Job Summary
Engineering Manager is responsible for leading various Android platforms at Ola Electric Mobility
For this position,
We prefer someone who has displayed a track record of:
- Solid experience in JAVA
- Should have experience in Reactive programming, Asynchronous programming
and Unit Testing.
- Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase.
- Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight.
- Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her.
- Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks.
- Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability.
- Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job.
- Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns,
Data Structures, Algorithms.
- 5+ years of experience in a product-driven organization.
Key Result Areas (Accountability & Responsibility of the role)
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Build highly scalable Android Platforms. Ability to work in a fast-paced setup, deliver results, set up high standards for the team, and the ability to attract world-class talent.
The job requires a gamut of roles and responsibilities -
- Build a world-class team of engineers
- Ensure their KPI’s and OKR are set and evaluated at regular intervals
- Responsible for delivering high-quality software products, on time, and within budget.
- Collaborate & work with Product Leads and Business Leaders to develop a long-term product plan,
products, and manage the release planning cycles for all products.
- Responsible for managing the staffing requirements and skillsets for the Customer Interaction Team,
assuring that sub-teams are staffed with sufficient skilled resources and meeting Ability to work in a fast-
paced setup,
- Deliver results, set up high standards for the team, and the ability to attract world-class talent. product
deliverables.
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About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, providing affordable solar solutions to the 1.8 billion people without reliable access to electricity. By combining product design, fintech, and field operations, Sun King has connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding more than 200,000 new homes each month. Through ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing, customers make small payments to eventually own their solar systems, saving money and reducing reliance on harmful energy sources like kerosene.
Sun King employs 2,800 staff across 12 countries, with expertise in product design, data science, logistics, customer service, and more. The company is expanding its product range to include clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment solutions, all while supporting a diverse workforce — with women making up 44% of the team.
About the role
The Senior Software Developer - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to support Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.
What you will be expected to do:
- Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents.
- Design and develop coherent and physical data models to meet application requirements.
- Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements.
- Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
- Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.
- Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle.
- Mentoring and guiding team members.
- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like ticketing software and communication tools) with external services.
- Coordinate with Product Manager, development team, & business analysts.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- A minimum of 4 years of experience.
- Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java, Spring Framework.
- Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).
- Should be very strong in problem solving, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong experience in SQL.
- Experience in the AWS suite (Ec2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway).
- Experience in scripting languages like Python.
- Experience in Microservice Architecture.
- Prior managing/mentoring experience.
- Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment.
Good to have:
- Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka.
- Container-based application deployment (Docker or equivalent)
- Willing to learn new technologies and implement them in products.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
- 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:
- 3+ 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.
Job Description: (Mandate Skills)
- Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack
- Ability to manage small teams (2-4 members) using agile development process
Do You Know? (Skills good to have)
- Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems
- In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline
- In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
- In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.
- In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.
As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.
What you will do:
- Building components for the company’s advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
- Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and presenting ideas and solutions effectively
- Prioritizing and managing workload and meeting critical project milestones and deadlines
- Effectively collaborating with a team as well as taking initiative and working independently to solve problems
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech/ B.E. (with 65% marks)
- Expertise at hands on programming in JAVA and J2EE
- Proven expertise in Java interfaces with MongoDB (or similar noSQL databases) as well as relational databases (mySQL, Postgres etc)
- Experience in atleast one 6+ months development project involving SpringBoot and Hibernate
- Strong understanding of application server infrastructure
- Good working knowledge of Maven based build systems
- Good understanding of build and deployment pipelines that involve ANT and Jenkins
- Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git or SVN
- Good knowledge of working on Rest API’s, Webservices
- Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Hands on experience with Lucene/ Solr
- Familiarity with DiagFlow based chat bot building
- Knowledge of NLP
- Experience in product based companies
- Strong development experience in Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Oracle SQL/PLSQL and App servers like WebLogic, JBOSS, Unix
- Good Knowledge of SOAP and REST API
- Should have knowledge in SOLID Principles & Design Patterns
- Should have working experience in UI like JSF, JSP, Html, CSS and Javascript / Jquery
- Experience with full-lifecycle development (i.e. design, coding, testing, debugging, etc.)
- Working experience to fix common vulnerabilities and security threat in SOA\Microservices applications
- Knowledge in OWASP Standards and Working knowledge in fixing security issues, data encryption and cryptography.
- Prior experience and knowledge of security tools like Fortify, Sonatype and webInspect is a plus
- Good to have knowledge and working experience in Angular JS
- Translate business requirements into detailed specs/designs
- Design thinking while arriving at solution
- Strong technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner
- Solving complex business and workflow issues with solid scalable technical solutions
- Must be a self-motivated, proven performer who enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing workplace
- Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
- Good in communication, both written and verbal
- Should have Agile scrum experience.
- Team Player with very good attitude
- Attention to detail and focus on quality
- Knowledge in financial services domain is a plus
- Good to have knowledge on Static AppSec Testing (SAST) and Dynamic AppSec Testing (DAST)
Job Responsibilities:
- Developing and installing software solutions.
- Designing, implementing and delivering high quality Software project in JAVA, SQL / Oracle, J2EE and other JAVA technologies.
- Participate in detailed level in design, coding, code walk through, peer code reviews and unit testing, System Testing, UAT, Demos, POCs, installation, maintenance of Software modules.
- Software prototype.
- System Architecture.
- Software Design Document.
- User interfaces to be developed as per UX guidelines Code files ensuring coding guidelines followed.
- Code review artefacts during peer code review.
- Test plan and Test Cases.
- Installation / Deployment document Release Document.
- Technical Documentation.
Your Opportunity
- Own and drive business features into tech requirements
- Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
- Quickly create quality prototypes
- Staying updated on emerging technologies
- Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
- Promote coding best practices
- Mentor and develop junior developers in the team
Required Experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
- Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns
- Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
- Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems
- Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service
- Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
- Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
- Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP
Who you are
- You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
- You love problem solving
- You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
- You love paying attention to detail
- You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
- Ability to collaborate across multiple functions
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field
Experience: 2 - 5 years
Talents from Product/eComm/Internet firms Only
Key Skills: Spring boot, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr, Design Patterns, Java, Distributed systems, AWS
Looking for team members passionate about building platforms for next billion users and re-imagine the e-commerce for mobile-first users. You will be building solutions for personalization, logistics, search & discovery, payments, fraud prevention, and scalability that works and solve problems elegantly
Responsibilities:
• Develop server-side components, REST APIs
• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.
• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.
• Lead the design and architectural improvements
• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding
Requirements:
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.
• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.
• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.
• Experience level: 2-5 years of software development experience in Java with web architecture and scalable design