• Past participation in Hackathorns a big plus
• Startup experience or Product company experience is MUST.
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs
• Experience with Agile product development methodology
• Good at maintaining servers and troubleshooting
• Understanding of database query processing and indexing are preferred
• Experience with OAuth
• Experience with Google Cloud and/or Google App Engine platforms
• Experience writing unit tests
• Experience with distributed version control systems (eg: Git)

• Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code

• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software

• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architectur

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms

• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns

• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:

  • Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
  • Go’s templating language
  • Go’s code generation tools, such as Stringer
  • Popular Go web frameworks, such as Revel
  • Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux

• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments

• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

•  5-10 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
• Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
• Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
• Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
• Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, etc
• Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization schemes.
• Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with millisecond response times
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor

Bonus skills – 

• Experience with Elastic Search, Puppeteer
• Experience writing unit test