Engineering Manager - Messaging

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Java Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable Java-based applications. You will leverage your deep understanding of Java and related technologies to contribute to the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance. You will also play a key role in mentoring junior developers and driving technical excellence within the team.   

Responsibilities:

• Design and Development:
• Design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable, and maintainable Java applications.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Participate in architectural design discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Implement and optimize database interactions (SQL/NoSQL).
• Utilize design patterns and best practices to ensure code quality and maintainability.
• Technical Leadership:Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards.   
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Java technologies and trends.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools.

Zolvit is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. As a key member of the team, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend systems that power our core platform. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems at scale and contribute to a product that will potentially power millions of businesses in India.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy robust and scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Java.
• Contribute to the evolution of our microservices architecture, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, frontend, and QA, to deliver high-quality products.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, promoting automation and continuous delivery.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of backend systems, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Champion a quality-driven development approach, including unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in backend development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience in backend software engineering, building and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices at scale.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes is a plus.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• A proactive and collaborative approach to work.
• A passion for building high-quality software and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with AWS, Redis, Kafka.
• Exposure to building and deploying ML models in the cloud.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

About the Role-

Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.

Reason to Join-

An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners.  Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.

Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)

• The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
• Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
• Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
• Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
• Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions

What you bring to the table

• Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science or related
• Experience: 5-9 years of relevant experience for SSE role
• Exposure to microservices, API management tools like Swagger
• Must have experience in working on Agile Scrum teams in the past and exposure to any of the Agile project management tools like Jira, Mingle, RTC, TFS etc.
• Proficient in application log analysis.
• Experience Java/JEE Development - especially EJB 2.1 / 3.0, JDBC
• Experience with application servers such as JBoss AS or IBM WAS is an advantage
• Experience in SQL programing using PostgreSQL / MySQL /Maria DB and JPA (Annotation Based)
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven or Gradle and of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Nexus
• Basic knowledge of web services (SOAP or REST) and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Basic knowledge of containers like Dockers, basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure
• Ability to interact and coordinate with employees at different levels, different groups, and different geographical locations within the company
• Ability to support multiple existing applications as well as work on building new ones
• Ability to provide accurate project estimates and make recommendations on specific technologies to use based on business requirements
• Good verbal and written Communication.
• Readiness for short term Domestic and International Travels

Preferred

• Industry knowledge with respect to payments systems and processing in the Debit/Credit and Account based payments (EFT Switching) from different channels like POS, ATM or ecommerce, Card Management System and Real Time Payment Systems.
• Exposure to the Interchange Interfaces like Visa Net, MasterCard, BankNet
• Exposure to Interchange Simulators and Mandates Management.