Backend Java Lead Developer

Role & Responsibilities

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and ship production-grade backend services in a microservices environment
• Work directly with clients to understand requirements, solution their use cases, and integrate/deploy our product in their environment
• Own problems end-to-end — build, deploy, debug in the client's setup, and see it through to production
• Lead technical discussions with client engineering and business teams, translating their needs into working solutions
• Build integrations with third-party systems and APIs within customer environments
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal product and engineering teams to feed client learnings back into the product

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Backend Engineer with robust Micro-services experience
• Mandatory (Experience): Must have 4+ years of hands-on experience in backend software engineering with 2+ years in a product company
• Mandatory (Skill 1): Must have hands-on experience building and running applications in a Micro-services setup - designing services, REST APIs, and service-to-service communication
• Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have strong production-grade experience in building and shipping real services in Java or Node.js (Java is highly preferred)
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SaaS is preferred)
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science from Tier-1 institutes (IITs, BITS Pilani)
• Preferred (Experience): Must have worked directly with external customers in an engineering capacity - solutioning, integrating, or deploying the product in the customer's environment and handling technical discussions with their teams
• Preferred (Databases): Comfortable with both SQL and NoSQL databases

Strong Backend Engineer Profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 2+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building production-grade systems in a B2B SaaS or product environment

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using at least one backend framework such as FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), or Express (Node.js)

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including API development, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including efficient data modeling and query optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs and backend services, including integrations with external systems (CRMs, payment gateways, ERPs, data platforms, etc.)

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience working in cloud-based environments (AWS / GCP / Azure) and be familiar with Git-based collaborative development workflows

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, fintech applications, or SaaS revenue-related workflows is highly preferred

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Key Responsibilities

• Back-end Implementation: Authorization, Authentication, Modular design
• Application Development: Documentation, code quality, Unit Testing, Optimization, Bug fixing.)
• Back-end Operations (build tools, deployment, speed: (app, tests, builds, deploys), monitoring errors/logs, and stability).
• Review the created data model & ask any necessary clarifying questions before starting on work
• Write API code to implement the action on visual elements.
• Develop Json Web Services and Web applications.
• Create prototypes and staging sites for review and feedback
• Optimize websites and applications to ensure fast loading speeds
• Maintain websites and implement any necessary additions or enhancements
• Identify and troubleshoot various website issues and coding problems
• Collaborate with members of the website team, including designers and front-end developers, to consistently improve functionality and user-friendliness of web applications
• Maintain updated knowledge of the development industry and any advancements in technology
• Meet tight deadlines as required
• Knowledge of the common application/web security and OWASP vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of the encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information.
• Knowledge of PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement.
• Understanding of security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and knowledge in implementation for both.
• Knowledge/Aware of finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities.

 

 

Technical Skills: Java,Spring boot, Rest API, Json, JPA and/or Hibernate, SQL, AWS

Database : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB

Other : Tomcat, Eclipse, Oauth, JWT, Git.

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
• 10+ years of Relevant Experience
• Strong sense of ownership
• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• Strong Knowledge in RDBMS & NoSQL databases
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality, and enforce code quality within the team
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka
• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

About Company: Ramphal Technologies is an Indian startup company. The company was founded by a visionary team of founders having a vast experience in Technology.

The company has a long term vision to disrupt the Indian Air Traffic scenario through technology Innovation. The Govt. Of India has officially signed a MOA with us to 

build the next generation Technology platform to manage the Air Traffic in India.

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