Engineering manager

Job Title:

Software Development Engineer II- Java

Responsibilities:

A typical SDE2 is expected to take up the following responsibilities:

● Work closely with Team Leads and Product Managers to gather requirements and estimate project timelines.

● Should be able to understand product specifications and come up with optimal scalable solutions.

● Should be aware of the Agile working model and follow JIRA hygiene

● Complete ownership of features worked upon should be able to perform RCAs and provide quick resolution of relevant issues/production bugs while training Tech Support Engineers to offload recurring chunks of work.

● Should be a full-time mentor for SDE1s and be able to assist all other SDE1s as and when required.

● Be part of the lateral hiring process and allocate fixed bandwidth for interviewing processes.

● Should strive to follow best coding practices throughout designing, development, and testing.

● Should have great communication skills over email and in-person discussions.

Requirements:

● Strong exposure to Java and Springboot

● Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures and basic APIs & database design

● Should have worked with MVC frameworks, web / client-based server architecture, and structured and unstructured databases.

● Ability to translate product spec to engineering actionable

● Ability to navigate and structure code bases

● Rudimentary skills around service hosting and infrastructure. Should understand the end-to-end deployment cycle

Ideal Candidate Persona:

● Education Background

○ B.Tech / Dual Degree with Computer Science as a major discipline, MCA.

○ Preferred to have graduated in CS or IT-related subjects.

● Worked as SDE for 2-4 years in startup / mid-tier product companies with a small team size (2-3 recent experiences even if the initial job is in service-based companies), preferably in the Fintech space

● Excellent internship record

● Executed on RCAs / challenging engg problems with an SDE III at work

● Won awards / Recognized by upper management for going above and beyond

● Has working experience with Linux. Any certification is good to have

● Open source/pet project contributions

● Active on GitHub / StackOverflow

● Published papers in A-level conferences like IEEE, ACM (optional)

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Java Backend Developer with 4.5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, system design, and API integration. You’ll play a key role in designing and building high-performance backend systems that are scalable, secure, and reliable. As a core member of the engineering team, you’ll collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other developers to deliver quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop backend components, REST APIs, and microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Contribute to the architectural decisions and system design discussions.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code following best practices.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Integrate third-party APIs and work with external systems.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and support the team’s technical growth.
• Work closely with DevOps to support CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production and non-production environments.
• Keep up with industry trends and advocate for best practices in backend development.
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Required Skills:

• 4.5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development with Java (Java 8 or above).
• Strong expertise in Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data).
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with microservices architecture.
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Proficient with version control systems like Git and tools like Maven or Gradle.
• Familiarity with Docker, containerization, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.).
• Good knowledge of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

JioTesseract, a digital arm of Reliance Industries, is India's leading and largest AR/VR organization with the mission to democratize mixed reality for India and the world. We make products at the cross of hardware, software, content and services with focus on making India the leader in spatial computing. We specialize in creating solutions in AR, VR and AI, with some of our notable products such as JioGlass, JioDive, 360 Streaming, Metaverse, AR/VR headsets for consumers and enterprise space.

Mon-Fri, In office role with excellent perks and benefits!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.

3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).

4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.

6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.

7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Strong experience in:

i. Microservices architecture,

ii. API gateways,

iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),

iv. Kafka

v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).

3. Frameworks:

i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.

ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.

iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.

Good to Have Skills:

1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.

2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.

3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.

• 5to 7 years plus experience having implemented Adobe Experience Manager based Solution in a large scale environment
• Deep understanding of Adobe AEM, Apache Sling, Servlets
• Experience developing applications, templates, and components for the Adobe AEM product (WCM, DAM, CRX)
• Experience customizing workflows and integration with other enterprise systems
• Demonstrated experience with Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related technologies
• Expertise in Java, web development experience, and other Content management system experience.
• Great understanding of Web technologies like XML, HTML, Client Server-side scripting languages such as JavaScript, JSP, and web services development using RESTful implementations.
• Should have exposure on the continuous integration build tools and code quality tools

Responsibilities

• Develop digital consumer experiences based on a foundation of the Adobe AEM product suite, including AEM, CRX, Target, and DAM
• Translate marketing and website needs into AEM specific recommendations and solutions
• Leverage AEM, other state-of-the-art technologies, and integration patterns to solve cross-departmental challenges
• Design and improve internal development methodologies around Adobe AEM solution
• Develop front end and back end components using AEM

Job Summary:

• Willingness to work on highly scalable cloud-native solutions based on microservices.
• Quickly learn the technologies and deliver using the same.
• Take complete ownership of the customer requirements.
• Motivated to deliver world-class quality.
• Inclined to bring new ways of thinking, working and providing solutions.
• Drive the concept of quality into everybody and have a zero-tolerance towards bad quality.

• Understand requirements from product management, customer and able to comprehensively break this down to manageable tasks.

Experience:

● 3-9 years of development experience.

Technical Skills:

Mandatory:

• Java - Advanced concepts concurrency, reflection, lambda, Java Springboot, Spring security,
• Actuator/Prometheus/Grafana/Servo (metrics),
• EFK/ELK stack (log analysis)
• OpenAPI/Swagger (documentation)
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Maria or any other)
• NoSQL (Anyone of Mongo DB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4J or other DBs)
• Automated unit tests/e2e tests (JUnit, TestNG, RestAssured etc)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Sonar, Maven/Gradle etc)

Optional: (But highly recommended)

• NewSQL DB (TiDB, CockroachDB)
• AMQP/RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes