Engineering Manager - Java

Role Summary:

We are looking for a hands-on Java Solution Architect to design and lead scalable, secure, event-driven platforms. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis/KeyDB, and open-source databases (Cassandra, PostgreSQL), with experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems.

Experience- 10+yrs

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
• Define service boundaries using DDD; create service contracts and API specifications.
• Design Kafka-based event flows (topics, partitions, retention, DLQs, idempotency).
• Choose fit-for-purpose storage (Cassandra vs PostgreSQL) for workloads:
• Cassandra for time-series, high write throughput, and horizontal scaling.
• PostgreSQL for transactional integrity, complex joins, and reporting.
• Engineer caching strategies using Redis/KeyDB (read-through/write-through, TTL, eviction).
• Establish NFRs (performance, availability, RPO/RTO) and capacity planning.
• Security & Compliance
• Implement OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, token-based auth, key rotation, encryption at rest/in transit.
• Work with InfoSec/AppSec for threat modeling, VAPT, secure SDLC integration.
• DevOps & Observability
• Drive CI/CD pipelines (blue/green/canary), container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Define SLOs/SLIs; implement metrics, logs, traces; promote proactive alerting.
• Governance & Standards
• Publish architecture guidelines, coding standards, and API governance (versioning, deprecation).
• Champion documentation (ADR, sequence diagrams, data flow, runbooks).
• Mentoring & Leadership
• Coach engineers; conduct design/code reviews; lead PoCs and migrations.
• Collaborate with Product/Delivery to align scope, timelines, and risk mitigation.

Required Technical Skills (Deep Expertise)

• Java: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, reactive programming (WebFlux).
• Microservices: API Gateway, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), resilience (Resilience4j).
• Kafka: Kafka Connect, Streams, consumer lag management, schema registry (Avro/JSON).
• Redis/KeyDB: Cluster configuration, HA, persistence (AOF/RDB), pub/sub and streams.
• Databases:
• Cassandra: Data modeling (partition keys, clustering), consistency levels, compaction strategies.
• PostgreSQL: Indexing strategies, partitioning, query planning, isolation levels, VACUUM.
• Cloud & Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Terraform; AWS/Azure/GCP (EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry.
• Security: JWT, mTLS, secrets management (Vault/KMS), OWASP Top 10, compliance-aware design.

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder communication; ability to simplify complex technical decisions.
• Ownership mindset; risk identification and mitigation.
• Mentorship; collaborative leadership across cross-functional teams.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a motivated .NET Developer with around 3 years of experience to join our backend development team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in C#, ASP.NET Core, and SQL, with a strong understanding of object-oriented programming and API development. You will work closely with product, DevOps, and QA teams to build and enhance backend systems

supporting our trading and fintech platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance backend applications using .NET Core / ASP.NET MVC.

• Design and implement RESTful APIs for integration with frontend and third-party systems.

• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code following best practices.

• Work with SQL databases (preferably MS SQL Server) to design schemas, write queries, and optimize performance.

• Collaborate with product managers and frontend teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting production issues.

• Contribute to improving application performance, scalability, and security.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 3 years of experience in .NET development.

• Strong proficiency in C# and ASP.NET Core / ASP.NET MVC.

• Experience with Web APIs and RESTful architecture.

• Good knowledge of Entity Framework / LINQ.

• Hands-on experience with MS SQL Server or other relational databases.

• Understanding of OOP principles, design patterns, and software architecture concepts.

• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems.

• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (for integration purposes).

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Exposure to Microservices architecture.

• Familiarity with Message Queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.

• Experience with cloud environments (AWS / Azure).

• Understanding of financial or trading systems is a plus.

Why Join Tradelab Technologies:

• Work on cutting-edge trading and fintech platforms used across the industry.

• Collaborative, growth-oriented environment with exposure to complex backend systems.

• Opportunity to learn from senior engineers and grow into full-stack or system design roles.

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Create, maintain, test, and fix back-end infrastructure, including databases, data integration, API, core application logic, and other processes that need to be done behind the curtain. Since the job responsibilities can be performed remotely, we simply want our back-end developer to analyze user needs and improve user experience according.
• proficient in server-side development and optimization of data, including database creation and management and debugging
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Create user-friendly and intuitive interfaces
• Create and analyze reliable and secure back-end functionality
• Maintain, expand, and scale designed database
• Collaborate with front-end developers and web designers to match visual design intent.
• Design RESTful APIs
• Experience working with relational database like mysql/oracle, Mangodb

Primary Responsibilities:

• Principal Engineers  are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
• They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
• They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
• They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
• They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
• They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.

Experience or Skills Required:

• B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
• Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
• Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
• Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
• Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
• Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
• Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
• Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.

A passionate developer

• Strong working knowledge of OOPS
• Functional programming principles
• Strong believer of Clean Code practices
• An advocate of TDD, BDD, SOLID, CI/CD, Lean development
  
  You’ll easily settle in if:
  You come from a strong Java/J2EE background with web application frameworks like Spring Boot or Drop wizard
  You have ample work experience in Caching, Multi-Threading, Asynchronous APIs, Exception Management and use of collections, Mocking, Unit testing tools like Junit & TestNG"
  You are fluent with version control tools like GIT and Bitbucket
   Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Static Code Analysis, Jenkins and SonarQube
  Willingness to take ownership of the technical solution and ensure technical expectations of deliverables are met.
   Exposure to AWS/Azure cloud and containerization
  Have a good Understanding of Distributed Application Architecture.
  You ‘ll love:
  Awesome opportunity to work with Micro Services architecture getting shipped on Cloud.
  Experience in working with automated build deploy powered by Code Analysis, Automated Tests, Functional and Nonfunctional analysis, Blue Green deployment and much more
   First-hand experience on broader enterprise application concerns like Message Bus, Queues, Caches, Concurrency and Parallelization

Location – Pune, Gandhinagar (Currently Work from Home till 2022)

Educational Qualification - B.E / B.Tech, MCA, M.Tech, or any equivalent IT graduation or post-graduation

• J2EE - Sprint Boot Microservices.
• At least 8+ years of experience in Java development (J2EE, J2SE 8).
• Extensive experience with Spring, Spring Boot Micro Services, JPA, Hibernate.
• Extensive experience in REST and SOAP Webservices Services.
• Excellent knowledge of databases( PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience in testing tools (JUnit, SOAP UI, Postman).
• Experience in build tools – Maven, Gradle. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Experience in web application servers - Tomcat, etc.
• Understanding of Agile Development methodology – SCRUM.
• Understanding of continuous integration - Jenkins, and Code versioning tools- Git

• Own development, design, scaling and maintenance of application and messaging engines that power the central platform of Capillary's Cloud CRM product. 
• Contribute to overall design and roadmap.
• Mentor Junior team members.

Required Skills:

• Innovative and self-motivated with passion to develop complex and scalable applications.
• 3-5 years of experience in software development with strong focus on algorithms and data structures.
• Strong coding and design skills with prior experience in developing scalable & high availability applications using Core Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate. 
• Work experience with Relational databases is required (Primarily MySQL)
• Prior work experience with Non-Relational databases (primarily Redis, MongoDb) is an added plus.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills.
• BTech