Backend Software Engineer (Product Startup)

Role Description We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Stack Developer with a strong background in product engineering. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and REST API development. You will be working in a collaborative, cross-cultural environment, contributing to the design, development, and deployment of scalable software products

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions across the full stack.
• Build and implement RESTful APIs to support frontend and backend services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across different cultures and time zones.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver features.
• Ensure code quality, performance, and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing activities.

Required Skills and Qualification

• 2– 4 years of experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Proven experience in Java Spring Boot development.
• Proficiency in Kafka for real-time data streaming and messaging.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and database design.
• Experience in designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Background in product engineering and working on scalable software platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in multi-cultural and global team environments.

Nice to Have 

• Experience with frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS).

8+ years backend engineering experience in production systems

Proven experience architecting large-scale distributed systems (high throughput, low latency, high availability)

Deep expertise in system design including scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization

Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives in complex systems

Strong understanding of security, privacy, compliance, and secure coding practices

Responsibilities:

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable solutions that can

handle Millions of API calls across systems.

• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner, complete ownership

of functional Services that your team is responsible for.

• Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build and predictability

of the deliverables of your team.

• Platformism components as libraries, utilities and service and promote reuse.

• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.

Requirements

• Ability to take ownership of projects under the guidance of your mentor.

• Must be an excellent problem solver.

• Must be familiar with one of the languages Java, Spring, Hibernate, microservices etc.

object-oriented high level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming

constructs.

• Solid understanding of DS and algorithms, OOP concepts, and MVC architecture.

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Experience Required: 5 -10 yrs.

Job location: Sec-62, Noida

Work from office (Hybrid)

Development Platform: Backend Development- Java/J2EE, Struts, Spring, MySQL, OWASP

Job Brief:

Requirements:

·      5+ years of experience in developing distributed, multi-tier enterprise applications, APIs.

·      Fully participated in several major product development cycles.

·      Solid background in design, OOP, object, and data modelling.

·      Deep working knowledge of Java, Struts,Spring, Relational Database.

·      Experience in design and implementation of service interface and public APIs.

·      Actively involved/writing codes in current project.

·      Development knowledge and experience of working with AWS, Azure etc. will be an added plus.

·      Clear Understanding and Hands on experience on OWASP Top 10 Vulnerability standards like XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session hijacking, and authorization bypass vulnerabilities.

·      Find and resolve the security concerns on the product/application.

·      Good Documentation, reporting, Strong communication, and collaboration skills with various levels of executives from top management to technical team members across the organization.

·      Strong self-starter who can operate independently.

• Managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end Integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection.

• Should have worked on the Django REST framework.
• Familiarity with some Pandas, Numpy, text parsing/mining and 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
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Worked on Amazon cloud solutions
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Should know about HDL and LLD.
• Should know about making python packages
• Should have worked on microservice-based Architecture