Expert Java Engineer

JobTitle : Mission Control Software Engineer – Java Backend

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : Bengaluru, Karnataka (On-site)

Employment Type : Full-time

Industry : Space Technology

🧠 Role Overview :

As a Mission Control Software Engineer – Java Backend, you will be a founding member of the Mission Control Software team. You will design and develop the backend core of a distributed, high-reliability system responsible for streaming, processing, and routing satellite data.

This role offers high ownership and the opportunity to directly influence system architecture as it evolves from a single-node deployment to a scalable multi-node system.

🛠️ Tech Stack :

Java 11+, gRPC, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, WebSockets, Git, CI/CD

⚙️ Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services in Java (11+) for data ingestion, processing, and control workflows
• Build and enhance gRPC and REST APIs for internal and external system integrations
• Develop modular plugins and middleware for routing, persistence, and automation
• Work with PostgreSQL and other databases for structured and time-series data
• Collaborate with frontend teams to support real-time dashboards via WebSockets/event streaming
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and observability through logging, metrics, and testing
• Contribute to containerized deployments (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code with strong test coverage

🧩 Required Skills & Experience :

• 4+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems development.
• Strong proficiency in Java (11+), including concurrency and networking concepts.
• Experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Vert.x, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with gRPC and REST API design.
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and schema design.
• Experience working in Linux environments, with Git and Docker.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems / messaging queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, etc.).
• Ability to design scalable architectures and write automated tests.

⭐ Good to Have :

• Experience with real-time systems, telemetry, IoT, or satellite systems
• Exposure to distributed systems / microservices / high-availability architectures
• Working knowledge of Python for scripting or integrations
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Interest in hardware-software integrated systems

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with strong experience in building scalable, reliable, and high- performance systems. You will work on designing APIs, handling large-scale data, and building robust backend services using Java and Spring Boot.

Principal Duties/Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java (Spring Boot)
• Build scalable and fault-tolerant systems to handle high traffic and large data volumes
• Design clean and efficient RESTful APIs and service contracts
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams to deliver end-to-end features
• Optimize system performance, latency, and throughput
• Ensure high code quality through testing, code reviews, and best practices
• Debug production issues and ensure system reliability and uptime
• Participate in system design and architectural decisions
• Own services end-to-end, including development, deployment, and monitoring.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Strong proficiency in Java
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot / Spring Framework
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and OOPs concepts
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of databases:
• Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) • Basics of NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
• Understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and JVM internals
• Familiarity with caching strategies (Redis, in-memory caching)
• Experience with Git and version control workflows

Good to Have Experience with deployment strategies:

• Blue-Green deployments
• Canary releases • Rolling deployments
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
• Basic experience with AWS / cloud infrastructure:
• EC2, S3, RDS • Load balancers, auto-scaling
• Experience with Docker and containerization
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and service communication (REST/gRPC, Kafka)
• Familiarity with message queues / streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
• Understanding of security best practices (authentication, authorization, OAuth, JWT)

 Required Experience /Qualifications

• 4 years of backend development experience
• BTech / BE Computer Science.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture. Candidates with server-side Kotlin development experience are highly preferred. Strong software engineering fundamentals, REST API development expertise, and experience building enterprise-scale applications are essential.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about clean code, testing, scalability, and product/platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and/or Kotlin.
• Build and enhance RESTful APIs and microservices-based applications.
• Develop high-performance, secure, and reliable enterprise applications.
• Participate in system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following industry best practices.
• Implement and maintain automated unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to engineering excellence initiatives.

Required Skills

• 6–8+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Experience with server-side Kotlin (preferred) or willingness to learn and work extensively in Kotlin.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Strong experience developing REST APIs.
• Experience building enterprise-grade applications.
• Good understanding of software design patterns and object-oriented programming principles.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or equivalent.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems such as Git.
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

Product Based Client:

A multinational technology and e-commerce company based in the United States is widely recognized as one of the world's largest online retailers. In addition to e-commerce, it is a major player in cloud computing through its cloud services division and has expanded into areas such as streaming services, artificial intelligence, and smart devices.

Essential Job Functions:

Top 3 responsibilities

• Taking for operational work.

• Monitoring data pipelines.

• Addressing/Triaging customer tickets

Qualifications:

Exp: 1+ Years

• Skillset:Core Java, Data Structures, Al

• 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:

• Programming and optimizing smart contracts

• Design, research and develop blockchain-based solutions

• Developing decentralized high-performance systems

• Building reliable and fast data storages

• Security audits of third-party and internal solutions

• Establishing policies and procedures that produce secure, high-quality software

• Write and review technical proposals

• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

• Coding with concurrency, efficiency and scalability as primary motive

• Document systems, build runbooks, and automate those processes

• Being hands on by writing, testing, and deploying high-performance networking code

• Rigor on clean code, unit testing, code coverage and best practices

• Developing infrastructure software

Required qualifications:

4+ years experience in JAVA, 1+ year of experience in Blockchain, willingness to learn on the go, ability to write clean code, a strong sense of responsibility.

Tech Stack:

JAVA, git, linux, bash, ability to work with Docker.

Nice to have:

cryptography and system software development experience, understanding of design patterns, understanding of operating systems and networks, ability to design algorithms and mathematical models.

Be Part Of Building The Future

Dremio is the Data Lake Engine company. Our mission is to reshape the world of analytics to deliver on the promise of data with a fundamentally new architecture, purpose-built for the exploding trend towards cloud data lake storage such as AWS S3 and Microsoft ADLS. We dramatically reduce and even eliminate the need for the complex and expensive workarounds that have been in use for decades, such as data warehouses (whether on-premise or cloud-native), structural data prep, ETL, cubes, and extracts. We do this by enabling lightning-fast queries directly against data lake storage, combined with full self-service for data users and full governance and control for IT. The results for enterprises are extremely compelling: 100X faster time to insight; 10X greater efficiency; zero data copies; and game-changing simplicity. And equally compelling is the market opportunity for Dremio, as we are well on our way to disrupting a $25BN+ market.

About the Role

The Dremio India team owns the DataLake Engine along with Cloud Infrastructure and services that power it. With focus on next generation data analytics supporting modern table formats like Iceberg, Deltalake, and open source initiatives such as Apache Arrow, Project Nessie and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, this team provides various opportunities to learn, deliver, and grow in career. We are looking for innovative minds with experience in leading and building high quality distributed systems at massive scale and solving complex problems.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead, build, deliver and ensure customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Work on distributed systems for data processing with efficient protocols and communication, locking and consensus, schedulers, resource management, low latency access to distributed storage, auto scaling, and self healing.
• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment.
• Lead the team to solve complex and unknown problems 
• Solve technical problems and customer issues with technical expertise
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like  GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Mentor other team members for high quality and design 
• Collaborate with Product Management to deliver on customer requirements and innovation
• Collaborate with Support and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 8+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models, and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 5+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Hands-on experience  in query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, networking, and storage systems
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Ability to solve ambiguous, unexplored, and cross-team problems effectively
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS, or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to work individually and collaboratively with other team members
• Ability to scope and plan solution for  big problems and mentors others on the same
• Interested and motivated to be part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team