Engineering Manager Backend

Backend Engineer – GrowthArc

About GrowthArc

At GrowthArc, we’re building intelligent, high-impact technology solutions that power digital growth and innovation. Our products are used by global enterprises to solve complex business problems with speed, precision, and scale.

We’re now looking for a Backend Engineer who thrives in a product-driven environment, loves solving challenging problems, and writes code that stands the test of scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Development: Build and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs using Java and the Spring Framework.
• Architecture Ownership: Design distributed backend systems capable of handling large-scale data, traffic, and performance demands.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and QA to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Code Quality: Write clean, modular, and well-documented code. Participate in reviews and uphold strong engineering standards.
• Troubleshooting: Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring stability and reliability.
• Database Design: Create efficient schemas, write optimized SQL queries, and manage relational (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.

Technical Skills

• Core Java: Deep, hands-on expertise with Java, OOP principles, and concurrency.
• Data Structures & Algorithms: Exceptional problem-solving ability and strong command over data structures, algorithms, and system design — crucial for building scalable systems.
• Frameworks: Expertise in Spring Boot and microservice architectures.
• APIs: Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Databases: Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• DevOps: Familiarity with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and deployment best practices.

Preferred Experience

• Product Companies: Strong background working with product-based companies or contributing to large-scale product development.
• eCommerce Platforms: Experience in eCommerce or high-traffic transactional systems is highly preferred.
• Exposure to scalable architecture, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant systems will be a plus.

🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Software Engineer – Backend | Remote | Full-time

Are you a backend engineering expert who thrives in high-growth startup environments?

Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with the latest technologies like Java 18+, Spring Boot 3+, and scalable microservices?

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to help us build a world-class data science platform that powers cutting-edge AI solutions.

What You’ll Do:

🔹 Build and optimize scalable, secure backend systems

🔹 Collaborate with product owners & architects to shape business solutions

🔹 Deliver high-quality, production-ready code with best practices (unit testing, CI/CD, automation)

🔹 Work with modern tools like Kubernetes, Docker, NodeJS, React

🔹 Contribute to a high-performance engineering culture and drive innovation

What We’re Looking For:

✔️ 6+ years of experience with Java/Python, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices

✔️ Strong CS fundamentals, algorithms, and system design skills

✔️ Experience in secure web applications & scalable backend architectures

✔️ Knowledge of cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), GitHub Actions, and Unix scripting

✔️ Startup mindset – fast learner, problem solver, impact-driven

🌍 Remote | High-growth environment | Global impact

• Good design skills and exposure to multiple software architectures.
• Strong understanding of OO/ knowledge of frameworks such as Spring/ Spring Boot/ design and good software development practices.
• Strong core server-side technologies experience (Java). 
• Knowledge of Android is a huge plus.
• Strong database skills including schema design.
• Strong knowhow of data-structures and algorithms.
• Experience with configuration management, testing, deployment.
• Hands on development across technologies.

We are solving complex technical problems in the financial industry and need talented software engineers to join our mission and be a part of a global software development team.

A brilliant opportunity to become a part of a highly motivated and expert team which has made a mark as a high-end technical consulting.

Job Description: 

• Experience in Core Java, Spring Boot.

• Experience in microservices.

• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale systems for global organization. Should 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 in SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle or DB2

• Good knowledge of multi-threading

• 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.

About Wissen Technology:

Wissen Technology is a niche global consulting and solutions company that brings unparalleled domain expertise in Banking and Finance, Telecom and Startups. Wissen Technology is a part of Wissen Group and was established in the year 2015. Wissen has offices in the US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada, with best-in-class infrastructure and development facilities. Wissen hassuccessfully delivered projects worth $1 Billion for more than 25 of the Fortune 500 companies. The Wissen Group overall includes more than 4000 highly skilled professionals.

Wissen Technology provides exceptional value in mission critical projects for its clients, through thought leadership, ownership, and assured on-time deliveries that are always ‘first time right’.

Our team consists of 1200+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.

Wissen Technology offers an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.

We have been certified as a Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years (2020-2022) and voted as the Top 20 AI/ML vendor by CIO Insider.

Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.

You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
• End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
• Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.

Nice to have's (but not required):

• Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
• Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• Linux
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Java 8
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 2+ 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 AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Roles & Responsibilities

As a member of our fast-growing engineering team, your responsibility will be to get involved in day-to-day development operations and solve complex problems of digitization to meet the demands of business.

To be successful, you must have a self-driven mindset, go getter attitude.

The responsibilities include:

• Writing the clean quality code & Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing the requirements in the context of the product
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs
• Creating, understanding and validating estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving complex bugs
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
• Carrying out DevOps activities which includes creating Jenkins pipeline

Key Skills

Should possess hands-on full life-cycle development experience (architect, design, code, test, release) be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, client/server-side development frameworks and third-party libraries.

• Should be strong in data structures and algorithms. Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Work with cutting edge technologies like Java 8, Scala, React, Akka, Docker, Puppet, and Salt
• Hands-on knowledge of Spring core, MVC, JPA. Working knowledge of Spring Boot
• Should have strong hands-on on one of the JavaScript frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Vue.js.
• Willing to working with latest Cloud and Container technologies like AWS
• Experience with both external and embedded databases. NoSQL DB experience is good to have
• Implementing unit testing using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with Maven (Other building tools Ant and Gradle are good to have)
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Good understanding of Agile practices

1. Hands on programming skills.
2. Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
3. Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
4. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
5. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
6. Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github