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Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka and backend systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java (8/11+), Spring Boot, and building scalable, real-time data pipelines using Kafka.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Design and implement Kafka-based messaging and streaming solutions
- Optimize Kafka performance (topics, partitions, consumers)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices
- Ensure code quality and maintain best practices in a distributed environment
Required Skills:
- 6+ years in Java development
- 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience (producers, consumers, streams)
- Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing
- Experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Required Skillset
• Experience in Core Java 1.8 and above, Data Structures, OOPS, Multithreading, Algorithms, Collections, System Design, Unix/Linux. • Possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. • Should be able to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications. • Good development experience with RDBMS. • Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development. • Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux. • Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java. • Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. • Should be able to express their design ideas and thoughts.
Job Brief-
• Understand product requirements and come up with solution approaches. • Build and enhance large scale domain centric applications. • Deploy high quality deliverables into production adhering to the security, compliance and SDLC guidelines.
We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
- Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
- Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
- Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
- Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch
● Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
● Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
● Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
● Ability to decide when to use relational vs NoSQL databases and must be experienced with at least one of
the relational databases (MySQL) as well as experience with ElasticSearch will be good to have
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
● Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
● Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
● Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with
demonstrable production-scale experience
● Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS) - Not mandatory
● Participation in coding competitions such as hackathon, hackerrank will be added advantage.
• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed
to standard.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss
improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their
concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
Technical Lead Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant Management certification may be required.
• Experience in a similar role would be advantageous.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At-least more than 1+ Years of Experience in a similar role would be desired.
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong leadership skills to drive good coding and design practices across multiple engineering teams
- Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
- Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
- Expertise in architecting, building, and maintaining ultra-low latency, cost-efficient systems in cloud environments
- Excellent track record in modernizing cloud-based applications using micro services, containers, and other architectures
- Experience and working knowledge in building large-scale, data-intensive Text search applications using Solr / Elastic Search is a Must
- Experience and working knowledge of AI/ML/ML Ops with respect to building large-scale, data-intensive applications would be a Plus
- Experience and working knowledge in building Java based Spring Boot micro-services integrated with any messaging framework
- Driven, Highly-motivated and passionate towards development & innovation
- Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
- Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
- Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
- Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
- Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Extremely hands-on in delivering Development and R&D tasks
- Design, plan and perform dev-analysis to determine effort estimates on every sprint for the team
- Running Demo's, ensuring thorough documentation of the features built
- Identify & Plan upgrades to technologies & frameworks from time-to-time
• 3+ Years of experience as a Go Developer
• Experience in ReactJS (most preferred) or AngularJS similar front end frameworks
• Experience with the Python or/and Golang (preferably both), SQL, and design/architectural
patterns
• Experience in Java or dotnet or other opensource technologies is an added advantage
• Hands-on experience on SQL, Query optimization, DB server migration
• Preferably experience in Postgre SQL or MySQL
• Knowledge of NOSQL databases will be an added advantage
• Experience in Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure with knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes is an
added advantage
• Knowledge of one or more programming languages along with HTML5/CSS3,Bootstrap
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Experience with Threading, Multithreading and pipelines
• Experience in creating RESTful API’s With Golang or Python or Java in JSON, XMLs
• Experience with GitHub, Tortoise SVN Version Control
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming with the latest frameworks
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks
• Proven knowledge of ORM techniques
• Skill for writing reusable libraries Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable
applicatio
Java/J2EE stack
• Design and develop RDandX Network’s microservices and ensure bug free code is pushed to
the deployment pipeline to support large volume of transactions
• Define and communicate the technical design requirements to the Network’s stakeholders
and the Engineering lead
• Responsible for building restful services to integrate with third party services like AdWords
and Facebook marketing API
• Responsible for designing the technical architecture of the different services and
maintaining and upgrading it
• Designing the unit test cases and building the framework for the development team to
enforce the unit testing in all the services
• Be involved and participate in the end to end products’ lifecycle management
• Learn about new technologies and Stay up to date with best practices
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, system administrators and
product team
• Lead the Backend team and manage their day to day activities and work deliverables

● Constant benchmarking for capacity and performance
● Documenting feature capability in detail
● Supporting marketing initiatives on the product / differentiators
● Test scenarios for faults / bugs
● On-call (only emergency - L4) support to customer issues
● Building best practices for customer scenarios
Who we are looking for
● Understand the larger picture and work for customer success
● Passionate to solve problems
● Understand the product life cycle
Nice to have: python
Must frameworks and technologies: Springboot, kafka, MQTT, docker/kubernetes, REST APIs
Persistence layer: MongoDB, Elastic Search, Any GraphDB (Neo4j/Arango), SQL, HBase
Must have: Exposure in large scale architecture (Concept of queues, micro services, functional programming)
Must have: Strong Data structure and design principles
Expert in developing Node.js applications, Strong understanding of NPM and modular application development skills building, Proficiency and hands-on experience with Node.js, Express, Sockets, MongoDB/Elasticsearch/Redis/MySQL, Apache Kafka/Google PubSub, Experience of working in MEAN Stack is a plus)










