Backend Tech Lead

Job Description

• Lead Ecommerce Solution Design and Development: Spearhead the design and development of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions for our ecommerce platform using Java Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, UI/UX designers, and quality assurance teams to gather requirements and deliver exceptional ecommerce solutions.
• Architectural Oversight: Provide architectural oversight for ecommerce projects, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with industry best practices.
• Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of Java developers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. Provide technical guidance and support to team members.
• Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct regular code reviews to maintain code quality, ensuring adherence to Java Spring Boot coding standards and best practices. Implement and promote quality assurance processes within the development lifecycle.
• Integration of Ecommerce Solutions: Oversee the seamless integration of ecommerce solutions with other business systems, ensuring a cohesive and efficient data flow.
• Payment Gateway Integration: Collaborate on the integration of payment gateways and other essential ecommerce functionalities.
• Stay Informed on Ecommerce Technologies:Stay abreast of the latest developments in ecommerce technologies, incorporating new features and improvements based on emerging trends.
• Client Interaction:
• Engage with clients to understand their ecommerce requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure the successful implementation of solutions.

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of software development experience, with a significant focus on Java Spring Boot development and ecommerce platforms.
• Proven expertise in designing and developing ecommerce solutions using Java Spring Boot, with a deep understanding of the framework.
• Familiarity with ecommerce platforms, including payment gateways, inventory management, and order processing.
•  Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot technologies, with experience in microservices architecture.
• Java 8 or above latest version hands on
•  Microservices architecture, Spring boot REST hands-on (min 3 yrs experience mandatory)
•  Well versed with at least one cloud- AWS/GCP/Azure (min 2 yrs experience mandatory)
•  Kubernetes, Docker, Containerisation (Mandatory)
•  Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
•  MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL or any 1 RDBMS and 1 NoSQL DB hands on experience  
•  Experience with any in-memory caching mechanism like Redis. Hazelcast, etc
• Good understanding of DSA and their applications
• Excellent problem-solving skills, showcasing the ability to address complex challenges in ecommerce solution development.
• Strong communication skills to facilitate effective interactions with team members, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies and advanced proficiency in version control systems.

Job Details:

• Role: Senior Staff Engineer, Java, Node JS
• Experience: 7.5 -9 Years
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Work Mode: Bengaluru (Onsite- 5 days)

Job description

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong experience in Backend Engineering, Microservices, and Distributed Systems
• Deep hands-on expertise in Java and Node.js development 
• Strong experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and backend services 
• Strong understanding of OOP, Data Structures, Algorithms, and Software Design Principles 
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar databases 
• Experience with system design, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
• Experience with Redis, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production support
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with Spring Boot, TypeScript, NestJS, Kafka, and AI-assisted coding tools is preferred

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, microservices, and APIs
• Build high-performance RESTful and event-driven applications
• Own system design, data models, integrations, scalability, and reliability
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver business solutions
• Write clean, secure, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and operational practices
• Optimize application performance, database efficiency, and system scalability
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making
• Implement security best practices and engineering standards
• Support platform modernization and continuous improvement initiatives
• Leverage modern development tools and AI-assisted coding practices to improve productivity
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
• Ensure delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable backend solutions.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related fields

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Node.js) to join our engineering team in Bengaluru. The ideal candidate will have strong experience building scalable backend applications, designing APIs, and working with modern software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain server-side applications using Node.js.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs.
• Integrate front-end components with backend services.
• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and follow software development best practices.

Requirements

• 3-6 years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and Node.js.
• Experience with RESTful API development.
• Knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Good problem-solving and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Good to Have

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Platforms
• Microservices Architecture
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Backend Development

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tying them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

# Responsibilities:

• Build the APIs and internal mechanisms of the backend across all our services.
• Architect and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale.
• Build and lead engineering teams to achieve product roadmap milestones.
• Oversee the research and development of new products and technologies.
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers as we create reliable APIs
• Represent and evangelize engineering team in events, talks, conferences, etc.
• Be available for troubleshooting in case of backend emergencies.

# Requirements:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or any Engineering domain with experience in Software Programming.
• 2-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications.
• Highly proficient with Java and knowledge of the many intricacies of Spring Boot.
• Proficient with MongoDB and Redis. Knowledge of Aerospike, other databases would be a bonus.
• Good understanding of distributed systems (servers, databases, etc.).
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset and comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development environment.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member

Primary Skills

• Expert in Python with experience on Django.
• Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
• Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
• Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
• Experience with swagger io module to expose API
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
• Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
• Good understanding of Linux OS.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS Kinesis
• Web Sockets
• RAbbitMQ
• AWS Cloud formation

We are looking for software development engineers to design and develop the backend systems for our consumer and partner-facing applications. You will work on massively scalable distributed systems and solve complex engineering problems

Reporting structure - Engineering Manager-Java

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, algorithm design,
• Proficiency with Java, Rabbit MQ, Kafka.
• Proficiency in Mongo DB, Cassandra, Redis.
• 3+ years of experience contributing to architecture and design in a product setup Information Technology
• Understand customer needs by collaborating with Product Managers and Business stakeholders
• Development, delivery and support of large-scale, distributed software applications and tools
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality and maintainability for all deliverables
• Work in an agile, start-up-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
• Take initiatives and come up with new ideas to invent solutions for customer